Episode 48 – IoT Trends: A Year in Review and 2023 Predictions with Rob Tiffany and Bill Flaherty

In the 48th episode of IoT Podcast: Over the Air, Ryan Prosser, CEO of Very, chats with Rob Tiffany, Founder of Sustainable Logix, and Bill Flaherty, Director of Hardware Engineering at Very. They share insights about the IoT trends in 2022 and predictions for 2023. 

They also discuss the excitement around Chat GPT, IoT transformations in the military edge processors, how IoT companies can successfully sell their solutions to everyday people, reasons and solutions for the IoT platform shutdown, global chip shortage, understanding the limitations of AI and other tools, the ideal way to react to ChatGPT, and Controversies with ChatGPT. 

Rob Tiffany is one of the top voices in digital twins and IoT. Aside from being an author, speaker, and podcast host, Rob founded Sustainable Logix. He also invented the Greenhouse Sustainability Platform to save the Earth using connected intelligence technologies. 

Rob has hacked the code to deliver value to society and businesses powered by intelligence. That’s why two of his creations, Hitachi Lumada Industrial IoT and Digital Twin Platform live in the ‘Leaders Quadrant’ of the Gartner IoT Magic Quadrant. He also won the ‘Products of the Year’ category at the Hitachi Presidents Award. His core competencies include product management, competitive analysis, and cloud computing. 

Bill Flaherty is the Director of Hardware Engineering at Very, where he creates the next generation of IoT devices. With his core hobby being his love for taking complicated problems, breaking them down, and whipping up creative solutions, he finds it easy to reinvent the process that goes into hardware design. 

He is passionate about creating hardware that does the job for his clients without hassle. Specifically, Bill’s end game is to redefine the approach to agile hardware development. In the process, Bill does his best to document his journey and projects on his website.

They cover

👉 [02:37] Effects and benefits of the global chip shortage 

👉 [09:04] IoT transformations in the military space  

👉 [15:05] The IoT platform shutdown trend among top tech companies

👉 [17:41] Possible reasons and solutions to the IoT platform shutdown among top tech companies

👉 [18:01] Role of product-market fit in selling IoT to everyday people 

👉 [23:04] Effect of the decrease in the price of sensors and LiDAR 

👉 [31:36] Edge processor trends  

👉 [35:02] Exploring the AI and ChatGPT rave

👉 [36:50] Controversies with ChatGPT

👉 [41:29] The ideal way to react to ChatGPT

If you’re in IoT and would love to hear 2023 IoT predictions from these experts, tune in to this episode of the IoT Podcast: Over the Air.

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In “IoT Podcast: Over the Air” Very’s CEO Ryan Prosser sits with the brightest minds and executives in the IoT industry and dives into deep, unfiltered conversations with them. These discussions center around how these executives went from beginners to professionals. They lay it bare on the podcast as they talk about their successes and failures, lessons learned, and tips that could have made the start of their careers easier. Every episode holds bold predictions, unravels popular opinions, and explores stories from our guests that we’re sure you’ve never heard anywhere else.

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