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The Things Network is running an open, decentralized Internet of Things data network with a set of t

12/11/2026

“Hype marketing is bad business.”

Leonard Lee, analyst at NextCurve and former Gartner analyst, argues that every overpromise builds up credibility debt. It doesn’t only hurt you: it undermines everyone in the industry doing the real work.

Hear what he says about the hidden debt every hype campaign creates, and why he thinks free POCs need to stop. 👇

11/11/2026

Five steps. That's the whole setup.

1. Connect to power
2. Connect to internet
3. Configure server address
4. Register in The Things Stack
5. Set up monitoring

Whether it's your first LoRaWAN gateway or your fiftieth, The Things Indoor Gateway Pro goes through the same steps.

Get started: https://www.thethingsindustries.com/the-things-indoor-gateway-pro

Which step usually slows you down?

11/11/2026

We're heading to Japan.

Next week we're at EdgeTech+ 2026, Yokohama, sharing booth DJ-09 with Avnet and Dragino. Together we cover the full path from LoRaWAN device to network to distribution.

Come and see live Dragino sensors and gateways running on The Things Stack across smart building, agriculture, industry, food safety and water management.

18 to 20 November, Pacifico Yokohama, booth DJ-09.

Read more: https://www.thethingsindustries.com/news/the-things-industries-at-edge-tech-2026-in-yokohama

Will we see you there?

11/11/2026

Everyone talks about frontier models with hundreds of billions of parameters.

Pete from the EDGE AI FOUNDATION argues the real action is happening at the other end: small language models.

They keep getting better while getting smaller. A model with around a billion parameters fits in roughly a gigabyte of RAM, sometimes half that. That’s edge device territory.

And the pace is fast. Six months ago, small models like Qwen had context windows of about 8,000 to 12,000 tokens. Today it’s around 120,000. That’s roughly 10x in half a year.

In Pete’s words, models will be able to do a lot more in a lot smaller and more affordable spaces, every 6 months.

For anyone building connected devices, that changes the question. It’s no longer “can AI run on my hardware?” It’s “what should run locally, and what still needs the cloud?”

So where do you land? Is small, on-device AI ready for real products, or are frontier models still the only ones worth building on?

🎥 Full clip https://youtu.be/hdxTx-cYB9o

10/11/2026

“We basically shipped our product before the networks were ready.”

That’s Martin from Nordic Semiconductor, looking back on launching their first cellular IoT product in 2018.

The hype was huge. Customers were ready. Then the kits went into the field, and the first support tickets all said the same thing: no coverage, no connection.

He named three things Nordic got wrong:

Shipping before networks supported LTE-M and NB-IoT
Asking developers to learn a new architecture and Zephyr RTOS from day one
An SDK and modem firmware that weren’t mature yet

The promises of 10-year battery life, global coverage and plug and play ran into roaming gaps and SIM cards that drew more power than the module itself.

Today there are 270+ networks supporting LTE-M and NB-IoT. In Martin’s words, the industry “built the road while driving on it.”

So here’s the question: if you tested cellular IoT five years ago and walked away, what would it take to get you to try it again?

🎥 Full clip: https://youtu.be/ov7q3zd73_s

09/11/2026

Most temperature sensors are built for offices. This one isn't.

Device Spotlight: Enless Wireless 600-031 Rugged Temperature Sensor.

IP65, rated from -20 °C to 55 °C, with a replaceable 3.6 Ah battery. Built for industrial floors, outdoor sites and everywhere an office sensor taps out.

It's already in our Device Repository with its payload codec, so uplinks arrive as clean, decoded data as soon as you onboard it. No decoder to write.

Think machine rooms, greenhouses, cold chain, pumping stations, rooftops.

Which device should we spotlight next?

05/11/2026

Every business has unique requirements. The real opportunity lies in combining scalable technology with specialized solutions and services.

05/11/2026

Cloud, dedicated or self-hosted in your own data center. Same APIs. Same CLI. Same features.

With The Things Stack, changing how you host your LoRaWAN network doesn't mean starting over. Neither does changing what sits on top of it.

It works with any standard gateway and integrates with MQTT, webhooks and the major cloud and IoT platforms. Switch applications without re-onboarding a single sensor.

If you can't do that, you're buying a bundle, not a network.

Why teams choose The Things Stack: https://www.thethingsindustries.com/news/why-choose-the-things-stack

04/11/2026

Most gateways ask for an afternoon. The Things Indoor Gateway Pro asks for a power socket.

Plug it in, connect it to the internet and register it in The Things Stack. Zero-touch provisioning does the rest, and your LoRaWAN network is running in seconds.

Wi-Fi, Ethernet and cellular, with a roaming SIM and data included. Monitoring and firmware updates happen remotely, so you make fewer site visits.

See it here: https://www.thethingsindustries.com/the-things-indoor-gateway-pro

What's the longest a gateway setup has ever taken you?

04/11/2026

We screwed up IoT three times. Here’s how not to do it again. 👇

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