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Tracking the coffee from production to the cup with Blockchain, IoT and thethings.iO

At thethings.iO IoT platform, we love to work with students. In this case, Carles was doing his engineering thesis at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) on a very exciting topic, Blockchain on the asset tracking coffee world. The necessity to improve the working conditions of coffee exporting countries combined with the high demand of this […]

Using Geofencing with thethings.iO

What is geofencing? Geofencing is a technology that allows you to create geographical boundaries and set up triggers based on location information. For example, you could send a message to someone when a “thing” has entered or left a specific area defined by your geofence. Some of the great uses of geofencing include location tracking, […]

How to Setup your Insight Dashboard

When you log into your thethings.iO IoT platform, the first thing that you see is your Main Dashboard. This dashboard is here to give you the main overview of all of your things. However, sometimes you need to see more specific information about your things. For this reason, we’ve created the Insight Dashboard feature. If […]

How to connect Thingstream with thethings.iO

In this tutorial, we will set up a Thingstream Button with thethings.iO IoT platform so that when we click the button, it’s GPS location will be sent to thethings.iO and can easily be seen on a map! This tutorial will walk you through setting up your button, creating a flow in Thingstream, sending data to […]

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Connect anything to thethings.iO IoT platform with HTTP/S and your JSON

On this post we would like to show you how to connect anything using HTTP/S and your JSON. We used to get contacted by IoT developers and companies who were having devices already connected with their own JSON structures. Usually they wanted to move to thethings.iO IoT platform, so this is the reason why we […]

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Asset Tracking Success Story on the Automotive Industry

At thethings.iO we have been working during the last twelve month on the thethings.iO Solutions. One of the most successful IoT Solution is related with the asset tracking and more concrete with a complete Internet-connected plastic pallet for automobile industries. Here you can find more details on thethings.iO Asset Tracking Solution Success Story. At thethings.iO […]