We talk IoT – The Internet of Things Business Podcast

Around 50% of medications are not taken on time. In ageing societies, the consequences range from hospital readmissions to preventable deaths. The costs run into millions of euros every year.

In this episode, Daniel Böber, hardware developer at wirewire, explains how his three-person team tackled this problem with the ANABOX smart. A connected pill dispenser that runs on NB-IoT, requires no Wi-Fi, and is already deployed in nursing homes across Europe. The patient never touches an app. The carer does.

Daniel discusses the deliberate design choice to keep the device analogue-looking and the digital layer invisible to the patient; the regulatory journey through EU MDR Class I certification and pharmacy approval; and what it takes to get a health insurer to add a hardware product to its catalogue. He also reflects honestly on what went wrong, including a full hardware redesign after elderly users couldn't open the compartments, and on wirewire's broader ambition to digitalise everyday objects unobtrusively.

#NB-IoT #SmartHealth #IoT #MedicationManagement #HealthTech #AgeTech #WeTalkIoT

Summary of this week's episode:
01:37 Wirewire and Mission

02:28 Why Doses Get Missed

03:52 Inside the Smart Pillbox

04:59 Why NB IoT Connectivity

06:30 Caregiver App Design

08:41 Patient Alerts and UX

10:31 Real World Rollout

14:16 Costs and Reimbursement

15:24 Break and Sponsor

15:50 Regulatory Approval Journey

17:06 Insurance Listing Explained

18:09 Scaling Across Europe

19:38 Analog Products Made Smart

21:06 Startup Lessons Learned

22:46 What’s Next and Partnerships

24:22 Hardware Advice and Support

 

Show Notes:

Daniel Böber (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielboe1/

ANABOX smart: https://anabox-smart.de/en

Anmed GmbH: https://anmed.de

Avnet Silica: NB-IoT — Flexibility is Key: https://my.avnet.com/silica/resources/article/nb-iot-flexibility-is-key/

 

Listen to the "We Talk IoT" Soundtrack on:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/05MOV4OV2MH2in2txsAGtG?si=ad08112cb8d443f4

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-NvQ6VJYtE&list=PLLqgVFfZhDRVYmpEqbgajzDvGL4kACRDp

 

About Avnet Silica:
This podcast is brought to you by Avnet Silica — the Engineers of Evolution.

Subscribe to our newsletters here: https://my.avnet.com/silica/resources/newsletter/

You can connect with us on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/silica-an-avnet-company/. Or find us at www.avnet-silica.com.

Most people think they know Windows. Industrial OEMs know better.

In this episode, Yann Stridde, Senior Business Development Manager for Microsoft Windows IoT at Avnet Silica, explains why the operating system running a factory robot, a crane in Dubai, or a medical imaging device is fundamentally different from the one on your office PC – and why that difference matters more than ever.

Windows IoT Enterprise is not a new product. Its roots go back to Windows Embedded in the late nineties. But the stakes around it have never been higher. The EU Cyber Resilience Act is coming into force. Windows 10 IoT Enterprise has reached end of support. And industrial OEMs face a hard question: how do you manage a 10-year device lifecycle when AI is reshaping the landscape every 18 months?

Yann walks us through the certification chain behind a train brake system to show why changing an OS mid-lifecycle can literally stop a train at the station. He explains what Microsoft's 10-year Long-Term Servicing Channel actually guarantees – and where its limits lie. And he makes the case that for small OEMs who have to build their own security patches, peace of mind has a price worth paying.

We also explore LiRISE, the ARM-based edge AI solution from Liebherr-Components and Reycom, shown at Embedded World 2026. A real-world example of Windows IoT on ARM running in harsh environments without active cooling, and why power efficiency is now a competitive requirement, not a nice-to-have.

Tune in to find out what the industrial world demands from an operating system, and why the answer is not the Windows you know.

#windowsiot #embeddedsystems #cybersecurity #cyberresilienceact #iot #oem #arm #lirise #avnetsilica #wetalkiot

 

Summary of this week’s episode:

01:30 Yann's background: from Microsoft to Avnet Silica

03:00 Why IoT devices need their own version of Windows

06:30 Avnet Silica: advisory, licensing, and consulting for OEMs

08:30 Ten years of LTSC support: realistic in the AI era?

10:30 The train certification story: why OS stability is non-negotiable

15:00 Windows 10 IoT end of support: what OEMs must do now

17:30 Security and the EU Cyber Resilience Act

21:30 Choosing the right embedded OS: the key questions

23:30 LiRISE: Windows IoT on ARM at Embedded World 2026

26:30 ARM architecture, passive cooling, and the power efficiency argument

28:30 Use cases beyond industrial: kiosks, data centres, and more

 

Show notes:

Yann Stridde: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yannstridde/

Avnet Silica – Windows IoT Embedded Software: https://my.avnet.com/msembedded/embedded-software/overview

LiRISE® – Liebherr-Components and Reycom IoT solution: https://www.liebherr.com/en-us/components/solutions/iot-solutions/e2e-iot-edge-gateway-solution-6654887

 

Listen to the “We Talk IoT” Soundtrack on:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/05MOV4OV2MH2in2txsAGtG?si=ad08112cb8d443f4

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-NvQ6VJYtE&list=PLLqgVFfZhDRVYmpEqbgajzDvGL4kACRDp

 

About Avnet Silica:

This podcast is brought to you by Avnet Silica—the Engineers of Evolution.

Subscribe to our newsletters here: https://my.avnet.com/silica/resources/newsletter/

You can connect with us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/silica-an-avnet-company/. Or find us at www.avnet-silica.com.

Edge AI promised intelligence everywhere. The reality? Most projects die between proof of concept and production. In this episode, Amir Sherman from DeepX and Michaël Uyttersprot from Avnet Silica reveal why moving AI from comfortable development kits to demanding industrial environments isn't just difficult. It's a maze of incompatible metrics, hidden power costs, and integration nightmares that catch companies off guard.

We discuss why TOPS ratings mislead engineers, how ChatGPT triggered a wave of failed internal deployments, and what it takes to run vision AI in factories, delivery robots, and smart cities where five-watt power budgets matter more than marketing specifications.

From Hyundai's factory robots to Baidu's Chinese character recognition systems, Amir and Michaël share real deployments that work, and explain the 50 years of embedded experience that AI code generators cannot replace. If you've wondered why edge AI keeps hitting walls nobody discusses in vendor presentations, this conversation delivers the answers.

#EdgeAI #DeepX #IndustrialIoT #VisionAI #NPU #WeTalkIoT

 

Summary of this week's episode:

01:45 Guest Introductions: Amir Sherman and Michaël Uyttersprot

03:29 The Edge AI Market Landscape: TinyML to High-End NPUs

06:47 Why Edge AI Projects Fail in Production

09:18 The TOPS Trap: Why Performance Metrics Mislead

11:50 Choosing Hardware: Why It's More Complex Than It Looks

16:28 Real Deployments: Delivery Robots and Chinese OCR

19:29 Vision AI in European Factories and AGVs

21:32 Generative AI at the Edge: 20 Billion Parameters in Five Watts

23:52 Smart Cities: Traffic Lights and Vision Language Models

27:22 What Engineers Need to Understand About Edge AI

30:48 Why 50 Years of Experience Still Matters

33:13 Bohemian Rhapsody and AI-Generated Llama Songs

 

Show notes:

Amir Sherman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherman-bizdev/

Michaël Uyttersprot: https://www.linkedin.com/in/micha%C3%ABl-uyttersprot-aaa971211/

 

DeepX: https://deepx.ai/

DeepX at Avnet Silica: https://my.avnet.com/silica/manufacturers/m/deepx/

 

Listen to the "We Talk IoT" Soundtrack on:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/05MOV4OV2MH2in2txsAGtG?si=ad08112cb8d443f4

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-NvQ6VJYtE&list=PLLqgVFfZhDRVYmpEqbgajzDvGL4kACRDp

 

About Avnet Silica:

This podcast is brought to you by Avnet Silica—the Engineers of Evolution. Subscribe to our newsletters here: https://my.avnet.com/silica/resources/newsletter/

You can connect with us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/silica-an-avnet-company/

Or find us at www.avnet-silica.com

Industry 4.0 promises data-driven manufacturing. Reality delivers machines from the 1990s, mixed protocols, and no budget to replace everything. The gap between digital ambition and brownfield constraints, the challenge of retrofitting IoT into existing facilities with legacy equipment, stops most factories before they start.

In this episode, Armin Vogelsang from WERMA explains how WeAssist bridges that gap by turning signal towers – those coloured status lights that factories already have – into wireless IIoT data collection points. No rewiring, no downtime, no requirement to understand machine protocols.

We explore why going "from zero to 100" fails in manufacturing, how Lean Production's eight types of waste (Tim Woods) guide IoT implementation, and what happened when Hermes Einrichtungs Service eliminated the waste of unnecessary motion by letting warehouse workers press a button instead of running through the hall. This is about practical IoT adoption for manufacturers who can't afford to rip everything out and start again.

 

#IIoT #LeanProduction #Manufacturing #Logistics #Industry40 #WeTalkIoT

 

Summary of this week's episode:

01:45 The Problem With "Zero to 100" Digital Transformation

03:20 Why Signal Towers Make Perfect IoT Interfaces

05:15 Understanding Brownfield Constraints

07:40 The Eight Types of Waste in Lean Production (Tim Woods)

10:25 Hermes Case Study: From Chaos to Calm

14:30 Technical Architecture: Wireless, Cloud, No Rewiring

18:10 User Acceptance as Critical Success Factor

21:45 Beyond Manufacturing: Logistics Applications

24:20 The Platform Myth: Why One IoT Solution Won't Cover Everything

 

Show notes:

Armin Vogelsang: https://www.linkedin.com/in/armin-vogelsang-3538a8177/

WERMA WeAssist: https://www.werma.com/us/weassist/

Hermes Einrichtungs Service case study: https://www.werma.com/us/knowledge/success-stories/hermes-einrichtungs-service/

Lean Production and the eight wastes: https://www.werma.com/en/knowledge/tech-talks/lean-production/

 

Listen to the "We Talk IoT" Soundtrack on:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/05MOV4OV2MH2in2txsAGtG?si=ad08112cb8d443f4

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-NvQ6VJYtE&list=PLLqgVFfZhDRVYmpEqbgajzDvGL4kACRDp

 

About Avnet Silica:

This podcast is brought to you by Avnet Silica – the Engineers of Evolution.

Subscribe to our newsletters here: https://my.avnet.com/silica/resources/newsletter/

You can connect with us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/silica-an-avnet-company/. Or find us at www.avnet-silica.com.

The semiconductor industry has a pipeline problem. Women enter the field, but somewhere between mid-management and the executive level, they disappear. Emily Yang knows this from experience, and she’s doing something about it.

In an industry where innovation is currency, Emily Yang has built a career on the belief that the best way to succeed is to lift others up. As Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Diodes Incorporated, she's not only driven transformative growth, but also championed mentorship and community impact, embodying perfectly this year's International Women's Day theme: give to gain.

Emily discusses what effective leadership actually looks like across cultures. She explains how Diodes transformed from a discrete component supplier into a solutions-led organisation, why humanoid robotics is the emerging application she’s most excited about, and why geopolitical supply chain disruption is the challenge the industry isn’t talking about loudly enough. She also makes the case for mentorship as a structural fix, not a feel-good programme.

#IWD2026 #GiveToGain #Leadership #Semiconductors #STEM #Mentorship #WeTalkIoT

Summary of this week’s episode:

01:30 Emily’s career path: from customer service rep to SVP

04:30 How leadership style evolves when you’ve been on every rung

07:00 Transforming Diodes: from component sales to solution selling

09:30 Executive presence and communicating vision to a global team

11:30 Leadership philosophy: trust, advocacy, and the carrot approach

13:30 Diodes’ technology portfolio: MOSFETs, signal integrity, PCIe Gen 6

15:30 Humanoid robotics: the emerging application worth watching

18:00 Leading across cultures: what employee survey scores reveal

21:00 The Women in High Tech Mentoring Programme and why it works

24:00 On sponsors, self-doubt, and working your way up without a map

26:00 The geopolitical supply chain challenge no one discusses enough

27:30 Lessons learned: define your leadership style before someone else does

29:00 Work-life integration and closing advice to women in the industry

 

Show notes:

Emily Yang: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-yang-153a69/

You can get in touch with her: [email protected]

Global Semiconductor Alliance — Women’s Leadership Initiative: https://designthesolution.org/about-wli/

 

Listen to the “We Talk IoT” Soundtrack on:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/05MOV4OV2MH2in2txsAGtG?si=ad08112cb8d443f4

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-NvQ6VJYtE&list=PLLqgVFfZhDRVYmpEqbgajzDvGL4kACRDp

About Avnet Silica:

This podcast is brought to you by Avnet Silica—the Engineers of Evolution.

Subscribe to our newsletters here: https://my.avnet.com/silica/resources/newsletter/

You can connect with us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/silica-an-avnet-company/. Or find us at www.avnet-silica.com.