WG Chair Biographies

Peter Steinhäuser studied computer science at the University of Darmstadt. He is CEO of embeDD GmbH, a Switzerland-based software development company focused on OpenWrt firmware and open source wireless and network driver development for embedded Linux systems.

Peter has been involved in several Linux development and software standardisation projects for almost 15 years. His team developed large parts of OpenWrt and works with industry players on creating standard open source network software components instead of proprietary software. A large portion of this work is about efficient network traffic handling on CPEs and network traffic filtering and analysis. This leads to activities in the IoT space and collaboration to find and implement methods to deal with such devices in secure ways.

Peter is working on several industry projects, like the Telecom Infra Project and the prpl Foundation, and has been a member of the RIPE IoT working group since it was founded.

His main research interests are IoT secure onboarding, security monitoring and the proper handling of misbehaving and outdated devices. 

I have a degree in communication engineering which drives my passion for electronics and radio communication. On top of this, I did an MBA which helped to settle in with English since German is my mother language.

I live and work in Germany, in the Frankfurt area and while I’m more IT Business Application driven in my professional life, the IoT kicks in with my amateur radio hobby and passion to melt together old ham amateurs and the current maker scene.

We run a network on Lora in our area, with various projects which combine very low energy consuming sensors and radio links to build up various data driven smart solutions. I’m also the president of an amateur radio club, running a yearly exhibition where we go into the mission of IoT sensors and radio interfaces as a base of many clever solutions.

RIPE 86 was my first RIPE Meeting and as I’m passionate about IoT, I took my chance to contribute as Co-Chair, broaden my passion to network and to bring commercial players and non-commercial communities together.