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Most of Europe's deployed chargers still speak OCPP 1.6, a protocol from a earlier era. New one has been ratified for years, it is now an IEC standard, and there is a newer version on top of it.
5 min readEdge AI sounds like a way to save on cloud inference bills. In practice, it usually is not. The right reasons to go to the edge are latency, privacy, and bandwidth, in that order, and if your reason is not one of those three, stay in the cloud.
6 min readPick wrong and your data layer will crack at exactly the moment your fleet is interesting. The three credible options for energy and IoT time-series in 2026 are TimescaleDB, InfluxDB, and ClickHouse. Each is excellent for a slightly different shape of workload.
5 min readPicking your connectivity is picking your unit economics, and you only get to do it cheaply once. Here is the decision tree I would hand a founder shipping their first ten thousand devices in 2026, with the Polish coverage reality that most guides get wrong.
5 min readAn EMS that round-trips every decision through the cloud is going to disappoint someone, eventually, in a way that costs real money. The right split between edge and cloud is a latency budget question, and once you frame it that way the architecture writes itself.
8 min readA misconfigured Postgres credential turned an ordinary EMQX cluster into a 50,000-connection-attempt-per-minute self-DDoS. Here is what we changed about authentication, observability, and runbook design after that night.
7 min readThis blog post is an addition to the YouTube video above. I'm describing different connectivity types that you can use for your Internet of Things project
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What is IoT? IoT or Internet of Things is a broad term, which was coined over a decade ago by Kevin Ashton. It's a term used
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