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Everything device-side: choosing the MCU, designing firmware that updates safely, building a BLE companion app users keep installed, and the bring-up work that gets you from breadboard to first 10,000 units.
9 essays published in this topic
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BLE Mesh, Thread, and Zigbee compared for product teams in 2026 — protocol fit, ecosystem support, Matter compatibility, and the trade-offs we weigh on real projects.
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Event-driven, hierarchical state machines, hardware abstraction layers — the firmware architecture patterns that survive past v1 and don't require a rewrite at v3.
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How to build a power-budget spreadsheet for an IoT product — duty cycles, sleep currents, derating — that predicts battery life within 10% of measured.
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The bring-up checklist we run on every IoT product — power rails, peripherals, radio, certification, factory test. The order that catches issues early, not late.
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How we ship Nordic nRF52 / nRF54 firmware in 2026 — Zephyr workflow, NCS quirks, BLE peripheral patterns, OTA, and the migration path from older Nordic SDKs.
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A side-by-side look at when ESP32 wins, when STM32 wins, and the small set of cases where neither is the right answer.
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The transition from bench prototype to manufacturable product is where most IoT companies stall. The playbook that gets you to 1,000 units.
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Why most IoT companion apps disappoint, the patterns that make them feel native, and the engineering decisions that decide whether your hardware ever gets recommended.
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Step-by-step walkthrough for calculating Bluetooth Low Energy device battery life — the parameters that matter, surprises, and a worked example.
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Comparison guides for IoT development boards, sensors, gateways, and prototyping kits. Pick the right hardware for your connected product.
IoT security platforms, threat modeling, secure provisioning, and the OWASP IoT Top 10 for product teams shipping connected devices.
Integrating IoT data with ERP, CRM, BI, and business systems. Webhooks, streaming, data lakes, multi-cloud architectures, and middleware patterns.
AWS IoT, Azure IoT, Google Cloud IoT, self-hosted platforms, time-series storage, and cost-modeling at scale.
MQTT, CoAP, LoRaWAN, Matter, Thread, OCPP, OPC UA — pick the right protocol and ship a device that interoperates.
Predictive maintenance, smart factories, OEE dashboards, digital twins, and the OT/IT integration that makes Industry 4.0 real.
Matter, Thread, local-first design, voice assistants, energy monitoring, and the consumer-IoT decisions product teams face in 2026.
IoT applications across healthcare, energy, EV charging, agriculture, retail, hospitality, mining, and education. Vertical-specific patterns.
OTA pipelines, fleet observability, device onboarding at scale, incident response, and the SRE practices that keep IoT fleets healthy.
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