#MakeIoTwork

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.