Hardware Podcasts

Smart Cities: Part 1

EE Times Current · 9 Aug 2018 · 21m

What this episode covers

Daniel Cooley, Vice President and General Manager of IoT Products at Silicon Labs, discusses the role of semiconductors and wireless technologies in the evolution of smart cities. He highlights smart metering as a mature IoT application that drove innovation in low-power, long-life battery devices and reliable mesh networking. Cooley explains how mesh standards like Bluetooth Mesh and Wi-Fi Alliance Mesh are becoming mainstream for scaling city infrastructure, while emphasizing the critical need for hardware-level security and the trend of moving compute and data processing to the edge to reduce bandwidth and improve privacy.

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large enterprises

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Companies
Silicon Labs, Bluetooth Sig, Wi-Fi Alliance, Austin Energy, Alibaba, Baidu
Products
Microsoft Sphere, Azure, Amazon Greengrass, FreeRTOS, AWS

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