On this episode of the IoT For All Podcast, Ryan Chacon is joined by DevicePilot’s CEO Pilgrim Beart to discuss the current landscape of scaling IoT. Pilgrim begins the podcast by introducing himself and the company before discussing the current IoT landscape and challenges with scaling. He then talks about popular industries and new use cases in the market before wrapping up the conversation with challenges he’s seen in consumer IoT.
Pilgrim Beart is CEO of DevicePilot, which enables companies deploying smart devices at scale to deliver high-quality service at low cost, including smart energy, electric vehicle, and consumer electronics brands. Previously, Pilgrim co-founded the smart home platform AlertMe, which sold to British Gas in 2015 for $100m. Before that, he founded the antenna technology company Antenova, which has shipped billions of antenna systems into smartphones globally. Pilgrim began his career at startups in Cambridge and Oxford, then led technology teams in three startups in Silicon Valley in the 1990s. As a senior business director with a proven track record in scaling connected devices, Pilgrim's expertise is of value to companies aiming to achieve business growth objectives in IoT.
DevicePilot enables companies deploying smart devices at scale to deliver high-quality service at low cost, including smart energy, electric vehicle, and consumer electronics brands. DevicePilot Core is a new offering from DevicePilot. It enables smart device estates to be managed at scale from just 1p per device per month. See here for details.
Key Question and Topics from this Episode: (0:00) Welcome to the IoT For All Podcast (1:38) Introduction to Pilgrim and DevicePilot (4:49) Current IoT landscape (8:10) Challenges in IoT scaling (11:24) Most popular industries in IoT (14:03) IoT’s role in climate change (18:40) Challenges in consumer IoT
