Peggy Smedley Show

Traffic congestion is a problem in so many cities. Peggy talks about urban air mobility—and what is coming in the years ahead. She also discusses: The amount of hours and money lost on productivity due to traffic. NASA's goal with urban air mobility and what it is planning to do by 2022 with it. What could potentially hold back urban air mobility. peggysmedleyshow.com (07.28.20 - #679) IoT, Intern...

Peggy and Matthew Reeder, operations manager (rail systems and automation), Calibre, talk about automating a railway. He shares hurdles, lessons learned, and how technology can be applied around the world. They also discuss: If it is cost prohibitive to do intelligent infrastructure. The benefits of intelligent infrastructure: cost, safety, people, partnerships, growth, and more. The maturity mode...

Peggy and Amy Posey, coauthor, Wild Success: 7 Key Lessons Business Leaders Can Learn from Extreme Adventures, shares about the lessons she has learned from adventure and her new book, answering the question: What do we need to be successful in business. They also discuss: The seven stories and successes in her book. The adventurer's mindset and approach to life and how adventure is about going ou...

Peggy explains how voice assistants impact transportation. She says Juniper Research predicts there will be $8 billion digital voice assistants in the U.S. by 2023 and ResearchandMarkets predicts the global voice assistants market will reach $5.4 billion by 2024. She also talks about: How voice assistants will help during the shopping process. What is causing the growth of voice assistants. How it...

Peggy and Reza Arghandeh, professor, the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, talk about the evolution of smart cities and what is coming next. He says on his daily walk he sees how he can have an impact on his community—from the local level to the global level. They also discuss: How COVID-19 is going to have an impact on city planning in the future. His current research and how cities...

Peggy and Joe Biron, CTO for IoT and general manager of Thingworx, PTC, come together for a conversation about what customers are implementing. He believes the IoT is a technology paradigm and that a cocktail of new technology paradigms has been powering the digital transformation objectives to satisfy challenges that have always been there. They also discuss: How the IoT has been a catalyst that...

Peggy talks about key trends and how cities can make infrastructure more connected. She says the biggest step cities can take for smart transportation infrastructure is to find ways to quantify ROI—and she recommends people think about what questions we need to be asking about infrastructure in smart cities. She poses and answers several questions including: What trends are we seeing in smart infr...

Peggy and Luna Lu, associate professor Lyles School of Civil Engineering, School of Materials Engineering College of Engineering, Purdue University, talk about intelligent infrastructure. She says while our population has grown, our infrastructure hasn't been updated. They also discuss: How we can cut down repair time and make roads and bridges able to repair themselves. A new Intelligent Infrastr...

Peggy and Doug Roberson, CTO, Allterco Robotics US, talk about his company's product. He says his company's CEO saw there weren't a lot of products that were answering what consumers were looking for, and since 2018, the company has half a million households using its devices. They also discuss: The fact that the key to its products is versatility. Different applications can be connected like gara...

Peggy highlights the Invest in America Act and how it is going to authorize funds for transportation infrastructure. She says we need to tackle the backlog of infrastructure that needs to be replaced and if both sides of the aisle don't get their collective acts together, we are going to be in trouble. She also discusses: A refresher on the ASCE report card and transportation infrastructure. How l...

Peggy and Sastry Malladi, co-founder and chief technology officer, FogHorn, talk about the importance of keeping workers safe and a new solution to extend health monitoring. He says its primary goal is to provide an intelligent software for industrial and commercial companies to derive actionable insights. They also discuss: The evolution of worker safety, pre-pandemic, post-pandemic, and looking...

Peggy and John Havlik, co-author, "The Leadership Killer: Reclaiming Humility in an Age of Arrogance" returns to the show to talk about hubris. He says hubris is the root of all evil that makes good leaders go bad. They also discuss: Traits commonly seen in good coaches or leaders. The importance of showing empathy and owning up to mistakes today. One piece of advice for leaders today. leadershipk...

With AVs (automated vehicles) growing at a fast rate, Peggy details the U.S. DOT new initiative that provides an online public facing forum for sharing automated driving system testing activities and other safety information. She also discusses: How this initiative will create transparency in the world of AV testing. How AVs will open the doors for a new transportation paradigm. The companies invo...

Caroline Blazovsky, president and founder, My Healthy Home, joins Peggy to share her story about how she got into the healthy home movement and how allergies led her to explore this more. She says houses are just like people and they all have different issues. They also discuss: The importance of controlling moisture in homes. Stories she has seen and heard during the years. A new certification so...

Peggy and George Thomas, founder and managing partner, New Urbana, define what is new during this time, how technology has progressed, and how we are having society change en masse. He says in chaos there is always opportunity. They also discuss: The innovations that have come to market in the last 5-6 years. The impact of digital transformation specifically in the construction industry. What we n...

Peggy talks about a recent ransomware attack in Knoxville—and other cities that have been attacked. She says city governments are often particularly vulnerable to cyber-attacks. She also discusses: Cyberattacks that happen in cities like Atlanta and New Orleans—and who paid the ransom and who didn't. The amount of publically reported ransomware attacks against state and local governments just last...

Peggy and Laurent Soubielle, IoT agency North America director, Sigfox, talk about how having the insights on data are critical today. He says it is not hardware; it is not about technology; it is completely about the data. They also discuss: The importance of partnerships and how Sigfox's partnerships are very vertical. Customer case studies including one that provides sensors for smart buildings...

Peggy and Michael Freeman, founder and CEO, Ocutrx Vision Technologies, talk about how technology can help strengthen eye sight and help people read emails and see faces again. They also discuss: The story of his father's company and how it led to the development of the first product for streaming mobile videos. How his father's disease led to the development of technology that allowed him to read...

Peggy continues the conversation on a circular economy, digging into what companies are doing to move toward more sustainability. She shares what is being done in different technology companies. She also discusses: Examples of corporate social responsibility reports and goals. What companies are doing to become carbon negative by 2030. Where to start with your company's sustainability goals. peggy...

Roughly 41 billion devices are expected to come online in 2027. With an extreme amount of IoT (Internet of Things) devices coming online, Peggy and Pamela Cortez, Azure IoT senior PM, Microsoft, talk about Azure RTOS (realtime operating system). She says it is a system software that provides services and manages processor resources for applications. They also discuss: The Express Logic acquisition...

Peggy discusses sustainability through the lens of a circular economy. She says sustainability is about finding ways to meet the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. She also: Defines a circular economy and how it impacts sustainability. Talks about the three principles of a circular economy. Asks, do we consume a drill or do we use...

Peggy and Niraj Jha, professor of electrical engineering, Princeton University, talk about smart healthcare and how it will become more proactive very soon. He says the word smart in smart healthcare denotes that we are using AI (artificial intelligence). They also discuss: The impact of pushing intelligence to the edge in healthcare and medicine. Examples of how medicine can use machine learning...

Peggy and Jonathan Birdwell, regional director for public policy in EMEA, Economist Intelligence Unit, talk about research that looked at the potential of the IoT across six industries including energy, healthcare, and logistics. They also discuss: How COVID-19 has accelerated adoption of the IoT and that will continue past the pandemic. The importance of stakeholders to be able to communicate the...

Peggy asks this question: Was the Google Quayside failure really a result of COVID-19? She says Quayside was about to become the most measurable community in the world and its failure was due to surveillance capitalism. She also talks about: All the technologies Quayside was going to use for smart city development. The problems that existed in Quayside long before the pandemic. That we need to be...

Peggy and Kai Zheng, associate professor of informatics and associate adjunct professor of emergency medicine, University of California, Irvine, talk about how to document, consume, and use information in healthcare. They also discuss: Challenges that exist in the healthcare industry today and how technology can help. The barriers that currently exist to make information flow freely in healthcare....