{"id":32206,"date":"2020-04-30T18:49:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T10:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=32206"},"modified":"2021-01-28T14:19:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T06:19:12","slug":"seeed-presented-at-the-things-conference-the-worlds-largest-lorawan-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/30\/seeed-presented-at-the-things-conference-the-worlds-largest-lorawan-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeed Presented at The Things Conference, the World\u2019s largest LoRaWAN Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Notes: Under the influence of the COVID-19, many trade shows have been canceled or postponed. Hopefully, the virus will be contained soon, and we will meet in person in the near future. Before that, let’s “re-visit” some events via the cloud. Today, I’d like to share some not-so-new news about The Things Conference. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Jan 30~31, 2020, Seeed participated in The Things Conference<\/a>, the World\u2019s largest LoRaWAN Conference organized by The Things Network<\/a>, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The conference attracted more than 1000 LoRaWAN developers from more than 10 countries to participate. Seeed showcased SenseCAP, the industrial IoT LoRaWAN series products, hosted a workshop as well as gave a keynote speech at the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As the IoT Hardware Enabler, Seeed has been providing various IoT hardware products, including LoRaWAN solutions to developers worldwide. By participating in the TTC, Seeeders Shuyang Zhou, Kevin Yang, and Joey Jiang<\/a>, and Yoshihiro Tsuboi<\/a> from Seeed met developers in person, to exchange ideas and explore more in-depth communication & cooperation with the community members and partners in The Things Network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Seeed Booth at TTC, right to left: Shuyang, Yoshi, Joey, Kevin)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Apart from showing Seeed SenseCAP LoRaWAN series gateways and wireless sensors, Kevin Yang<\/a> (Director of Product Management at Seeed) also hosted a workshop at TTC. Participants got hands-on experience using SenseCAP, and they\u2019ve given very positive feedback at the end of the workshop. Besides, one participant Sander van de Velde wrote very detailed instructions to share with the community about how to connect  Sensecap Sensors to The Things network<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Kevin is hosting the workshop)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Shuyang Zhou<\/a> (Director of Sales, IoT Solutions) gave a keynote speech on \u201cOpen Technology for Sustainable Development\u201d, sharing with the participants about the Shenzhen ecosystem and some examples of how Seeed and our partners adopted open technology in projects such as IoTea<\/a>, the smart tea plantation project; Kabakoo<\/a>, a new type of school that empowers young Africans with knowledge actionable in their environments; and CodeJumper<\/a>, an incredible innovation that teaches students who are blind or visually impaired computer coding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Shuyang is giving the keynote speech)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Shuyang mentioned in the speech that Shenzhen has a very unique innovative ecosystem. At the very beginning, the innovation in Shenzhen was growing hand-in-hand with Shanzhai (original meaning is mountain stronghold and later recognized as cheap counterfeits.) However, with the supply chain resources becoming more mature, and the Shanzhai products met its bottleneck in the market, people had to look for a new way out, to look for opportunities in niche markets and vertical industries. Along this way, many new products are coming out, they might not be well-known brands, but they met the needs of a certain group of people, which on the other hand also push forward the innovation both in product applications and supply chain resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n