The Things Academy: Hands on with LoRaWAN®

Start your professional LoRaWAN® career now with The Things Academy (Hardware required)

Get ready for 5 days of intense learning, hands-on workshops, and building real use cases using LoRaWAN technology. During the 1-week pressure cooker, you will gain theoretical knowledge of the LoRa® technology and LoRaWAN standard, and you will learn how to put the theory in practice through joining hands-on workshops.

Instructors include IoT experts who have seen IoT projects containing hundreds of thousands of sensors succeed and fail. All instructors are committed to provide you with the insights we’ve learned over the course of the past year, preventing you from making the same mistakes.

For whom: The Things Summer Academy is a week-long summer school, designed for ambitious people who are planning to kickstart their career in IoT. No knowledge of LoRaWAN is required, basic understanding of (web) development and/or basic electronics is preferable.

What we ask from participants: We ask participants to be dedicated for the full week. To listen to the theory presented by the experts, and to join in with the hands-on workshops. Access to a hardware kit is required (see bottom, and see the final lecture for a PDF with links)

What you will learn?

• Theory about the fundamentals of LoRa and LoRaWAN

• Understanding the principles of wireless communication

• How to securely connect a LoRaWAN device to any LoRaWAN Network Server

• Sending uplinks and downlinks

• Basics about LoRaWAN security

• How to set up a gateway using LoRa Basics Station

• The inner-workings of The Things Stack (the technology used by The Things Network)

• Integrating sensor data with third part platforms through MQTT and HTTP Webhooks

• Storing, visualizing and processing sensor data in IoT platforms

Why join this course?

• High-quality content, created by a team of LoRaWAN experts

• Hands-on workshops with live Q&A

• Personal mentor to support your throughout the week

• Become part of a peer-group for discussing, interacting and reviewing one another’s work

• Access to discounted hardware and software

• Official Certificate upon completion (add-on for €99)

• Invitation to The Things Alumni Network

• On-demand content after the summer course

The Things Summer Course Instructors:

• Johan Stokking, Tech Lead at The Things Network

• Olivier Seller, co-inventor of LoRa technology & Technical Fellow at Semtech

• Sebastian Romero, Design Lead at Arduino

• Nick McCloud, IoT entrepreneur & The Things Network Forum moderator

• JP Meijers, IoT developer & creator of TTN Mapper

• Xose Pérez, IoT developer & initiator The Things Network Barcelona

• Marc Pous, Developer Advocate at Balena

• Ben Olayinka, technical writer at The Things Network

• Laurens Slats, developer evangelist at The Things Network

Required Hardware

For participating in the Academy, specific hardware is needed. Below is an overview of the hardware required for the course. See the final lecture for a PDF with links.

Development board
Arduino MKR WAN 1300
Arduino MKR Env shield

Gateway Kit
There are 2 options to choose from. You can order the individual components (option 1) or purchase the kit as a whole (option 2).

Option 1:
RAK2287 (SPI Version Only!)
RAK2287 Pi HAT
Raspberry Pi 4

Option 2:
WisGate Developer D4H

Join our Slack Channel

We would love to get to know you before we kickstart the course. Join the conversation with fellow students on The Things Network Slack. See the final lecture for a PDF with instructions.