3/19/2023 0 Comments Chatterbox blue toothThis week Kevin and I spend more time reviewing gadgets than on news. How to get buy-in from your bosses for an IoT project.Seagate tried edge processing solutions from HPE and Nvidia.ARM’s new licensing model and Intel’s new chips have something in common.How companies should fix their smart speaker QA process.He also extols the virtues of cameras as the ultimate IoT sensor. Srinivasan explains the tools the company used for Athena, how it hopes to achieve a 300% return on investment and why internal branding is essential. The company started with the idea of implementing a predictive maintenance program for manufacturing machinery but realized that if it could instead use AI earlier in the manufacturing process it would have a larger impact on the company’s bottom line. He’s on the show to talk about Seagate’s efforts to make its wafer manufacturing process smarter. This week’s guest is Rags Srinivasan, who is a senior director of growth verticals at Seagate. Intel’s latest neuromorphic system, Poihoiki Beach is made up of multiple Nahuku boards and contains 64 Loihi chips. One of Intel’s Nahuku boards, each of which contains 8 to 32 Intel Loihi neuromorphic chips. In our voicemail this week we answer a reader question about an outdoor Amazon Echo speaker. News bits include a new drone platform, UbiquitiLink’s funding, Eve’s new Bluetooth extender, and hacked insulin pumps. Then we tackle ARM’s new licensing plan, Intel’s neuromorphic chips, and an update on Wyze (plus its next device). We also talk about the acquisition of Centralite’s assets by Ezlo, which has acquired other struggling home automation startups in the last year. This week on the show Kevin and I share our misgivings about smart speakers and some ideas to help address the privacy issues for those who want to continue to embrace the convenience, but don’t want strangers hearing their fights, farts, and friends. Can Kraftful turn app development into a scalable business?.Microsoft’s contracts serve a burgeoning need for enterprises.Call it intuitive, smart or helpful, just make it happen.Guest: Yana Welinder, co-founder and CEO of Kraftful Hosts: Stacey Higginbotham and Kevin Tofel She explains what features mainstream consumers want, why big companies aren’t building these apps themselves and why her business isn’t a feature of a larger tech stack. Kraftful is a company at YCombinator that is working with big brands to make the apps for connected devices work better. Our guest this week is Yana Welinder, co-founder and CEO of Kraftful, a newly launched startup building apps for smart home devices. The OmniFob can replace your car keys, your house keys and control your smart home. It must be summer, based on these outdoor inquiries. Kevin shares his impressions of the Firewalla device, and then we answer a listener question about bring smart bulbs outside and finding wireless switches that work. Then we move to news from Huawei, Abode going deeper with Google Assistant, Adobe’s voice study and LG adding HomeKit to new TVs. From there we wonder if Google’s machine learning-based approach to recognizing electricity use in appliances is cool, who would buy the OmniFob smart keychain, and why Wyze is building a scale. We also explain why I am so excited about Microsoft’s new contracts for sharing data and why Tile just scored $45 million in funding. He just calls it something else, and we explain his rationale for doing so. This week’s show kicks off with Kevin and I discussing how Google’s head of IoT isn’t a believer in the smart home.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |