The Things Industries Reaches 1M Connected Devices on their LoRaWAN® platform

The Things Industries, a LoRaWAN® solutions provider, has reached the milestone of 1 million devices connected to their network server - The Things Stack.

Reaching 1 million connected devices is a testament to the reliability and scalability of The Things Stack, and it delivers significant efficiency benefits to customers, with an estimated value of over 1 billion. The Things Stack is designed to provide a secure and efficient way for businesses and organizations to connect and manage their IoT devices across a variety of verticals. The most recent highlights include the deployment of 150K smart water meters for Severn Trent Water, 47 000 air quality sensors across 1700 schools in Canada, smart workplace solutions for Accenture and AXA, Bosch parking automation, and more.

“We are very proud to have come to this milestone. These connected devices of our customers all carry strong business cases that drive efficiency and sustainability. It is an honor to serve our customers in all corners of the globe with their different Internet of Things LoRaWAN use cases.”

Wienke Giezeman, CEO, The Things Industries.

The Things Stack offers several differentiators: it is built on open-source technology, making it fully customizable and adaptable to specific customer needs. It is a secure network server with end-to-end encryption, ensuring that data is protected at all times. The Things Stack offers a range of services, including support with high availability and integrations with other platforms for device management and data visualization.

The enterprise LoRa® market is experiencing rapid growth as more companies adopt the technology for their Internet of Things applications. In 2023, The Things Industries projects to continue its growth by supporting the ever-increasing need for enterprise IoT and smart city networks across the world. It will expand its product offering with a complete Network Operations Center to monitor and manage end devices and gateways along with offering The Things Stack as a Kubernetes deployment.

Some of The Things Stack differentiators are:

Cost Efficiency: The experienced team and friendly cost model will help you reduce your monthly overhead, and focus on bringing value to your end customers.

Flexibility: Easily integrate The Things Stack with your existing IT infrastructure, and run it in the cloud or on-premises.

• Use as SaaS, On-premise, or run in your existing cloud account
• Dedicated Cloud for higher availability
• Supporting Enterprise deployments for on-premise self-hosted installation

Security: Security is at the core of our design. Use our tools to keep your data secure while avoiding any sort of vendor lock-in.

Multi-region support: The Things Industries’ multi-region support fulfills global use cases.

Platform integrations: Our services are designed to interact seamlessly with the protocols and systems you already support.

Support: Value-added support for prototyping, proactive guidance, and incident management.

Advanced Features: Firmware updates over the air, LoRa 2.4 GHz, and more.

Customizability: Connect any hardware and software of your choice to The Things Industries network server.