Tag "iot"

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De Dietrich Smart - My Heat Pump in Home Assistant

05 November 2026 10 mins read

Ever looked at the most expensive appliance in your house and realised it’s the only one you can’t automate? That was me with my De Dietrich heat pump. Sensors, plugs, the robot vacuum and even the...

Adding a Qwen-powered Memory-Augmented Agent to the NaLog Platform

20 July 2026 3:31 minutes

Four years ago I wrote about revolutionizing rice farming with IoT AWD at KhawTECH. The hardware worked. The LoRaWAN sensors worked. The platform worked. Farmers could see water levels on a phone. ...

Partnering with the EU for Sustainable Agritech

07 July 2025 5 mins read

As a full-stack engineer and owner of the agriTech startup Khawtech, I recently had the privilege of contributing to the European Commission’s (DG CNECT, Unit E2) “Edge Computing Nodes: Continuous ...

From Iron Man Power Bank to Smart RGB Busy Light

07 June 2025 4 mins read

Have you ever felt bad about throwing away a piece of broken electronics, especially when it has that perfect aesthetic appeal? That’s exactly what happened when my Iron Man helmet-shaped USB power...

From Rusty to Reliable AWD Tube Upgrade

25 April 2025 7 mins read

When I first prototyped KhawTECH’s AWD tube, I wanted something dirt-cheap and simple to help farmers monitor water levels in their paddies. I used a PVC tube, an ESP32 with LoRa for long-range dat...

Making AgTech Accessible for Small, Family Farms

11 August 2024 11 mins read

What started as a simple idea to support Thailand 4.0 has evolved into an AgTech startup that is now ready to test its first IoT-AWD (Alternate Wetting and Drying) device in the fields of Thailand....

Revolutionizing Rice Farming with IoT AWD with KhawTECH

13 July 2022 8 mins read

Everyone knows how important rice farming is for the livelihood of many farmers worldwide, but it is also a process that demands extensive water use and very intensive human effort. Traditional met...

Upgrade Bkool BCycling (Classic or Pro pre-Aug2014) to ANT+ FE-C

11 October 2021 6 mins read

Hopefully this is useful for more people like me who, like me, had an old Bkool Classic rotting in a corner as they couldn’t use it.

IoT with Alibaba Cloud – Webinar

22 October 2019 2 mins read

Learn how your devices can connect to Alibaba Cloud’s Internet of Things (IoT) solution by setting up a simulated IoT device. Have a look to the Webinar I recorded while in Hangzhou at Alibaba’s of...

Controlando un LED con un LDR en Arduino

07 January 2015 4 mins read

Usar un LDR para automatizar una tarea suele ser un ejemplo muy básico a la hora de empezar con Arduino. Esto es porque aglutina, en pocas líneas, todo lo que necesitas para empezar con fuerza en e...