We help run IoT Collective UK, a community of builders, operators and the curious. It is a place to ask the real questions about connected technology. What works, what breaks, and what is actually next.
In-person sessions, including recent gatherings at Plus X in Slough on satellites, agriculture and hardware design. Join us on Meetup.
Story-led writing on real IoT, from the Cyber Resilience Act to scaling sensors in a field 500 miles from a cell tower.
Builders, operators and the genuinely curious, swapping hard-won lessons in our LinkedIn group.
Where connected technology meets the messy real world. New pieces and meetup notes through the year.
When agriculture moves past the prototype, the real challenge becomes getting data out of a field 500 miles from the nearest cell tower.
Read on Substack → 13 Apr 2026How the Hormuz crisis connects the fertiliser shortage to the IoT hardware that is supposed to solve it.
Read on Substack → 14 Mar 2026A look ahead to the Plus X, Slough gathering on the hardest problems in connected agriculture.
Read on Substack → 13 Mar 2026The EU's Cyber Resilience Act lands this year, and the IoT industry is running out of time to pretend it is ready.
Read on Substack → 23 Feb 2026The most interesting IoT story of 2026 is not a new gadget. It is a piece of farm equipment from the 1950s.
Read on Substack → 15 Feb 2026The invisible infrastructure behind the 2026 Winter Olympics, and what it tells you about distributed systems.
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