# The Things Network Vaasa

A local community of The Things Network: people building an open, free LoRaWAN® network for the Internet of Things in and around Vaasa.

- Country: [Finland](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/country/finland/)
- Status: Campaign (a community getting started)
- Founded: 2016
- Members: 12
- Location: 63.0950, 21.6150
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/vaasa/

## About

Our mission is to provide the entire city of Vaasa with Internet of Things data connectivity by crowdsourcing the network by its citizens and local companies.

Vaasa is an innovative city always looking for new challenges.

Currently we are loking for a new members to build unified networ for whole Vaasa area

## Contact

Jukka Matila
email: jukka.matila@vamk.fi
tel: 040-7356331

## Resources

- [Forum](http://forum.thethingsnetwork.org/)

## In the media

- [The Next Web - The Things Network wants to make every city smart](http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/08/19/the-things-network-wants-to-make-every-city-smart-starting-with-amsterdam/)

## Recent updates

- [Two New Gateways Installed](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/vaasa/post/two-new-gateways-installed.md) (2017-12-01)
- [Two single channel gateways installed](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/vaasa/post/two-single-channel-gateways-installed.md) (2017-02-20)