Jeff Smith is Senior Director and a founding member of Incenergy; a company built in 2010 to deliver IoT/M2M energy saving and monitoring solutions through the cloud for industrial and commercial environments. During this time Jeff has program managed and deployed projects for U.S. Department of Energy-funded projects and Fortune 500 clients across 4 continents. Currently he is focused on deploying and expanding LED lighting solutions to the company's IoT offerings. Prior to Incenergy, he was the co-founder of Global Climate Strategies, an organization focused on originating carbon-reducing projects in the US, Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and India to increase energy efficiency, convert waste to energy and prevent deforestation.
What you'll learn about in this episode:
- Jeff's entrepreneurial journey and how that led to Incenergy
- Jeff system of deploying Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to organizations around the world
- How Jeff got good at IoT
- What IoT really means
- How IoT is making the internet so much more complicated
- What Jeff helps people figure out if they want to incorporate IoT into their business
- What Jeff is most proud of with his IoT system
- What needs to happen to help clients implement IoT technology
- The paint-by-numbers process Jeff's team has created to help implement IoT technology
- How Jeff deals with breakdown points in the IoT process
- What makes Jeff's IoT system largely different from other businesses with IoT systems
- Some of the systems that Jeff's company will tackle next
- Why creating a network with lots of different devices is really complicated
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