Ever heard the saying, "It takes a village"? Well, that couldn't be more true for building IoT solutions today!📺 In this episode of the IoT Show, we chat with Brandon Satrom from Blues about how the IoT industry has totally transformed. We’ve gone from a world where you had to DIY every single thing, to a place with a plethora of platforms all trying to be the one-stop shop. Now, we're in a much smarter phase—picking the best parts from different companies to build something amazing.Brandon shares the scoop from Blues' perspective, a company that makes awesome hardware modules to give your devices seamless connectivity. ⚠️ TEASER ALERT: we learn where Blues 🎶 got its name fromWe also touch on The Things Conference, which is proof that the "it takes a village" idea is catching on. They’re expanding beyond just LoRaWAN to include all sorts of IoT tech. It's all about the ecosystem, and working together to make IoT work for everyone.Learn more about Blues 👉 https://blues.comCheck out The Things Conference 👉 https://thethingsconference.com
Are the digital and physical worlds able to sense and interact with each other? What does it take to make this a reality?
Short answer: Digital twins!
Who better than Bert Van Hoof, CEO at Willow, to attest to the importance of Digital Twins to make sense of the huge amount of heterogeneous data that smart buildings generate.If you have never heard about Willow, that's because their technology is hidden and as I like to say: the best tech is the one you don't see
Learn more at https://willowinc.com/
The Things Conference is becoming the must-attend IoT event of the year. Traditionally, this event was the hub for anything LoRaWAN, but as we all know, IoT is about more than just LPWAN technologies, it's actually more than just about connectivity. And The Things Industries team understand this better than anyone else. So they decided to extend the scope of this year's edition of the Conference.Learn more and register at https://TheThingsConference.com
Dr. Andreas Savvides started his career over a couple of decades ago at Yale, leading research on wireless sensor networks, embedded systems, and sensor-driven applications for energy efficiency, security and healthcare. He rapidly realized the commercial potential of IoT and Edge AI and went on creating a SaaS energy analytics platform before many. Passionate about technology, he joined Cognex in 2018 to lead the company's edge intelligence efforts.Suffice it to say: Andreas knows a thing or two about Vision AI and its applications in the industry and shares with us a unique perspective on how far Edge AI has come, where it's going and how fast.🔗 Learn more about Cognex: https://www.cognex.com🤝 Connect with Andreas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasgsavvides
Many IoT devices run on batteries for obvious reasons (remote and mobile location, critical enough to not rely on grid power only, you name it). But batteries have shortcomings: they have a limited lifespan, you need to constantly minimize energy consumption, hence reducing what can be done, which limits the hardware choices as well...More and more IoT devices manufacturers are considering and adopting energy harvesting solutions such as solar, allowing their devices to generate energy from their environment. This is known as Ambient IoT.It's becoming even more important to consider energy production and consumption holistically (tech, cost, AI, ...), it is a system problem, not a component one. And for that you need the right tools.With Jeff Crystal from Voltaic and Björn Rosqvist from Qoitch we delve into the fascinating new world of ambient IoT, discussing considerations, pitfalls, tooling, and more.🔗 Learn more at https://www.qoitech.com/ and https://voltaicsystems.com/🙏 This episode is powered by IoT Stars https://iotstars.com
Is ISA-95 obsolete? Is UNS the next step forward for Industrial data? How does the future of MES look like? Should we also consider a broader adoption of open-source technologies?That's some of the questions we are trying to answer on this new episode of the IoT Show with Alexander Krüger, Co-founder and CEO at United Manufacturing Hub (UMH) and long timer in the business of normalizing industrial data.Learn more at https://learn.umh.app/
Like with any other technology, you must be practical when you start with Edge AI.Bringing AI to the Edge has a lot of promise but also requires a lot of consideration.Mahmood Afshari, Business Manager at Softeq, has extensive experience in integrating IoT, Digital Twins and AI at the Edge.Mahmood joined me on the IoT Show to talk about use cases, the importance of focusing on ROI, expectations for AI at the Edge, the business considerations in terms of hardware, infrastructure, security, brownfield, greenfield, ...🔗 Connect with Mahmood on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahmoodafshari
In technology, you have the ones who implement and use it, and you have the ones who invent, innovate, trailblaze.Zach Shelby, whom you might know as the co-founder of Edge Impulse, is one of these trailblazers, and as you'll hear in this episode, when retracing his career, we retrace a large part of IoT history.🙏This episode is powered by IoT Stars https://iotstars.com
The Edge AI Foundation recently put together a challenge, proposing to Computer vision engineers, Data scientists, AI engineers and researchers to produce the best Vision AI models for the Edge using a large open source dataset. Participants were to approach the problem from the perspective of the models or from the perspective of the data.Kais Bedioui, Computer Vision engineer, was in the later camp and tells us how he used off-the-shelf AI models to clean up the large dataset, identifying non-labelled images or gaps and errors images annotations before even starting to train a model for the Edge.🔗 Check out Kai's project at https://github.com/kais-bedioui/Wake_Vision_Challenge_Data_Centric_Track🙏 This special episode is sponsored by the Edge AI Foundation https://www.edgeaifoundation.org/
Security, security, security! Ok, but how?Kevin Hilscher works at DigiCert and during this live interview recorded at IoT Stars during Embedded World 2025, he tells us how to make your IoT device future proof when it comes to provisioning, encrypting communications and authentication. He also explains why you should care about the Cyber Resiliency Act and gives us hints on what will happen post-quantum compute when it comes to security and encryption.
What's up at Arduino?Marcello Majonchi, CPO at Arduino not only tells us what's new, but also shares with us what was the first IoT device he ever connected: a mussel cleaner! True story!
How does RAK Wireless make IoT easier? Xose Perez tells us how on this live interview recorded during the last IoT Stars event in Embedded World 2025.RAK Wireless has some interesting LoRaWAN solutions that you'll definitively want to learn more about
Want to learn what's the best way to mitigate risks on components availability and design successful IoT devices and solutions? Xavier Dupont from SG Wireless has the experience and an approach that proved to work and he is giving us a sneak peek during this live interview during the latest IoT Stars event in Embedded World 2025.
In the last IoT Stars event in Nuremberg during Embedded World, I had the chance to do live interviews of some of the most prominent and innovative thought leaders in IoT and Edge AI.Brandom Satrom, from Blues, shares what he thinks are the stupidest IoT devices out there (and I am sure you'll agree with him!) before sharing the latest news about Blues.
Did you know there were sensors that are placed in concrete and that are used to determine if and when walls and pillars will crack and make a structure unstable?In this live interview at the IoT Stars during Embedded World 2025, Jonathan Beri, founder and CEO of Golioth, tells us what his favorite IoT device is before getting into the latest news of enabling Bluetooth to Cloud with the Golioth IoT platform.
"What is the most interesting, innovative or stupid IoT device or solution you ever encountered?"That was the introduction to a great conversation with Robert Wolff, developers champion during the IoT Stars event at Embedded World 2025 in Nuremberg.
[Live audio, excuse the background noise]Walt is on a mission to help ML companies grow up to become AI organizations and not fall into the common traps and misconceptions.
With Tom Dever, long timer in IoT, we discuss use cases, as well as industries readiness for Edge AI. We exchange on hardware architectures, containerization of models on embedded devices leveraging Atym, the role of hyperscalers and IT teams who can now leverage familiar tools to configure and manage edge infrastructures.
[Live audio, excuse the background noise]What role do IoT and Edge AI play in robotics, embodied intelligence and assured autonomous and distributed systems?Tinoosh Mohsenin, professor at Johns Hopkins University shares her perspective and insights into some of the research her and her teams are doing. No wonder why Tinoosh is so active in the Edge AI Foundation.
Ryan Treece works daily with industrials and oil & gas companies, helping them connect their assets. He knows exactly where they are at in their digital transformation and shares an interesting perspective on how Edge AI can change the way they are approaching that transformation. Some of the topics we cover are whether or not OT infrastructures and networks are ready for Edge AI? Will someone crack the code of industrial data normalization?