Latest IoT Interviews

As technology becomes the foundation of everything society does, governments around the world are in the throes of ambitious development projects seeking to extract as much value as possible from new technologies. In 2016, Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan, established a smart city project management office (PMO) to help it realise its smart city vision. A year after it launched, the initiative has been the recipient of an array of awards.

Since its launch, the PMO has hosted over 600 meetings and facilitated the launch of 60 public-private sector initiatives, including programs to use unmanned aerial vehicles to collect water samples from city reservoirs, as well as using small sensors to provide residents with air quality, humidity and temperature data. The scale of its vision huge: it is currently running over 160 test projects covering any and every technology you can think of.

In conversation with Hitachi Vantara experts Jonathan Bowl and Wael Elrifai at Big Data World and Smart IoT 2019 IoT, analytics and AI are not exactly new technologies. But now that companies have incorporated them in to their business processes, to various degrees, why are so many failing to achieve the outcomes they expected? Last... Read More

As one of the top ten global IoT innovators, Dr Jacqui Taylor has taken an unusual route to delivering IoT services across the globe. Her company FlyingBinary deliver privacy preserving and security-minded IoT services which leverage European legislation and regulation. This new approach to IoT has unlocked what she labels the Empathy Economy: the core... Read More

How does the MoD deploy IoT at scale while enforcing an uncompromising approach to security? Techerati talks with head of innovation, Danny Wooton As head of innovation at the Ministry of Defence, Danny Wootton is managing an IoT project that seeks to connect the UK’s armed forces under one system. That is, its monumentally expensive... Read More