The IoT Show

Alexander Pelov, co-inventor of SCHC tells us all about the standard that allows running IP-based protocols like MQTT over LPWAN networks like LoRaWAN. SCHC, pronounced "chic" will change the game for IoT. Check out why and how in this new episode of the IoT Show and learn more about SCHC at https://lab-schc.fr/ and check out the GitHub repo at https://gitlab.com/lab-schc/sdk/full-sdk-de...

You certainly are familiar with or have at least heard of location based applications used to precisely locate assets, machines, individuals in or out of buildings. Among all these applications, the ones that stand out and frankly really add value, are the ones that don’t just do observation of things location. They are the ones that allow automation and integration into workflows. Location does m...

Time for an update on Particle. Zach Supalla, Founder and CEO, shares some backstories and gives us an update on where things are at Particle, how they decided to bundle multiple radios in a single System on Module, or why they made their development boards production-ready. Learn more about Particle at https://particle.io

If you are using the MQTT protocol to connect your IoT devices to the Cloud or to communicate with one another, you will want to check out the Azure Event Grid MQTT Broker. Seth is a Program Manager in the Event Grid team and will tell us all we need to know, as IoT practitioners, about this new feature of Event Grid. Yes, there are existing open source brokers you can deploy yourself in a VM in t...

Cellular connectivity is really practical for connecting your IoT devices, especially when you're out in the wild, away from other connectivity coverage, or roaming around, right? But it's never really easy to configure it exactly the way you want and need, unless you deploy your own private cellular infrastructure. Here comes a Network-as-a-Service solution called Stacuity. Mike is here o...

Did you know that a motorized medical wheelchair costs $20K and up, and that maintaining it is not just expensive, but a real challenge? The Mobility Independence Foundation (https://www.themif.org) seeks to create open source hardware and software designs to address the many problems that Durable Medical Equipment users are facing. This kind of equipment, such as wheelchairs are not that durable,...

I'm often asked how to get started with IoT, and my answer usually is "it depends", but at the end of the day, it's always about getting your hands dirty and start tinkering with hardware and dev tools. Asim Zulfiqar is an electronics Engineer by trade and a curious mind by nature. He started his journey in IoT tinkering with embedded software and rapidly ramped up thanks to hard...

Do you know what the do's and don'ts are when doing open source? I invited Enri, a very vocal advocate for open source in the industry. Enri just published an entire manifesto describing what the best practices are which we discuss in this episode. We'll also look at how these best practices apply to IoT and how open source can help do IoT right. You can find Enri's manifesto here:...

Have you heard of Walter, the open source, ESP32-S3 based, cellular, GPS and WiFi/BLE module for IoT devices? Let’s talk WAN (Wide Area Network) connectivity for IoT. It’s a large pond with many different actors and options. When you want to connect your devices wirelessly you will need to look at your requirements closely to define the right compromise for your scenario in terms of energy consump...

Let’s ask the #1 Industry 4.0 influencer in the industry, Jeff Winter, what he thinks IoT’s role is in the ongoing 4th industrial revolution. To answer the question, we will discuss what’s specific to the Industrial part of “Industrial IoT”, IoT’s level of maturity, the common reasons why Industrial IoT projects still hit the wall and more. Hint: IoT is core to Industry 4.0 Follow and reach out to...

If you are new to IoT or considering starting an IoT project to see if it'd be a good career path, look no more, this video is for you. Jasbir Singh Dhaliwal authored a book about the common patterns he has encountered in all the IoT project he worked on and joined me on the IoT Show to discuss his book and delve into these patterns. If you want to dive deeper, you can find Jasbir book at http...

What’s up with AI at the edge? Who better than Daniel Situnayake, Director of ML at Edge Impulse and co-author of the TinyML book (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/tinyml/9781492052036/) among other things, to respond to this question and share his perspective about Edge AI Myths and Realities? If you like the demo and want to give Edge Impulse a try, visit https://EdgeImpulse.com

Yes, IoT development is hype, but what is it exactly, and why is it such a fascinating discipline? Ben Jacques from Spindance has an interesting perspective on this. He believes we are seeing the beginning of a 2d generation of IoT projects and solutions: the one that's about doing IoT right. Whether you are an embedded developer or you are considering starting a career in IoT, you will want t...

To implement robust Over the Air update for your IoT devices, not only do you need a platform to securely manage your update deployments at scale but you also need a connectivity solution. Wouldn’t it be great to have both integrated seamlessly? The good news is such integration exists. Eystein Stenberg, Co-Founder of Northern.tech, the company behind Mender.io, and Fabian Kochem, Global product s...

Muhammad Afzal is a software engineer who discovered IoT while working on a smart agriculture project. He decided to share his learnings about IoT and more particularly about the Arduino IoT Cloud by authoring a book. Muhammad joined me on the IoT show to tell us how he came to use Arduino IoT Cloud, what he likes about it and how he’s using it. Get Muhammad’s book 👉 https://packt.link/p47Np

Tales of a hardware engineer who decided to build his own home automation system and ended learning a lot about IoT to the point he wrote a book about his experience using Home Assistant. Marco joins me on the IoT Show to share his learnings and tell us about what’s in his book. Grab Marco’s book here: https://packt.link/vq7XU

No, this is not yet another typical discussion about IoT security and how a hacker attacked a casino leveraging access to a smart fish tank connected to the enterprise network... True story… We all get this part of the problem. And the good news is that governments have started regulating IoT systems security, but are you aware of the many laws and standards that are coming up or already in place?...

How can open source help you do IoT right? That's the question I asked Sam and Daniel from Toradex. Having made the observation that most embedded solutions and their discussions revolved around the software aspects, they decided to focus on developing systems-on-modules to help streamline the hardware part, which allows customers to focus on adding value on the software part. To make things e...

From being arrested at 17 for computer hacking with a Commodore 64 and a Baud modem back in 1995 to offensive cyber operations at the NSA and now teaching Hardware Hacking and Embedded Exploitation for a leaving, that’s the journey of Terry Dunlap, our guest on this special episode of the IoT Show. We always talk about security being paramount to IoT success, what does that really mean, what are t...

IoT devices are often wirelessly connected and doing IoT right includes picking the right connectivity technology. Besides the options you likely know such as Wide Are Network, a.k.a. WAN (Wi-Fi, 5G) or Personal Area Network, a.k.a. PAN (Bluetooth, BLE, ZigBee), there is a category called LPWAN which stands for Low Power Wide Area Networks. Josh Cox, CEO at Oxit, joins me on this new episode of th...

You certainly are familiar with the term DataLake, but do you know the term DeviceLake? It’s about the opportunity data harvested at the edge, on premises by IoT devices presents. DeviceLake is what fuels Digital Twins, AI, industrial business intelligence and it depends on what’s now become a necessity: proper IoT device management. That’s what Jonathan Beri had in mind when creating Golioth, a m...

All the hype for the last year has been around AI, generative AI, large language models. What does it mean for IoT? What does it mean for the world that we are working in? Can you bring these large models to the edge, as close as possible to where the data is generated by sensors, in the environment the devices are evolving? Can you run these kinds of models on microcontrollers, on microprocessors...

Embedded devices are most often critical and can't afford to lag, fail or crash. But how do you guarantee a piece of software running on a piece of hardware is deterministic and will do exactly what it's supposed to do whatever the circumstances? There is something called formal methods that allows to mathematically prove that. Boyd Multerer joins me on the IoT Show to explain what formal...

Wondering why so many Industrial IoT projects fail even before the proof of concept is finished? That's the question I ask Anubhav Dwivedi, CEO at Saviant, long time IoT practitioner. Learn more about Saviant's practices at https://www.saviantconsulting.com/

Get started with HighByte's Data Engineering Workbook Industrial IoT is about generating value by extracting insights from your industrial assets and their environments. But to do that, you need the right tool to normalize and to contextualize the data so you can implement analytics. HighByte is one such tool and John Harrington joined me on the IoT Show to share everything you need to know ab...