# Developing for Consumer IoT vs. Industrial Solutions | PubNub's Todd Greene

- Show: [IoT For All Podcast](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast)
- Published: 2021-03-09
- Length: 28m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2021-03-09-developing-for-consumer-iot-vs-industrial-solutions-pubnubs-todd-greene
- Listen: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/iot-for-all/episodes/Developing-for-Consumer-IoT-vs--Industrial-Solutions--PubNubs-Todd-Greene-e28bmqv

## Summary

Todd Greene, CEO and co-founder of PubNub, discusses the evolution of IoT infrastructure from simple data collection to real-time device control. He contrasts the challenges of consumer IoT, which requires handling massive scale and disparate home networks, with industrial IoT's 'brownfield' integration problems involving legacy hardware. Greene explains how PubNub simplifies this by providing a global real-time communication layer that handles security, provisioning, and cross-platform SDKs, allowing developers to focus on product value rather than underlying networking complexity.

## Chapters

- [0:05](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2021-03-09-developing-for-consumer-iot-vs-industrial-solutions-pubnubs-todd-greene#t=5) Introduction and PubNub Overview
- [1:50](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2021-03-09-developing-for-consumer-iot-vs-industrial-solutions-pubnubs-todd-greene#t=110) PubNub's Role in IoT Infrastructure
- [12:21](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2021-03-09-developing-for-consumer-iot-vs-industrial-solutions-pubnubs-todd-greene#t=741) Consumer vs. Industrial IoT Challenges
- [14:48](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2021-03-09-developing-for-consumer-iot-vs-industrial-solutions-pubnubs-todd-greene#t=888) Security, Provisioning, and Legacy Hardware
- [21:58](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2021-03-09-developing-for-consumer-iot-vs-industrial-solutions-pubnubs-todd-greene#t=1318) Edge Computing and 5G Impact

## Topics

- [Connected products & IoT](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/connected-products-and-iot)
- [Security & privacy](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/security-and-privacy)
- [Scaling production](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/scaling-production)
- [Microcontrollers & dev platforms](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/microcontrollers-and-platforms)

## Most relevant to

companies scaling up

## Mentioned

- PubNub (company)
- Peloton (product)
- Happiest Baby (product)
- Harmony Hub (product)
- Vivint (product)
- August locks (product)
- Kafka (tool)
- Confluent (company)

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