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#Design and Goals

The Things Network is about participation, so we want to have something inexpensive, simple, and accessible - it should not require traditional programming skills (even Arduino-level) to set up a connected gadget.

To that end the current thought is to have something that comes out of the box with working firmware, but merely gets a configuration block (ultimately setup in a GUI) to customize its behavior for a users application. This would be things like sensors to read, rules for when to report them, and eventualy actions which can be taken in reply to control things. There would of course need to be something on the backend to accept and work with the data, but that can potentially leveral existing systems (IFTT type, etc).

• User Stories A list of specific and non-specific use cases, and related technical discussion of how we could (or in a few cases could not) support them.

• Customization - While an advanced user should be able to clone and modify the firmware repository, the real goal is for something which a less experienced user can customize merely by making some configuration choices in a GUI.

• Configuration Mechanism - once the user has made their customizations, how are those stored to the node?

• Hardware Requirements

• Radio and MCU Options

• Power Supply Considerations

• General beyond-NYC The Things Network page on node options