The Things Network (TTN) is a free community LoRaWAN platform (community gateways plus a hosted Network Server) widely used for development, prototyping and maker-friendly deployments, with a web console and MQTT/HTTP SDKs for application integration.
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The TTN community runs approximately 25 000 gateways worldwide, of which around 500 are in France. The hosted Network Server is free under a fair-use policy (roughly 30 messages per device per day). The web console handles application and device registration, monitoring and payload decoders. Integrations include MQTT for event subscription and HTTP webhooks for pushing data into custom backends. Typical TTN usage covers prototypes, makers, research projects and small-scale deployments; The Things Industries (TTI), the commercial company behind TTN, offers paid plans for production workloads.
For any serious deployment, migrate from the free TTN tenant to a dedicated The Things Stack instance or a self-hosted ChirpStack — production support, predictable SLAs and per-device cost only become reasonable under a paid plan.
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