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Practical notes on IoT, newest first.
Detecting Offline IoT Devices Without False Alarms
A practical framework for heartbeat design, adaptive offline thresholds, multi-signal verification, and actionable IoT alerting.
Reconciling Desired and Reported IoT Device State
A practical guide to device-shadow ownership, versioning, offline recovery, conflict handling, and safe state convergence.
Sampling, Aggregation, and Imputation Rules for Reliable Energy Meter Data
Define consistent sampling, aggregation, and imputation rules so meter data can support alerts, reporting, allocation, and energy analysis.
Hot and Cold Storage Design for IoT History
A practical guide to separating recent and historical IoT data without sacrificing query usability or recoverability.
Buffering, Backpressure, and Throttling for Sensor Data Surges
A practical framework for keeping IoT pipelines bounded, recoverable, and predictable when sensor traffic suddenly surges.
Acknowledgment, Timeout, and Deduplication for IoT Commands
A practical design guide for reliable IoT commands, covering acknowledgments, layered timeouts, retries, deduplication, and late results.
Preparing Equipment Data and Failure Labels for Predictive Maintenance
A practical guide to assembling sensor, operating, and maintenance data into reliable predictive-maintenance training labels.
Onboarding, Grouping, and Configuring IoT Devices at Scale
A practical framework for trusted device identity, multidimensional grouping, versioned configuration, and controlled IoT rollouts.
Handling Clock Drift and Event Ordering in IoT Systems
A practical approach to device clock drift, timestamp design, late data, deduplication, and reliable IoT event ordering.
Managing Sensor Calibration Data for Reliable Decisions
A practical framework for making sensor calibration data traceable, versioned, and safe to use in operational decisions.
Safe OTA Updates and Recovery for Industrial Gateways
A practical design guide to signed releases, staged rollout, atomic installation, rollback, and field recovery for industrial gateways.
Provisioning, Rotating, and Revoking IoT Device Certificates
A practical approach to building an auditable IoT certificate lifecycle that survives outages, hardware limits, and security incidents.
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