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Help build a remote sensing network for everyone

The Things Network New York (https://thethings.nyc) uses donated funds to deploy gateways covering all areas of the community (focusing especially on economically and environmentally challenged areas), to run servers, to educate and train users, and to cover the necessary operating costs of running a 501(c)(3). Because of the low cost of devices and gateways, even a small donation can help us provide training devices to students, deploy a gateway at a school, or support our attendance at hackathons and other community events. Larger donations will help us to rapidly scale out the network.

Help build a local, community owned, community controlled alternative network for remote sensing in smart cities.

Remote sensing with The Things Network can transform how communities respond to pollution, extreme weather events, global warming, and environmental justice, by empowering communities and citizens groups to get their own data and tell their own stories.  Unlike 5G, we need nobody’s permission, nor must we sell advertisements, give up our data, or depend on the kindness of large corporations in order to get meaningful, actionable information.

This is an opportunity to invest in the future, to make a meaningful difference in who can gather data, and who will own that data, in our communities.

Your donation will immediately help:

  • $40 pays for the electronics for one indoor air-pollution sensor
  • $150 pays for three high-accuracy temperature/humidity sensors for residential comfort studies
  • $300 pays for a year of servers and cloud infrastructure for running the network
  • $500 pays for an outdoor gateway covering up to one thousand people

Donate.

AND check out all the Things Network related things at Adafruit too.


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