Rita van der Walt, PhD.

I am an Electronic Engineer specialising in the end-to-end development of industrial IoT systems and data pipelines. I recently completed my PhD in Electronic Engineering at Stellenbosch University, where my research focused on deploying long-term remote LoRaWAN sensing networks for air quality measurement.

My engineering philosophy centres on full-lifecycle product development. My expertise spans from PCB design and power management to embedded firmware, data pipeline architecture, and statistical analysis. I am deeply interested in building robust, low-power IoT solutions and extracting actionable insights from the data they generate.

Beyond hardware and firmware, I am an active contributor to open-source software, including algorithm enhancements for the Python mathematical library SALib.

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