# Meetings Notes from 2nd September Meeting

> Welcome and Introductions: Steve Jubb (SJ) opened the meeting explaining that he has now taken over the leadership role of the group and invited intros from eve

- Type: Community update
- Community: [The Things Network Sheffield](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/sheffield/)
- Author: Steve Jubb
- Published: 2019-10-17
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/sheffield/post/meetings-notes-from-2nd-september-meeting

**Welcome and Introductions:**
Steve Jubb (SJ) opened the meeting explaining that he has now taken over the leadership role of the group and invited intros from everyone.

**Attendees:**
• Steve Jubb – Technical Manager, Urban Flows Observatory at The University of Sheffield (TUoS)
• Mark Davies - Ioetec
• Mike Faulks – Ioetec and Sheffield Hallam University
• Craig Wootton – Principal Engineer for Development, Estates & Facilities Management, TUoS
• Mark Franklin – Network Infrastructure, TUoS
• Chris Dymond – Sheffield Digital & Unfolding
• Simon Redding - TTN Chesterfield
• Simon Nieder - TTN Chesterfield
• Matt Proctor - ARUP

**Numbers:**
• 16 Gateways (1 core)
• 35 Contributors

**Housekeeping:**
• Dr Geraint Jones who led the last meeting has left Sheffield for a new role with KTN in Bristol.
• Steve Jubb has taken over as the ‘organiser’ for the group
• The plan going forwards is to hold monthly meetings that will coincide with the Smart Sheffield meetings and the IoT Meetup that will take place on alternate months.

**Things Network News:**
• SJ introduced the proposed agenda:
Direction - Activities - Focus - Future - Tie-ins - AOB
• The current available coverage was discussed, noting that the gateway now operating from the TUoS Hicks Building is providing good coverage.
• Further mapping of the coverage is required and SJ will pursue this.
• Suggestions were made concerning the use of Delivery companies and Taxi firms.
• It was suggested that this could be combined with air quality measurement by cyclists.
• _SJ will pursue provision of mapping nodes and additional mapping runs._
• SJ proposed that we should concentrate on building a base infrastructure that could be managed

**New Gateways:**
• Locations for the proposed network of gateways:
o TUoS: Factory 2050/ICAIR, Bradfield, Norton, Endcliffe
o ARUP
o SHU
o Gripple
o Kollider
o Park Hill Flats
• _SJ will come up with a plan for the next meeting_

**Coverage & Propagation:**
• Coverage and mapping are things that we need to address. SJ will have the RF equipment up and running in the next couple of months. See note above about mapping.
• Question of whether we should try and expand the network across the city region and link up West Yorkshire.
• The Simons suggested creating coverage between Sheffield and Chesterfield along the A61 corridor – SJ to consider this in the gateway plan.

**Applications:**
• TTN has new indoor and outdoor gateways available, SJ to investigate.
• SJ commented that a hurdle to creating nodes is the lack of reliable code that enables Over-The-Air-Activation on Arduino/ESP8266 devices. SJ to pursue getting coders to work on this problem.

**Community:**
• Meetings will be held monthly from now on.

**AOB:**
• None