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Empowering the next generation of IoT innovators
Training programs, academic licensing and teaching materials for students, educators and research centers, on the same platform industry runs. Real devices, real data, no simulations.
- Free accounts for students
- Free on-premise academic licenses
- Discounted educational cloud
- Teaching since 2016
The idea
Real technology, real value
Students learn IoT best on the tools they will meet at work: real devices, real data, no simulations.
On the bench
Thinger.io
A connected product
- Dashboard
- Data bucket
- Alert
In the classroom since 2016
- 201650 hour IoT courses at UPMWith the Samsung Tech Institute initiative
- 2017ClimaStick, our own boardWiFi and a full sensor set, no protoboard
- TodayPrograms, licenses and materialsThe same experience, as a service
What we offer
For students, educators and researchers
Training programs
Practical courses taught by the platform's own engineers, from university classrooms to online formats: sensing, actuation, events, device to device communication and dashboards, always hands-on.
Free student accounts
The full power of a professional IoT platform to connect, manage and analyze real devices, just like in industry. No simulations, no cost.
Academic licensing
Free on-premise licenses for universities and research institutions, and discounted cloud plans for educational use.
Flexible deployment
A fully managed cloud environment or a self-hosted instance on your own infrastructure: we help you choose the option that fits how your institution teaches and researches.
Teaching materials
Full documentation at docs.thinger.io, example projects for common boards and sensors, and course content proven in real classrooms.
Community
Students share ideas, get support and explore real IoT projects in the official community forum and the global Discord server.
Planning a course, a lab or a research project?
FROM BREADBOARD TO LIVE DASHBOARD
How it works
Academic licensing in four steps
From a first conversation to a course or a study running on real infrastructure.
- 01
Tell us about your program
Institution, course or project, calendar and hardware. A short call scopes it.
- 02
Choose the deployment
- 03
Set up with our materials
Docs, example projects and the community from day one, and a free account per student.
- 04
Teach, build, publish
Run the course or the study on real infrastructure, as far as peer reviewed papers.
Proof, published
Universities already build on Thinger.io
Thinger.io appears in thousands of academic publications on Google Scholar. Two of the projects, told in full:
UPM and UC3M
UPM and UC3M: hydrology measured sensor by sensor
A dense NB-IoT network of soil moisture probes and water level gauges across two catchments.
Read the case study
MAPHI, INTA and UNPA
MAPHI: fresh food grown in Antarctica
A hydroponic module at Marambio Base grows fresh greens at -30 °C outside.
Read the case study
Our own hardware
ClimaStick: a classroom on one board
Designed by Thinger.io so students code connected projects from the Arduino IDE without wiring a protoboard: WiFi, environment and motion sensors on one stick.
Where it is taught
In classrooms and labs in more than 85 countries
Each dot is a university or technical school whose students or staff have signed up for Thinger.io. Search for yours, or download the full list.
- 1,200+
- universities, colleges and technical schools
- 85+
- countries
- 5,000+
- academic sign-ups
Hover or tap a dot to see the institution. Bigger dots group several close together.
Next step
Bring real IoT to your classroom
Tell us about your course, lab or research project and we will find the setup that fits, from free student accounts to a full academic license.