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Internet of Things Meetup Newry

Internet of Things Meetup Newry

Newry Digital Meetup held an IoT meetup on Tuesday in conjunction with DigitalNMD (Newry, Mourne, Down District Council), Southern Regional College and South-Eastern Regional College. Michael Forster started proceedings explaining the local council's DigitalNMD programme to support local business in the use of emerging technology such as drones and VR. Martin Naughtan then took the podium explain the radio frequencies available for IoT devices which center on the 868 Mhz frequency. Martin spoke about the LoRaWAN network that can be used at no charge to registered users. He passed around several IoT devices used for prototyping. Following Martin's talk we…
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Internet of Things Meetup

Internet of Things Meetup

The next Newry Digital Meetup will be on 22nd May 2018 with Martin Naughtan speaking about IoT hot on the heels of the launch of Things Connected at Belfast City Hall on 9th May. Originally from Galway Martin is the organiser of the IoT meetup group in Belfast. I'm looking forward to hearing Martin's experiences as I have been dabbling with my own IoT project using a Mkr Fox 1200 board to connect to the Sigfox network. The aim is to send messages every 20 minutes with water quality readings from a turbidity sensor. The title of Martin's talk is…
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Clean Code Meetup

Clean Code Meetup

The May meetup was help in Newry Library with Chris McCabe of Pearlai presenting his talk on 'Clean Code' using PHP examples. Chris is planning on giving the same talk at the NI Developer Conference to be held in June. Jonny followed that up with a lightning talk about the Dark Web. Plans are to hold a meetup again towards the end of May on the topic of 'Internet of Things'.
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GovCampConnect 2017 at Narrow Water Castle

GovCampConnect 2017 at Narrow Water Castle

Newry locals Brian Cleland, Jonny McCullagh and Stevan Barry brought the first GovCamp events for Ireland to Narrow Water Castle in 2016 and 2017. Una Murphy, journalist with ViewDigital describes her experience at GovCampConnect 2017. Technology experts, public servants and entrepreneurs gathered in Narrow Water Castle, Warrenpoint, recently to hear how digital technology is helping citizens in Northern Ireland with new Electronic Care Records and pilot ‘Social Prescribing’ projects. The event organiser GovCampConnect https://www.govcampconnect.org said the discussions brought together people interested in digital government on the island of Ireland. They said it was an opportunity for people to share their…
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