By late 2016 the pattern was established. Find a university willing to host and champion the infrastructure, install a small number of gateways in good positions, open the network to anyone, and let the use cases arrive from the community rather than specifying them up front.
The QUT partnership
QUT's Institute for Future Environments partnered with Meshed to launch the network, hosting the city's first gateway.
Professor Bronwyn Harch, the institute's executive director, framed the value in terms of opening up opportunities for Brisbane rather than in terms of the technology itself, which is consistently how the university partners in this programme described their interest.
Where it sat in the national picture
Brisbane joined the global Things Network, of which Meshed is the Australian representative, following Wollongong in April 2016 and Sydney in July.
The significance of a third city is that it stopped being a pilot. Three networks in three states, all built on the same foundation-partner model, established that the approach was repeatable rather than a product of one favourable set of local circumstances.
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This launch was reported by IoT Hub, Australia's Internet of Things trade publication.
“Meshed brings LoRaWAN to Brisbane”, IoT Hub, 26 October 2016.
