Building a Successful IoT Fleet Management Solution, the “Things” in the Internet of Things, and IoT Applications in Oil & Gas Pipeline Management

The best podcast episodes and articles from this week, curated by the IoT For All Team.

Michael Wedd
IoT For All
3 min readMay 24, 2019

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Our Latest Podcast Episode

E028 | How to Build a Successful IoT Fleet Management Solution

Leverege co-founders, Eric Conn and Steve Lee, sit down with Founder and CEO of Siren Marine, Dan Harper to share their experience as partners in building the leading connected boat platform on the market. They also discuss their successful go-to-market strategy. Listen Now.

This Week’s Best Reads

The “Things” in the Internet of Things (IoT)

The “things” that make up the emerging “Internet of Things” range from tractors to thermostats to shipping containers. The internet changed the world when we brought computers online and then again with the dawn of smartphones. Imagine what’s possible when the other 99 percent of objects that pervade our everyday lives are connected?

How IoT Is Transforming Oil & Gas Pipeline Management

IoT-enabled monitoring networks can improve oil and gas pipeline management practices. Those improvements range from reducing costs and downtime to minimizing environmental footprint, to augmenting safety and ensuring regulatory compliance. This old, economically vital industry is due for a digital makeover.

The Challenges of Rethinking IoT Security With Blockchain

What’s the best way to secure IoT devices? When embedded directly, Blockchain’s distributed trust architecture could enable secure end-to-end data transfer for use in asset tracking, connected medical devices and more. However, there are challenges along that path, stemming from edge compute requirements and the difficulties of implementing blockchains well in general.

Five Things We’re Reading

1—The Verge: Amid US-China trade tensions, ARM cuts ties with Huawei, threatening future chip designs and dealing a major blow to the Chinese megacorporation.

2—MIT Tech Review: Female voice assistants fuel damaging gender stereotypes, says a UN study, literally hard-coding those stereotypes into emerging assistant tech.

3—Stacey on IoT: Four Computer Science students “hacked” diabetes with IoT by building a connected insulin monitoring and delivery system.

4—Smart Cities Dive: The US Air Force and MIT partnered to develop a new AI accelerator whose goal is to tackle “real-world, national security challenges.”

5—MIT Tech Review: Researchers at cybersecurity firm SecurityScorecard found that both major US political parties still have serious holes to address.

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Michael Wedd
IoT For All

I’m a Senior Editor at IoT For All. I focus on expanding the platform so that everyone can benefit from the IoT revolution.