How Two Entrepreneurs Launched a Global, Open Source Internet of Things Network

Summary

At a meeting in a hackerspace in Amsterdam, business partners and friends Wienke Giezeman and Johan Stokking encountered the Long Range Wide Area Network, or LoRaWAN technology, for the first time. This technology makes it possible to connect 10,000 devices within a radius of approximately six miles of each other as an “Internet of Things” network, in which sensors with low battery usage are able to operate.