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Getting connected is what mwConnect (formerly McWong) specializes in with their award winning Bluetooth Mesh. They've been around for 40 years, so you know they know what they're doing. Margaret and Stephen give us a retrospective of the company from its beginnings manufacturing ballasts, and they tell us about their rebranding process. If you're in competition with mwConnect, they welcome it as it drives manufacturers to create and produce better products and offer more affordable price points. Let's work together and make the pie bigger! Margaret founded mwConnect as McWong International, Inc. in 1984. She brings over 25 years of lighting experience from manufacturing and procurement to technology development; including light sources, luminaires, LED drivers, sensors, wireless control systems, etc. For many years, Margaret has demonstrated the leadership and vision to both predict and actively drive profound changes enabled by LED semiconducting, IOT and smart lighting solutions. Her cross-border and financial investment experience has brought together many opportunities and deals between the US and Asia in the lighting industry and beyond. Stephen manages product development and business operations as well as strategic partner relationships. Prior to this role, he worked for the company in a number of roles, including project manager, product manager and sales manager. Zhou holds an MBA from the Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University and a B.S. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai. He is an IES member and is fluent in English and Chinese.
Szymon Słupik regards himself as lucky. He tells us how he made enough money by the time he was 35 that he would never have to work again. We learn how growing up in communist Poland taught him to be enterprising, at ease with taking risks, and being open to opportunities, which he took time after time. He believes that the challenges of starting a business in 2021 are child's play compared to how things used to be for those who experienced communism . His trenchant views on thinking long term, focussing on quality, and working with passion and focus on things that he believes in are ones from which we can all learn. Szymon is an entrepreneur with a strong technology background in IT and Electronics. Szymon is a CTO at Silvair, the company he co-founded in 2011. Szymon is also chairing the Mesh Working Group at Bluetooth Special Interest Group. Silvair develops technology for low power wireless device networks based on the Bluetooth mesh standard. The company has been the key contributor to the standard itself, driving it since inception in 2014 to formal adoption of version 1 in 2017, as well as the evolution of future releases. SIlvair is a Delaware company, publicly traded on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE:SVRS). Szymon's previous companies were CDN (acquired by Comarch in 2004) and Wind Mobile (acquired by Ailleron in 2009). At Silvair Szymon is focused on long term projects which aim at solving difficult problems, contribute to improved quality of life and deliver lasting value. He strongly believes Bluetooth mesh is the winning standard for the Internet of Things and will enable significant energy savings globally as well as proliferation of modern food production technologies such as vertical farms. Since 2005 Szymon has been running a weekly blog at https://headworx.slupik.com He can also be reached on LinkedIn at https://linkedin.com/in/slupik. https://silvair.com/ The NBN Entrepreneurship and Leadership podcast aims to educate and inform, sharing insights based on the personal story of our carefully selected guests aiming for the atmosphere of an informal conversation in a bar or over a cup of coffee. Follow our channels on Facebook Linkedin Twitter and watch the interview on Youtube here About the NBN The New Books Network was founded in 2007 as a podcast interviewing the authors of academic books, and has grown to the largest author interview podcast in the world publishing 12 podcasts a day in more than 90 specialist areas, with over a million downloads a month. Read about the founder Marshall Poe and the NBN here. In recent years it has expanded beyond its “author interview origins”. Historically NBN only did audio recordings. E&L is the first NBN podcast distributed on Youtube. Watch this episode on Youtube here. About Kimon Fountoukidis Twitter Linkedin Kimon is the founder of both Argos Multilingual and PMR. Both companies were founded in the mid 90s with zero capital and both have gone on to become market leaders in their respective sectors. Kimon was born in New York and moved to Krakow, Poland in 1993. Listen to his story here, About Richard Lucas Twitter Linkedin Richard is a business and social entrepreneur who founded or invested in more than 30 businesses, including investments in Argos Multilingual, PMR and, in 2020, the New Books Network. Richard has been a TEDx event organiser, supports the pro-entrepreneurship ecosystem, and leads entrepreneurship workshops at all levels: from pre- to business schools. Richard was born in Oxford and moved to Poland in 1991. Read more here. Listen to his story in an autobiographical TEDx talk here, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/entrepreneurship-and-leadership
Lukasz Krzak is the Chief Operating Officer at Embetech and an assistant professor at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. His interests are in embedded systems and wireless communication networks. For nearly 20 years, he has worked in cooperation with many companies, delivering hardware and software solutions, targeting mainly industrial and professional applications. He received his PhD in electronics in 2018 and has authored 30+ scientific papers. He's currently responsible for Embetech's main product - the embeNET wireless communication network.Embetech designs wireless communication hardware and software for highly dependable industrial and professional applications, such as heavy duty systems in underground coal mines, railway crossings, factories, etc. We are an official partner of Cisco and STMicroelectronics.Their main offering is targeting electronic device and system manufacturers that need reliable large-scale wireless mesh networking. Their product is called embeNET, and it is an embedded software that can run on multiple popular and cost-effective radio transceivers including chips from STMicroelectronics, Nordic Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, and others. It allows a highly scalable and reliable wireless mesh network, reaching thousands of nodes, with a superb range of communication. The network uses industry standard IPv6 and UDP protocols and is a viable alternative to popular consumer standards such as ZigBee, Bluetooth Mesh, or LoRa. Their software is backed up by a powerful network simulator that is used to validate user requirements concerning performance, timing, and energy consumption prior to any pilot installation. They also deliver additional R&D services such as radio hardware design, application software development, integration, testing, and helping with radio certification.
Join Scott as he continues bluetooth low energy (BLE) GATT client code on the ESP32-S3. Chat on the Adafruit Discord at https://adafru.it/discord. Deep Dive happens every week. Normally Fridays at 2pm Pacific. Next week is on Friday. All notes are available on GitHub with links into the videos. Thanks to @askpatrickw and @dcd for making and maintaining the notes. https://github.com/adafruit/deep-dive-notes/ 0:00 Cat cam in main window 1:00 hello 3:50 introduction and housekeeping 4:40 introduce Vin and Spook 6:55 linkedin and restream streams as well 7:20 https://github.com/adafruit/deep-dive-notes 8:29 did you ever cover how the compiler works in CP on one of these deep dives? 10:40 Did you see that Zephyr now has support for RP2040? 11:03 Linker was for the actual linking of the CP core (and just general knowledge). The compiler for more how the internal Python compiler works 12:02 Smokey Brights / https://www.smokeybrights.com/ 12:50 https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/develop/compiler.html 13:40 # 5881Thank you for an example how to use DeviceInfoService for connections 15:55 continue CP 2022 discussion 18:22 Axel - 19:00 crashes that happen after several days are very hard to debug 19:13 Does Adafruit have any plans to support a 5 GHz wifi chip? Espressif c6 20:25 kattni's #circuitpython2022 22:30 https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/02/01/the-circuitpython-community-a-round-up-and-a-look-forward-to-2022/ 28:15 “it takes a village” 32:45 thank you Kattni for reminding us that CircuitPython requires its community 33:05 PlatformIO? 33:40 How does the CP2022 resolve? Are you going to publish a manifesto or something? 37:06 Does anyone know about a driver for Windows to make a Bluetooth COM-Port to the adafruit_ble.services.nordic UARTService accessible 37:50 Kattni will be my first guest on Paul Cutler's CP podcast, too, which will give a chance for people to hear her March 1st - 39:35 BlueTooth - review last week / broadcast and observer roles 43:28 next step - initiating the connection 45:04 BatteryService 46:45 Declarative form of python used 47:22 BLE - GAP advertising 47:39 GATT - use to build this library upon 48:35 github BLE example uart examples (client ) 50:55 Can you point me to a CP joystick hid example that uses analog inputs for pi pico? 57:00 what makes up a service 59:30 where is serial_number? 1:00:20 Bluetooth.com specifications and more BLE service api and espressif/common-hal/bleio/Connetion.c 1:09:10 Nimble callbacks *_cb / FreeRTOS 1:12:35 Discover by UUID will be faster 1:13:05 Discover all characteristics 1:15:35 nRF 52840 with BLE 1:16:09 esp s3 board - client board 1:17:14 nimble screen - demo 1:18:35 and example code - Unhandled connection event 12 1:19:20 uart.read(4) is not reading - how does it work… 1:20:00 NUX Nordic Uart Service 1:21:08 passing up the lower level services 1:22:20 StreamIn and StreamOut 1:24:35 Characteristics_buffer - native 1:28:00 This is a deep dive ( notify vs indicate ) 1:28:41 two ways to write ( write and write without response ) 1:30:30 then there is the security stuff 1:32:10 how do we go about building circuitpython uf2 files for missing boards? https://learn.adafruit.com/building-circuitpython and https://learn.adafruit.com/how-to-add-a-new-board-to-circuitpython 1:37:35 “there's no software engineering problem that can't be solved with another layer of abstraction.” - ( in the right place ) 1:39:02 implementation for nRF version 1:39:48 *GATTS - server, and *GATTC client 1:40:39 adding event handler in constructor, need to add to espressif version also 1:42:28 need an event handler system 1:42:40 this is all BLE workflow stuff you're working on now right, not just "standard BLE" support for S3? 1:45:10 HVX is short for “Handle Value Notification or Indication” 1:47:30 CP joystick hid example that uses analog inputs for pi pico? https://learn.adafruit.com/customizing-usb-devices-in-circuitpython/hid-devices and https://learn.adafruit.com/getting-started-with-raspberry-pi-pico-circuitpython/potentiometer-and-pwm-led and of course - reach out on discord https://adafru.it/discord 1:50:15 again - take the the nRF code, and change it for the espressif version 1:52:40 we need two callbacks here for espressif and review ble_gap.h 1:56:12 could be more complicated due to non-consecutive buffers 1:57:22 Has there been any discussion of doing BLE Mesh support 1:59:06 Need to figure out how to split apart the om buffer os_mbuf 2:01:44 "Apache Mynewt offers the world's first fully open-source Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) or Bluetooth Smart stack fully compliant with Bluetooth 5 specifications with support for Bluetooth Mesh. It is called NimBLE." https://mynewt.apache.org/latest/network/index.html# 2:02:00 Check out the git repos 2:03:03 circuit-python dev channel 2:03:59 Next week on Friday 2:04:19 Pet the cat 2:05:02 have a great weekend
Do you need to support multiple IoT protocols in your next gateway/bridge design? Silicon Labs' Unify Software Development Kit (Unify SDK) provides a simple API to enable you to leverage multiple IoT protocols. Learn how this simple API/scripting language can help your next project. John Hemmick and Uday Kelkar answer some common questions. To learn more: Unify SDK Training Course Download Simplicity Studio: Simplicity Studio Download Support ticket to access Unify SDK: Support Portal
Szymon Słupik regards himself as lucky. He tells us how he made enough money by the time he was 35 that he would never have to work again. We learn how growing up in communist Poland taught him to be enterprising, at ease with taking risks, and being open to opportunities, which he took time after time. He believes that the challenges of starting a business in 2021 are child’s play compared to how things used to be for those who experienced communism . His trenchant views on thinking long term, focussing on quality, and working with passion and focus on things that he believes in are ones from which we can all learn. Szymon is an entrepreneur with a strong technology background in IT and Electronics. Szymon is a CTO at Silvair, the company he co-founded in 2011. Szymon is also chairing the Mesh Working Group at Bluetooth Special Interest Group. Silvair develops technology for low power wireless device networks based on the Bluetooth mesh standard. The company has been the key contributor to the standard itself, driving it since inception in 2014 to formal adoption of version 1 in 2017, as well as the evolution of future releases. SIlvair is a Delaware company, publicly traded on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE:SVRS). Szymon’s previous companies were CDN (acquired by Comarch in 2004) and Wind Mobile (acquired by Ailleron in 2009). At Silvair Szymon is focused on long term projects which aim at solving difficult problems, contribute to improved quality of life and deliver lasting value. He strongly believes Bluetooth mesh is the winning standard for the Internet of Things and will enable significant energy savings globally as well as proliferation of modern food production technologies such as vertical farms. Since 2005 Szymon has been running a weekly blog at https://headworx.slupik.com He can also be reached on LinkedIn at https://linkedin.com/in/slupik. https://silvair.com/ The NBN Entrepreneurship and Leadership podcast aims to educate and inform, sharing insights based on the personal story of our carefully selected guests aiming for the atmosphere of an informal conversation in a bar or over a cup of coffee. Follow our channels on Facebook Linkedin Twitter and watch the interview on Youtube here About the NBN The New Books Network was founded in 2007 as a podcast interviewing the authors of academic books, and has grown to the largest author interview podcast in the world publishing 12 podcasts a day in more than 90 specialist areas, with over a million downloads a month. Read about the founder Marshall Poe and the NBN here. In recent years it has expanded beyond its “author interview origins”. Historically NBN only did audio recordings. E&L is the first NBN podcast distributed on Youtube. Watch this episode on Youtube here. About Kimon Fountoukidis Twitter Linkedin Kimon is the founder of both Argos Multilingual and PMR. Both companies were founded in the mid 90s with zero capital and both have gone on to become market leaders in their respective sectors. Kimon was born in New York and moved to Krakow, Poland in 1993. Listen to his story here, About Richard Lucas Twitter Linkedin Richard is a business and social entrepreneur who founded or invested in more than 30 businesses, including investments in Argos Multilingual, PMR and, in 2020, the New Books Network. Richard has been a TEDx event organiser, supports the pro-entrepreneurship ecosystem, and leads entrepreneurship workshops at all levels: from pre- to business schools. Richard was born in Oxford and moved to Poland in 1991. Read more here. Listen to his story in an autobiographical TEDx talk here, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics
Szymon Słupik regards himself as lucky. He tells us how he made enough money by the time he was 35 that he would never have to work again. We learn how growing up in communist Poland taught him to be enterprising, at ease with taking risks, and being open to opportunities, which he took time after time. He believes that the challenges of starting a business in 2021 are child’s play compared to how things used to be for those who experienced communism . His trenchant views on thinking long term, focussing on quality, and working with passion and focus on things that he believes in are ones from which we can all learn. Szymon is an entrepreneur with a strong technology background in IT and Electronics. Szymon is a CTO at Silvair, the company he co-founded in 2011. Szymon is also chairing the Mesh Working Group at Bluetooth Special Interest Group. Silvair develops technology for low power wireless device networks based on the Bluetooth mesh standard. The company has been the key contributor to the standard itself, driving it since inception in 2014 to formal adoption of version 1 in 2017, as well as the evolution of future releases. SIlvair is a Delaware company, publicly traded on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE:SVRS). Szymon’s previous companies were CDN (acquired by Comarch in 2004) and Wind Mobile (acquired by Ailleron in 2009). At Silvair Szymon is focused on long term projects which aim at solving difficult problems, contribute to improved quality of life and deliver lasting value. He strongly believes Bluetooth mesh is the winning standard for the Internet of Things and will enable significant energy savings globally as well as proliferation of modern food production technologies such as vertical farms. Since 2005 Szymon has been running a weekly blog at https://headworx.slupik.com He can also be reached on LinkedIn at https://linkedin.com/in/slupik. https://silvair.com/ The NBN Entrepreneurship and Leadership podcast aims to educate and inform, sharing insights based on the personal story of our carefully selected guests aiming for the atmosphere of an informal conversation in a bar or over a cup of coffee. Follow our channels on Facebook Linkedin Twitter and watch the interview on Youtube here About the NBN The New Books Network was founded in 2007 as a podcast interviewing the authors of academic books, and has grown to the largest author interview podcast in the world publishing 12 podcasts a day in more than 90 specialist areas, with over a million downloads a month. Read about the founder Marshall Poe and the NBN here. In recent years it has expanded beyond its “author interview origins”. Historically NBN only did audio recordings. E&L is the first NBN podcast distributed on Youtube. Watch this episode on Youtube here. About Kimon Fountoukidis Twitter Linkedin Kimon is the founder of both Argos Multilingual and PMR. Both companies were founded in the mid 90s with zero capital and both have gone on to become market leaders in their respective sectors. Kimon was born in New York and moved to Krakow, Poland in 1993. Listen to his story here, About Richard Lucas Twitter Linkedin Richard is a business and social entrepreneur who founded or invested in more than 30 businesses, including investments in Argos Multilingual, PMR and, in 2020, the New Books Network. Richard has been a TEDx event organiser, supports the pro-entrepreneurship ecosystem, and leads entrepreneurship workshops at all levels: from pre- to business schools. Richard was born in Oxford and moved to Poland in 1991. Read more here. Listen to his story in an autobiographical TEDx talk here, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
In this second episode with our guest Max Palumbo, Vice-Chair of the Bluetooth Mesh working group, we discuss more of the technical details behind Bluetooth Mesh. The following questions are covered: The EFR32 devices from Silicon Labs support Bluetooth Mesh. What advantages have you found in using this solution? How can customers design a robust network given Bluetooth Mesh is currently uses Managed Flooding for communication? Are there limitations to what mobile devices can/can't do within a Bluetooth Mesh environment?
This episode provides a great introduction to Bluetooth Mesh. Max Palumbo, Vice-Chair of the Bluetooth Mesh working group, shares why Bluetooth Mesh is being considered in Wireless Control applications. The following questions are covered: With all the wireless connectivity options, why is Bluetooth Mesh getting attention? What are the main benefits? What use-cases would someone be better off considering a protocol other than Bluetooth Mesh? What is Bluetooth Mesh bad at? What are the main challenges customers face when getting started with Bluetooth Mesh What does Silicon Labs provide to help customers with Bluetooth Mesh?
Remove the Guesswork: Health, Fitness and Wellbeing for Busy Professionals
What are some of the ways that we can optimise our health while living in an unnatural world? Mr. Health Optimisation, Tim Gray, talks about using technology to mimic the natural environment and some of the best biohacks for busy professionals. Visit https://www.bodyshotperformance.com/podcasts-blog for the complete show notes of every podcast episode. Topics Discussed in this Episode: Biohacking and some of the best biohacks for busy professionals Using technology to mimic the natural environment Grounding The negative effect of blue light and what you can do about it Getting back to the basics of health optimisation Metabolomics The benefits of red light therapy Tips for jet lag Metabolic flexibility Key Takeaways: Biohacking is the use of science, technology, and nature to optimise your health. It has increased in size and reach, and turning a lot of heads in lots of industries because it’s quantifiable. Biohacking is about using your common sense of going, ‘Here’s the stuff I’m doing and here’s how I feel and here’s the data that backs it up,’ and saying, ‘Well, actually, what other areas should I test subjectively? And then see what I can quantify through data?’ Grounding or connecting with the earth is apparently a great antioxidant and good for sleep. Red light therapy is brilliant for healing. Metabolomics is the future health care. It’s looking at the body at the cellular level and seeing what your cells are deficient of. Hydration, sleep, and sunlight are really the three key things to health optimisation, plus metabolic flexibility. Action Steps: Get to the basics of optimising your health. Look at your genetics and see if there’s anything in the MTHFR specifically that needs optimising. Make sure that your hydration is correct. Have the proper mineralised water and the right minerals. Make sure your nutrition is correct. Eat organic, naturally-grown foods. Optimise your sleep by making sure that your light exposure is correct. Get natural light during the day and minimise blue light exposure by wearing blue light blocking glasses in the evening Take responsibility for your own health. Focus on the basics before you even think about buying any new technology. Personalise your diet. Tim said: “Biohack is a quirky term for health optimisation, and it’s about using your environment, supplements, or whatever necessary to optimise your health, and often through tracking it through data as well so you can quantify what you’re actually doing.” “My number one biohack is sleep optimisation... [Without proper sleep], your body doesn’t heal, your brain doesn’t work correctly, you don’t have the energy.” Thanks for listening! If you’re interested in finding out what your health IQ is, take the Health IQ test to find out, and get a free 39-page report built around our six signals, which are sleep, mental health, energy, body composition, digestion, and fitness. If you’ve enjoyed what you’ve heard on this episode and it’s added value to you, share the episode with someone you think could benefit from it. And don’t forget to leave a rating or a review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Links to things mentioned in the show: Health Optimisation Summit Oura Ring - use code bodyshotoura for EU50 off Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health by Jo Robinson Genova Diagnostics NutrEval FMV Genova Diagnostics NutrEval Plasma The Life Stylist Episode 137 - Extreme Biohacking: Millennial Edition with Matt Maruca RA Optics TrueDark (blue light blocking glasses) - use code bodyshot for 10% off Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen Red Light Rising HumanCharger Ilumi | LED Smart Light Bulbs with Bluetooth Mesh Previous episodes mentioned that you shouldn’t miss: Heal Your Whole Body and Boost Your Natural Energy Using Red Light Therapy with Bryan Gohl More from Tim Gray: Tim's Email Tim's Facebook Tim’s Twitter (@TimGrayUK) More from Leanne Spencer: Bodyshot Performance Bodyshot Performance Limited Facebook page Remove the Guesswork BOOK by Leanne SpencerRise and Shine BOOK by Leanne Spencer Leanne’s Email
Bluetooth Mesh has a huge upside in my opinion. But when is it going to be ready for prime time? Or is it already? And what about competitive media, like ZigBee or Wi-Fi? These are just some of the questions I threw at Mahendra Tailor, a Technology Leader at Laird Technology in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion.
Bluetooth Mesh is perhaps the biggest thing to happen to IoT since Bluetooth Low Energy sparked the revolution of beacon technology, wearables and thousands of other connected products. Szymon Slupik, CTO of Silvair and Chair of the Bluetooth Mesh Working Group at Bluetooth SIG explains what the release of this new standard means, what mesh is, why it was necessary and the applications that it enables. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Nesta semana o papo é sobre a volta do Google Glass, a chegada do Bluetooth Mesh, as dificuldades da Apple em trazer evoluções ao iPhone, e o vazamento catastrófico de dados que nunca aconteceu.
Bluetooth mesh is finally here y’all and we dig in deep to the technology in this episode. First off, Kevin and I discuss what this means for other mesh network technologies and some basic specs. Kevin and I then turn to the topic of IoT security vulnerabilities, the return of Google Glass, an Alexa-powered alarm … Continue reading Episode 121: Everything you need to know about Bluetooth Mesh
Bluetooth mesh offers advantages for management of beacon deployments, enabling new use cases and support for the Physical Web. We talk to the CEO of Beaconix whose early work enabling large scale location based campaigns convinced him to commercialize a mesh solution. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This is the smart home weekly news update for the week ending February 17, 2015 (Leonard Nimoy Day). In this podcast, Mike talks about: -The new Bluetooth Mesh working group -ADT's new ad campaign -Nest Protect's very bad week or two -Ways HomeKit could fail -Neo smart jar -Hive smart home system -A connected toilet water device For more smart home shows, go to www.thesmarthomeshow.com Follow Mike on Twitter at www.twitter.com/michaelwolf http://knit.audio/podcast-advertising (via Knit)