The Private Equity Digital Transformation Show

It's a heck of a lot easier than it used to be but most IoT projects still involve custom system integration – the question now is how much. Although the definition of an IoT platform, or AEP, is not always clear, what is clear is that using a platform saves a lot of time and a lot of system integration work. There may be legitimate reasons to develop your own platform in house but by definition, this means you become a software company – big time. In this episode of the IoT Business show, I speak with Bryan Kester to get his take on what an IoT platform is, the technologies involved and a candid view on the strengths and weaknesses of IoT platforms today.

Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: https://www.iot-inc.com/evolving-internet-of-things-platform-podcast/

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Related links you may find useful:

• Season 1: Episodes and show notes
• Season 1 book: IoT Inc
• Season 2: Episodes and show notes
• Season 2 book: The Private Equity Digital Operating Partner
• Training: Digital transformation certification

The IoT Business Show is brought to you by the Iot-Inc Certified IoT Professional (ICIP) online training & certification program: http://www.iot-inc.com/training

After going through each of the major consortia, we are heading back to tech, but not as deep a dive as usual. Having left the edge behind, we are now moving on to the network fabric that holds everything together. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, we talk about some of the most important issues surrounding IoT Platforms today.

Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: https://www.iot-inc.com/iot-platform-security-sensors-analytics-podcast/

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On the surface, building your own IoT cloud seems pretty straightforward, but brush away some of the fluff and you'll find the non-trivial issues of data velocity, message processing, scalability, redundancy and robustness. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I discuss the IoT cloud with Dan Collins, its differences with the IT cloud and the issues to consider when building or buying.

Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: https://www.iot-inc.com/true-nature-iot-cloud-service-podcast/

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Related links you may find useful:

• Season 1: Episodes and show notes
• Season 1 book: IoT Inc
• Season 2: Episodes and show notes
• Season 2 book: The Private Equity Digital Operating Partner
• Training: Digital transformation certification

What's the IQ of your city? There are a few ways to raise it to become a smart city. The bottom-up approach starts with a few IoT pilots to see what sticks and what the operational implications are. The top-down approach looks at the city as a platform providing interconnectivity. In this episode of the IoT Business Show I speak with Miguel Gamiño, San Francisco's CIO, about his approach to make his city the smartest of them all.

Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast60notes

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Related links you may find useful:

• Season 1: Episodes and show notes
• Season 1 book: IoT Inc
• Season 2: Episodes and show notes
• Season 2 book: The Private Equity Digital Operating Partner
• Training: Digital transformation certification

I'm sold. In fact, I've been sold since early 2014 when I first started digging into the emerging Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) market. I'm sold not because it's cool tech – I'm sold because it's affordable. The price makes business sense for a wide range of IoT use cases – some we're familiar with and others we haven't even considered yet due to current cost structures. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Hardy Schmidbauer of the LoRa Alliance and Thomas Nicholls of Sigfox about what LPWA is and the different ways it's sold.

Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTpodcast34notes

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Related links you may find useful:

• Season 1: Episodes and show notes
• Season 1 book: IoT Inc
• Season 2: Episodes and show notes
• Season 2 book: The Private Equity Digital Operating Partner
• Training: Digital transformation certification

Listen to this analysis episode with Bruce Sinclair where he analyses the latest IoT news or practices or unanswered IoT questions from a business perspective. In this episode, Bruce discusses what it actually means when discussing standards in IoT and how they are related to protocols and why we can't standardize everything in the Internet of Things.

Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://www.iot-inc.com/what-do-you-mean-by-iot-standards-podcast/

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• Season 1: Episodes and show notes
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• Season 2 book: The Private Equity Digital Operating Partner
• Training: Digital transformation certification

There's a symbiotic partnership between standards organizations, like the IETF and IEEE, and the non-profit alliances, groups, and IoT consortia. The IoT industry needs standards but sometimes the standards organizations, when left to their own devices, can be guilty of satisfying only the vendors' needs who are on the committees or being too broad, satisfying everyone but producing nothing of value. The non-profit IoT consortia play a major role in driving requirements for these standards and their subsequent testing, certification, and marketing. The grey zone is when the consortia get into the standards game. There's value in making "standards" of standards but it can also be detrimental to the industry at large when they are not made open to the public.

Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: https://www.iot-inc.com/internet-of-things-standards-bodies-consortia-podcast/

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Related links you may find useful:

• Season 1: Episodes and show notes
• Season 1 book: IoT Inc
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• Season 2 book: The Private Equity Digital Operating Partner
• Training: Digital transformation certification

Wondering how IoT is being rolled out in cities? Look up… into the light. Streetlights are the perfect stepping stone to produce smart cities. Changing their bulbs to LEDs pay for themselves in 3-5 years but also present the opportunity to build out wireless mesh networks. These elevated networks allow more lighting control/efficiency and provide the foundation for other smart city services such as power and parking. In this episode of The IoT Business Show, I speak with Sterling Hughes about lessons learned in deploying Silversping's networks in cities around the world. This is encore episode 4, of 4, which originally played in the IPv6 Show podcast.

Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: https://www.iot-inc.com/internet-of-things-smart-cities-with-ipv6-podcast/

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• Season 1: Episodes and show notes
• Season 1 book: IoT Inc
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• Season 2 book: The Private Equity Digital Operating Partner
• Training: Digital transformation certification

IP rules the Internet, at least the Internet that connects people. Will it dominate the Internet of Things too? There are two endings to this story. In this episode of the IoT Business Show we discuss one such ending with Internet of Things expert, Joachim Lindborg and how his Swedish rationality takes him there. This is encore episode 1, of 4, which originally played in the IPv6 Show podcast.

Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: https://www.iot-inc.com/iot-ipv6-makes-business-sense-podcast/

This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS

Related links you may find useful:

• Season 1: Episodes and show notes
• Season 1 book: IoT Inc
• Season 2: Episodes and show notes
• Season 2 book: The Private Equity Digital Operating Partner
• Training: Digital transformation certification

The IoT Business Show is brought to you by the Iot-Inc Certified IoT Professional (ICIP) online training & certification program: http://www.iot-inc.com/training

Bruce Sinclair narrates the introduction chapter of his book, IoT Inc: How Your Company Can Use the Internet of Things to Win in the Outcome Economy. The book has 16 chapters plus a preface, the introduction chapter I read here and a conclusion chapter. If you want an overview of the 16 chapters, listen to the bonus episode two podcast episodes back.

Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast83notes

Consider taking 60 seconds to leave an honest review and rating for the podcast on iTunes. They are extremely helpful when it comes to ranking the show and you can be sure I read every one.

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