Talking About the IoT's Future
What you'll learn:
- Where the current IoT marketplace stands.
- Development considerations for the next generation of solutions.
The world's infrastructure is evolving from being based on aging machines largely designed several generations ago to one augmented with advanced systems for the information age. The IoT enables intelligent machines to provide advanced functionality to society, but it isn’t easy to get there from here.
Key aspects of development include the importance of creating tools that empower others, the role of the market ecosystems in driving adoption, and the challenges in the infrastructure needed to bring connected technologies to the market.
In this podcast, we talk to Alistair Fulton, CEO of IoT Labs (among a bunch of other things). Alistair is an industry expert with over two decades of experience in the IoT marketplace. His previous roles include Semtech's IoT division, accelerating LoRaWAN development, and driving product management and technology for Hitachi's Lumada Industrial IoT platform.
Alistair also led the incubation of Microsoft's IoT business and supported the growth of the Azure IoT developer ecosystem by providing tools to build, deploy, and manage applications for the IoT across multiple technologies and platforms.
SHOW NOTES
00:46 – IoT is More than Buzzwords
10:30 – The Challenging Path of AI
12:34 – Multimodal Devices
About the Author
Alix Paultre
Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design
An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.
Alistair Fulton
CEO, IoT Labs
Alistair Fulton is a mission-driven CEO, senior advisor, and global P&L leader with more than 25 years of experience transforming deep-tech innovation into sustainable revenue growth. Over the course of his career, he has scaled IoT, AI, data infrastructure, and semiconductor businesses across North America, Europe, and Asia, leading organizations from early product-market fit through international commercialization.
As founder and CEO of IoT Labs, he now advises growth-stage companies, global enterprises, and private equity firms on strategy, product innovation, go-to-market acceleration, and capital formation, bringing a rare blend of technical depth, operational discipline, and investor engagement expertise.