with his partner Pascal den Boef to bring industrial IoT solutions with technologies such as Yocto, Raspberry Pi embedded devices and OTA software updates. He then started interacting with industry and in April 2019, he founded Drebble.io and Hawkeye Recognition B.V. Then he went to the Technical University of Eindhoven where he studied electrical engineering and graduated in control systems. Willem started his career in a very practical way: driving service vans and progressing to software development and studies of industrial automation. We had PLCs controlling the watering system in the garden so it was easy to be infected with technology.” Now he has added Yocto, Raspberry Pi embedded devices and OTA software updates to his portfolio of skills. Willem says “My father always brought his work back home with him.

Willem has a very practical experience with industrial automation, programming programmable logic controllers (PLCs), HMIs and SCADA systems, He has been programming these types of systems since the age of 13 with mentorship from his father who has been active in the oil and gas industry professionally. PLC pedigree meets Yocto Raspberry Pi skills The Device Chronicle spoke to Willem Remie, a software architect and electrical engineer by training, and co-founder of Drebble.io and Hawkeye.

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