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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #167 where we have a chat about all things IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

In this week's episode, Leonard, Rob, David, Steve, and Bill jump on Web3 to talk about smart buildings and some realities of connecting things wirelessly, why facility managers (the real customer) don't see things the way that Steve sees it, the continued challenges connecting homes and buildings, and why massive IoT matters and why it won't, and can we ever get to a smart home or smart building in a box? This is a must watch for folks who are into smart buildings and homes. 

Shout out to RAK Wireless!!! Facilities managers around the world, we love you and you are brilliant! IoT guys just don't know what they are talking about!!!!

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #166 where we have a chat about all things IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

In this week's episode, Leonard, Rob, David, Steve, and Bill jump on Web3 to make good on a historic and tragic lost episode. Yes, after three and a half years, we lost a beautiful episode that featured our magnificent ladies of IoT Coffee Talk, Andreea and Stephanie who are so essential in not making our show a weekly dudefest. We appreciate them!!!

Alas, the episode evaporated and we could not use generative AI to hallucinate that which was lost. But Rob used the power of his human brain equipped with high-bandwidth memory 5.0 to recall the key aspects of a great episode.

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #165 where we have a chat about all things IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

In this week's episode, Leonard, Rob, Marc, and Bill talk about the burning Earth. I know, kind of a depressing topic, but it is real, and Rob got up on the wrong side of the bed and shared how he gets attacked by folks who disagree with saving the planet and humanity. Poor guy. he's only trying to give us hope. Oh, well. Rob tries. 

Somehow we relate our seemingly or passive reluctance to do anything about climate change to the IoT and the challenges that the industry has had in getting industries to see the value of the prototypical value propositions of the Internet of Things. Can we digital twin ourselves out of catastrophe or is the physical twin that all that matters?

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #164 where we have a chat about all things IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

In this week's episode, Leonard, Rob, Steve, David, and Bill jump on Web3 to talk about the semiconductor industry. Leonard is at SEMICON West 2023, the big semiconductor manufacturing and design conference. Lot's of chip suggest dropped in this one. We also talk about how badly RFPs suck, the chip and tech war between the US and China, and the prospect that the semiconductor industry will hit $1 trillion by 2030. Is that with or without inflation?

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #163 where we have a chat about all things IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

In this week's episode, Leonard, Rob, Steve, Tom, Marc, and Bill jump on Web3 for a special 4th of July episode of IoT Coffee Talk to wax nostalgic as Rob visits Bend Oregon and encounters the last Blockbuster Video. Will IoT be of any value when a problem is bigger than what IoT can solve? Sounds like a no. Should we bother? Why is a strong 5G signal not good enough? What is the role of fiber in bringing about equity across the many digital divides? Also, find out why density matters in scaling the economics of connecting everyone.

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #162 where we have a chat about all things IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

In this week's episode, Leonard, Rob, and Bill jump on Web3 to talk about how the IoT can save a young Rob Tiffany from getting eaten by a Grizzly bear when he was way tardy getting back to camp from his mountain hike. Yes, connecting the middle of nowhere is here and it presents some exciting possibilities for tracking and tracing things so that Rob will never have to use a Windows phone's LED screen to illuminate his path in the wilderness. We also talk about how best effort will keep the cloud more remote from the edge than we might have thought and hoped. Rob also proves that human judgement makes us a bit better than the artificial humanity. 

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #161 where we have a chat about all things IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

In this week's episode, Steve, Leonard, Marc, and Rob jump on Web3 to talk about the foundation of IoT, the sensor as Leonard and Steve attend Questex's Fierce Electronics' Sensor Converge 2023 event in Santa Clara, CA. It is the largest sensor trade show in North America and possibly the world. We talk about embedded AI at the edge and on the sensor, HPE's Discover 2023 event and the hybrid cloud phenomenon, spit wads from the back of the station wagon, hybrid cloud, and the hard engineering that goes into the under-appreciated sensor. 

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #160 where we have a chat about all things IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

In this week's episode, Bill, David, and Rob jump on Web3 to talk about how we would and could not be digital without first being analog. I think they talk about how the IoT is a ADAD environment. Lot's of analog stuff working with digital stuff to measure and test real stuff. That's how IoT keeps things real. The gang also talk about how experience gives us perspective on what is real. It matters and the crew talks about how it is delusional to discount the value of mentorship in bringing people up from their apprenticeship into a level of expertise, skill, and judgement in the field. Bill goes ballistic on the consulting game and what it takes to say no and save yourself the headache.

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #159 where we have a chat about all things IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

In this week's episode, Bill, David, Rob, and Marc jump on to Web3 for what happened to be the shortest IoT Coffee Talk episode EVER! It's because Rob doesn't have a Zoom subscription and he dropped Leonard's paid session when we went for some coffee. It was the best discussion on open standards and interoperability that we have had in a very long time. We have standards for gasoline and mobile networks, but why not for IoT? Is it not important enough? Find out in this engaging episode before you slam the door on your foot!!!

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #158 where we have a chat about all things IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

In this week's episode, Andreea, Ryan, Steve, Rob, Leonard, Jan, and Marc jump on to Web3 to talk about the fabled generative AI productivity uplift. Where are we seeing it and where is it just not going to happen? Is quality of output important? If so, what does it take to get generative AI applications to deliver on pretty lofty expectations and perceptions of capability. Do we have enough eyeballs to lend value to the deluge of AI-generated content that is already here and will only get better and worse,... probably at the same time. Is MQTT in vogue again or are people making something old new again because they don't know that it's old. Also, watch Jan get really real and grumpy about GenAI. It's pretty funny. Martin is going to be really upset with him. LOL!

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