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How to Evaluate Different IoT Platforms | Steve Latham, Founder & CEO Banyan Hills Technologies | #AskIoT E014

IoT For All Podcast · 4 Mar 2019 · 1h 03m

What this episode covers

Steve Latham, Founder & CEO of Banyan Hills Technologies, explains how his company’s IoT platform, Canopy, manages fleets of self-service devices by abstracting hardware-specific logic into a generic software layer. He details the operational challenges of scaling to tens of thousands of endpoints, such as managing inventory, payment transactions, and predictive maintenance, using the example of Redbox DVD kiosks. Latham also discusses the buyer's journey for IoT platforms, emphasizing the need for education, the importance of platform agnosticism, and the value of cross-device automation in use cases like Swing King’s hole-in-one contests and self-storage access control systems.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Banyan Hills Technologies, NCR, Redbox, Swing King
Products
Canopy, Rachio, Nest
Also
Microsoft Azure, AWS

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