# How Google Tests Its Products | Google's Clare Meredith and Kira Dickson | Internet of Things Podcast

- Show: [IoT For All Podcast](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast)
- Published: 2023-05-18
- Length: 22m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2023-05-18-how-google-tests-its-products-googles-clare-meredith-and-kira-dickson-internet-o
- Listen: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/iot-for-all/episodes/How-Google-Tests-Its-Products--Googles-Clare-Meredith-and-Kira-Dickson--Internet-of-Things-Podcast-e28bk1f

## Summary

Clare Meredith and Kira Dickson, program managers at Google's Digital Buildings and Real Estate organizations, explain how Google tests IoT products for large-scale real estate deployments. They emphasize starting with business objectives and user journeys to define functional requirements, ensuring that technology selection aligns with actual data needs. The guests detail the critical roles of data validation testing to ensure accuracy and usability, as well as rigorous network and security testing to handle existing infrastructure complexities. They also discuss lifecycle management, including security updates and decommissioning, and the importance of piloting solutions to validate assumptions before enterprise-wide rollout.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2023-05-18-how-google-tests-its-products-googles-clare-meredith-and-kira-dickson-internet-o#t=0) Introduction: Clare Meredith and Kira Dickson from Google
- [3:25](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2023-05-18-how-google-tests-its-products-googles-clare-meredith-and-kira-dickson-internet-o#t=205) Defining Product Testing Strategy and Business Objectives
- [6:46](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2023-05-18-how-google-tests-its-products-googles-clare-meredith-and-kira-dickson-internet-o#t=406) Common Pitfalls: Misaligned Business and Functional Requirements
- [8:51](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2023-05-18-how-google-tests-its-products-googles-clare-meredith-and-kira-dickson-internet-o#t=531) The Role of Data Validation Testing in Solutioning
- [12:32](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2023-05-18-how-google-tests-its-products-googles-clare-meredith-and-kira-dickson-internet-o#t=752) Network and Security Testing Assumptions
- [15:43](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2023-05-18-how-google-tests-its-products-googles-clare-meredith-and-kira-dickson-internet-o#t=943) Lifecycle Management and Decommissioning Strategies
- [19:08](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2023-05-18-how-google-tests-its-products-googles-clare-meredith-and-kira-dickson-internet-o#t=1148) Challenges of Deploying Across Large Real Estate Portfolios

## Topics

- [Test & measurement](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/test-and-measurement)
- [Security & privacy](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/security-and-privacy)
- [Connected products & IoT](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/connected-products-and-iot)
- [Validation & product-market fit](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/validation-and-product-market-fit)

## Most relevant to

large enterprises

## Mentioned

- Google (company)
- Clare Meredith (other)
- Kira Dickson (other)
- Siemens (company)

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