Lessons from the IoT Leaders Podcast
Key Takeaways from the IoT Leaders Podcast: How Industry Experts Are Shaping the Future of Connectivity
Expert Insights and Lessons for a Connected World
Launched in 2021, Eseye’s IoT Leaders Podcast features discussions with top digitization leaders on their IoT experiences, unique use cases, and the challenges and opportunities they’ve encountered. These stories highlight the broad business value and complexity of IoT, revealing common themes across projects. The Lessons from the IoT Leaders Podcast whitepaper explores five key topics that connect all the episodes.
1. IoT strategy: Using IoT to improve business models
Episode 41: Achieving operational excellence
IoT is more than just a technological upgrade—it’s a strategic tool for disrupting traditional business models. Companies like Amazon are leveraging IoT to optimize operations and create new value for customers. For instance, Amazon’s Key for Business solution has revolutionized package delivery by improving first-time delivery rates, enhancing customer satisfaction, and driving operational efficiency.
“Amazon has harnessed IoT to improve the first-time delivery of packages to multi-tenanted communities…”
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2. Technology for Good: Making the World a Better Place
Episode 33: A matter of life and death
PharmaWatch, a leader in medical monitoring solutions, is transforming how sensitive medical materials such as human tissue, blood, embryos, and vaccinations are managed during storage and transport.
On this episode of the IoT Leaders Podcast, Fred Roe, discusses how their IoT-enabled devices ensure continuous remote monitoring of critical environmental factors like temperature and air pressure. Particularly in the IVF field, maintaining these conditions is vital, as any deviation can impact the viability of the process. By replacing outdated manual checks with real-time alerts, PharmaWatch maximizes positive outcomes, protecting both health and lives.
3. Stories of digital transformation
Episode 39: The rise of smart cities
Across various sectors worldwide, IoT is revolutionizing how products, services, operations, and processes are digitized, leading to numerous inspiring stories of transformation. In Episode 39 of the IoT Leaders Podcast, Iveda’s Chairman and CEO, David Ly, discusses how their company is at the forefront of making Smart Cities a reality by combining IoT with AI and predictive modeling. Their cloud-based video surveillance technology transforms traditional surveillance into city-wide networks of smart cameras, providing real-time data that helps improve city services, transport, safety, and overall efficiency.
Iveda’s technology enables the tracking of city assets, like garbage trucks, and predicts traffic movements, all without the need for human intervention, thanks to advanced object recognition through AI and ML. The data gathered is processed at the edge, enhancing the efficiency of city management and offering valuable insights for marketing. By improving city experiences, from quicker bus routes to targeted advertisements, Iveda’s solutions not only enhance the quality of life for residents but also create opportunities for generating revenue, key to the success of smart cities.
4. The common denominator
of IoT success
We’re maximizing positive outcomes for real people, for their health and their lives.”
Fred Roe, VP of Sales, PharmaWatch
If we can help any institution, municipality, or organization generate revenues, that’s the key to smart cities."
David Ly, CEO of Iveda
The Critical Role of Reliable IoT Connectivity
A recurring theme in the IoT Leaders Podcast is the necessity of near-perfect device-to-cloud connectivity for mission-critical applications. Success in IoT hinges on the ability to achieve consistent and robust global connectivity, a challenge that many companies face due to networks originally being designed for people, not “Things.” Bob Proctor from Link Labs highlights how this misalignment has resulted in fragmented and siloed systems, complicating global IoT deployments.
Challenges in Achieving Global Scale
For companies like Amazon Key for Business and Accuhealth, connectivity issues have been a major obstacle to scaling their operations globally. Vijayakrishnan Nagarajan of Amazon emphasized the importance of having a ubiquitous global connectivity solution, as inconsistent connectivity can undermine the technology’s effectiveness. Similarly, Accuhealth faced challenges with unreliable SIM cards and Bluetooth connections, which were mitigated by adopting Eseye’s multi-IMSI AnyNet+ eSIMs, leading to improved patient adherence and satisfaction.
Innovative Solutions for Continuous Connectivity
Companies like PharmaWatch, t42, and Link Labs have found innovative ways to overcome the connectivity challenge. PharmaWatch improved its connectivity to 99.6% by switching to cellular IoT with Eseye’s multi-carrier solution, while t42 ensured 100% network availability by localizing to networks with Eseye’s help. Link Labs benefited from Eseye’s AnyNet SMARTconnect™ software, which enabled devices to intelligently switch networks and maintain service during outages, ensuring continuous connectivity even in challenging environments.
5. IoT meets emerging technologies
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail
“The ability to intelligently and automatically switch networks to achieve continuous connectivity kept Link Labs’ service afloat in Canada…”
Our podcast guests are at the forefront of technological innovation, showcasing how IoT can seamlessly integrate with emerging technologies to boost productivity, efficiency, and uptime. Their insights highlight the potential for IoT to drive forward-thinking applications and groundbreaking capabilities like predictive modeling.
Episode 19: Digital Twins
In Episode 19, Tony Shakib, GM/Partner at Microsoft Azure IoT, discussed the power of building a “Digital Twin” of complex IT/OT environments. This approach lets customers optimize their IoT solutions before implementation and run real-time simulations without disrupting operations. By modeling their business, they can visualize performance using AR/VR, improving efficiency and capability.
“You get to the optimum position faster,” Tony told us. “The second value is that once you’ve built it and it’s up and running, things will change all the time. So, without disrupting your business, you can run active simulations and AI algorithms to get real-time visibility of its performance and figure out how to improve efficiency and capability.”
Episode 29: Predictive power
Milan Shah, CTO of Biofourmis, shared how AI and machine learning are revolutionizing early disease detection. Their IoT-connected device monitors patients’ vital signs and biomarkers, using AI to detect deviations from a baseline, signaling potential deterioration.
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A clear and informed vision of how IoT can be brought together with other nascent technologies.”
Tony Shakib, GM/Partner at Microsoft Azure IoT
The AI/ML interpretation of the data gives a timely signal for the clinician to take a look at the patient for a potential intervention,”
Tony Shakib, GM/Partner at Microsoft Azure IoT
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If you’re eager for more real-world IoT experiences, explore all episodes of the IoT Leaders Podcast on the Eseye website or your preferred podcast platform.
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