An expert in the development of medical materials, Meteda expands its horizons to an unrelated industry, making an addition to an industry in the heart of the residents of San Benedetto del Tronto: sailing.

Using their expertise, MetaSail’s connected regatta race tracking product is easy; simply attach the trackers to the racer’s boats, and another to a buoy, and you're ready to go.

MetaSail is a testament to what can be accomplished when companies use their capabilities in other industries.

Harnessing the #massiveIoT opportunities of cellular LPWAN

Cellular LP-WAN and 5G tech are the tipping point for accessible Enterprise IoT at scale.

Are you ready to harness this for your own organization’s digital transformation?

Listen to Telit IoT Expert Alon Segal discuss enterprise knowledge gaps, deployment problems, and ultimately the true solution for IoT-at-Scale: the Edge.

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Helping grow the IoT community with IoT Stars

Marc gives us insight into developing the IoT Barcelona and Munich communities.

We talk to Marc about some of the patterns he has seen across the years.

- What IoT Startups are successful?

- What technologies are they looking for?

- Why do investors choose one startup over another in his competitions?

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The Most Important GNSS Considerations for your IoT Deployment

How does GNSS differ from GPS? What new regional & worldwide GNSS constellations must we plan for? What the future for GNSS? Georgia Frousiakis, VP of GNSS R&D for Telit discusses the impact of GNSS on IoT in the past, present, & future; & talk about the latest exciting use cases.

If you’ve ever wanted to learn about location technologies & IoT – this is the podcast episode to listen to!

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IoT and the rise of the GUI creating ROI for Organizations

Over nearly a 30 year-long career, Ed Kuzemchak has established himself as one of the foremost experts in the realm of embedded software design.

In particular, Ed championed Graphic User Interfaces as an important step for making embedded systems more user friendly.

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Democratization of IoT Technology

With the advent of quick fabrication technologies like 3D printing, small batch production, laser cutting and engraving, affordable CNC machines, and more… the creative mind truly can be unleashed in electronic design labs.

Oli tells us his story of funding Plymouth College of Art’s innovative Digital Fabrication youth educational program.

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Trading Fintech and IoT War Stories

The world of Financial Technology (Fintech) might be just as complicated as IoT. Just like IoT has multiple sensor, connection, and data analysis providers that push companies to look for “One Stop, One Shop” providers or software platforms, Fintech is ripe for standardization and platformization of the industry.

Today our guest Brandon Selfors trades war stories with Chris – and they both draw Fintech and IoT parallels.

High IoT-powered Functionality for the High Seas

We hear Arturo’s nuanced view on the boat industry, and why growing industry standardizations have paved the way for affordable IoT solutions for boat owners. There’s AirBnB for homes, Uber for Cars….And now Boatrax for boats, the second or third most expensive asset one might own.

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A design services company diversifying into productized cellular gateways.

We dish out the interesting dual-nature of R9 technology – an IoT design house diversifying into its own scalable, productized cellular gateways - by taking a deep dive into their latest cold chain industry work with Nestlé® Toll House® Café by Chip® franchise concept, as operated by Crest Foods, Inc.

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A Collection of Some of the Top Lessons from First Things First 2018

Here the top lessons learned this year from guests like MachNation’s Dima Tokar, ABI Research’s Pierce Owen, NASA’s Dan Lockney, TrapMe’s Kim Lauridsen Hansen, SAP’s Salvatore Castro, Agile’s Shehryar Wahid, OpenCage’s Ed Freyfogle, Jeffrey Schab of Protequus, and more.

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