Articles by

Chris Gammell

Chris is the Head of Developer Relations and Hardware at Golioth. Focusing on hardware and developer relations at that software company means that he is trying to be in the shoes of a hardware or firmware developer using Golioth every day. He does that by building hardware and reference designs that Golioth customers can use to bootstrap their own designs.

A Remote Shell for Embedded IoT Devices

Golioth's Remote Shell uses Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) and a custom Zephyr shell backend to enable an interactive, web-based shell experience from anywhere in the world.

Upcoming Webinar: How an MVNO Troubleshoots Cellular Devices

Robert Colvin from Telenor Connexion joins Golioth for a webinar coming up July 2nd, 2025. We will talk about how to troubleshoot cellular deployments and how you can apply some of the lessons learned to your own product.

Never miss a packet with Pipeline Recommendations

Pipeline Recommendations intelligently scans incoming data to your product and recommends stelps to ensure you never miss a packet. Check out how you can improve your product with this new feature on the Golioth Console.

Free Zephyr Training on June 25th, 2025

Zephyr is one of the fastest-growing RTOS ecosystems in the embedded world—but getting started can be overwhelming. That’s why Golioth offers free Zephyr training sessions every quarter: 3 hours of expert-led, hands-on learning designed to jumpstart your development. Our next training is June 25th, 2025...sign up today!

Upcoming webinar: Batteryless Cellular IoT with Conexio

We're excited to be hosting a new webinar coming up on June 18th at Noon ET /...

Detecting Text From Images Over A Cellular Link

This post and video demonstrate taking a photo with a low power camera and cellular-based microcontroller and transmitting to the cloud for processing. Rick Jen from the Microsoft Azure team shows how to accept those images and work with the Azure AI OCR service to extract useful text and store it in a database.

Custom Board, Custom Zephyr Devicetree (AirTag Session 3)

Sign up for the AirTag Clone webinar series to watch Golioth build out board definition files for the Orleon board, a Bluetooth sensor platform/playground. The upcoming session on May 23rd will walk through setting up all required build files.

Where’s my (Bluetooth) drill?

We implemented Golioth's Bluetooth-to-Cloud connectivity on a battery pack on a commercial power drill. We not only monitored power usage of the drill, we also looked up the location of the most recent gateway we connected through and attached that to the drill's device record.

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