Iot on EnRedAndo Me - Carlos Prados

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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