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Jure L.

IoT Firmware & Hardware | Nordic nRF, ESP32, Zephyr | NGSI-LD, FIWARE

"One of the best services I got in the past 20 years. Super professional and knowledgeable. Much experience. Remarkable communication skills. Attentive immediately when I needed to. Solved 100% of my problems and gave me ideas for new directions. My business is growing thanks to him. Thank you, Jure" That is a real client. Here is what sits behind it. I lead SenLab, a multi awards winning IoT team from Slovenia, EU. I am the consultant you talk to; the team behind me does the building. We do two things well. DEVICES AND FIRMWARE. Microcontroller boards and embedded firmware that survive the field: Nordic nRF (nRF Connect SDK, Zephyr), ESP32, STM32 class MCUs, firmware in C and Rust, custom PCBs, wearables and biosensors (IMU, ECG, GPS, environmental), asset trackers, industrial controllers and gateways. Radio: BLE and BLE Mesh, LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, WiFi, 4G and 5G, Meshtastic. We have 250,000+ devices deployed in the field, updated over the air, pushing 50M+ MQTT events a day on our own IoT operating system. Delivered client work includes custom Android (AOSP), backend and FOTA for a 4G kids smartwatch that became a top seller on Amazon, and firmware for a research grade velocity based training sensor, raw IMU into numbers athletes trust. DATA AND CONTEXT PLATFORMS. When your data is stuck in silos and every integration breaks on the next update, we unify it on the ETSI NGSI-LD open standard, so you own your data and keep an exit from any vendor. We run our own managed context data platform, our own IoT Linux distribution with 130+ preinstalled packages (FIWARE Orion, Scorpio, Node-RED, EMQX MQTT, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Grafana, ThingsBoard, OPC-UA, Sparkplug B, Modbus), a data mapper, Unified Namespace, digital twins and dashboards. On premises or private cloud when data sovereignty matters. Deployed in hours, not months (VelaContext, SandBoxOS or IoTool are our products). HOW I WORK. I will tell you when your idea will not work, and what to do instead. A premade certified radio module before a custom RF board. No custom PCB for version one when a dev kit gets you to market faster. No single Arduino loop in industrial production. That advice sometimes costs me the job. The clients who stay are the ones I want. My motto: "Fail fast without big consequences, learn something, repeat, succeed!" Not sure yet if your device, sensor or platform idea is doable? Start with a one hour consulting call. You leave with a straight answer, the risks, and the cheapest safe first step. Domains: Industry 4.0 and IIoT, smart city, logistics, eHealth, telehealth and AAL, smart home, research. Partner in several EU funded R&D projects (Horizon 2020), Eurostars Eureka IoT evaluator. GDPR and HIPAA aware. Sometimes, I wasn't smart enough to know that I couldn't do it, so I did it. 😊

🇸🇮Ljubljana, Slovenia$80/hr100% JSS4.61 (40)Since Oct 2018

Earnings and projects

MRR
$2.4k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#17,361 / 412k
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Revenue, last 30 days
$0

Last 6 months: $15k

Total earnings
$458k

Billed in all: $475k

World#3,359 / 412k
🇸🇮Country#9 / 301
Per project
$5.4k

$4.8k in the last 6 months

World#32,289 / 412k
🇸🇮Country#25 / 301
Projects, last 6 months
3
0% fixed100% hourly
World#66,482 / 412k
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Projects in all
85

Across 89 contracts

52% fixed48% hourly
World#34,170 / 412k
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Earnings, last 30 days

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