IoT For All Podcast

Jennifer Strawn, the Executive Vice President of Sales and Sourcing for Rand Technology, joins Ryan Chacon on the IoT For All Podcast to discuss navigating the semiconductor space for IoT. They cover the impact of semiconductors on IoT, how shortages affect IoT adoption, the current state of the semiconductor industry, how other IoT components are affected by shortages, the efforts to address semiconductor shortages, and advice for navigating semiconductor shortages. Jennifer Strawn brings 25 years of supply chain solutions experience. Throughout her career, Jennifer has served in executive-level supply chain positions with several large global companies, most recently with a high-profile North America-based electronics manufacturer and distributor. She is skilled in collaborating with cross-functional teams to scale and grow global organizations and in building highly-effective sales teams in Europe and North America. Rand Technology has been a leading electronics component sourcing and supply chain solutions company for more than 30 years with 11 worldwide offices, 5,000+ clients in 72 countries across 5 continents. The company provides Fortune 500 customers with a comprehensive suite of services including guidance and strategy during NPI, production, distribution, and sustainability solutions. Discover more about semiconductors and IoT at https://www.iotforall.com More about Rand Technology: https://www.randtech.com (00:00) Intro (00:11) Jennifer Strawn and Rand Technology (00:34) Impact of the semiconductor industry on IoT (02:55) Will chip shortages affect IoT adoption and growth? (05:10) Current state of the semiconductor industry (07:28) Impact of semiconductor shortages on different industries (10:27) Future of semiconductors and other components (13:58) Efforts to address the semiconductor shortage (16:05) Advice for navigating semiconductor shortages (17:49) Learn more and follow up SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL: https://bit.ly/2NlcEwm​ Join Our Newsletter: https://www.iotforall.com/iot-newsletter Follow Us on Social: https://linktr.ee/iot4all Check out the IoT For All Media Network: https://www.iotforall.com/podcast-overview

Akash Khurana from Wesco discusses IoT in the supply chain, post-pandemic. They talk about problem-solving with IoT, partnership importance, responsibility for domain knowledge, AI's impact on the supply chain, and advice for adopting IoT.

Rob Shudra & Dominic Peters from Velavu discuss the importance of UX design for IoT adoption. They highlight the clash between design and development, challenges in IoT user experiences, building for different types of users, UX design and marketing, barriers to adoption, and managing customer expectations.

Scaling IoT comes with many challenges. Stephen Prince, CEO and President of Vutility, joins Ryan Chacon on the IoT For All Podcast to discuss scaling an IoT business. They talk about what is unique about scaling an IoT business, the challenges of scaling hardware, the importance of partners in successful IoT, IoT pilots and moving beyond the pilot stage, horizontal versus vertical IoT solutions, and advice for succeeding in IoT. Stephen Prince has served as CEO and President at leading energy technology and services organizations, including Centrica Business Solutions NA, Younicos, and Optisense Network where he consistently increased commercial adoption through global expansion and the growth of partnership structures. He has additionally held executive leadership roles globally at organizations such as Oracle, Largo, and Edison International. Vutility is the leading provider of real-time IoT and cloud-enabled energy management solutions. By providing greater visibility into energy use, Vutility enables organizations to make better informed decisions to optimize their performance and reduce energy costs, achieve sustainability goals, and generate revenues with real-time insights. Vutility's scalable energy monitoring technologies are used in a wide range of industries by organizations of all sizes with solutions deployed commercially in over 20 countries and protected by over 20 international patents. Vutility is backed by leading venture investors including Chevron, Constellation Energy, Cycle Capital, and Kickstart Fund. Discover more about IoT at https://www.iotforall.com More about Vutility: https://vutility.com Our sponsor: https://dainstudios.com (00:00) Intro (00:14) Stephen Prince and Vutility (02:38) Scaling an IoT business (04:55) What is unique about scaling an IoT business? (06:37) Challenges of scaling hardware (11:02) Importance of partners in successful IoT (13:29) Moving beyond the pilot stage (16:11) Horizontal vs vertical IoT solutions (20:10) How to succeed in IoT (23:31) Learn more and follow up SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL: https://bit.ly/2NlcEwm​ Join Our Newsletter: https://www.iotforall.com/iot-newsletter Follow Us on Social: https://linktr.ee/iot4all Check out the IoT For All Media Network: https://www.iotforall.com/podcast-overview

What is MQTT? Roger Light, Senior Developer at Cedalo and inventor of Mosquitto, joins Ryan Chacon on the IoT For All Podcast to discuss the MQTT protocol in IoT. They talk about the best uses cases for MQTT, alternatives to MQTT, the differences between MQTT brokers, MQTT security, how MQTT fits in the IoT journey, and the future of MQTT. Roger Light is the inventor of open-source Mosquitto (the leading MQTT broker in the world with more than 500 million Docker pulls), and he is the Senior Developer of Pro Mosquitto at Cedalo GmbH. Additionally, Roger is an Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering at The University of Nottingham. Since its founding in 2017, Cedalo has been a reliable partner for the global development community. They have stood behind the well-known Mosquitto and Streamsheets open source projects by delivering high-quality and industrial grade versions of them to market with premium support. Currently, they are committed to further developing their Pro Edition for Eclipse Mosquitto and Pro Edition for Streamsheets so that customers can build modern software solutions without breaking their budget. Discover more about MQTT and IoT at https://www.iotforall.com More about Cedalo: https://cedalo.com (00:00) Intro (00:11) Roger Light and Cedalo (00:39) What is MQTT? (01:44) MQTT alternatives (02:36) Best use cases for MQTT (04:06) What differentiates MQTT brokers? (06:12) MQTT security (08:18) Who are the MQTT stakeholders? (09:34) Challenges in MQTT and IoT (11:07) Future of MQTT (13:20) Learn more and follow up SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL: https://bit.ly/2NlcEwm​ Join Our Newsletter: https://www.iotforall.com/iot-newsletter Follow Us on Social: https://linktr.ee/iot4all Check out the IoT For All Media Network: https://www.iotforall.com/podcast-overview

IoT is hardware plus software, but many people still develop it as if it was hardware. Semir Haddad from MicroEJ joins Ryan Chacon on the IoT For All Podcast to discuss software-defined IoT. They talk about the benefits of a software-defined approach, green software, performance trade-offs, and sustainable design principles. Semir Haddad is the Chief Product and Strategy Officer at MicroEJ. Semir has over 20 years of experience working with industry leaders and startups, bringing innovative technologies to industrial and consumer markets. Early in his career, he worked on digital video and audio, creating the first DVD player, and developing one of the earliest PVR software solutions for which he received four patents. At STMicro and Renesas, he drove the creation of award winning lines of microcontrollers and microprocessors, including the STM32, RX, and RZ. Recently, Semir was part of the innovators at Eta Compute that created one of the first TinyML implementations. MicroEJ is a software vendor of cost-driven solutions for embedded and IoT devices. With MicroEJ solutions, smart device manufacturers transform electronic products from single-purpose to software-defined, increasing scalability, flexibility, and extensibility. Their flagship product, MICROEJ VEE, is an optimized standard software container used in millions of consumer and IoT products, such as smart home devices, home appliances, wearables, medical devices, smart meters, and industrial devices. Discover more about IoT at https://www.iotforall.com More about MicroEJ: https://www.microej.com (00:00) Intro (00:12) Semir Haddad and MicroEJ (02:13) What is software-defined IoT? (04:55) How do other IoT components fit in? (06:37) Benefits of a software-defined approach (09:05) What is green software? (13:46) Sustainable design performance trade-offs (14:55) What are sustainable design principles? (17:08) Learn more and follow up SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL: https://bit.ly/2NlcEwm​ Join Our Newsletter: https://www.iotforall.com/iot-newsletter Follow Us on Social: https://linktr.ee/iot4all Check out the IoT For All Media Network: https://www.iotforall.com/podcast-overview

Chuck Byers, CTO of the Industry IoT Consortium, talks about how AI impacts IoT. They discuss the role of AI in IoT, training AI models, generative AI in IoT, impact on edge computing, bias in AI models, and the future of AI and IoT together.

Scott Hondros and Caryn Hewitt from CenTrak join Ryan Chacon on the IoT For All Podcast to discuss RTLS and IT infrastructure in healthcare. They talk about smart hospitals, the stakeholders in medtech, getting buy-in from organizations, the challenges for IoT adoption in healthcare, dealing with legacy systems, and how to adopt RTLS for your business. Scott Hondros is the Vice President of Professional Services at CenTrak. He is passionate about partnering with healthcare systems to increase their operational performance and clinical throughput. Through a combination of clinical, analytical, and strategic expertise, Scott and his team are able to assist clients in solving complex challenges their organizations face - especially as staff shortages, workplace violence, and supply challenges continue. Caryn Hewitt has been involved in hospital operations for 37 years as a Nursing Executive. Caryn brings extensive experience in several healthcare technology projects including all facets of planning and opening a new 400 bed hospital which was inclusive of many real-time location systems use cases. Caryn leads a team of consultants at CenTrak which includes several highly experienced professionals with a wide variety of healthcare expertise. CenTrak empowers healthcare leaders with actionable data to increase productivity, reduce operating costs, and transform patient care via market-leading locating and sensing IoT solutions. CenTrak has helped more than 2,000 healthcare organizations around the world build a safer, more efficient enterprise by implementing unique use cases using IoT-enabled location technology, including Clinical Workflow, Asset Management, Automated Nurse Call, Staff Duress/Safety, Digital Wayfinding, Environmental Monitoring, and more. Discover more about RTLS and IoT at https://www.iotforall.com More about CenTrak: https://centrak.com (00:00) Intro (00:12) Scott Hondros, Caryn Hewitt, and CenTrak (02:16) What are smart hospitals? (03:35) What is RTLS? (06:13) Stakeholders in medtech (09:09) Getting buy-in from organizations (10:18) Challenges for IoT adoption in healthcare (12:21) Dealing with legacy IT infrastructure (15:15) How to adopt RTLS for your business (18:47) Learn more and follow up SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL: https://bit.ly/2NlcEwm​ Join Our Newsletter: https://www.iotforall.com/iot-newsletter Follow Us on Social: https://linktr.ee/iot4all Check out the IoT For All Media Network: https://www.iotforall.com/podcast-overview

Adam Scraba, Director of Product Marketing at NVIDIA, discusses IoT in AI, computer vision, and simulation. They talk about the growth of IoT, vision AI and digital twins, challenges of IoT adoption, importance of domain knowledge for success, and cameras as IoT sensors.

Craig Herrett, Group Sales Director at Alliot Technologies, discusses cellular IoT and NB-IoT. They explore pitfalls in cellular IoT, component shortage, enterprise vs SMB adoption of IoT, and requirements for continued growth.