Ben Gibbs, who leads the Afero Customer Enablement (ACE) team, is back and this time he and Shahin Khan discuss why doing multiple IoT projects is so hard. They track how complexity increases as you go from 1) One IoT project for yourself,

2) One IoT project that you productize to be used by many,

3) Multiple IoT projects for multiple devices and device types that are built by one manufacturer, and

4) Multiple IoT projects that must work consistently across devices built by several different manufacturers.

Listen to Afero co-founder and CEO Joe Britt in conversation with Stacey Higginbotham the host of Stacey-on-IoT podcast. Subscribe to that podcast at https://staceyoniot.com/category/podcast/. Afero has been a proud sponsor.

Ben Gibbs, who leads the Afero Customer Enablement (ACE) team, and Shahin Khan discuss processing payments in IoT. This is another IoT "Killer App" that represents a big emerging market.

https://www.machnation.com/iot-platform-build-or-buy-tco-calculator-sponsored-by-afero/ is a cool new online TCO calculator and the topic of this episode.

Dima Tokar, Co-Founder and Head of Research at IoT analyst firm MachNation, joins Shahin Khan to discuss the parameters that impact initial and ongoing CapEx and OpEx, and the total cost of building an enterprise-grade platform versus buying one as a service from a vendor. They also go over what led MachNation to build this tool and Afero to sponsor it.

Travis Hagens of Google join Shahin Khan to discuss Google's perspective on IoT, its growing partnership with Afero in IoT, what Google customers need for their IoT projects, and why the Google-Afero combination is a winning choice for commercial, industrial, and consumer markets.

Ben Gibbs, who leads the Afero Customer Enablement (ACE) team, joins Shahin Khan again, this time to discuss IoT "Killer Apps" with a special emphasis on consumer appliances.

Ben Gibbs leads the Afero Customer Enablement (ACE) team. He joins Shahin Khan to discuss best practices and typical considerations for a successful IoT deployment.