Hardware Podcasts

428: Sprinkling a Little IoT

Embedded.fm · 22 Sept 2022 · 1h 06m · Episode 428

What this episode covers

Jonathan Beri, CEO of Golioth, categorizes the complex IoT landscape into five distinct 'clouds': device, connectivity, data, application, and development. He argues that hardware companies should start with their chip and OS choice to leverage vendor support, rather than building proprietary infrastructure or locking themselves into a single cloud provider like AWS. Beri highlights the importance of using open standards and modular design to avoid vendor lock-in and reduce the burden of device management, OTA updates, and telemetry.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Golioth, Particle, Memfault, AWS, Arduino
Tools
Renode, Ubidots, Node-RED, Grafana, InfluxDB
Also
Zephyr, FreeRTOS

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