IoT For All Podcast · 5 Feb 2020 · 37m
Sanjeet Pandit, Senior Director for Business Development and Head of Smart Cities at Qualcomm, discusses the current state and future of smart city deployments. He outlines Qualcomm's Smart City Accelerator program, which acts as a matchmaking platform for system integrators, governments, and solution providers to deploy projects like smart lighting, parking, and public Wi-Fi. Pandit emphasizes that while 5G enables high-reliability applications like autonomous driving, successful adoption requires addressing budget constraints, legacy infrastructure, and the critical need for partnerships across the fragmented IoT ecosystem.
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Jake Rishavy, co-founder of the Colorado Smart Cities Alliance, and Victor Gao, former founding publisher of Aspencore, discuss the human-centric definition and implementation of smart cities. They analyze leading examples like Copenhagen, Singapore, and Amsterdam, while highlighting the critical need for interoperability standards and public-private partnerships to solve complex urban challenges like traffic and energy management.
Mari Silbey, Senior Director of Partnerships and Outreach at US Ignite, discusses the current state of smart city technology, emphasizing that connectivity is merely the foundation for solving local problems. She highlights specific implementations such as augmented reality training for first responders in Austin and remote microscope access for students in Chattanooga. Silbey also addresses the challenges of funding, data privacy, and cybersecurity, noting a shift toward hybrid public-private models and the potential impact of federal infrastructure bills.
Brian Santo and Rick Merritt discuss the slow rollout of 5G smartphones and network infrastructure, noting that Qualcomm's early chip advantage is being offset by shrinking handset volumes and carrier hesitation. Junko Yushida and Dylan McGrath explain how Ultra-Wideband (UWB) has been rebranded as FiRa, shifting from high-speed data transmission to precise indoor positioning and secure access control, backed by companies like NXP and Samsung. Finally, Dylan McGrath profiles Intel CEO Bob Swan, who explains Intel's strategic pivot from a PC-centric to a data-centric business model and defends his non-engineering background as a strength for leading 70,000 engineers.
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.
Thomas Keller, Director of Platforms and Core Technology at u-blox, discusses the challenges of integrating low-power IoT devices with 5G networks. He explains that while 5G was designed for high capacity and low latency, the industry currently relies on LTE-based technologies like Cat M1 and NB-IoT for IoT, with 'RedCap' (Reduced Capability) devices emerging as a transitional 5G standard. Keller highlights the tension between network operators needing to support legacy LTE infrastructure and the long-term shift to 5G Standalone, noting that true low-power 5G IoT optimization will take several specification releases to mature.
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