Tobias R.M.K. Meyer

IoT device expert for biodiversity monitoring — building the Hula BioT edge device that classifies animal species on-device and combines results with satellite imagery for comprehensive biodiversity reporting.

• Firmware Architecture: Designing and implementing firmware for the Hula BioT sensor platform — a low-power, solar-powered IoT edge device with on-device AI species classification
• Compliance & Certification: Driving CE, FCC, and ACMA compliance certification for market access across EU, US, and Australia
• Production Introduction: Establishing manufacturing processes and transitioning from prototype to production
• System Design: Contributing to generic hardware and firmware design decisions across the full IoT device stack
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Working as individual contributor within a lean, interdisciplinary team

Led the Device Team at KONUX, overseeing development of embedded systems for industrial IoT solutions in the railway sector.

• Technical Leadership: Defined and delivered firmware architecture, setting the technical roadmap for embedded systems
• Strategic Planning: Translated business objectives into executable technical plans through quarterly OKR planning
• People Management: Fostered a collaborative, ownership-driven culture while empowering team growth and problem-solving
• End-to-End Delivery: Oversaw architecture, implementation, team processes, and budget planning
• Engineering Excellence: Ensured alignment with security, maintainability, and best practices
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Worked with stakeholders and engineering leaders to align product vision with daily execution

Developed rugged, intelligent sensor systems for predictive maintenance on rail infrastructure, bridging hardware, firmware, and connectivity.

• Bare-metal C++ IIoT sensor development: Engineered compact, battery-powered C++-based sensors running directly on microcontrollers for field deployment
• Zephyr RTOS architecture: Designed and launched multiple sensor generations leveraging Zephyr RTOS — building scalable, modular firmware for industrial IoT
• Cellular connectivity (LTE-M): Integrated energy-efficient LTE-M modems to reliably transmit sensor data from remote locations
• BLE research: Researched BLE for alternative communication protocols
• Edge-AI research & prototyping: Developed on-device ML models for anomaly detection and predictive maintenance
• Diverse sensor and bus systems: Vibration, temperature, and pressure sensors via SPI, I²C, UART
• Standards & certifications: Compliance research for the EU's Cyber Resilience Act, CE marking

• Firmware development for energy harvesting devices and radio stacks (BLE / EnOcean / Zigbee) in C/C++
• Architecture and software design
• Specification of protocol stacks and work for the EnOcean Alliance
• Continuous integration and testing systems based on pytest, Jenkins, and Raspberry Pis
• Planning of projects and internal quality standards
• PC tools: DolphinView and EnOcean Link
• Supervising students

• Internal webpages development (PHP)
• Statistics tool for production data (WPF/C#)
• Automated testing for peripheral interfaces of the 8051-DolphinChip
• Firmware for various µCs (MSP430 / PIC / DolphinChip) in assembly, C, and C++
• Small PC tools in C#/.NET and C++

Thesis: "Firmware over the air updates with EnOcean energy harvested protocol"

Thesis: "An energy harvesting ZigBee Switch"