EnRedAndo Me - Carlos Prados

About

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’m Carlos Prados, a Telecommunications Engineer with 25+ years of experience at the intersection of architecture, performance, and execution. I’m a hands-on CTO and Co-founder who still writes the core production code — because the person who sets the architecture should feel its friction every day.

Today I wear three hats in parallel. I’m CTO, board member and Innovation Lead at Amplía Soluciones, where we build IIoT platforms for utilities, industry, and telecom. I’m also co-founder of de Prados y Bodega and a small portfolio of other ventures. And, selectively, I work as a technical advisor to CTOs, boards, and investors — only on things I can actually operate on.

Build for the Field, Not the Lab: Shipping OTA Updates to NB-IoT Devices

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200

Fleet Health Is the Product
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The industry sells IoT as if data were the point. It isn’t. Data is the receipt. Fleet health is the product.

A thousand sensors in the desert, a gas meter in every flat of a rural town, a cold-chain tracker strapped to a pallet crossing a border — none of that is worth anything if the fleet degrades between my laptop and the real world. Every device that silently goes dark, every firmware bug that bakes in without a way out, every slot of flash with a bricked image — each of those is a direct cut into whatever value the product was supposed to deliver.

Mastering Agentic AI: The Routing Pattern

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In my previous post, we explored Prompt Chaining — the simplest way to break a complex task into sequential steps. But real-world systems rarely follow a straight line. Users don’t come with labels on their foreheads telling you what they need. Sometimes they want to book a flight, sometimes they want a factual answer, sometimes they want something you didn’t even anticipate.

That’s where the Routing pattern comes in. And honestly, this is where things start to feel like you’re building something real.

Breaking the Chains: Why I Built Keystone to Replace AWS Greengrass

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0100

The Vendor Lock-in Trap
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For the better part of the last decade, the industry narrative around IoT has been dominated by a “Cloud-First” mentality. The premise was seductive: treat your edge devices as dumb pipes and offload the heavy lifting to the cloud’s infinite compute.

However, as we moved from prototypes to production at scale, cracks began to appear in this facade. Latency mattered. Bandwidth costs exploded. But most importantly, we realized that by adopting managed edge runtimes, we were walking into a trap of architectural dependency.

Mastering Agentic AI: The Prompt Chaining Pattern

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0100

We are witnessing a massive shift in how we interact with Artificial Intelligence. We are moving from simple, reactive chatbots to Agentic Systems—autonomous entities capable of reasoning, planning, and interacting with the world to achieve complex goals.

But how do we actually build these systems? It’s not just about having a powerful LLM; it’s about the architecture around it. It requires structure, design, and a thoughtful approach to how the agent perceives and acts.

De la Telemetría y el Telecontrol al Internet de la Cosas Industrial aplicado a la eficiencia energética

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The evolution of telemetry and telecontrol up to Internet of Things

OpenGate IoT Platform

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

OpenGate IoT Platform allows obtaining general status and performance of remote devices, machines, and other items worldwide through a friendly and centralized administration web console

MEWS - an IoT and Cloud-Based avalanche detection and prediction platform

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This article introduces a Cloud-based platform designed for detecting and predicting snow avalanches. It emphasizes the process of collecting sensor data, storing it in the cloud, and using it as input for Machine Learning algorithms. The paper outlines the data workflow, system functionalities, and the essential data validation and pre-processing steps required before employing Machine Learning. Additionally, it discusses the integration of these Machine Learning features with the OpenGate cloud platform.

Device Management in utilities

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Regulation has led to the massive adoption of Smart Metering and has shown us the enormous possibilities that the digitization of electricity grids offers.

MEWS

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Artificial intelligent system for early detection of snow avalanches

OpenGate MQTT connector

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Learn how to use OpenGate MQTT connector.

OpenGate Demo UDP connector

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Learn how to use OpenGate demo UDP connector.

OpenGate CoAP connector

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Learn how to use the OpenGate CoAP connector.

Assets vs. Devices in IoT solutions

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

A well-architected IoT solution information requires a good comprehension of how business assets and devices complement each other.

Internet de la Cosas Industrial aplicado a la eficiencia energética

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

The roots of IoT and how to use it to improve Energy Efficiency.

Internet de la Cosas Industrial aplicado a la eficiencia energética

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Both power companies and electricity consumers benefit from using IoT for energy efficiency.

SMIP - Smart Metering Implementation Program

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

SMIP aims to roll out approximately 53 million smart meters in Great Britain

La tecnología al servicio de la eficiencia energética

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This talk brought insights into how to use IoT technology to improve energy efficiency.

Agilizando la gestión de proyectos

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

How to apply agile methodologies and methods to a product development.

Android Live Streaming Radio App

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Android Application to listen live music from a club in Madrid

Atlas Endesa - OpenGate Device Management & Monitoring

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Endesa deployed 140 thousand concentrators to support its 11 million smart meters, thanks to OpenGate

Consultant for ISO/IEC 33002:2015

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I helped several companies to obtain the ISO/IEC 33002:2015 certification

iOS & Black Berry push notification system

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Backend system to send real time push notifications to mobile devices

Geo-location System for Amena

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 +0000

Geo-location system for Amena (acquired later by Orange). Telecom grade system to enable an enterprise integration with mobile operator geo-location features (as subcontracted staff).

XML <-> CICS high performance translator

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Mon, 01 Oct 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Backend service to

EnRedAndo Me - Carlos Prados

About

Build for the Field, Not the Lab: Shipping OTA Updates to NB-IoT Devices

Fleet Health Is the Product #

Mastering Agentic AI: The Routing Pattern

Breaking the Chains: Why I Built Keystone to Replace AWS Greengrass

The Vendor Lock-in Trap #

Mastering Agentic AI: The Prompt Chaining Pattern

De la Telemetría y el Telecontrol al Internet de la Cosas Industrial aplicado a la eficiencia energética

OpenGate IoT Platform

MEWS - an IoT and Cloud-Based avalanche detection and prediction platform

Device Management in utilities

MEWS

OpenGate MQTT connector

OpenGate Demo UDP connector

OpenGate CoAP connector

Assets vs. Devices in IoT solutions

Internet de la Cosas Industrial aplicado a la eficiencia energética

Internet de la Cosas Industrial aplicado a la eficiencia energética

SMIP - Smart Metering Implementation Program

La tecnología al servicio de la eficiencia energética

Agilizando la gestión de proyectos

Android Live Streaming Radio App

Atlas Endesa - OpenGate Device Management & Monitoring

Consultant for ISO/IEC 33002:2015

iOS & Black Berry push notification system

Geo-location System for Amena

XML <-> CICS high performance translator

Fleet Health Is the Product
#

The Vendor Lock-in Trap
#