We talk IoT – The Internet of Things Business Podcast

Avnet Silica

The We talk IoT podcast keeps listeners updated on the most important developments in the world of the internet of things, iIoT, artificial intelligence, and cognitive computing. Our guests are leading industry experts, business professionals, and experienced journalists as they discuss some of today’s hottest tech topics and how they can help boost your bottom line. You can follow We talk IoT – the Internet of Things Business podcast anywhere you get your podcasts. About the host Stefanie Ruth Heyduck is a science and tech journalist with over 20 years of experience. She has worked for renowned magazines, research institutions, and tech...

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We talk IoT – The Internet of Things Business Podcast

Episodes (82)

Mar 19th Don’t digitise the waste: How signal towers became IoT devices – We talk IoT #82
Mar 6th Chips, Grit, and "Girl on Fire": Emily Yang on Leadership, Mentorship, and Moving Up – We Talk IoT #81
Feb 26th AI on Tap: How NXP is Revolutionising Water Quality for Everyone – We Talk IoT #80

We talk IoT – The Internet of Things Business Podcast

Mar 19, 2026
26 minutes
34 MB

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...

We talk IoT – The Internet of Things Business Podcast

Don’t digitise the waste: How signal towers became IoT devices – We talk IoT #82

Avnet Silica

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