Peter tells us about a rollercoaster case of an IoT implementation gone wrong with a happy ending for a manufacturing firm. We also discuss the penalty of innovation, and the future of the cloud vs. edge relationship. 

How do data markets affect future business models? Is it possible to use AI and Machine Learning to differentiate and create competitive advantages in an aging workforce? What are the ways to scale AI solutions and create business value? Peter Bourne explains how he uses his technology suite to differentiate his business. We discuss the viability of data exchange marketplaces and the poster child of technology in business. 

How does purposefully designing service into the product help developers differentiate their product offering? How has the interface between SaaS vendors and end users changed over the past 5 years from science project to agility? Understand how to integrate service and technology to create a customer value proposition that proactively scales the business from BrightWolf CEO, Peter Bourne. 

How does international mobility and connectivity empower IoT and M2M providers to offer logistics companies a solution for their end customers? We see a practical use case of a single management platform for tracking parcels with real time updates across borders and carriers. With BICS' connectivity solutions, Hanhaa reduced the lead time of developing a global footprint network from months to just weeks. Carlos Villanueva is the head of market intelligence and strategic partnership at BICS. 

How is roaming for IoT devices different from roaming from our consumer smartphones? What are the factors that come into play to determine the end to end solutions for an increasingly connected and networked world? What does this mean for the technologies that are on the rise in the horizon?

Carlos advocates reliable and high quality connectivity matters, even though it's been traditionally overlooked in the value chain, and explains how to build and monetise connectivity services for IoT businesses. We also discuss the technology roadmap for BICS and connectivity businesses to approach new rising technologies.

Carlos Villanueva is the head of market intelligence and strategic partnership at BICS. 

Where are we in the IoT adoption cycle? What are the key IoT challenges for industries and enterprises to improve business models or find new revenue streams? Is the technology available to enable use cases to solve the different challenges?

In the first of three interviews, Carlos Villanueva helps us understand more about global cross-border IoT deployment and ecosystem solutions to achieve total international connectivity to drive business performance. 

The Industrial IoT ecosystem is a truly dynamic space and a large part of that dynamism can be attributed to the investment and venture capital space that provides the financial impetus to drive innovation in niche fields like edge computing, cybersecurity and blockchain. 

In the second episode of our "Ventures in Industrial IoT" series with GE Ventures, we are pleased to welcome Nicholas Pappageorge, IoT market analyst at CB Insights to the show. Brace yourself for a highly engaging and data-driven conversation as Nicholas shares his findings on the latest trends impacting the venture capital space surrounding the Industrial IoT market.

According to the 2017 Gartner Hype Cycle, many emerging technologies linked to IoT like machine learning, cognitive computing and IoT platforms find themselves in the "peak of inflated expectations" phase. At such an inflexion point, it is vital to accurately evaluate the promise these technologies hold for us. 

In the first part of the very first episode of this exciting new series, Mike Dolbec, Managing Director of venture investments and M&A at GE Digital has a candid discussion about edge computing, blockchain and other nascent technologies in the Industrial IoT space.

The Industrial IoT world is seeing soaring adoption rates of edge analytics solutions as a means of staying ahead of the IoT curve. In fact a recent report by Transparency Market Research estimated that the the global edge analytics market is expected to be worth US$25.569 billion by 2025. It is vital that your business is aware of the benefits that edge analytics solutions can bring to your firm's IoT portfolio. In the third and final part of this episode, Foghorn's CEO David King who will run us through a use case of how their edge analytics technology is being implemented. 

There has been increasing interest in recent times in the IoT world with regards to the edge domain of the IoT technology stack. In particular, the focus has been on moving increasing compute power to the edge domain in order to improve real time IoT application response with big firms such as Dell doubling down on the edge with their recent IQT initiative. In the second part of this episode, we are happy to be joined again by Foghorn's CEO David King who will do a deep dive into the technology driving the latest advancements in edge analytics. 

Fog computing is a concept of bringing a layer of computing power closer to the edge of an enterprise's network and was a term coined by Cisco several years ago as part of their "Internet of Everything" pioneering initiative. While Cisco succeeded at the networking element of fog computing, that left the whole computing side of the equation unanswered. In the first episode of this three-part series, we chat with a company that was formed with the core objective of finding the answers to this question. We are pleased to welcome David King, CEO of FogHorn Systems to the show who will be telling us more about the company and how they are working hard to bring IoT intelligence closer to the edge.

More and more companies are seeing the value in integrating CAD solutions with their enterprise applications in order to help them facilitate their drive towards automation and digitalization. In the third and final part of the series, Carsten Metelmann Vice President of International Sales at EPLAN will walk us through several case studies of how EPLAN technologies such as Cogineer are helping companies to bring electrical engineering solutions to life. 

While the advent of the Industrial IoT has brought with it numerous benefits to businesses such as improved operations and profitability, increasing digitalization is also adding layers of complexity on top of many traditional systems. The drawback of this is that the ease of use of such systems are adversely affected. In the second episode of the series, we continue the conversation with Carsten Metelmann, Vice President of International Sales at EPLAN about how their traditional technology has been forced to evolve with recent developments like demographic change, the cloud and IoT. Specifically, we will look in greater detail at how the functionalities and architecture of their technology such as the recently launched SaaS-based solution Cogineer handle complexity while remaining highly integrative and not compromising on ease of use. 

Computer Aided Design (CAD) is at the heart of all manner of engineering processes. A high quality CAD can help companies optimize processes, accelerate product development cycles and reduce time-to-market. This is exactly the goal that EPLAN, a leading provider of software-based engineering solutions set out to achieve. In the first installment of this three-part series, we are pleased to have Carsten Metelmann, Vice President International Sales at EPLAN with us on the show who will be discussing more on how EPLAN and the traditional technique of CAD have been evolving with the advent of global phenomena such as Industry 4.0, globalization and demographic change. 

At this year's LiveWorx '17 technology conference, PTC President and CEO Jim Heppelmann in his keynote speech explained that while IoT and AR are necessities to one another, CAD and PLM are the real “match makers” that fuse them together before going on to declare that "IoT is PLM."

What exactly does this mean though? What better way to find out then tuning in to the final part of this episode where Steve Dertien, Senior Vice President, Technology at PTC will run us through use cases in areas such as product development and how PTC's PLM technology is driving transformative change for businesses today. 

Driving transformative business value is at the heart of PTC's IoT strategy and technology. They achieve this by having a comprehensive IoT solution portfolio that is structured in a manner that allows end users to meet 5 key objectives: Source, Contextualize, Synthesize, Orchestrate and Engage. Keen to find out more? Then join us in the scond installment of this three-part series as Steve Dertien, Senior Vice President of Technology at PTC gives us a deep-dive into their IoT solution suite. 

PTC is a company on a mission to bring together the physical and digital worlds, not just through the recent launch of their signature Thingworx 8 platform and AR technology suite but also through their traditional industrial software. In fact, in 1998 they were pioneers in bringing internet-based PLM software to the market. In the first installment of this three-part series, we have the pleasure of welcoming Steve Dertien, Senior Vice President of Technology at PTC to the show. He is a veteran who developed their CAD and PLM offerings in the early days of the firm and will be sharing more with us about PTC itself and their evolution to become an industry-leading industrial software company. 

Asset condition monitoring and predictive maintenance are arguably the two most quintessential use cases of the Industrial IoT. Despite of widespread awareness of these solutions, adoption rates still remain relatively low. In the second instalment of this episode, we take a closer look at some of Atek's core technologies such as the AssetScan that allow firms to optimize their operations by harnessing the data coming out of their equipment. 

Asset condition monitoring and predictive maintenance are arguably the two most quintessential use cases of the Industrial IoT. Despite of widespread awareness of these solutions, adoption rates still remain relatively low. In this episode, Atek's Dan Yarmoluk and Craig Truempi impart their deep knowledge in these fields which could well set you on the path to implementing these solutions for your business too! 

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the industrial sector consumes about 54% of the world’s total delivered energy – more than any other end-use sector. In the second installment of this two-part series, we dig a bit deeper into an actual industrial energy optimization project that Bosch has undertaken and the challenges that were faced in its implementation.