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What Makes a City Better Suited for IoT Adoption? | Mrinal Wadhwa, CTO of Ockam | #AskIoT E007

IoT For All Podcast · 11 Feb 2019 · 54m

What this episode covers

Mrinal Wadhwa, Co-Founder & CTO of Ockam, discusses the challenges of IoT adoption in smart cities, drawing on his experience deploying large-scale sensor networks at Fiber in San Francisco, Washington DC, and Montreal. He explains how Ockam addresses critical security and interoperability gaps by providing open-source tools for device identity and cryptographic key management using decentralized identifiers (DIDs). Wadhwa argues that the industry must move away from siloed solutions to enable trustworthy, multi-vendor ecosystems for mission-critical infrastructure.

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early-stage companies

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Companies
Ockam, Fiber, EMC, SAP, Microsoft Azure, Heroku, NIST, W3C
Products
Fitbit
Also
DID, Verifiable Claims

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