[Demo] Soil moisture monitoring station
A self-powered station that measures moisture at three depths and tells farmers when to irrigate.
- In production
- IoT
- Embedded
- Data
Amédé Florian KOTANMI
Engineer and entrepreneur — AI and connected devices
Available for new engagements.
Entrepreneur
- companies founded
- 2
- clients served
- 8
- stations deployed
- 12
Engineer
- projects delivered
- 5
- years of embedded systems
- 4
- certifications
- 2
Areas of expertise
Sensors and acquisition
Choosing, reading and calibrating sensors for reliable field measurements.
Low-power connectivity
LoRaWAN, LTE-M and MQTT for devices that run for months.
Applied AI
Language models, speech and on-device models, evaluated before deployment.
From prototype to product
Specification, full-stack development and production rollout.
Selected work
[Demo] Connected alert beacon
A one-button device that sends its wearer’s position to a mobile app.
- Prototype
- IoT
- Embedded
- Mobile
[Demo] Voice assistant in local languages
Hackathon prototype: written alerts translated, then read aloud in a local language.
- Prototype
- AI
- Voice
Ventures
[Démo] Sèmè Capteurs
Connected sensors to steer irrigation on small farms.
- Founder
- Active
[Démo] Studio Tokpa
Development studio for small businesses: websites, apps and automation.
- Co-founder
- In incubation
Education
Oct 2018 – Sep 2021
Engineering degree in electrical engineering
[Démo] École polytechnique d’exemple — Embedded systems and AI
Honours — With honours
Thesis — Low-power sensor network for soil monitoring
Fictional thesis: design, prototyping and battery-life measurement of a LoRaWAN network.
- Engineering degree
Services
[Demo] Full-stack development
From prototype to production: web app, mobile app or connected device.
Deliverables
- Delivered, documented application
- Source code and access handed over
Who it is for
Small businesses, agencies and institutions.
Pricing — On quotation (example)
[Demo] Prompt engineering
Designing and evaluating prompts for reliable assistants.
Deliverables
- Versioned system prompts
- Test set and evaluation report
Who it is for
Product teams and training providers.
[Demo] Specifications
A clear document to scope a project before pricing or outsourcing it.
Deliverables
- Functional and technical specification
Who it is for
Project owners and buyers.
What they say
Fictional testimonial: we finally know when to irrigate, and we know it from a basic phone.
[Démo] Personne fictive A — Cooperative chair — Coopérative d’exemple Fictional testimonial: a clear specification and a schedule that was kept.
[Démo] Personne fictive B — Technical director — Entreprise d’exemple