The IoT Engineering Tax — What Your Team Is Building That It Shouldn't Be
4d ago · 6 min read · There is a number that most engineering managers do not calculate but probably should. It is the percentage of engineering time their IoT team spends on problems that are not unique to their product.
Join discussionBuilding a Reproducible Data Pipeline: Orchestrated Data Gathering and Model Training for Multi-Resident HAR
5d ago · 9 min read · HAR Series — Part 4 · ~12 min read A quick note: If you noticed a bigger gap than usual between posts, my apologies! Things have been hectic on personal and professional fronts — in the best way pos
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When a $12 Bolt Crashes a $2M System: Lessons in Hardware Reliability Engineering
5d ago · 11 min read · But the call at 2:47 AM was different. The error message: "Turbine structural failure - catastrophic bolt fracture"The affected system: 3 wind turbinesThe downtime: 3 weeksThe cost: $2.1 millionThe ro
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Smart Home Surveillance: Alexa, Ring, and the Always-On Listening Grid
Mar 7 · 12 min read · Part 30 of the TIAMAT Privacy Series — the devices you invited into your home are surveillance endpoints. In 2013, an Amazon executive described the Kindle Fire as "a piece of hardware that doesn't lose money when sold" — meaning it was a device des...
Join discussionOpenClaw in Action: 10 Real-World Scenarios to Integrate AI Assistants into Your Daily Workflow
Mar 6 · 6 min read · What if an AI assistant wasn't just a Q&A bot in a chat window, but something that genuinely embeds into your daily workflow? OpenClaw is an open-source AI Agent framework that does exactly that — it connects your devices, manages your tasks, and aut...
Join discussionHow to Connect Your First IoT Device with MQTT and Iotellect
Mar 5 · 3 min read · MQTT is the backbone of modern IoT communication. It's lightweight, efficient, and perfect for devices with limited resources. In this guide, we'll walk through connecting your first device using MQTT and Iotellect — a low-code IoT platform that make...
Join discussionWhat Is Device State Arbitration? (And Why Your IoT Stack Needs It)
Mar 4 · 4 min read · What Is Device State Arbitration? (And Why Your IoT Stack Needs It) If you search for "device state arbitration" right now, you will find almost nothing. That is not because the problem doesn't exist.
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I Got Tired of Debugging Ghost Offline Events at 2am. So I Built the Fix.
Feb 28 · 4 min read · If you've shipped anything with real devices in the real world, you've met the ghost. Your device is online. Your dashboard says offline. Your automation already fired. Your customer already got an al
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