Sensors from the M2M world are evolving into connected sensors for IoT. Same sensor tech but now the sensor needs to communicate outside of a local and often proprietary network. Goodbye, 35-year-old Modbus, used in SCADA of yesteryear and hello layered communication, needed in the Internet of Things to onboard billions of sensors. In this episode of the IoT Inc Business Show, Mike Fahrion explains not only the anatomy of today’s connected sensor but also why we’re moving to a layered communication stack.

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It takes a lot of work, behind the scenes work, to establish a successful connection between sensor and IoT Platform. While it’s possible to find off-the-shelf sensor subsystems for common use-cases, often, custom hardware and software design is needed to make the system/connected product/asset operate as desired. In this episode of the IoT Inc Business Show, I get into it with Mark Wright about the who and the what behind the scenes that need to be involved to make it happen.

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Want to connect your product to the Internet of Things? The first step is giving it senses and then connectivity to the Internet of Things. In this episode of the IoT Inc Business Show, I speak with Adam Justice, a second generation sensors guy who takes us through the two main approaches to get your products, assets or environment on to the next generation Interweb, known as the Internet of Things.

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I have to admit, when the first real deployments of LPWA or Low Power Wide Area Networks were being lit up, I wasn’t all that bullish on the competition: Mobile Operators in IoT. Wrong tech with the wrong business model… Or so I thought. Fast forward a couple of years to today and those behemoths are getting their acts together. In this episode of the IoT Inc Business Show, I speak with Patrice Slupowski about the Mobile Operator approach to IoT and I have to admit… I’m impressed.

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There are five main IoT alliances/consortiums/groups focused on the Internet of Things and I interview them all. The Internet Protocol for Smart Object (IPSO) Alliance – episode E3 has been around for a while but the Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) – episode 9, the Thread group, the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and the Allseen Alliance have sprung up recently. Depending on your focus, one or more of these organizations and are worth looking into when starting your IoT journey. In this episode of the IoT Inc Business Show, I discuss the third organization, the Thread Group, with Skip Ashton.

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It’s a symbiotic relationship – the big corporation, in search for that innovative edge, and the small startup, in search for supportto get their ideas off the ground. Both have what the other needs –desperately. Coming together they form one type of ecosystem. To be players, all IoT companies – big and small – must be part of one ormore ecosystem. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with the folks at TechrIot about their approach of bringing IoT companies together.

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As the technology of IoT evolves the concept of a distributed computing environment is becoming increasingly relevant. A key component of this architecture is fog computing, blending the cloud to the edge. Being able to access computing, networking and storage resources locally makes sense for many classes of IoT deployments. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with the bigwigs of the newly formed, OpenFog Consortium.

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By definition, an ecosystem brings together multiple products in order to deliver an outcome. However, today’s IoT standards don’t go far enough enable different products to work together. Another layer is needed to ensure ecosystem products speak the same language. In this episode of the IoT business show, I speak with David McCall about the Open Connectivity Foundation and the codebase they provide to enable smart home products from different vendors to talk to each other – exactly what you need for any ecosystem

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I don’t want to be accused of being a hammer but if you think about it, IoT is the tech behind digital transformation. If your definition of IoT doesn’t include data science like mine does, then the technologies at hand are IoT and analytics and AI. Industrie four-zero addresses this tech as well as the political, environmental, corporate and academic issues that pave the way. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Henning Banthien about the unique and effective approach Plattform Industrie 4.0 takes in digitally transforming the discrete manufacturing industry.

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No one company is big enough to provide an end-to-end industrial Internet of Things solution. Realizing this the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) was founded to bring together different solutions from different vendors to address different use cases. The end game, however, is not technology, but business – to understand what is needed to put together solutions that not only work well but sell well. I’m a big believer in ecosystems so, in this episode of the IoT Inc Business Show, I discuss the IIC with Stephen Mellor to see if this consortium is right for you.

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