We talk IoT – The Internet of Things Business Podcast

Airports run on machines many passengers don’t even notice. Tugs, loaders, de-icing truck, hundreds of vehicles are moving across the tarmac every hour. If only one gets it wrong, the cost is not just downtime, it’s safety.

Matthias Moulinier, VP of Product and Customer Success at Adveez, explains how connected ground support equipment (GSE) is changing life on the ramp. He walks us through the system that tracks who drives what, when and how. From badge-scan access control to automatic speed reductions when a seatbelt is not engaged.

We explore how airports balance their fleets in summer and winter seasons, and how data helps operators avoid over-buying equipment. We talk electrification, autonomous GSE and what you learn from tracking more than 30.000 vehicles across 280 airports.

#GSE #airport #IoT #fleetmanagement #saftey #wetalkiot

Summary of this week’s episode:

01:34  Matthias's background and role at Adveez

02:08  How airports are evolving as GSE gets connected

03:41  What Adveez actually builds: hardware, cloud, and platform

05:47  Life before Adveez: paper-based, or no tracking at all

06:40  Badge-scan access control and driver authorisation

08:36  Seatbelt monitoring and automatic speed reduction

09:47  Fleet management: real-time visibility and utilisation data

13:58  Electrification: state-of-charge alerts and charger data

18:48  What's next: autonomous GSE on the ramp

23:04  Adveez by the numbers: 32,000+ tracked assets, 280+ airports

 

Show notes:

Matthias Moulinier: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthias-moulinier-1a8b5359/

Adveez: https://adveez.com

 

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

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Harvesters, buses and mining machines are becoming rolling computers. The hardware inside them has to last decades. Yet the AI running on top of it changes every quarter.

Ralf Kapahnke from Tria Technologies and Frank Neelen from Avnet Silica discuss where the CAV CAV (Commercial and Agricultural Vehicles) market is heading. Cameras that spot-treat pesticide or milking robots that turn farmers into a roboticists, are just two use cases we cover. And the decision facing every OEM: solder the processor onto your own board, or fit a module.

#CAV #embedded #functionalsafety #agritech #edgeai #iot #wetalkiot

 

Summary of this week’s episode:

01:30 What CAV means

03:20 Why AI and connectivity change the requirements

04:10 Functional safety: when a tractor meets a human being

06:30 Talking to your machine: LLMs moving from cloud to chip

07:15 AI-driven autonomy, from drone irrigation to predictive maintenance

09:00 Spot-treating pesticide with camera-based systems

10:45 Autonomous milking robots

13:30 Beyond agriculture: street cleaning, buses and people counting

15:20 Mining: robots underground

16:30 What keeps developers awake — and why software now leads hardware

19:00 What chip-down actually means

20:30 The module case: less risk, faster time to market

23:00 Where scalability pays off for an OEM

24:00 Volume, ARM versus x86, and the OSM trend

26:30 Modularity as a business strategy

 

Show notes:

Ralf Kapahnke: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralf-kapahnke-a713b912b/

Frank Neelen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-neelen-93008376/

Tria Technologies — commercial and agricultural vehicles: https://www.tria-technologies.com/commercial-agricultural-vehicles/

The episode with AGCO Fendt is called “From the cab to the cloud: How AGCO Fendt is making smart farming real”: https://my.avnet.com/silica/resources/podcast/episode-86-agco-fendt-makes-smart-farming-real/

 

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

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AI data centres have a problem that no one talks about enough. When GPUs synchronise and fire together, power demand spikes exponentially, in milliseconds. Legacy backup systems were never built for this. Oversizing the grid is expensive. Throttling GPU utilisation wastes the very infrastructure operators are paying for.

Ramesh Narasimhan, EVP, CCO and CFO at Nyobolt, explains how the Cambridge deep-tech startup evolved from a university materials lab into a full solutions provider. And how its Dynamic Response System addresses the power spike problem at the rack level, in real time.

Ramesh discusses Nyobolt's journey from a vacuum cleaner prototype to a partnership with Symbotic's warehouse robots, the case for ultra-fast charging over high energy density, and why the company's core lesson applies as much to startups as to battery chemistry: don't confuse your product with your purpose.

#battery #fastcharging #AIDataCentre #robotics #IoT #WeTalkIoT

 

Summary of this week's episode:

01:08 From automotive to deep-tech: Ramesh's background
02:00 Nyobolt's origin: Cambridge materials lab to commercial company
03:03 What forced the shift from materials to solutions provider
05:05 The secret sauce: what Nyobolt's battery does differently
06:47 Charging a car in under five minutes, and why range obsession misses the point
09:42 The AI data centre power problem explained
12:25 The Dynamic Response System vs. conventional UPS
13:55 Off-grid in Rajasthan: what the MoU actually means
14:50 Symbotic and the warehouse robot use case
16:02 Humanoids, trade-offs, and scaling the supply chain
17:55 Where Nyobolt focuses and why
19:05 Looking ahead: changing how industries think about operations
20:05 The talent ecosystem around Cambridge

 

Show notes:

Ramesh Narasimhan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramesh-narasimhan-201ab3a/

Nyobolt Dynamic Response System: https://nyobolt.com/ai-data-centre-power-solutions/

 

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:

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Smart farming has been a promise for decades. GPS guidance, variable-rate application, autonomous tractors, the technology has been on the horizon for so long that it is easy to miss how much of it has already arrived.

In this episode, Andreas Gatti, manager digital products & FendtOne at AGCO Fendt, takes us through what precision agriculture actually delivers today,  and where the hard problems still remain.

Andreas explains how the PTx Trimble joint venture, formed by AGCO and Trimble in 2024, is turning Fendt from a machine manufacturer into a full farm ecosystem provider. We discuss what it means to treat 25-centimetre sections of a field independently, why full autonomy is less about driving and more about work quality, and how smart machines are quietly eliminating hours of paperwork for farmers who never asked for a digital transformation.

We also ask the harder questions: who owns the data, whether the business case holds without subsidies, and which adoption barrier the industry consistently underestimates.

#smartfarming #precisionagriculture #agtech #IoT #WeTalkIoT

 

Summary of this week’s episode:

01:30 Andreas introduces himself and AGCO Fendt
03:45 What PTx Trimble changes for farmers
07:10 How Fendt defines smart farming — and what is already delivering results
11:20 Mixed fleets and interoperability in practice
14:30 The biggest benefit: driver, owner, or office?
16:00 Where farm autonomy stands today — and what is still in the way
22:10 Treating every 25 centimetres differently: precision application
27:00 Data ownership, security, and GDPR
31:30 Smart farming and climate change: mitigation or marketing?
35:00 Adoption barriers: cost, skills, connectivity — and the one nobody talks about
40:20 What Andreas is watching on the horizon

 

Show notes:

Andreas Gatti: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreas-gatti-b09195104/

Smart farming: https://www.fendt.com/de/smart-farming

Smart agriculture: https://my.avnet.com/silica/solutions/markets/smart-city/smart-agriculture/

 

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.

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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.

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