Engineering on EnRedAndo Me - Carlos Prados

Own Your AI Agent: Operational Efficiency You Actually Control

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A Subscription Is Not an Agent
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Most companies’ first move with AI is to rent a seat on someone else’s chatbot. It works, for a while. Then the questions arrive: Where does our data go? Can it touch our systems — and what stops it from doing the wrong thing? What happens to our workflows when the vendor changes the model, the price, or the terms? You don’t own any of the answers, because you don’t own the agent. You own a login.

The CLI Wasn't Built for Me. It Was Built for the AI.

mail@carlosprados.com (Carlos Prados) — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200

The Tool I Built for a Reader Who Isn’t Human
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For thirty years we have designed command-line tools around one assumption: a human is typing them. Short flags so your fingers don’t tire. Cryptic mnemonics you memorise once and keep for a decade. Terse output because a human reads three lines and stops. ls, git, kubectl — every one of them is an exercise in human ergonomics.

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.

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.

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.