Now look into your device.

I'm passionate about telecommunications R&D: end to end radios and communications systems. Over my career I've got involved in all aspects of radio research and development — antennas, RF link budgets, building transmit and receive chains, protocol implementation. I'm at home with an OFDM specification, an IQ constellation, EVM validation or meeting a spectrum mask. That work happens on a bench, in a chamber, with instruments on every point in the chain. Under those conditions you can see everything.

Today I spend most of my time looking at telecommunication systems in challenging environments such as stadiums. These are the places where devices are taken to their limit and their internal logic is worked hard. Understanding device behaviours matters enormously in these environments, and it is the key to knowing whether a network serving 60,000 people will deliver a great experience or not. The only way to really get at the user experience is to listen to the device.

Now my mission is to bring those device insights, coupled with an understanding of how radios work deep down, to help anyone understand their device connectivity. This is the point where 25 years of radio design meets the pragmatic truth about validating performance in your home, your office, your favourite sports stadium or an airport.

I developed nOversight to make it possible to observe and surface the deep device logic while in the field. It records what the device is experiencing, tied to where you were standing, so the behaviour you are trying to explain is captured in the environment that produced it.

It also separates what is measured from what is worked out. Devices expose some values directly, but they know a lot more internally. nOversight surfaces that, because I wanted every curious and professional Wi‑Fi owner out there to be able to understand their devices in a way that helps them deliver better Wi‑Fi.