Internet of Things Meetup
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 including the FiPy. Following…