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The Things Network Hosts it’s first Virtual Conference

In case you haven’t heard, The Things Network is hosting its first virtual conference starting tomorrow – 16th April – for 2 days  !!! The Things Network is a global community driven effort to provide a low/no cost IoT network

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ST Launch die integrated STM32WLE5 LoRa SoC

Firstly Happy New Year to all our blog readers !!! We’ve been a bit quiet of late on this blog as we have been snowed under with work however we thought we would talk about a very exciting new development

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The Things Network get a new Outdoor Gateway !!!

A bit of spring excitement over at Milliamp Technologies – we’ve managed to get our hands on one of the first The Things Outdoor Gateway (TTOG) units in the world !!! The original TTN v1 Gateway was successfully Kickstarted back

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The Things Network v3 Stack – It’s Here !!!!

As some of you IoT people out there will be aware, The Things Conference 2019 finished yesterday in Amsterdam.  And one of the major announcements of the event was the availability of The Things Network Stack version 3.  This is

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Microchip Release Game Changer LoRa SAM R34 & SAM R35

Today Microchip have announced at the Electronica exhibition in Germany the release of their newest game changer to the Internet of Things market – their LoRa System-in-Package (SiP) ARM Cortex M0 based device integrated with a  Semtech LoRa transceiver – the 

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The Things Network partners with UK Digital Catapult

Some exciting news just in !!  The Things Network has partnered with UK based Things Connected Digital Catapult in an exciting new development for LPWAN and IoT development in the United Kingdom.  For some years now both initiatives have been

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4G/5G, LPWANs and the Internet of Things

Here at Milliamp we are huge advocates of the Internet of Things, and in particular license free LoRaWAN and The Things Network (including TTN Lancaster), yet many people ask us why we bother with this technology and why we don’t just

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LoRaWAN FOTA Breakthrough

The Things Network have recently announced a major breakthrough in solving one of the biggest challenges of LoRaWAN: “Firmware Over-the-Air” (FOTA or FUOTA) updates – a killer feature that allows IoT deployed devices in the field to be updated remotely.  One of the

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TTN Lancaster moves to Production Servers

Following on from our recent post announcing that The Things Network production platform has now gone live, we are please to report we have successfully migrated our TTN Lancaster kit to v2.0, with our Multitech Conduit 210L gateways.  We are currently

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Milliamp initiates The Things Network Lancaster

We are please to announce we have initiated a local community group of The Things Network (TTN) around Lancaster, UK, joining a rapidly growing number of TTN communities worldwide. The Things Network is a global, open, crowd-sourced Internet of Things (IoT) data

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