The more I follow the things surrounding TTN the more I need to follow the.....  So it is obviously a recursive fractal type thing. I am adding each link to the resources I am finding over in the right side widget of this blog.

Today, my main thoughts come from some of the links I've added. In particular I am feeling that there are two distinct approaches, the citizen and and the corporate ones. I relate these somewhat to the Ham and CB things of the past, but they may be closer to OpenSource and ClosedSource approaches to licensing.

I do think both will have their space, I am naturally inclined toward the former. One difference is that there are now available unlicensed radio channels that can be used with certified telemetry equipment, above this layer the protocols are still an open book.

Altogether a chance for another space as diverse as the Internet to populate with things.

We are collecting ideas for sending devices (clients?) of a TTNGW. Suggestions so far include HedgeHog Tracking, Tree Monitoring, and Flood Warning.

The Flood Warning trial is likely to be in Maidenhead as we already have a sponsor to host a TTNGW, Malcolm Napier lives in an area that would benefit from more localised monitoring than is done by national agencies.

We can build on the experience of Oxford Flood Network that built such a network, though not IoT or LoRa based, it is an opensource project and we have one of the developers (@AndrewDLindsay) working on the Thatcham TTN already.

More to follow....