Independent IoT engineering
IoT systems built to beowned, not rented.
Sensors, connectivity, storage and dashboards designed as one system and handed over with the source code. No per-device fees, no platform you cannot walk away from.
Vendor neutral
Source code included
Self-hosted or managed
Worldwide
How the work is scoped
The whole stack, or just the missing piece
Some projects need everything from the sensor to the screen. Others are already most of the way there and need one part built properly. Both are normal work here.
Independent
No commission, no house brand
I have no reseller agreements and no manufacturer ties, so a recommendation costs me nothing either way. Sensors, radios, gateways and platforms get judged against your requirements, which usually means buying proven hardware once and building custom only where the market genuinely has nothing that fits.
Existing or new
Work with what you have
If equipment is already deployed, the job is to make it behave and extend it rather than to start again. If nothing exists yet, the architecture gets chosen for where you are going rather than for what is easiest to sell you. Cellular, LPWAN, wired, mesh or a mix of them: whatever the site and the power budget actually allow.
Advice or delivery
An hour, or a whole system
Some clients want an hour on sensor selection before they commit to an order. Others want the system built end to end, or a second opinion on a deployment that is not behaving. Nothing gets pushed on you, and if your problem is better solved by something I do not sell, I will tell you that.
Services
Comprehensive IoT Services
From a proof of concept on your own site through to production infrastructure that scales. Devices, firmware, integration and the data platform underneath, with the source code handed over at the end.
Prototypes, Devices & Firmware
A proof of concept on your actual site comes first, because no spreadsheet will tell you whether the signal reaches or the battery lasts. You get a straight answer either way, including when the technology you had in mind is the wrong tool for the job. The pilot that follows goes on the awkward site rather than the easy one, since a pilot that surfaces no problems has not tested anything. And when nothing on the market fits, I build the device myself, schematic through to firmware that survives a winter outdoors, and every file it took is yours.
Bespoke Dashboards
Your dashboard is built around what you actually measure rather than a template with your logo dropped on it, which means the pages are laid out for the people who read them every day. Drag across any chart to zoom into a window, or ask it for a whole year and it draws without a spinner. It runs on your infrastructure or on mine, and the source comes with it either way.
Full-Stack System Integration
Devices, connectivity, ingest, storage and dashboards built as one system rather than five that happen to sit next to each other. It hands its data to the systems you already run, over MQTT, HTTP, a message queue or a direct database connection. Source code, documentation and training for the team that inherits it.
Water Metering & Leak Detection
Consumption is broken out by zone, unit or process, and a leak shows up within hours rather than the 30 to 90 days a manual reading cycle takes to notice it. Clamp-on ultrasonic meters go on in half an hour without cutting pipe or shutting off supply. The dashboard shows the overnight baseline, which is where a standing leak stops being invisible.
Energy Monitoring & Sub-Metering
Energy is metered per unit at the point the load actually sits, whether that is a multi-tenant building, an RV hookup, an EV charger or solar self-consumption. Clamp-on current sensors fit around existing conductors, so the switchboard stays as it is. Billing runs off the same data, and the load pattern is visible before anyone quotes you for a supply upgrade.
Environmental Monitoring
Weather stations, air quality and cold chain sensors reporting from sites with neither mains power nor a network connection. Solar and battery are sized for the darkest month of the year rather than the average one. The data lands on your infrastructure, with alert thresholds and trend analysis you set yourself.
Connectivity & Field Infrastructure
Which radio a site can actually support is decided by the site, not by a preference: coverage surveys, power budgets and where the antenna or the router ends up matter more than the specification sheet does. Mounting, cabling, surge protection and enclosures that hold their rating after two winters. Everything configured, measured and documented, including why each decision went the way it did.
Custom Software You Own
Ingest pipeline, time-series storage, APIs and the dashboards above them, built around your process rather than picked off a template. No per-device fee and no subscription you cannot walk away from. Run it on hardware you control, on a data center server you rent, or on mine for a monthly fee. The repository and the documentation come with it either way.
Complete Data Sovereignty
Sensor readings never leave the infrastructure you chose for them. You set retention, access and data residency, which is usually the hard requirement in healthcare, utilities and public sector work rather than a preference. Grafana or a bespoke dashboard, on your own premises, on a data center server in a country you name, or hosted by me under the same rules and the same residency. There is a live dashboard online if you want to see what one looks like.
Blazing Fast Dashboards
Real meters, air quality sensors, doors and a weather station, all reporting right now. Try asking it for a full year. It just draws it. No spinner, no timeout, no loading screen apologising at you.
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Ownership
Why owning it matters
What separates a system you commissioned from a subscription you are renting, once the deployment is a few years old.
No monthly fees
One-time investment
Pay once for development and deployment, then run it indefinitely with no platform fees. Everything sits on hardware you own or rent directly, with minimal hosting costs. Go from 10 devices to 10,000 with no per-device charges, no metered tiers, and no surprise bill at renewal.
Full control
No vendor lock-in
You own the source code, so you are never tied to one supplier. Bring in any developer to maintain or extend it, migrate servers whenever you like, and take the system wherever it needs to go. The code is yours: documented, readable, and transferable.
Data privacy
Your servers, your data
Sensor data stays on infrastructure you control, whether that means your own premises, a private cloud, or some of each. Nothing passes through a third party on the way, so what gets kept and who can see it stays your decision rather than a setting in somebody else's console.
Where budgets go wrong
Avoid expensive mistakes
Most IoT overruns trace back to a handful of early decisions. The technology worked in the lab. The problems show up at scale.
01
Infrastructure is expensive to redo
Pulling out routers, rewiring installations and sending crews back on site costs far more than getting it right the first time. Every wrong call early on multiplies across the whole deployment, and it multiplies again on the sites that were hardest to reach. Guidance up front costs a fraction of doing it twice.
02
Wrong devices, wasted budget
Thousands of sensors are on the market and plenty do not deliver what the datasheet promises, particularly on battery life and on how they behave below freezing. I help you shortlist and field-test the right ones before you commit to a rollout, so the validation happens on ten units rather than on five hundred.
03
Trapped by your platform
You build everything on a vendor's platform, and then they raise prices, drop features, or shut the service down. Your whole system now hangs on someone else's roadmap, and switching mid-project is slow and painful. The right architecture on day one keeps that decision in your hands.
Consultancy
Advice and team training
Technical guidance from field experience with production systems rather than from a slide deck. Architecture review, implementation planning, and training shaped around the stack you actually run.
Architecture review
Technical consultancy
I go through the architecture you already have and tell you where it will bottleneck, which usually comes down to where the field hardware sits, how the ingest path is configured, and what the pipeline does with the data once it arrives. Take that as a single session or as ongoing guidance, depending on what the work actually needs.
Knowledge transfer
Team training
I train your team to run the infrastructure without me. Sessions are hands-on and cover device provisioning, network administration, data pipeline operation and dashboard development, taught over video with your real system in front of us rather than a demo environment.
Project planning
Implementation guidance
Planning a new deployment? We work through the hardware and the order to roll it out in together, and the coverage and power budgets get modelled for the environment you are actually putting this in rather than a generic one, so you come off the call with a plan you can act on rather than a list of options.
Writing
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Notes from the field
Written from production deployments, with the measurements, the failure modes and the costs left in.
Have a project in mind?
The first conversation is free. You will get an honest assessment of what your project takes, what it costs, and the smartest way to build it. If I am not the right fit, I will say so.
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