Serious Integrated: Captain's Log

Bluetooth is very successful in the mobile phone market, and has also helped "cut cords" on PC mice and keyboards. However in the embedded industrial and commercial machine and product space, it has, up til now, been narrow in application. Is this about to change?

Fresh off CES and the AHR air conditioning tradeshows, Terry finds that there are some striking gaps between the state of technology and the state of room/environmental control systems today.

Our CEO, Terry West, talks about another big take-away from CES 2018: how traditionally horizontal enabling technology companies are going more and more vertical into key target applications, and what that means for companies that are the device manufacturers in those applications.

Terry visits CES 2018 ... connectivity is everywhere, security is nowhere.

Security for IoT devices is a very hot topic. This year we need to think about our technology foundation, roadmaps, and partnerships very seriously and deliberately in order to capitalize on the IoT upside without losing all our gains to the downside of an "security incident" on our products.

2018 looks like a big innovation year but if you're an established market player, how do you not get left behind?

We've entered into another innovation cycle after nearly 18 years of stagnation. How did we get here and how 2018 looks to be very different from the past 17 years.

The electronics industry has now been plunged into a highly constrained environment -- how do we navigate the next few years as manufacturers and customers?

Going to a graphic/touch Human Machine Interface (HMI) is a big evolutionary leap for your industrial/medical/commercial device as a systems engineer. How high should you aspire for your new User Experience (UX) to be? What does that mean for my technology, partners, and roadmap?

Evolving your commercial/industrial/medical product to support IoT is a lot like driving in a blizzard – it’s really hard to see what’s next for your technology until you get down the road.  Thinking long term and picking the right partners is key.