I operate 3 gateways, 2 in Assen, one in a nature reserve in Overijssel. 95+% of all traffic is my own (weight/temperature of my beehives). So hardly any further nodes in the area that want to connect. Assen had one really good gateway on top of the police tower, 50 meters high. That gateway has di…

Hi Rob, I think your post title is a very much over-generalization :wink: In the contrary: in parts of the Netherlands coverage is growing quickly, e.g. looking in the Utrecht/Gelderland provinces: here, the water authority (Waterschap Vallei en Veluwe) deployed tens of gateways in the last few mont…

[image] KapiteinRob: That gateway has disappeared (or set private). Or it might have failed. The hardware deployed would be almost 9 years old by now and I’ve had a number of gateways of that age die on me over the past year due to flash wear. (A well known brand, not home made RPi) I have s…

@KapiteinRob some personal reflection and experiences: Building a network is hard work sometimes. Takes a lot of e-mails, phone calls, explaining etcetera. And money of course. On the long term building a community or network with governments, communities of citizens, schools, companies is necessa…

@KapiteinRob Follow up: The Assen gateway has been shutdown. The local government (provincie Drenthe) stopped supporting the initiative years ago and the person that kept things running stopped earlier this year. Would there be sufficient interest and drive to start a legal entity to step up and …

I set up a gateway in 2016 on the roof of a 25m-high building in Gouda (NL) in 2016, and administer another in the area of Den Haag. Organised a couple of meetups in the beginning with fellow gateway owners. The gateway is currently happily receiving packets (> 25k per day) but I’m actually only usi…

I am not sure what triggered the second half of your message but I don’t feel it is justified. The interest in LoRaWAN has dwindled over time. Even The Things Network meetups in Amsterdam haven’t been scheduled for ages. The technology is no longer sexy and new and most amateurs found they could use…

Jac, do you have a name of the ‘police-person’? I’m trying to develop a new contact there.

Can you send me your contact details in a private message?

Sinds yesterday i have a gateway in Callantsoog, between t Zand and Julianadorp in Noord Holland. I hope i can setup a few more in the neighbourhood.

The network keeps growing! So yes, TTN has a future! [image] Stichting IoT Apeldoorn en omstreken op LinkedIn: Fantastisch om te zien dat... Fantastisch om te zien dat er bedrijven zijn die bij dragen aan de dekking van The Things Network in Apeldoorn. Waterschap Vallei en Veluwe heeft i…

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