Data is the new oil. All of you might have heard this metaphor in one or another context. But, what does this actually mean. How can we create value by collecting some ones and zeros? In the context of this podcast, we have already spoken with a variety of guests about collecting data using modern sensors. Today, we want to focus on how we can create value from this data. To discuss this, we invited a wonderful guest. Together with her team, she is an expert in understanding machine data and turning this knowledge into value for enterprises – especially the ones from the industrial sector. Let’s welcome Lisa Erdmann. Lisa is Managing Director of Industrial Analytics. 

Edge AI is enabling the next generation of smart systems by transferring the intelligence and new functionalities directly on the device, such as an intuitive human-machine interface based on speech and gestures. This is paving the way to a world of seamless interaction, transforming the way we live, work and play. And Edge AI also offers many advantages in terms of data privacy, security, energy-efficiency and latency – just to name some. With our guest, Steven Tateosian, we discuss, how Edge AI can improve our experience as a consumer – meaning the interaction with devices - and what this means technically.

Geopolitical crises, raw material shortages, increasing cost of energy and ESG regulations are just some of the challenges, manufacturers around the globe are facing nowadays. The use of smart factory technologies can help mitigate some of these challenges – and beyond that, even create a significant benefit. What these technologies are and what it needs to make them work, that is what we want to talk about with our guest today. Ingo Hecht leads the Application Marketing for Industrial Automation at Infineon. His role includes the close cooperation with our development teams to create new semiconductor solutions enabling the smart factory of today – and tomorrow. 

Wireless audio technology has evolved rapidly in recent years, with the potential to revolutionize both consumer electronics and health industries. Listening to music or a podcast and watching videos, movies, and series has never been easier, and has never offered better sound quality. The reason is new semiconductor technologies in combination with new system designs and software solutions. We discuss the developments and innovations in hearable technologies with our guests: Peter Sung, CEO of Linsation – a Shenzhen based company, dedicated to developing the intuitive "Sensation User Interface" experience for people. And Julian Kornprobst, who is a Marketing & Business Development Specialist for MEMS Microphones. (Read the transcript)

Artificial intelligence is once again a hot topic, especially since the launch of latest versions of applications like ChatGPT and midjourney. But AI is not only supposed to help and support in the private environment. There are numerous use cases in the industrial environment, which promise huge efficiency gains so the topic is playing a major role in all industry sectors. What are the general advantages that are expected from applying AI in the industrial sector? That is what we are going to talk about today with our guest Nico Kelling. Nico is heading Infineon’s Center of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence and in this role is focusing on connecting these kinds of technological innovations with our business. If you want to learn more about how we make factories smarter and the IoT work, visit www.infineon.com/smartfactory. 

Infineon recently launched ModusToolbox™ version 3.1 which is a great success and shows the efforts that this team of experts does to develop this ecosystem further. The ModusToolbox™ ecosystem is a collection of software and tools designed to smoothly work together and with third-party solutions. All this to create the perfect development environment. With our guest, Jennifer Sirrine, we talk about what ModusToolbox™ is, how it is used by our customers, why it is beneficial for all Infineon products to be linked to ModusToolbox™, and what types of software developers can integrate with it. If you want to learn more about ModusToolbox™, visit the website www.infineon.com/modustoolbox.

Developing smart, networked products for the IoT is a real challenge. Addressing the interplay between wireless and embedded systems and topics like security, cloud integration, and energy management is time-consuming and requires substantial expertise. But there is a solution! We talk about the Make-IoT-easy-Guide with our Guest Gary Sugita.

There has been a lot of discussion about the importance of good health and well-being, especially as the world population rises and at the same time life expectancy is increasing. The fast-growing cost of acute care are pushing the healthcare systems worldwide to a limit. So, healthcare increasingly places great emphasis on enhancing well-being to prevent illness rather than sporadically treating acute illnesses. The IoT has great potential to support good health and well-being. With smart electronic devices, either worn on the body or even installed at home, it is possible to measure people's fitness and health status and trigger appropriate actions. Here, data mining, algorithms, machine learning and artificial intelligence play a central role so these topics have received a lot of attention in medical research recently. This is what we want to talk about with our guest today. Professor Björn Eskofier is heading the Machine Learning and Data Analytics Lab of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg. Currently, this lab has about 50 co-workers in the field of machine learning and signal analysis for wearable computing systems with a focus on sports and healthcare.

This time, there is something different with our #MakeIoTwork podcast. Do you realize? Right, today you are not welcomed by Thomas, but by his colleague Daniela. Normally she is active in the background and prepares everything for a successful recording. But today she takes over the moderation of our wonderful podcast for once, because today Thomas himself is the guest of this episode. With him Daniela will talk about the past one and a half years of our #MakeIoTwork Podcast. How did it come about in the first place? What were the most exciting topics? What were his personal highlights? Where did even our IoT expert Thomas learn something new? And of course we want to know how smart Thomas' own life actually is. Listen in and enjoy.

Now that the days are getting shorter again, the nights longer and the temperatures colder, people like to retreat to their own four walls. It's cozy, warm and safe there. Smart technologies can help make it more energy-efficient, intuitive and individual as well, adapting to the needs of the occupants - all automatically. What does it take? First of all, smart sensors. In this episode, we talk about IoT sensor solutions for smart homes - in particular, radar sensors, as they offer unique features for smart home devices.

As the number of smart home devices increases, the interoperability between the different products, ecosystems and protocols gets messier. Infineon, CSA, along with 280+ companies, including Google and Amazon, have come together to jointly work on the Matter standard. Matter is well positioned to fundamentally change the existing fragmented connected home. The goal of this game-changing Matter standard is to make ease-of-use, interoperability, security and sustainability a reality in the smart home. With our guest Skip Ashton, a proven expert in smart home technologies, a Distinguished Engineer at Infineon and a member of the Board of the Connectivity Standards Alliance, we talk about this revolutionizing solution.

Bluetooth® has become a widespread technology that many people hardly even think about, even though they use it every day. Originally driven by the consumer market, Bluetooth technology also delivers valuable benefits in the industrial environment to create the smart factory and to build up an autonomous production. What these benefits are, what challenges can be solved by it, and how the topic of Bluetooth in the smart factory will continue to evolve, this is what we will talk about with our guest, Dilli Sharma, Director for Product Marketing at Infineon.  

Performance and security requirements vary significantly from one IoT application to another. However, one thing they all have in common: the success of all applications relies on robust, easy-to-use and fail-safe security features. The Infineon Security Partner Network is a place where security experts exchange on and jointly create security solutions for connected devices. Together with our security partners, we provide tailored support for the implementation and deployment of security solutions based on Infineon's hardware-based security products. One of the ISPN's valued and long-time partners is Tributech, a European DeepTech-Startup providing a data audit & sharing technology, enabling trustworthy data across companies. Hence, we are very pleased to welcome Tributech’s CEO Patrick Lamplmair. With him we talk about the trustworthiness of information and data.

When we speak about making the IoT work, we should always include one essential cornerstone: making the IoT secure. Finding ways to protect sensitive data, intellectual property, and personal privacy is paramount for smart technologies and devices to get adopted widely. However, IoT security is too often overlooked when people start thinking about innovative solutions. With our ecosystem partners we do our best to create trust in the digital world. In this episode we welcome Günther Fischer as guest. Günther works as a Senior Licensing and Protection Consultant at WIBU-SYSTEMS, an innovative technology leader in the global software license entitlement market. And together, we have made it our mission to make the IoT secure.

IoTの未来を形作るには、高品質で全体的な製品やソリューションのポートフォリオが必要なだけでなく、お客様、販売代理店、エコシステム パートナーとの長期的で信頼できる関係を築き、すべてのプレイヤーに最適な結果をもたらすことが必要です。なぜなら、IoT実現に向けた画期的なイノベーションは、これらステークホルダーのみなさんとの協業によって初めて生み出すことができるからです。だからこそ、本エピソードで私たちのパートナーのお一人をここにお迎えすることを大変嬉しく思います。日清紡マイクロデバイス株式会社とインフィニオンの協業により、世界最小クラスのレーダー モジュールが実現しました。このソリューションの背景やどんなことができるようになるのか、お話を伺っていきたいと思います。

To shape the IoT’s future, it does not only need a high-quality and holistic portfolio of products and solutions, we also build on long-term, reliable relationships with our customers, distributors, and ecosystem partners to ensure optimal results for all players. Because only together is it possible to create groundbreaking innovations for the Internet of Things. That's why in this episode we are very pleased to welcome one of our partners here: Nisshinbo Micro Devices Inc. Together, Nisshinbo Micro Devices and Infineon produce the world’s smallest class radar module. What is behind this solution and how it supports our customers, that is what we want to talk about.

Over the last years and especially during the last months our payment behavior has changed dramatically - yes, also due to COVID-19. "By card, please" is what you hear most of the time now. You can hardly ever see people paying with cash anymore; instead, more and more customers are pulling out their cards of even smartphones or smartwatches. The market for contactless payment is changing rapidly. How this exciting future of payments will look like and how we will get there - that's what we talk about with Ursula Schilling in our new podcast episode. Ursula works as “Director Ecosystem Management Payment Solutions” at Infineon and in her role is responsible, among other things, for the business development of the Contactless Payment Solutions at Infineon.

As the world continues to embrace big data, increased connectivity, and automation, the IoT industry does not stop growing and is still booming. An increasing number of IoT startups are joining this trend. New companies founded by ambitious people who want to help shape the Internet of Things of the future – making the IoT what it needs to be: real, secure and easy. In this episode, we discuss with Lamin Ben-Hamdane, Head of Startup Cooperation at Infineon, why startups are so important for the IoT industry's ability to innovate and how we're helping them shape the future of the Internet of Things.

Imagine you are launching a new product. You have invested a lot of time and money to develop, to test and to promote the product. And then a small problem that was not noticed in the test turns out to be a problem. A solution must be found quickly - sometimes not so easy because necessary data are missing. Rob Conant, Vice President Software & Eco System at Infineon and founder of CIRRENT™ Product Analytics, which is now part of Infineon as a service, explains, why data is a key lever in the drive to deliver reliable connectivity, security, and ease of use. how the usage of aggregated anonymized data from products in the field gives companies insights into product performance. how customers can be enabled to make better decisions and enhance the connectivity performance of their products.

Today’s ever-connected consumers want one thing above all – convenience! In other words: easy and intuitive ways to tune into the entertaining and useful information they love and need – without switching between different devices or screens. The answer is surprisingly simple: wearables. But for today’s wearable designs, engineers face a number of challenges. In this new episode, Verena Lackner and Marcel Konstantinov explain how smart things conquer the market and how microelectronics turn devices into voice-operated assistants, digital wallets and health tracker.

Sensors make IoT devices smarter, enabling the “things” involved to “see”, “hear”, “feel”, “smell” and therefore understand their surroundings. Inspired by human nature, Infineon intuitive sensing solutions are designed to take the complexity out of our interaction with devices and to increase their efficiency. Infineon provides different sensors with state-of-the-art software to create a comprehensive picture of the world around us – known as “contextual awareness. In this episode we talk with Philipp Schierstaedt, who is a Senior Vice President & General Manager at Infineon, how sensors mark the starting point to each and every IoT system and give "things" human senses.

"The original paradigm of simply moving all of the data generated on the edge to the cloud for analysis and machine learning has run into three fundamental barriers, namely privacy, reliability and latency. Running these algorithms efficiently on edge eliminates these barriers and allows AIoT products to scale much more rapidly", says Sree Harsha Angara, guest of our new episode. In this new episode we discuss, the development of AIoT and Machine Learning, fundamental barriers and challenges and how the new ModusToolboxTM ML supports here.

The need of “staying connected and being online” changed in the last month from being perceived as a luxury problem to a basic need. In times of social distancing digitalization brings people together – with smart IoT devices. In this episode we will talk with Vikram Gupta, Senior Vice President of Infineon’s IoT Compute and Wireless Business Unit about the heartbeat and the nerve center of the IoT - meaning: Reliable and seamless connectivity solutions Microcontrollers for the IoT

Guest of episode 2 is Steve Hanna, a Distinguished Engineer at Infineon and an IoT pioneer. He will introduce us to the Matter project where he leads several security teams and therefore answer the following three questions: What is the Matter project and how does it work? What is Infineon's role in this project and how will consumers and manufacturers benefit from it? When will the first devices be available?

In this episode, we are pleased to welcome Julia Fichte and Manuel Hollfelder. We will talk about the relevance and benefits of smart buildings for tenants, residents, workers and of course the operators. Which technologies make buildings smart? How can predivtice maintenance help to reduce breakdowns and costs, while extending lifetime by 20%? Why is it so important to work in conjunction with all the stakeholders in the ecosystem?