# The Things Network

TTN - The Things Network

The Things Network (TTN) is a global, free wireless network based on the LoRa wireless standard. One of its aims is to provide all interested parties with an infrastructure for IoT applications without them having to invest a great deal of hardware themselves.

In many cases, it is sufficient to have a TTN gateway, i.e. a base station, within range. This receives the data to be measured and forwards it independently to a TTN server. From there, the measurement data can be accessed worldwide via the Internet.

If no gateway is available, you can install one yourself and thus increase TTN's coverage.

You can find out whether a TTN gateway is available in your area via the website:

https://ttnmapper.org/

to find out.

As this project involves collecting weather data from many different vocational schools in numerous European cities, it made sense to include TTN in the data transfer.