Technical reviewer · IoTize.ORG
Zia ur Rehman
Embedded systems and industrial IoT engineer with 15+ years of hands-on design, from circuit boards and firmware to cloud dashboards.
Embedded systems · Industrial IoT · Edge AI · M.Eng, NED University
About Zia ur Rehman
Zia started his career in 2010 and has worked on the hardware, firmware and data side of connected systems ever since. His work sits where industrial machines meet the cloud: reading sensors and legacy protocols at the edge, and turning them into data that people can act on.
From 2012 to 2022 he worked at VectraCom in Karachi, rising from System Engineer to System Engineering Manager. There he led a UAV platform, an indigenous smart home product line, and a range of Industry 4.0 monitoring devices for factories. As an independent IoT consultant from 2022, he completed 50+ projects for clients worldwide, including shipboard telemetry for the Port of Tyne in the UK. Since 2024 he has been IoT Solutions Architect at Conure Technology Services, leading smart parking and signage systems.
He holds an M.Eng in Microsystem Design from NED University and a B.E. in Electronics from Dawood University (DUET), where he graduated first in his department. He has also taught electronics, control and mechatronics at DUET and NCUK.
What Zia reviews on IoTize.ORG
Zia checks IoTize.ORG guides for technical accuracy before they go live. These are the topics he reviews, and the hands-on work behind each one.
| Topic on iotize.org | His related hands-on work |
|---|---|
| Predictive maintenance and machine health | Die-casting and moulding machine monitoring, universal edge controller for industrial machines, textile machine monitoring |
| Energy monitoring | Industrial three-phase energy monitoring meter; power metrics on a universal machine monitoring device |
| Production monitoring | Runtime tracking devices, AI print defect detection |
| Smart parking | Solar flip-dot guidance signs on 2G, LTE, NB-IoT and LoRaWAN; moving a parking network from Loriot to ChirpStack |
| EV charging software | Reviews IoTize.ORG’s EV charging and OCPP guides |
| Marine and CAN bus | Edge device decoding marine CAN bus for shipboard telemetry |
| Protocols and connectivity | Modbus, RS485, CAN, MQTT, LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, BLE |
Career highlights
Selected projects
- AirScout UAV platform (2012 to 2015): RTOS flight controller, 9-axis camera gimbal, ground control station and antenna tracker. Shown at IDEAS 2012, Karachi.
- Smart home product line (2016 to 2019): smart touch switchboards, reefer monitor, tank system, blinds controller, IR and RF gateways.
- Industry 4.0 devices (2019 to 2022): universal edge controller, die-casting machine monitoring, three-phase energy meter, tank level monitoring.
- Shipboard telemetry, Port of Tyne, UK: edge device decoding marine CAN bus with cloud sync.
- Solar flip-dot parking signs (2024 to 2025): IP65 outdoor signs, cloud controlled, around 20 times cheaper than conventional flip-dot systems.
Education
- M.Eng, Microsystem Design, NED University of Engineering and Technology (2016). Project: 9-axis IMU stabilisation on STM32 using quaternion sensor fusion.
- B.E., Electronics, Dawood University of Engineering and Technology (2010). First position in the department.
- MITx 6.002x Circuits and Electronics certificate (2012).
Tools he works with
STM32, ESP32, AVR, Nvidia Jetson · C/C++, Python · MQTT, Modbus, CAN, LoRaWAN, NB-IoT · AWS IoT, ChirpStack, Node-RED, InfluxDB, Grafana · OpenCV, YOLO
Have a technical question about one of our guides?
Our team, with Zia’s review, makes sure every IoTize.ORG guide is technically sound. Ask us anything.