January 10, 2026

Micha Burger is the IoT Solution Engineer in the mioty® Alliance Team. When he’s not supporting our members bring their IoT Lighthouse projects to life, you can find Micha hiking in Zurich or working on his off-grid tiny house on wheels (yes, including the plumbing and electrics!).

We sat down with him to talk about all things IoT and mioty®.

Q: Micha, what is your role at the mioty Alliance and how can members reach you? 
I focus on everything technical, with a strong view on the ecosystem, interoperability, and helping members to bring mioty® Lighthouse projects to life. My goal is to make mioty® easier to use and also support companies that want to start adapting the mioty technology. As a member benefit, I am available for technical and project support, so feel free to reach out, share your challenges, and explore how we can improve your use cases together or connect you with the right people in the Alliance. You can contact me by email or book time directly via Outlook. And if you ever pass through Zürich by chance, I am always happy to meet in person at the coworking space I work from. 

Q: Talking IoT, what initially sparked your passion for the Internet of Things?
I come from an engineering background and used to work with wireless IoT device networks already during my Master Thesis. It was a lot of fun to move around and see the range of an LPWAN network in action, place sensors, work with real data, and watch a system come alive across different locations. That hands on feeling still motivates me today. 

Q: What do you enjoy outside of work that keeps you curious and creative?
Nature is definitely my reset button. I enjoy going on hikes with friends, exploring new places, and discovering things I completely miss in everyday life. And for the past few years, I have been working on a ‘small’ side project: building an off-grid tiny house on wheels, fully from scratch, including electricity, water, and everything in between. I have learned a lot during the process and there is still more to come, maybe even a few mioty sensors finding their way into it at some point. 

Q: If you could place a sensor anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?
I would probably attach it to my backpack, since it follows me to many places anyway. It could collect micro-climate data, light, sound and even map the connectivity wherever I go. And if the backpack ever went missing, I would even have a chance to locate it again.  

Q: What is your favorite superpower of the mioty® technology?
In my view, one underrated superpower is the downlink capability of mioty®, it is still not used very often. I think there are many opportunities in going beyond telemetry and closing that measurement loop. Which means skipping traditional human-machine interfaces like dashboards, status emails and unnecessary app notifications (I hate these), just interacting with our environment naturally, and IoT doing the job silently in the background: Controlling valves, switching things on and off, guiding people and traffic automatically to the right places. I think there is still a lot ahead of us and I am looking forward to seeing mioty® grow as a technology.