Internet of Things Experts in Switzerland
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Switzerland, who have recently used Internet of Things
Michael R.
Last position:
Project Manager, Hustler, & Hound “Project KPIs on the Internet” at Global-KPI
- Project management, Hustler (identifying the complete financial operations, including Sales, Pitching, Financial Analysis, & Business Models) and Hound (identifying real customer needs, including Research, & Analysis) to build an online project KPI system.
- The system enables users to make well-founded decisions to keep projects on track according to their key parameters or bring them back on track when there are negative deviations from the plan.
- Provision of a forecast in addition to the current status.
- Automatic calculation and display of KPIs based on project key parameters entered by the user.
- Skills: Project Management, Project KPIs.
- Problem Space: Co-Innovation Builder (CIB), Corporate Innovation Team Set Up, Team Profile/ Team Canvas, Design Thinking, highlighting people, creating customer personas, researching the market, defining the problem.
- Solution Space: Narrowing down the problem, how to turn ideas into solutions, how to turn solutions into a concept, customer journey, Business Model Canvas, Value Proposition Canvas, prototyping, fine-tuning the prototype and Business Model Canvas, final pitch.
Vincent V.
Last position:
IT Business Partner & Enterprise Architect at Sulzer
- Established the Enterprise Architecture function from the ground up for Sulzer Group (~13,500 employees, CHF 3.6B revenue)
- Defined the Technical Governance framework, Target Operating Model, and IT PMO foundation now governing architecture decisions and portfolio demand across all divisions.
- Deployed SAP LeanIX as the authoritative application portfolio system of record - catalogued 500 applications group-wide (140 for Chemtech), onboarded business and IT stakeholders, and initiated integration with ServiceNow to embed architecture data into operational workflows.
- Led the divisional & group wide Application Rationalization initiative
- Decommissioned 15% of the 140 applications Chemtech portfolio, delivering CHF 627k in run-rate savings over two years and materially reducing licensing and support exposure.
- Defined and executed the divisional AI Roadmap in partnership with Sales, Legal, and R&D leadership
- Delivered 4 AI solutions into production (including Sales process harmonization and LLM-based IP conflict detection) from a portfolio of 7 prioritized initiatives.
- Built and owned the 3-year IT Strategic Roadmap for Chemtech
- Aligned cloud and technology architecture with divisional business priorities and a CHF 1.5M annual investment envelope.
- Delivered CHF 500k in cost avoidance by challenging and discontinuing funded but low-value initiatives, demonstrated governance discipline and executive influence, with zero implementation spend.
Francesca L.
Last position:
EMEA CDP Community Lead at Merkle Switzerland AG
Founded and scaled Merkle's CDP community, and built the foundation of a Centre of Excellence
- Cultivated strong connections with C-levels of the company, securing their support and ensuring the community's efforts align with organizational goals (and vice versa when needed)
- Nurtured vendor relationships ensuring top support to the teams and recognition for opportunities
- Drove community growth (+100 members), cross-country collaboration, enablement, best practices, and knowledge sharing across 7+ countries, positioning Merkle as leader in CDP implementations.
Witali H.
Last position:
Founder & CEO at aiFEX
- Built an AI operating model in which specialized agents work with clear roles, precise briefings, review standards and governance boundaries; decision-making responsibility remains with humans.
- AI Transformation Lab as a real-world validation environment for agentic workflows, local/cloud AI models, automation and human-in-the-loop governance (details above).
- Applied transformation principles to AI: ownership, risk control, stakeholder alignment, quality review, traceability, delivery discipline; DEV/TEST/PROD mindset.
Michael N.
Last position:
Hardware Development Engineer at Thales
- Architected and implemented a bidirectional USB-C 3.0 Power Delivery (PD/DRP) system for 24V battery charging, successfully minimizing software integration risks through targeted feasibility studies.
- Integrated CAN, USB 3.0, Gigabit-Ethernet, and Audio-Codec interfaces in Altium Designer, successfully delivering the complete system schematic ready for board redesign.
ACHIEVEMENTS:
- Rescued a failing (military) legacy project by reverse engineering undocumented hardware, successfully resolving critical design flaws and consolidating the Altium project.
Wolf P.
Last position:
Interim Head of IT-POS Base GK - SAP at Depot GDC
- Interim management of IT-POS based on GK and SAP for DEPOT GDC.
- Responsibility for the stability and further development of the POS base platform.
- Management of adaptations and rollouts in the POS environment in coordination with the SAP backend.
Milan S.
Last position:
Cloud Architect & DevOps at Avaloq
- Main cloud solution architect on a banking SaaS offering hosted in Azure.
- Fully automated the Azure infrastructure in Terraform.
- Reduced cloud costs by 50%.
- Responded to incidents, found root-causes and closed with post-mortems.
Venkata R.
Last position:
Continuous Learning at Personal Time Off
- ZHAW CAS Secure Software Design and Development
- German C1 and Goethe Certificate C1
- ETH CAS Cloud and Mobile Computing at ETH Zurich
- Linux Foundation Linux System Administration LFS307
- Linux Foundation Kubernetes Fundamentals LFS258
- Linux Foundation Kubernetes for Application Developers LFD459
- Linux Foundation Kubernetes Security Fundamentals LFS460
Rainer T.
Last position:
Managing Director at Tolksdorf.digital GmbH
- Independent consulting for digital transformation, quick checks and business case development
- Delivered systems and digital engineering, Industrie 4.0, workflow & AI agents
- Implemented digital sales and service solutions, KMU open source introduction, data migration, hosting and maintenance of customer IT systems
- Applied methods: Lean Innovation, ISO 9001:2015, Scrum; managed teams of 2–80 people and project volumes up to 22 Mi0 USD
Rebekka Z.
Last position:
UX Design Lecturer at cimdata Bildungsakademie GmbH
- Teach UX principles and methods
- Guide students in conducting user research and creating user-centered designs
- Provide hands-on exercises and real-world projects to build student portfolios
- Stay up-to-date on industry trends and best practices
- Course length: 4 weeks, class size: 12-20 students
Marcel K.
Last position:
Co-Founder & Owner, Principal Consultant at Ancoma Professional Group GmbH
- Commercialization of professional experience and formation of a consulting services offering for infrastructure, engineering, digitalisation, M&A and supply chain.
- Implementation of an expert network in the field of IT optimisation, IT financial management, benchmarking, rollout management and service validation & testing.
- Execution of project management and interim management mandates in the field of IT & telecommunications for decentralized or international organizations from the IT, industrial, pharmaceutical, finance, utilities, and public sectors.
- Transition manager for cloud access, LAN services and SD WAN rollout in AsiaPac for Siemens (2023 to date).
- Topic lead for Digital Backbone transition for Siemens (2023 to date).
- Project manager for R&D Lab IT move and next generation digital lab workplace rollout in pRED center Basel for Roche Pharma (2023 to 2024, 2025).
- TSA workstream responsible for IT infrastructure M&A carve out and contract separation for Novartis / Sandoz (2023 to 2025).
- Interim lead architect for network and datacentre redesign and transition project for an utility company at Bechtle (2023).
- Project manager for IT infrastructure build out of new engineering facility at ABB (2022 to 2024).
- Consultant process engineering, go to market for IoT services and security incident event monitoring and interim service owner for shopfloor networks and cyber security at Bystronic Group (2021 to date).
- Contract management consultant for software ADM optimization, cloud services and global WAN transformation at Novartis (2020 to 2022).
- Consultant for multi-utility, business development and smart grid services and implementation of a contract management system at EBL (2014 to 2024).
- Rollout manager for SD WAN at SAG Derendinger (2021).
- Interim & project management in global IT category, global SD WAN rollout (600 sites) and network integration (Baxter/Shire), DHC, DNS, server and WiFi consolidation at Takeda Pharma (2015 to 2022).
- Project manager for global SDWAN multi-vendor MSA technical negotiations and consultant for global network transformation and benchmark process (800 sites) at Unilever (2014 to 2021).
- Advisory board member and speaker in SDWAN conference “WAN Summit” at Telegeography (2018 to date).
- Project manager for IT organizational change and white-collar productivity programme, product & material master data governance implementation, M&A PMO for Power Grids spin-off to joint-venture Hitachi-ABB at ABB (2017 to 2020).
- Consultant for multi-domain IT benchmark and RFP preparation for global network and carrier services at Deutsche Bank (2018 to 2020).
- Project manager for rollout management and process design engineering of a global web proxy solution (Zscaler) at Munich Re (2018 to 2020).
- Consultant for development of architecture for cloud access and WAN optimization at Implenia (2018 to 2019).
- Consultant for global business strategy alignment at Swisscom (2019).
- Project manager for global migration from TDM and Cisco IPT to Skype for Business and for datacentre backup to a public cloud at Richemont (2017 to 2019).
- Consultant for telecommunications benchmark at AXA Insurance (2018).
- Interim CEO and workforce management in business engineering, software integration and service validation & testing at BIM (2014 to 2015).
Rami L.
Last position:
Board and Business Advisor, part-time at CloudMotiv
Advising the founders on commercial GenAI-empowered enterprise solutions including strategy, positioning, product architecture, implementation and organizational scaling to meet global client needs.
Supported the creation of the IoT commercial drone business vertical, delivering on six continents.
Supported the exit from the India only predictive machine maintenance software joint venture.
Supported the long-game entry into the proprietary AI embedded software solutions area, now at MVP and client PoC stages in Financial Research (footnote.ai) and EPM & ERP (cloudbooks.ai) in Asia.
Cora S.
Last position:
Freelance Consultant at Adaptive SC / Consultancy Schwetter
- People management consulting on strategic business transformation projects, innovation, process design, digitalisation and optimisation
Oliver S.
Last position:
Senior UX/UI Designer and Consultant at Local Search Directories AG, Swisscom
- Freelance mandate as senior UX/UI designer and consultant
Karl E.
Last position:
incl. CI/CD, automation at AALS Software AG
- Designed and delivered a practical real-time course on Flink and Hadoop with MapReduce, HDFS, Spark, Flink, Hive, HBase, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Kafka
- Gained extensive DevOps and CI/CD experience
- Created ETL/ELT pipelines with Apache tools and Pentaho
- Led projects in municipal software, financial services, and big data with Kafka
- Developed AI/NLP models and chatbots with RASA, Chatter, and Dialogflow
- Built and managed a TypeDB knowledge database
- Worked with OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Podman
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Statistics of experts using Internet of Things
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
24 years
Position duration
2.9 years
Positions per freelancer
10
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Manufacturing, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
93%
Master's degree or higher
71%
Doctorate
7%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
English, German, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Switzerland are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
Average rates of experts in Switzerland using Internet of Things
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Internet of Things experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (88%)
- Manufacturing (65%)
- Banking and Finance (53%)
- Professional Services (53%)
- Education (41%)
- Transportation (41%)
- Telecommunication (35%)
- Automotive (29%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Connected systems
Internet of Things (IoT) links physical assets to software so companies can monitor conditions, automate actions and make operational data useful. A typical solution combines sensors, embedded devices, gateways, networks, cloud services and applications. Strong designs account for unreliable connectivity, device constraints and the full lifecycle of every connected asset.
Common applications
IoT expertise supports connected products and operational systems across many industries. Typical deliverables include:
- Remote monitoring for machines, buildings and energy assets
- Predictive maintenance and condition-based alerts
- Asset tracking, fleet visibility and cold-chain monitoring
- Smart home, healthcare and consumer device features
- Industrial automation and production-line telemetry
Ecosystem and tooling
Projects may use microcontrollers, Linux-based gateways, MQTT, CoAP, OPC UA or REST APIs for device communication. Cloud environments such as AWS IoT, Azure IoT and Google Cloud support ingestion, rules, storage and device management. Specialists also work with time-series databases, stream processing, digital twins, dashboards and over-the-air firmware updates.
When to hire specialists
Companies often bring in freelance IoT specialists when a proof of concept must become a dependable product, when disconnected devices need a coherent architecture, or when an existing fleet needs better observability. Switzerland’s manufacturing, mobility, energy, building and life-science sectors can require collaboration across hardware, software and on-site operations. Remote work suits cloud and application tasks; installations and device testing may require local presence.
Skills that matter
Strong professionals understand the boundary between electronics, firmware, networking, cloud infrastructure and user-facing software. They can define telemetry models, provision devices securely, manage certificates and identities, and design for intermittent connections. They also test failure modes, control data costs and document interfaces so operations teams can maintain the system after handover.
Quality signals
Look for evidence of complete IoT deliveries rather than isolated dashboard work. A capable specialist can explain device constraints, message flows, security decisions, rollout plans and monitoring in clear terms. Ask how they handle fleet updates, duplicate messages, lost connectivity, data ownership and end-of-life processes. Experience with regulated or safety-sensitive environments is valuable when the connected system affects people, production or critical assets.
Frequently asked questions
Curious about Internet of Things? Here are the answers that come up again and again.
Internet of Things solutions connect physical devices to software and data services. Companies use IoT for remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, asset tracking, smart buildings, connected products and industrial automation.
IoT usually connects a broader device fleet to cloud services, analytics and business applications, while traditional automation may focus on local control within one facility. Machine-to-machine communication is often narrower; IoT adds fleet management, remote updates and shared data models.
A strong Internet of Things specialist may combine embedded software, Linux, networking, MQTT, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and data engineering. Useful experience also includes dashboards, APIs, DevOps, electronics testing and operational technology such as OPC UA.
The right level depends on the project’s risk, device count, integration depth and deployment environment. A prototype may need focused hardware and firmware expertise, while a production fleet calls for proven skills in security, observability, provisioning, updates and incident handling.
IoT architecture, cloud services, data pipelines and application work can often be delivered remotely from Switzerland or elsewhere. Hardware installation, radio testing, factory integration and device troubleshooting may require scheduled on-site collaboration.
Ask for a clear account of device constraints, communication protocols, security controls and failure recovery. Strong professionals can show how they tested lost connectivity, duplicate messages, certificate expiry, firmware updates and data quality instead of presenting only a polished dashboard.
Internet of Things security starts with unique device identities, secure boot, encrypted communication and controlled access to cloud services. Teams should also plan certificate rotation, signed firmware, vulnerability handling, network segmentation and secure device retirement.
An IoT freelancer should clarify the device hardware, connectivity options, data ownership, cloud environment, deployment locations and acceptance criteria. They should also confirm who operates the fleet, how on-site access works in Switzerland and what support is expected after launch.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Switzerland who have used Internet of Things in their recent projects is 128 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 1,028 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Switzerland who have used Internet of Things in their recent projects, 93% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 71% hold at least a Master's degree, and 7% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Switzerland who have used Internet of Things in their recent projects have 24 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.9 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Internet of Things in their recent projects are English (100%), German (88%), and French (41%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Internet of Things in their recent projects are Information Technology (88%), Manufacturing (65%), and Banking and Finance (53%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Internet of Things in their recent projects are Information Technology (94%), Project Management (94%), and Product Development (82%).
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