Charles’ interview with Analyse Asia covering his keynote address at the IoT Asia 2017 event in Singapore.

Here are the interesting show notes and links to the discussion (with time-stamps included):

• Charles Anderson (@CRASingapore, LinkedIn), founder of Charles Reed Anderson and Associates. [0:40]
  • Re-introduction [0:40]
  • Reference: Internet of Things – Trends & Challenges ahead in Enterprise Innovation.
  • Since our last conversation, what have you been up to? [1:04]
    • IoT Asia 2017
  • Did you see any new solutions or vendors at the event that caught your eye? [1:25]
    • Auggd [1:35]
    • Unibiz operating on behalf of Sigfox [1:50]
    • Ambi Climate [2:09]
• IoT in Asia: Tipping Point [2:40]
  • What is the current state of IoT in Asia pertaining to smart cities? [2:57]
    • Infra centric to Customer Centric
    • Walk through evolution
    • Singapore and Taipei with smart street lights leveraging on sensors.
  • What are the interesting observations you made on smart cities particularly in Taipei and Singapore? [4:05]
    • Singapore re-organizing their Smart Nation program with the entities under the Prime Minister’s Office and setting up the Smart Nation & Digital Government Office.
    • The importance of business case.
    • Streetlights – site acquisition
    • Limited Citizen centric
  • Examples of infrastructure deployments for smart cities in Asia, for example, Taipei [5:35]
  • In your talk during IoT Asia 2017, you mentioned that collaboration is required to drive IoT success, can you briefly explain how that works within these stakeholders, [6:09] for example:
    • Internal collaboration (within organizations & enterprise) [6:09]
    • Vendor collaboration [7:36]
    • Data collaboration [8:34]
      • Example: Under Armour using endomodo and fitness apps to increase sales. [9:10]
  • What’s the key trends for IoT in 2017? [10:54]
    • Emergence of the IoT OTT (Over the top) similar to the mobile smartphone networks (3G, LTE) [11:05]
    • Demand Logic for buildings [11:30]
  • In your talk, you think that it’s coming to a tipping point for Asia with low power wide areas networks (see Episode 156 where Charles discuss the three major operators). What are your observations and how did it lead you to that conclusion? [12:55]
    • Moving beyond the hype and looking at the backers behind the three major operators: NB-IoT, SigFox, and LoRA.
  • How do we get the LPWANs going with the vendors and bridge the supply and demand? [17:03]
  • What will be your advice for organizations thinking about implementing their digital strategy with respect to enterprise mobility and internet of things? [17:55]
  • What are the key things that you will watch carefully for IoT from Asia to the rest of the world? [19:53]
    • Asia should have their own vendor partnerships – particularly around the OT vendors
    • Use cases for LPWANs
    • Messaging switch from technology to business value.