Podcasts by The Private Equity Digital Transformation Show

From Embedded Operating Systems to Software Ecosystems from 2020-12-18T08:00

In broad strokes, the software required for an IoT deployment can be grouped into four classes: embedded software for sensors and gateways, networking or th...

Part 2 - Sensors from the Inside Out and the Outside In from 2020-12-11T08:00

In part 1 we discussed the sensor selection process and the costs involved. If you haven’t listened to the last episode, you should but it’s not a prerequis...

Part 1 - Sensors from the Inside Out and the Outside In from 2020-12-04T20:00

No matter how we define sensor, we are a long way from a plug and play world. Except for the most rudimentary forms of sensing, you must be prepared to go c...

The Connected Sensor – What it is and how it Scales from 2020-11-27T08:00

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 ofte...

Unravelling the Complexity of Connecting Embedded Sensors in IoT from 2020-11-20T20:00

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-sh...

Adding Sensors and Connectivity to your Product for IoT from 2020-11-13T08:00

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 ...

The 4G of IoT from 2020-11-06T08:00

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: Mo...

The Thread Group – Putting Complex Tech into Everyday Devices from 2020-10-30T07:00

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 – Listen

The Accelerator as the First Internet of Things Ecosystem from 2020-10-23T07:00

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 n...

Bright Eyes There’s an IoT Fog along the Horizon from 2020-10-16T07:00

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 t...

Ecosystems and the Open Connectivity Foundation from 2020-10-09T07:00

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 diff...

Ecosystems and Plattform Industrie 4.0 from 2020-10-02T07:00

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 inc...

Ecosystems and the Industrial Internet Consortium from 2020-09-25T07:00

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 fo...

IoT Ecosystems - the Business Counterpart to Platforms from 2020-09-18T07:00

Listen to this analysis episode with Bruce Sinclair where he analyses the latest IoT news from a business perspective. In this episode, Bruce tees off from the Apple CareKit announcement to disc...

A Good Bed, Sensible Shoes and the Art of the IoT Pivot from 2020-09-11T07:00

Over the years now, I’ve been involved in the development of tens of IoT initiatives with my clients and there is only one thing they all have in common… Ev...

IoT Investing – Where’s the Value Being Generated? from 2020-09-04T07:00

There’s all kinds of opinions about where the value is in IoT. Well, a group that put their money where their mouths are, are investors. This is a panel dis...

Panel: Creating Value from Connected Things from 2020-08-28T07:00

Listen to this episode which is a recording of the panel discussion, Show Me the Money – Creating Value from Connecting Things at KNect365’s Smart Home Summ...

IIoT Manufacturing From the Shop Floor to the Top Floor from 2020-08-21T07:00

It’s no secret that the IIoT is enabling manufacturing to go through its next revolution. Some call it Industrie 4.0, but it goes further than the shop floo...

Data or Dollars? What’s going to Pay for Consumer IoT? from 2020-08-14T07:00

Listen to this analysis episode with Bruce Sinclair where he discusses the issues of pricing smart products and new business models that can help.

Read the rest of the show analysis notes...

New Business Models in Consumer IoT are still Solidifying from 2020-08-07T07:00

IoT consumer products are more expensive than their traditional counterparts, often by an order of magnitude. Not good but makes sense – the tech needs to be financed. But however innovative the...

The IoT Playbook – Schneider Electric is all In from 2020-07-31T07:00

Schneider has seen the IoT light and they are following it at scale. Step 1, make all products connected. Step 2, develop a platform, in this case, for the energy management and automation verti...

Smart Homes and the IoT Ethos of the Jetsons from 2020-07-24T07:00

The smart home or connected home makes life good. Comfortable. Reminiscent of the Jetson’s in many ways. But business models aside, today’s big question, at least for me, is if it really is a DI...

IoT Regulations and the Information Security Program from 2020-07-17T07:00

If your company is collecting data, and every IoT company collects data, it needs a formal “Information SecurityProgram”. We’ve talked risk assessment in the past, that is the process of assigni...

Legal by Design - Being IoT Lawful from the Start from 2020-07-10T07:00

The business counterpart to IoT security risk, loosely defined as probability times liability. The current narrative around liability is centered on privacy but it turns out that laws, regulatio...

The FTC and IoT Defending Against Zealous Tech from 2020-07-03T07:00

Lose five pounds of belly fat in five days! Sound too good to be true? Yeah, it probably is and because of that, you would expect the FTC to be all over it....

Untangling Security and Privacy in IoT from 2020-06-26T07:00

Security and privacy are uttered together so often that many believe they’re the same thing. They’re not. Security is a technical issue and privacy is a bus...

Legal Limbo – Doing IoT Business in the Gray from 2020-06-19T07:00

What’s the legal definition of a product? Does it cover IoT and is IoT classified a product or a service? Given our laws were never designed for the types o...

The IoT Overlords and their Thirst for your Data from 2020-06-12T07:00

When we buy an IoT Product for our home or our business, the advice is the same: read the fine print. There are plenty of technical obstacles that can be th...

Privacy by Design in the Internet of Things from 2020-06-05T07:00

Repeat this mantra: Privacy by Design, Privacy by Design. Although, Security by Design is a best practice followed by IoT companies in the know, its busines...

Treat IoT Privacy Like Digital Mayonnaise from 2020-05-29T07:00

Although an integral part of IoT security, IoT privacy doesn’t rely on technology. It relies instead on self-imposed business rules that govern the way the collected data is used within and outs...

How to Get an IoT Product Greenlit from 2020-04-24T19:00

Before talking go to market strategy, we need to talk, go to green light strategy. For most people, internal or external, IoT is a big unknown and unknowns are scary. To get thatIoT pilot starte...

IoT Preproduction – from Concept to Product Part 2 from 2020-04-17T19:00

Alright, let’s talk building an IoT product or system. Time to cycle through concept – ideation – proof of concept– prototype – MVP – product. In this episode of the IoT BusinessShow, part two o...

IoT Preproduction – from Concept to Product Part 1 from 2020-04-10T19:00

Alright, let’s talk building an IoT product or system. Time to cycle through concept – ideation – proof of concept– prototype – MVP – product. In this episode of the IoT BusinessShow, part one o...

Standing Up an IoT Pilot in an OT World from 2020-04-03T19:00

Ripping out an existing SCADA system and replacing it with an IoT deployment isn’t going to happen any time soon. Whether it’s an oil pipeline or a water processing plant, the job of the OT guys...

IoT Design – Nerding out with a Good View from 2020-03-27T19:00

It’s one thing to be in a kickstarter–fueled startup developing your IoT product and quite another to be doing it within a structured corporate environment. Things get in the way. Priorities, pe...

More like an Experience than a Piece of Hardware from 2020-03-20T19:00

Because of the technology and data available, the biggest and most interesting challenge in designing an IoT product is to make it feel more like a service or experience than a piece of hardware...

Top-down Design with Bottom-up IoT Tech from 2020-03-13T19:00

When starting down the path toward your IoT product, it’s tempting to jump into the tech and get started with your PoC… but don’t fall into that trap. Of course, there are benefits to getting th...

The Importance of the IoT Proof of Concept Wow Factor from 2020-03-06T20:00

Getting an IoT project off the ground isn’t easy. It’s not just about launching a new product based on new technology, it’s the changes the organization must make to reach escape velocity. In th...

More Scalable Blockchain Alternatives to Transact IoT Business from 2020-02-28T20:00

Okay, our blockchain discussion isn’t quite over yet. Let me ask the question again, is blockchain ready to transact IoT business? The answer is still a res...

Is Blockchain Ready to Transact IoT Business? from 2020-02-21T20:00

Is blockchain ready to transact IoT business? That’s the question I’ve been trying to answer during this mini-series. While the quest has been intellectuall...

The Trusted IoT Alliance – Standardizing Blockchain for IoT from 2020-02-14T20:00

Want to incorporate blockchain into IoT? Well, that’s a pretty tall order but you have two ways to go about it. Go it alone to build the world’s best IoT bl...

IoT Security – the Security Development Lifecycle Way from 2020-02-07T20:00

We all know, whether from experience or just intuitively, that bolting security on an IoT product after much of the development has been completed is a tota...

Blockchain in IoT and the Advent of Truthful Data from 2020-01-31T20:00

Blockchain. One of the few technologies more hyped than IoT. Put them together and it’s a hypefest. But is it warranted? Honestly, I don’t know but I can te...

IoT Security Assessment Black Hat, White Hat or Gray? from 2020-01-24T20:00

Black hat, white hat… gray hat? What does it all mean? In this context, the different colored hats refer to the different approaches to testing the cyber security of your IT, or in our case, IoT...

Tough and Tougher: IoT Security and Privacy from 2020-01-17T20:00

The more I dig into it, the more I’m convinced that privacy is a bigger issue than security in IoT. Don’t get me wrong, the challenges facing IoT security are huge and in many cases, unchartered...

Risk Assessment for the Internet of Things from 2020-01-10T08:30

We speak about our offensive game so much that we forget that we need good defense in business too, that is, effectively protecting the value we create. However, and I speak from experience, the...

How to Tame IoT’s Frankenstein-like Security Monster Part 2 from 2020-01-03T08:30

It’s difficult enough to manage network security or web security or application security or mobile security but when they all come together you have the Frankenstein-like monst...

How to Tame IoT’s Frankenstein-like Security Monster from 2019-12-27T08:30

It’s difficult enough to manage network security or web security or application security or mobile security but when they all come together you have the Frankenstein-like monster called IoT secu...

SME All Star – How to Develop an IoT Business around Data from 2019-12-20T08:30

Building an IoT product line isn’t just for the big guys. Small and medium-sized manufacturers can transform their business into Internet of Things powerhouses by following the...

Making Predictions About the Predictive Tech of ML from 2019-12-13T08:30

AI today is getting better at learning. In fact, learning is what differentiates what we call AI from advanced analytics. Machine learning algorithms minimi...

Convolutional Neural Networks for IoT Time Series Data from 2019-12-06T08:30

Convoluted Neural Networks or CNNs are a type of AI typically used in computer vision to process images, but they are also applicable to process the time se...

Balancing the Tension Between Informed Analytics and Blackbox AI from 2019-11-29T08:30

AI and in particular, deep learning, is a powerful tool for uncovering useful relationships within data; but once found, can’t explain what they mean. Contr...

Tools and Frameworks for Applying AI in IoT from 2019-11-22T08:30

If you’re like me, before I started digging into AI, it all seemed so mysterious. Not only how it worked but also how it was put to work. But when thought o...

Seeing Further into IoT Data with Machine Learning from 2019-11-15T08:30

Through its different techniques, machine learning allows us to look deep into our IoT data, giving us the hindsight, insight, and foresight we need to tran...

AI&IoT - A Marriage Made in Data from 2019-11-08T20:00

When talking AI in IoT what we’re really talking about is machine learning in IoT, and the one thing machine learning needs above all else is data. Lot’s an...

Comparing Machine Learning and Analytics in IoT from 2019-11-01T07:30

Although AI has been around for over 60 years, it’s only been relatively recently that it’s been practical to apply it to real-world problems such as those ...

Illuminating the Enterprise’s Dark Data with AI in IoT from 2019-10-25T07:30

Is it just semantics or is there a real difference between artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics; between machine learning (ML) and AI; between deep le...

IoT Analytics Best Practices in Process Manufacturing from 2019-10-18T07:30

There are two types of manufacturing: discrete manufacturing where the output is physical, countable things, and process manufacturing, where the output is ...

Hot Rods and IoT Databases Tuned for Analytics from 2019-10-11T08:00

Column-based versus row-based, SQL versus NoSQL and streaming versus batch are three of the most important dimensions to consider choosing your IoT database...

Prognostic Analytics vs Predictive Analytics from 2019-10-04T08:00

It seems like predictive analytics gets all the attention these days but generally speaking, it requires either a Data Scientist or a machine learning algor...

Predictive Analytics Deep Dive – the Shape of Things to Come from 2019-09-27T07:00

OK, get ready for it, we’re going to get down and dirty with predictive analytics and when I say dirty, I mean the mathematics of the different forms of pre...

Descriptive Analytics - Discovering the Story behind the Data from 2019-09-20T07:00

Descriptive analytics is nothing new, however, IoT is applying evolutionary forces to make it adapt to unstructured sensor data and evolve into a mechanism ...

Data Analytics – Step 2 in IoT Deployments… and that’s OK from 2019-09-16T15:30

Listen to this analysis episode with Bruce Sinclair where he analyses the latest IoT news or practices from a business perspective. In this episode, Bruce r...

Sexy Data Science and its Analysis of IoT from 2019-09-07T14:00

First, it was Big Data and now it’s the Internet of Things; the science of data is becoming increasingly sexy, maybe not Victoria’s Secret sexy but it certa...

Makin’ Bacon and the Three Main Classes of IoT Analytics from 2019-08-23T19:05

In the Internet of Things, there are generally three classes of analytics performed: real-time analytics done of the fly alerting you to anomalies; predictive analytics performed as a post proce...

Strategy&Digital Transformation Lessons for the IoT Professional from 2019-08-23T19:00

In my view, delivering outcomes is IoT’s killer app. It requires the IoT platform, its technical underpinning, and the IoT ecosystem, its business underpinn...

The Profound Impact of IoT Digital Twins in Supply Networks from 2019-08-12T16:00

The digital twin can be hierarchical – representing environments, systems, products and even parts. When digitizing supply networks with digital twins, the ...

The Emergence of the IoT Cognitive Digital Twin from 2019-07-27T01:00

We’ve discussed the digital twin at length but what is the cognitive digital twin? Is it possible to develop cognitive computing models with our data to end...

Breaking Down and Building Up IoT’s Digital Twin from 2019-07-21T03:00

The digital twin is a federation of data and models that can be analyzed or put into a simulation to create useful information about the past, present or fu...

The Digital Twin and its Relationship to the AEP IoT Platform from 2019-07-05T07:00

The IoT platform is generally thought of as networking tech – middleware to connect all the IoT components together – and often it is, but a certain class o...

Modeling the Raw Data to create IoTs Digital Twin from 2019-06-28T07:00

The reason the digital twin, or software-defined product, as I prefer to call it, is the most important IoT tech, is because it’s the basis for the unique f...

Producing the Digital Twin for the Industrial Internet of Things from 2019-06-21T07:00

The digital twin, or software-defined product as I prefer to call it, is the most important tech in IoT, yet you hardly hear anything about it, when compare...

The Full Array of Big Data Applied to IoT from 2019-06-14T07:00

Big Data is big! It’s another entire industry that’s subsumed by the Internet of Things. There’s a lot to consider but it all starts with your business info...

Increasing Your Company’s Data IQ with its Own Datamart from 2019-06-07T07:00

Using external data in addition to your internal data is strategic. Besides public microservices, business systems, and IoT products, an emerging source of ...

Applying the Opensource Ethos to Data from 2019-05-31T07:00

Opensource software is mainstream. But opensource data? Yeah, and it can be found in a datamart near you. The thinking is, if you make your data freely avai...

Wrangling Data from the Data Marketplace from 2019-05-24T07:00

One of data science’s dirty little secrets is the time spent data wrangling, that is accessing the data and then transforming it into a form compatible with...

Dirty Data – Preventing the Pollution of Your IoT Data Lake from 2019-05-17T07:00

We’ve all heard it before: garbage in – garbage out. This is especially problematic with IoT data where dirty data, data that is well-formed but wrong, can ...

Opening Soon Commercial Data Marketplaces for IoT from 2019-05-10T07:00

They say data is the new oil. Well if that’s the case, then like oil, crude data must be refined and packaged to make it useful and consumable. If you belie...

Business lessons for the IoT Professional from 2019-05-03T07:00

Business is all about creating value and then monetizing it, and it’s no different in IoT. For companies to succeed in IoT, both value creation and value mo...

On Using Agile Development for IoT from 2019-05-01T10:31:55

Every IoT product, system or environment I’ve worked on has pivoted. And I don’t mean slight pivots, I’m talking 180 degrees or more. Why? Because the Inter...

IoT-Retail Tech Converging Offline-Online Shopping from 2019-04-26T07:00

It takes a lot, and I mean a lot, to get me to download yet another app on my phone, especially one that’s going to try to sell me something… but, I’m open ...

Open Source IoT Platforms – Ready for Primetime? from 2019-04-19T07:00

If you’ve been listening to my show for a while you know I’m a lover of IoT platforms. It just doesn’t make sense to create your own plumbing from scratch –...

The Ever Evolving IoT Platform from 2019-03-29T07:00

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 de...

Exposing the True Nature of the Robust IoT Cloud from 2019-03-08T08:00

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 ve...

Raising the IQ of San Francisco with Pervasive Smart City Networks from 2019-03-01T08:00

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 ...

Discover the Secrets of Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) Networks from 2019-02-15T08:00

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 a...

IoT Standards – What do you Mean? from 2019-02-08T08:00

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 w...

A Symbiotic Partnership between Standards Bodies and Consortia from 2019-02-01T08:00

There’s a symbiotic partnership between standards organizations, like the IETF and IEEE, and the non-profit alliances, groups, and IoT consortia. The IoT in...

Would you Like a Network with those Street Lights? from 2019-01-11T08:00

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 thei...

IP&IoT – It Just Makes Business Sense from 2019-01-04T08:00

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...

The GDPR is Coming Fast – What Should You Do First from 2018-05-29T07:00

The thing about the GDPR, whether we like it or not, is that it’s forcing us to do the right things when it comes to sensitive data in IoT. While there’s ce...

The GDPR – Defining the Future of IoT Data Privacy from 2018-05-22T07:00

The GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation, is coming – whether we like it or not. Before you dismiss it as a European thing, take a second look, becau...