In this special Mini Episode, we examine how IoT helps you improve your heart health ... covering how it improves your food intake, exercise, medication adherence, your visit to the Doctor's office / ER and how AI can help to customize medicine to improve its effectiveness for you.

In this special mini episode to celebrate those running the Boston Marathon, we look at the current marathon record and discuss how many IoT solutions can likely help elite runners get closer to the 2 hour mark.  We also look at how the same solutions can help runners of all ages and abilities improve.

In this episode, we open by covering the top 6 things that keep over 100 of the top IoT professionals up at night.  In the main segment, we go over the power of Asset Management, how it helps organizations of all sizes and we touch specifically on key verticals like Food, Retail, Construction, Industrial and Logistics.

In this episode, we open with an overview of McDonald's new purchase of Dynamic Yield, which caught many people by surprise.  In our main segment, we cover "Smart Shopping", which is how IoT is being used by retailers to improve all aspects of their business.  This includes how it reduces costs, improves operations and how it provides incentives for customers to get off the couch and to the store.

In this episode, we start out by covering how many IoT products truly can be defined as the "Internet of S**t" and how manufacturers can prevent their product from receiving such a label.  In the main part, we cover how IoT is changing all aspects of the restaurant experience, ranging from the time you park your car until you get your bill.  We also cover how Automation is affecting the restaurant industry now and in the future.

In this episode, we examine how as a society, we are still not learning important lessons as we move forward with Automation, as exhibited by the tragedy of the recent latest Boeing plane crash.  In our main topic, we look at how IoT is changing how we grow and process our food.  To finish, we look at how a common office technology that came to prominence during the era of Mad Men is either making a comeback or has never truly gone away in many areas.

In this episode, we open by covering a possible list of A.I.'s 10 commandments so that it does more good than harm.  In the main segment, we go over how the combination of A.I., IoT and Big Data are improving all aspects of medicine, including:  improving how diagnostic images are read, reducing the need for some surgeries, improving treatment for diseases like Cancer, helping to customize medicine and to reduce clerical and other costs.

To open, we talk about how the lower cost to create great VR content (combined with higher cellular network speeds) has allowed more companies to create "content excitement" (we explain what that means) for more products.  In the main segment, we cover 7 non-cellular options for connecting your IoT devices.  This includes:  3 common ones that need a network to backhaul your data (Bluetooth, Ethernet and Wi-Fi), two newer lower-bandwidth, IoT-focused options (SigFox and LoRa), one that is commonly used in remote applications (Satellite) and we cover the pros and cons of building your own Private network for IoT.

To open, we examine one infrastructure project that we hope both political parties in the US can agree on, and that is increasing the availability of high speed Internet connectivity for rural areas.  We make the case that a combination of 4G/5G is the ideal choice of network to use.  In the main segment, we cover 7 different cellular-based IoT networks (yes, there is 7), some of the pros/cons of each and a few key applications that you want to consider.

In this episode, we discuss the 10 things you need to know to ensure that you are buying the right cellular gateway.  To open, we ask the question of what standards we should hold a robot/autonomous car to, including if they should have to take a driver's test like everyone else.

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