The Things Conference Amsterdam, 2022 - Informal Info/Pictures/Discussion Thread

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Apologies to IoT Creators for this fuzzy mess:

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There was a big stand for some outfit called Semtech but as I wasn’t besuited the marketing force field wouldn’t let me near it :wink:

That and they didn’t give me an LR1110 development kit, not that I wanted such out of date tech anyway, the LR1120 is where it’s at now, so I may or may not have forgotten to take a picture. But they didn’t have much anyway - Suits roaming the stand looking for prey + some big screens showing corporate stuff.

The TTI stand had lots of comfy chairs so I couldn’t take pictures as too many people having a siesta on it. But great chocolate bars.

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Additional pictures of note

The show offer from Sensational Systems:

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The rather worrying safety posters in the stair wells:

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Someone having a baby outside the hotel:

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The best pizza I’ve had in years:

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Chef & family are from Naples, enough said.

And finally, if the Eurostar has to stop because of an issue in the tunnel, here’s the last gasp place to do it:

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To compensate for the missing TTI stand picture, here’s one with the lovely Nick on full display talking to a fine man handing out vouchers:
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Best Swag award goes to InfluxData for providing two pairs of socks. Second best to Tektelic for one pair of socks. Ignion get special mention for the water bottle & straw combo.

Best forum meet up was with @Ichthus_College_Info as Steven bought chocolate!

Best workshop giveaway was a Lacuna.Space LS300 device which I have running in the garden now.

Most ambitious workshop plan is joint equal for Lacuna.Space & TTI GNSE.

Fastest workshop content download goes to @adrianmares on LR-FHSS - 35 minutes drinking from a fire hose - he will also be nominated for the next Bond movie as the Evil Genius techy.

Proud father award goes to @johan who seemed happy to have two days break from nappy changing - looking forward to Johan Junior’s keynote explaining the new stack features next year.

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I guess you must have taken that “on approach”.

@cndrxn was on a high as he’d got his award winning (see above) workshop done, and myself & Steven scored a voucher each for a Seeed Sensor kit (Wio display, LoRa-E5, camera, other sensors etc)

You have to be in it to win it!

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What not ‘Q’s’ sidekick (or replacement?

Not with his deep voiced Romanian accent - move over Goldfinger, there’s someone else to deliver that famous line: “No, I expect you to die!”

I’m glad you liked the new payload normalization feature. I was the one who proposed it back in March, and I’ve been discussing the requirements and design of it ever since: Enforce a standard format for decoded sensor data · Issue #395 · TheThingsNetwork/lorawan-devices · GitHub

Thanks to the beauty of open source (and the superb work of @johan and the team) it’s a reality today. From what I have seen, it has been very well received among TTC22 visitors (at least the developers). Business people from different competing integrators may see this as a threat because right now they have their own solutions that do something similar and promote them as added value.

For me and many open-minded developers, I think this is a no-brainer. There are many benefits to having a common, well-defined format, hopefully standardized by a trusted entity such as the LoRaWAN Alliance or TTN itself, and then adopted by the industry.

Ideally, more stakeholders should be involved in defining this format, as it is difficult to get standards that fit everyone well, but the more people involved and contributing in the early stages of development, the better.

Please, everyone, feel free to stop by the related GitHub issues and PRs and leave your comments there.

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Ok spill the beans. :wink:

Cant find any information in the documentation nor Lacuna Space

@telkamp @johan