On this episode of the IoT For All Podcast, InnerSpace’s CEO, James Wu, joins Ryan Chacon to discuss how you can maximize the potential of your indoor spaces with asset tracking. James and Ryan open the podcast by talking about the background of InnerSpace and some of the specific use cases the company focuses on. James then discusses the impact he’s seen covid have on the IoT industry. He then talks about what indoorology is and the importance it has for customer education and adoption. Ryan and James wrap up the podcast with a high-level conversation around challenges in adoption and advice for companies beginning their IoT journey.
James Wu has dedicated the last 20 years to building award-winning products for notable technology startups, including Platform Computing, Rypple and Kobo. Playing a pivotal role at each company, James made and led product development while honing his understanding of what it takes to develop a team, product, and company from early days to global success. At Kobo, the primary competitor to Amazon Kindle, James was the conceptual visionary for the company’s unique and award-winning tablet user experience and the primary inventor of more than 30 patents related to user experience design. He was responsible for setting the strategic direction for Kobo’s complete portfolio of products, including websites, mobile apps, and award-winning eReading devices. Managing large teams of exceptionally talented experience designers, interaction architects, industrial and mechanical designers, researchers and prototypers, James stewarded their abilities to deliver the world-class Kobo eReading experience across all platforms and with a localized experience in 22 countries. Before beginning his professional career, James earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Queen’s University.
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About COMPANY
InnerSpace helps people better use a finite and costly resource, the indoors. Their technology brings reliable and insightful data about human behavior to people who can implement solutions to enhance indoor experiences. Using existing Wi-Fi infrastructure to track anonymous signals from smart devices and translate them into actionable and easy-to-understand insights about how and where we spend our time indoors. InnerSpace was founded in 2016 out of a trip to the Met, which, as it turns out, is challenging to navigate without a paper map. Founder, James Wu, wondered why so many location-based services and solutions were available for the great outdoors yet so few for the indoors? Today their clients are some of the world’s largest, most forward-thinking companies. Due to the pandemic’s impact on workplaces, they’re looking for data to guide decisions about return-to-work plans and hybrid transformation strategies and rationalize and optimize their real estate portfolios.
Questions clés et sujets de cet épisode :
(2: 00) Introduction to James and InnerSpace
(5: 55) Solving problems in corporate real estate
(7: 44) COVID’s impact
(10: 14) What is indoorology?
(14: 44) Les défis de l'adoption
(17: 36) Conseils aux entreprises souhaitant adopter
