Mr. Beacon Ambient IoT Podcast
Our digital and physical worlds are converging Understand the capabilities and limitations of what can be done & the structure of the emerging ecosystem
Proximity and location technologies are key to the Internet of Things (IoT) and are causing our digital and physical worlds to converge. Mr. Beacon is a series of interviews with the leaders of companies that are at the center of this revolution. Steve Statler wrote "Beacon Technologies", a survival guide for people that want to design solutions that use Bluetooth beacons to create experiences that combine location awareness with the power of cloud computing.
Episode #172
March 28, 2023
Forget Everything You Know About Sales - Machines Are the Customers Now
In this fascinating podcast episode, we dive into the future of commerce with Don Scheibenreif, author of "...
Episode #171
March 13, 2023
An Interview with ChatGPT on Ambient IoT
In this fascinating podcast episode, we dive deep into the world of ambient IoT technology with none other ...
Episode #170
February 14, 2023
Transforming the Supply Chain with Ambient IoT
This week on Mr. Beacon we have Thaddeus Segura, who is the VP of the Data Business Unit at Wiliot. Thaddeu...
Episode #169
January 09, 2023
Mr. Beacon Ambient IoT News: CES 2023
This week on the Mr. Beacon Ambient IoT podcast, we’re launching our news segment with coverage from CES 20...
Episode #168
January 03, 2023
IoT Standards you need to know: Z-Wave versus Matter, Thread & Zigbee
In this week’s interview with Mitch Klein, Executive Director of the Z-Wave Alliance and leader of Silicon ...
Episode #167
December 07, 2022
Finding the Angle - The Bluetooth Angle-of-Arrival Tech Creates Competitive Rush
In the past, Bluetooth Angle of Arrival (AoA) was considered an exotic niche market, where high accuracy (s...
Episode #166
November 22, 2022
Funding Lessons for Entrepreneurs in a Flash
Dov Moran is a venture capitalist and very successful CEO. As well as being a great VC, he invented the USB...
Episode #165
November 08, 2022
Powering Ambient IoT Bluetooth Devices with Backscatter
There’s more than one way to get rid of batteries on an Ambient IoT device. Jeeva’s CEO explains their appr...
Episode #164
October 25, 2022
Food Safety Modernization Act - All Hype or Ready for Primetime?
This week on Mr. Beacon we speak with Ed Treacy, Vice President of Supply Chain and Sustainability at Inter...
Episode #163
October 10, 2022
The Energous Wireless Power Revolution
Cesar Johnston has a lot to say about the future of the IoT. Capturing wireless energy to power devices has...
Episode #162
September 27, 2022
6G and Ambient IoT
Bluetooth tags have been revolutionary in connecting our digital and physical worlds, but have yet to achie...
Episode #161
September 20, 2022
IFCO Sees All - How ESG and the IoT Are Joined at the Hip
Sustainability and ESG are becoming major drivers of IoT projects. As entrepreneurs and solutions designers...
Episode #160
September 12, 2022
How Companies Are Becoming More Sustainable
It's inspiring that SAP has bestowed the title of "VP - Futurism" on someone. And there is no better someo...
Episode #159
September 06, 2022
Solving Food Waste in Supply Chains
There are huge opportunities to make our food supply chains more efficient (that’s a polite way of saying w...
Episode #158
August 30, 2022
The New EPCIS 2.0 Standard
The new GS1 EPCIS 2.0 standard is set to have a dramatic impact on the way we manage supply chains. Its fun...
Episode #157
August 22, 2022
World-Friendly IoT
Can profit and planet ever agree? This week's episode proves they can - thanks to World Friendly IoT - and ...
Episode #156
August 16, 2022
Exploring Omlox
Interested in RTLS, asset tracking or Industrial IoT? You need to know about the new standard, Omlox, which...
Episode #155
August 09, 2022
Reinventing Apparel Retail with Real Time Inventory
We’re joined this week by Simon Molnar, who is the founder of Flagship, which is a company that is working ...
Episode #154
July 26, 2022
Tag Converters in the IoT
In their role as a “converter”, Tadbik have been at the forefront of creating tags and connected packaging ...
Episode #153
July 12, 2022
Cyber Security in the IoT
Companies are being hacked and ransomed all the time these days, and given the fact that billions of IoT de...
Episode #152
June 28, 2022
Understanding Serialization Platforms with Max Winograd
Does your product have a soul? We are heading into a future where more and more things are getting digital ...
Episode #151
May 31, 2022
Modernizing Supply Chains with Logistics
Logistics is pivotal in shaping modern business operations. As businesses compete and deal with supply chai...
Episode #150
May 17, 2022
Improving the Supply Chain with Serialized Inventory
This week we talk with the leader of the lab that is at the heart of RFID and Auto-ID, about tags in outer ...
Episode #149
May 03, 2022
The Internet of Trillions of Things (IoT2)
What’s going to happen to the world when the Internet explodes by a factor of 100 times, from billions to t...
Episode #148
April 19, 2022
Co-creating the IoT with the Wiliot Starter Kit
This week we switch things up as Steve puts his Wiliot hat on and shines a light on the inside story of Wil...
Episode #147
April 05, 2022
Superpower for Pallets - How Returnable Transport Items Can Help Save the World
This week we are joined by Mattan David, the UK Managing Director of Digipal, an innovator in the next gene...
Episode #146
March 22, 2022
The Two-Barrelled Retail Revolution: COVID + the IoT
We are thrilled that George Anderson - the all-seeing, all-knowing Editor-in-Chief of Retail Wire - will be...
Episode #145
March 08, 2022
Wiliot Version 2.0
This week we have a very special guest, the CEO of Wiliot Tal Tamir. We’ll talk about Wiliot’s latest relea...
Episode #144
February 22, 2022
Blyott’s Medical Asset Tracking Business
This week on The Mr. Beacon Podcast we’re talking with the CEO of Blyott, Gery Pollet. Healthcare is one of...
Episode #143
February 08, 2022
Supply Chain Issues and Writing Tech with Brielle Jaekel
This week on The Mr. Beacon Podcast we’re talking with Brielle Jaekel, who is the Managing Editor of Supply...
Episode #141
December 28, 2021
IoT Standards, Privacy and the Future of IoT
From the leading journalist and podcaster on IoT – Host of The Internet of Things Podcast, Stacey Higginbot...
Episode #140
December 14, 2021
Choosing an Indoor Location and Navigation System
This week we speak with one of the leaders in indoor navigation, Pointr sales leader Paul Dupont, who share...
Episode #139
November 09, 2021
Mr. Beacon Sits Down With Mr. Supply Chain
Suddenly, supply chain wonks are the most-in demand experts of the moment, and given that we were privilege...
Episode #137
October 12, 2021
How to Make IoT Businesses Successful
How is a technology like RFID stacking up against newer implementations like BLE over 2.4GHz? Find out this...
Episode #136
September 28, 2021
Digital Identity with Ramesh Kesanupalli
Today we’re talking with Ramesh Kesanupalli, who is the Co-Founder of the Accountable Digital Identity Asso...
Episode #135
September 14, 2021
Ultra Wideband Technologies for Car Factories
This episode we’re talking with Andy Ward, who is the Co-Founder and CTO of Ubisense, about various technol...
Episode #134
August 31, 2021
Reusable Packaging: Transforming Supply Chains & Business Models with IoT
This week we’ve brought on Tim Debus, who is the President and CEO of The Reusable Packaging Association, t...
Episode #133
August 17, 2021
Sustainable Fashion using IoT Pixels
This week we’re talking about the circular economy and the process of making fashion more sustainable with ...
Episode #132
August 03, 2021
IoT Branding with Adam Hanft
Today we have branding and advertising expert Adam Hanft, who has worked with the likes of Alan Kay and Bar...
Episode #131
June 30, 2021
Minew - The Real Manufacturer of Beacons
This week we will hear a unique perspective. Our guest is from Minew, a Chinese company that has focused on...
Episode #130
May 27, 2021
Inside the World’s Largest Indoor Location Services Platform - Cisco DNA Spaces
Can you guess what the world's largest indoor location services platform is?
Episode #129
May 04, 2021
Kontakt.io Update, IoT & Smart Building
Every day, Kontakt.io’s products touch millions of people in shopping malls, office buildings, and hospital...
Episode #128
April 20, 2021
IoSea
What is the state of IoT on the high seas? What can those of us on dry land learn from the evolution of thi...
Episode #127
March 23, 2021
GS1 - Everything you need to know but were afraid to ask
Do you know the global language of business? The language of Unique Product Codes (UPCs) that identify prod...
Episode #126
March 09, 2021
UWB BlueCats Social Distancing Real World Trial Results
For the first time on the Mr. Beacon Podcast, we have put the rubber to the road and experimented with a so...
Episode #125
February 18, 2021
Auto-ID with Invisible Barcodes
What does it mean to ‘modernize your supply chain’?
Episode #127
February 05, 2021
Understanding AIM
Success in IoT depends on understanding how the ecosystem operates. Auto-ID is a building block at the hear...
Episode #123
January 19, 2021
Turning Products into Platforms using NFC
The next time you a buy product, a purse or a pair of shoes, imagine the capabilities that could be unlocke...
Episode #122
December 16, 2020
The Decision Makers Handbook to Data Science
Why is it that decision makers should care about data science?
Episode #121
December 01, 2020
The Internet of Expensive Things - IoT in Luxury Retail
You’ve heard about the Amazon Go Store and all the big box retailers implementing technology to transform t...
Episode #120
November 10, 2020
The Contactless World Pre and Post COVID, Opportunities in the IoT Landscape
Why would you want Near Field Communication, or more commonly known as NFC, technology in soccer balls, han...
Episode #119
October 27, 2020
The Art of Scaling IoT
Even with the obvious benefits of illuminating your supply chain with IoT technology, assembling all the pi...
Episode #118
October 13, 2020
Forkbeard - Indoor Positioning with Ultra-Sound
IoT insiders know that Bluetooth is not just the wireless technology that we know and use on a daily basis,...
Episode #117
September 30, 2020
How to Make Friends and Influence People in Automotive IoT
What could possibly go wrong when huge businesses try to engage with startups? What should startups expect ...
Episode #116
September 10, 2020
The Future of Supply Chain - Connected, Continuous and Demand Signal Driven
Where are the dark spots in your supply chain? How could your business transform with digital twin of your ...
Episode #115
August 25, 2020
Indoor Location Solutions for COVID Safety
Before COVID, ‘social distancing’ and contact tracing’ were not common household topics, but now we conside...
Episode #108
May 06, 2020
IoT Analytics & SAS’ Event Stream Processing
SAS’ vision of transforming ‘a world of data into a world of intelligence’ seems more relevant than ever wi...
Episode #107
April 22, 2020
Bluetooth COVID 19 Contact Tracing
How are we going to deal with the pandemic at hand, and how do we return to ‘normal’? These are the questio...
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