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Deploying IoT in Grocery Stores | SmartSense's Guy Yehiav & Festival Foods' Hsing-Yi Hsieh | Internet of Things Podcast

IoT For All Podcast · 12 Mar 2024 · 41m · Episode 345

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Guy Yehiav, President of SmartSense by Digi, and Hsing-Yi Hsieh, Director of Food Protection at Festival Foods, discuss the deployment of IoT solutions in grocery stores. Yehiav explains how SmartSense uses cellular-connected sensors and prescriptive analytics to address food safety, waste, and sustainability, emphasizing that adoption depends on simple user interfaces rather than just hardware. Hsieh shares Festival Foods' journey from manual temperature checks to a 24/7 monitoring system, highlighting challenges in scaling the rollout and the unexpected benefits of predictive maintenance for refrigeration assets.

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SmartSense, Digi International, Festival Foods, Zebra Technologies, Oracle
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NIST

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