Al Bennett
Director at Sensational Systems Limited
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAl Bennett is an experienced electronic engineer and web developer with 13 years of professional experience, now directing Sensational Systems where he designs and ships LoRaWAN-focused IoT hardware and bespoke electronic systems. He combines hands-on hardware and firmware skills from medical device work with long-standing web development expertise—having built bespoke membership and e-commerce systems using PHP/Symfony and managed production Linux infrastructure. Based in Edinburgh, he runs a specialist IoT store (connectedthings.store) and integrates devices for building, energy and environmental monitoring, bridging product development, APIs and wireless protocols. A founding member of Edinburgh Hacklab, he also brings practical rapid-prototyping and machining experience to client projects, enabling fast turnarounds from prototype to deployed system. Notably, he pairs commercial distribution knowledge with custom hardware packaging, offering both off-the-shelf LoRaWAN devices and tailored solutions.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Hons, Electronics, Computing, BEng Hons, Electronics, Computing at Napier University
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Github Skills (88)
ttn10
parking9
laravel9
mailbox9
lorawan9
lora9
zendesk9
php9
sensor8
raspberry8
prestashop7
network-server7
iot7
decoder7
jquery6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SensationalSystems/bosch-parking-lot-sensor-decoder
May 2019 - Apr 2020
A TTN-compatible decoder function for the Bosch Parking Lot Sensor
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 11 months
ttnlotparking-lotdecoderbosch
SensationalSystems/IMBuildings_People_Counter
Jul 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 5 months
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