On this episode of the IoT For All Podcast, Ryan Chacon is joined by David Ly, the CEO of Iveda, to debate the evolution of IoT. They speak about AI and IoT and their influence on society, AI and IoT safety and privateness, and the present state of sensible metropolis deployment.

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About David Ly

David Ly is the visionary founding father of Iveda, having served as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Administrators for the reason that firm’s inception in 2003. With over 20 years of expertise in wi-fi information, mobile, IT, and cloud video surveillance, David has constructed a pioneering cloud video internet hosting and real-time surveillance infrastructure with use instances throughout the globe.

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About Iveda

Iveda (NASDAQ:IVDA) is the supplier of world options for cloud-based, video AI search and surveillance applied sciences that shield the folks, locations, and issues that matter probably the most. Iveda’s expertise has the ability to supply immediate intelligence to present infrastructure, enabling cities and organizations world wide to seamlessly enter the fifth industrial revolution. Iveda operates on the forefront of digital transformation of cities internationally, utilizing IoT platforms with sensible sensors and gadgets developed to help with use instances surrounding public security, safety, aged care, vitality effectivity, and surroundings preservation.

Key Questions and Subjects from this Episode:

(00:39) AI For All announcement

(01:02) Sponsor

(01:35) Introduction to David Ly and Iveda

(05:39) The evolution of IoT

(09:35) AI and IoT and influence on society

(12:28) AI and IoT safety and privateness

(17:14) Good metropolis deployment

(27:27) Be taught extra and observe up

Transcript:

– [Ryan] Hey everybody and welcome to a different episode of the IoT For All Podcast. I’m Ryan Chacon, and on right this moment’s episode, we’re going to be targeted on speaking concerning the evolution of IoT, how AI is coming into the IoT area, influence on society that these applied sciences are going to have, privateness and safety issues, an entire lot of subjects that I believe you’ll discover plenty of worth in.

With me right this moment will likely be David Ly, the CEO of Iveda. They’re an organization that could be a supplier in international options for cloud primarily based video AI search and surveillance applied sciences. If you’re watching this on YouTube, please like this video and subscribe to our channel when you’ve not accomplished so already. When you’re listening to this on a podcast listing, we’d actually admire it when you’d subscribe to see the newest episodes as quickly as they’re out.

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It’s scalable, platform appropriate, and delivers a fast return on funding. Go to troverlo.com, that’s t r o v e r l o dot com, now and harness the ability of Autonomo to rework your IT division. Welcome David to the IoT For All Podcast. Thanks for being right here this week.

– [David] Superior. Thanks Ryan for having me, man.

– [Ryan] Yeah, completely. Tremendous excited to speak.

Earlier than we get into it, I’d adore it when you may give a fast introduction about your self and the corporate to our viewers.

– [David] I’m David Ly, CEO and Founding father of Iveda. And I based Iveda again in 2003, so actually 20 years in the past. And I personally, I’m a civil engineer by schooling, actually not by commerce. By the point I graduated, I fell thankfully into the period of the dot com again in San Jose, California. In order that’s the place my expertise background and expertise actually began is with all of the early dot coms and the expansion of the the period of the web and information consolidation, et cetera.

On condition that, I superior in my profession, not as a civil, completely exterior of self-discipline, I went into wi-fi networking. With a beautiful firm again in late 1999 into the early 2000 out of San Jose, California. We had been one of many first corporations, however their identify was Ricochet, in case anyone’s fascinated with historical past.

One of many first corporations that had vast space wi-fi connectivity. And guys, what which means is, we’re so used to our 5G right this moment and Wi Fi right this moment. Again then we had a modem about this massive velcro to the again of our laptop computer and, with a serial port screw in, USB was not even round again then.

And guess what? We acquired on-line with Juno, Go America, Prodigy. That is how early web I acquired began in. Quick ahead. With that background. Right here in Arizona, I met a bodily safety firm and the possession there, and it simply dawned on him that if they will confirm an incident remotely or at one other geographical location earlier than they despatched out an individual in a automobile, that might be great. Now thoughts you that is 2003, 2005, web was nonetheless T1, T3. We had been one of many first corporations, Ryan, that did distant IP video evaluation in actual time. Now IP video cameras had been 900 bucks a digital camera again then, not 59.99 on Amazon, proper?

Not it was a logitech webcam. So we, Iveda was one of many first corporations that did distant video monitoring. Meaning we had a managed web IP video, and we had reside people watching a digital camera on behalf of the purchasers. In order that’s how we acquired began and after a decade and two, Iveda advanced right this moment to what of us right this moment.

From our background of massive information administration, dealing with and streaming. We needed to discover a means of constructing that extra environment friendly. Human labor in assessment and assessments, too costly. Right here it comes. In 2014, we utilized one thing referred to as machine studying, and we taught the machines the way to search for sure objects inside the plethora of information that we had from our prospects.

So that is the evolution of Iveda AI. That is the place our AI video analytics was spawned and our go to market right this moment and what makes us robust is leveraging our development and the expertise. And going again to IoT now’s info sensor information now has intelligence behind it. In order that, that in a nutshell is Iveda, an AI IoT sensible metropolis firm.

– [Ryan] Implausible. Very thrilling background too. You’ve been, you’ve seen the evolution of issues, actually been within the trenches, understanding, taking part in with constructing applied sciences from the early days to now. Let me ask you, because it relates notably to IoT, clearly we had been, this was M2M, now it’s IoT.

I’ve been within the area for about seven years. It’s grown. It’s modified loads. It’s advanced loads. What has, inform our viewers somewhat bit about the way you’ve seen the evolution of IoT. Not must, it may be one thing like simply excessive stage it for viewers what you’ve seen from the start until now.

And now we’re, as a result of we’re proper now we’re entering into the AI integration into IoT them coming collectively to supply much more worth now that we now have entry to all this information that IoT options are capable of gather. However simply speak us by means of the evolution that you just’ve seen.

– [David] Yeah, certain. Most lately the corporate Iveda has gotten concerned in sensible energy, sensible energy administration for our sensible metropolis options. However why I begin with energy, this segues into the entire IoT spectrum is that I do know from an early engineering faculty, again then we talked about, I used to be at school within the nineties, however we talked about seventies, eighties the place the ability corporations and the phone corporations already had sensors all through their traces that,, the switch traces, in order that they will measure sure energy and even temperature of the transmission only for security. Now that’s what IoT is. It’s all the time been there. It’s been round, proper? Machine sensors and information, however the distinction, and I’ve seen the evolution Ryan, is all the way in which up till very lately, the information got here to us after which it was us once more and all the information and the evaluation needed to occur manually. After which we had to attract upon with the given variables, totally different fashions to offer us the information that we have to make choices with, proper? So whether or not it’s climate, temperature, stress, sensors and gadgets have all the time been round and actually that’s the idea of IoT. Evolution, I’ve seen so many extra sensors from the great outdated days of the RadioShack, open closed door sensors to now we’ve acquired espresso darkness.

It’s what’s taking place is there’s much more element concerned. And this segues into, given all this element of information and the convenience of assortment now due to the evolution of simply the web basically, proper? Web of issues are starting to only make extra sense. Earlier than, it was simply extra very skilled, industrial, industrial.

However right this moment, you, me, our youngsters, hey, we contact it on a regular basis now.

– [Ryan] Yeah, with out even understanding generally. Yeah, with out even realizing it.

– [David] With out even understanding it. Appropriate. So I see now that it’s extra frequent than we understand. That’s my expertise with IoT. And persons are talking about it extra, the phrases getting used extra. So it’s extra prevalent right this moment.

– [Ryan] I believe corporations are additionally beginning to actually see the worth of those applied sciences and options and what it may possibly do for his or her enterprise and entry to information they didn’t have entry to earlier than make, to assist them make higher choices, sooner choices. And we’re beginning to now compile AI on prime of that, proper?

We’ve got entry to this information so we will herald these AI fashions to supply extra worth. In deciphering, understanding, analyzing the information. How have you ever seen, many of the, from a public perspective, many of the conversations round AI are related to generative AI instruments, speaking about ChatGPT, issues that folks can go and play with and contact themselves.

However AI has been working its method into IoT for some time now. The place do you see or how do you see AI coming into IoT and the influence that has on society and the customers of those gadgets, sensors, and options?

– [David] I’ve acquired an incredible state of affairs I believe that may assist give our listeners or viewers a really clear, actual world perspective. From expertise right here, Iveda, the corporate, we now have this answer referred to as IvedaCare. Now I’ll attempt to break this down. It sounds fancy, however what it’s, Ryan, is a package that again within the day, we might in all probability use the time period sensible residence, and I’ll even go additional, RadioShack had door sensors, window sensors, alarm sensors, movement sensors, proper?

However when you take a collective of all these great sensors, and also you simply add on somewhat bit extra like moisture, humidity, temperature, and you set this right into a setting the place you’ve a dementia care affected person or simply grandma, grandpa at residence alone. Up to now, these sensors solely supplied set off alerts when one thing bodily triggered every sensor.

Temperature too excessive, door open, window closed, movement in a hallway. Now, answering your query. AI is available in, into that very same surroundings. That is the way it’s serving to society right this moment. With present infrastructure, this is essential and the best worth I imagine of AI. Leveraging present IoT infrastructure.

AI now is available in and is smart of all these alerts. As an alternative of you and I simply getting a ding each time a door opens, the AI is sensible sufficient to grasp what’s regular and what’s not regular after which solely alerts on what we name abnormality. Hey, grandma, get away from bed, which is okay. However getting away from bed, shifting into the hallway, after which not showing both on the restroom, the lounge, or the kitchen in just a few seconds or minutes, it may imply that she might have fallen.

That’s AI. So it’s that information processing and evaluation accomplished in break up seconds, after which including frequent sense to that in a novel method, offers you and I the information factors that might be extra helpful to us.

– [Ryan] And the way have you ever seen, I do know you all play a task in in terms of safety and totally different options associated to safety, which as you’re speaking about this instance, from in terms of growing older in place options, aged care options. There’s a privateness level that usually will get introduced up once we’re speaking about gathering information after which when AI is coming in how that’s additionally going to have an effect on privateness and safety issues. How have you ever all out of your perspective seen organizations finest deal with and stability that safety and privateness issues with AI, bringing in AI and IoT applied sciences into their enterprise to nonetheless be to have the answer be useful and the information be helpful, however the those that there could also be , monitoring, gathering information from are usually not liable to being uncovered on a private stage or guaranteeing you’re adhering to these privateness necessary issues.

– [David] Yeah. The privateness concern, particularly for a video surveillance startup firm 20 years in the past, it’s nothing new to us. That’s one of many greatest issues and conversations I’ve had is all through the years is privateness. However on condition that, the expertise that I’ve additionally engaged with our finish customers, each, from all walks of industries, from non-public enterprise house owners to enterprise and even authorities companies and municipalities. Although we’re all eager and conscious that there’s a public concern of privateness, as a practitioner, we, the truth is the information that’s being consumed or the information that’s being so referred to as collected is already flowing in many of the environments that we exist in, Ryan. We’re not going on the market punching a gap, tapping anyone, or doing something. It’s about making sense of the information that presently already surrounds all of us.

Instance. All of us take as a right that the shops we stroll in, Walmart, every part like that’s by alternative, timing, location, all of that’s thought-about information collected by the group and the way they use it inside that’s to enhance security, effectivity, operational effectiveness, and naturally, elevated income.

No hurt to anyone. However while you speak about video and seeing folks’s faces and what they’re doing in public areas, once more, there’s all the time two sides to each story however taking precautions, I’ve realized from our companions on the market within the subject is is frankly the information that’s flowing in now with the help of AI is definitely safer.

And I’m going to attempt to add some coloration to that. Up to now, it might take a human. It all the time, the human is all the time the troublemaker right here, proper? Not the expertise. I’ll communicate to that. It all the time concerned a human doing one thing foul. It’s an emotional determination to take motion, good, unhealthy, or ugly. I imagine that with the help and advantage of AI, the AI is being requested to do a really particular job.

And when that job says, alert me when a harmful abnormality arises. So many vehicles piled up and caught in a single spot, that’s an abnormality. Somebody holding one thing, a weapon, that’s an abnormality. Frankly, that’s the solely time that the human right this moment will even take note of that piece of information.

What we, the misperception is that there’s, we’re all involved about our privateness and what we’re doing as we’re roaming across the streets. The truth is all of the group that I’ve engaged previously 20 years shouldn’t have sufficient time nor useful resource to care about us, Ryan. All of us assume we’re so particular and necessary.

Nobody has sufficient time to be nosy. However then to be nosy, it’s the human. So that is actually superior that AI can now help the monitoring of important conditions for security, effectivity, and we will depend on that now greater than we will a human. I do know that’s going to be an argument, however that’s actuality that I’m seeing on the market.

I’m a complete expertise proponent.

– [Ryan] And let me ask you. In order we escape away from simply safety facet of issues in terms of privateness, we additionally been seeing clearly elevated adoption in communities and cities the place folks reside, proper? And new applied sciences are being applied to supply higher experiences to municipalities, to the residents of sure communities in these sensible cities.

The place are, out of your perspective and the work that you just all do, the place are we proper now with sensible metropolis adoption but additionally schooling for many who are interacting with these new options, whether or not it’s the person or the residents and residents of those communities, understanding their worth, understanding what they do, why they’re there, and the way it’s hopefully offering a profit.

– [David] That’s an enormous query. I’m gonna attempt to encapsulate it right here. Good metropolis adoption, I must say sensible metropolis consciousness is choosing up dramatically. Adoption continues to be at a not so favorable tempo proper now, in my view, and there’s nothing incorrect with that. And what which means is, you requested about schooling.

That’s essential. Educating the stakeholders and practitioners. I believe that’s ramping up. The builders, the events which can be deploying the expertise and the purposes, I believe that, there, that group is now extra conscious. Extra conscious implies that they lastly right this moment perceive the expertise that’s concerned and the purposes that do happen with a view to formulate a useful finish results of some variety.

Now I’m encapsulating loads, however the place this goes is that this. We are saying sensible metropolis. To ensure that a metropolis to be sensible, all of its phase of present infrastructure, the roads, the fuel traces, the ability traces, the water traces, every part that we see from road lights, air conditioners in our buildings, computerized doorways that open at Disneyland, and so forth.

Have you learnt all of that’s sensor accessible? IoT. All interconnected. As soon as they’re actually interconnected, once more, it’s nothing new for we, the residents. It’s already there. It’s in existence. The profit now is a great metropolis turns into sensible when it may possibly collect all of this information that’s already flying amongst us.

I’m gonna come again to that story. Sensors are already submitting info someplace. It’s finest that if a metropolis is receiving this info and information, that they’ve some technique of group or else it might be ineffective to you and I as residents of town. Some worry that if a metropolis has all this info, they’ll know all our motion.

No, they don’t care about who you and I are. What we’re caring about is the group at massive, the entire. So as soon as we now have temperature, as soon as we now have climate, we now have visitors situations, the place it piles up, the place it’s gentle, we as drivers and as residents, we sit in visitors and go, Oh my God, why are they doing building now?

Can’t they do it at night time? Man, why don’t they increase this? All of the issues that we complain about, a wise metropolis actually is designed to scale back these varieties of burdens on us if we give it an opportunity. So the place I see sensible metropolis evolve, I’ve been out of nation in Southeast Asia, Center East, Africa, and what, the international international locations, growing international locations I see, are adopting sensible metropolis at a way more fast tempo than we the developed nations.

Why is that? It’s an obligation. Visitors sucks, infrastructure sucks, they can’t construct new. Nobody can construct new. So it’s important to reap the benefits of present infrastructure and get, and, , the outdated adage, work smarter, not more durable. So these international locations are obligated to work smarter with a view to fulfill the companies that’s required by the residents to do extra and be extra protected.

Adoption right here within the States, it’s sluggish. It’s sluggish. However, I believe consciousness is extremely elevated and due to that consciousness is the place we’re getting the query of oh my gosh, privateness points.

– [Ryan] There’s all the time going to be a bunch that has a difficulty with change. Every municipality is so totally different in terms of funds resistance to new expertise adoption. So it’s powerful, I believe for us to see the or I assume it makes, I perceive why adoption has been slower than I believe we wished it to be in terms of sensible metropolis options.

However it’s necessary for folks to know that these are oftentimes constructed with the very best intentions in thoughts to make the expertise higher, to gather information with out having to trouble the residents of the group, and have sufficient, have entry to the information that they will make choices extra shortly to once more enhance that have for the people who find themselves residing each day.

So it’s been a subject that’s come up since I joined the IoT world, simply seeing the evolution of sensible cities, sure, I really feel prefer it has not grown as shortly as some anticipated, however the very, I’m nonetheless very optimistic on what may be accomplished and what this will do for the standard of life in several communities.

– [David] High quality of life is the most important promoting level, proper? And the most important advertising and marketing phrases that we hear and however on the again finish, somebody that’s working to truly deploy this expertise, once more, I communicate with you solely from the expertise that I’ve, the place the trade’s going, the place the conceptual ideas are going is one factor, however I’m working with cities proper now, Ryan, which can be leveraging present infrastructure.

And I’m going to say that loads. There’s electrical energy is required for lots of issues to energy our buildings, however think about this. Within the streets, there’s one thing referred to as streetlights. Streetlights are already present infrastructure with energy provide to it. You understand how great IoT and AI performs to, into present infrastructure now?

The growing international locations leveraging the place they work so laborious to get a pole up and electrical traces to can now add on to that present pole sensors. And what will we, what are these sensors? Sensors not solely to make their lights extra environment friendly, activate and off solely when essential. In order that’s energy effectivity.

However past that, you’ve climate stations that may be added to that. And now, after all, cameras that may be added to that. Behind all these IoT sensors and video programs, the system now will assist residents. That present infrastructure has simply elevated higher visitors circulation, info and administration.

It simply elevated public security by having the general public perceive that these cameras listed below are defending you day and night time and officers have entry to them fairly than strolling off in a boondock someplace. That little instance of how a wise metropolis deployment or implementation can virtually instantly improve the lives of the native present residents, not simply normal ideas.

So I’m an enormous proponent for that. I’ve seen it. After which there are cities that have plenty of flooding in main climate that we don’t expertise right here too usually. It’s that sensor. It’s that very same sensible metropolis sensors that may now detect abnormalities that say, hey, this road is, will likely be flooded in X quantity of hours.

That is the place expertise comes into play that has a really direct influence to the advantages of the citizen. In order that’s why you desire a sensible metropolis. And for the little issues I simply described to you, there’s a lot extra.

– [Ryan] Your level concerning the lighting fixtures within the present infrastructure has been one thing that has positively come up earlier than and never only for totally different sensors, but additionally for gateways to increase protection and to, I do know we talked to folks within the LoRa world they usually speak about totally different, with the ability to deploy LoRa gateways and connectivity to a city, to a metropolis, and utilizing these lighting fixtures as locations to increase protection.

So it’s an incredible thought to make the most of that present infrastructure to do precisely what you’re saying, which is to permit a number of options to be deployed, to gather extra information, to do issues which can be higher for everybody concerned. It’s a really fascinating area to observe, to proceed to see new cities undertake totally different applied sciences …

– [David] You introduced up level, sure. Instantaneous enhancement of communication and web entry, proper? Simply including on to the wi-fi topography with out counting on the mobile sign that won’t attain all of the world communities. In order that’s one other nice rapid profit as effectively. You’re proper.

– [Ryan] David, I actually admire you taking the time to do that, this dialog, you shed some gentle on some essential subjects and had nice insights to share with our viewers. The very last thing I wish to ask you earlier than I allow you to go is for our viewers who desires to study extra about what you all have occurring, possibly observe up on this dialogue, chat additional, what’s one of the best ways they will try this?

– [David] I believe the simplest method is to go to iveda.com, i v e d a dot com. And so far as software to study extra, I counsel not simply going to the web site and historically merchandise, that our viewers appears to be like at a few of our press bulletins inside our web site as a result of inside these announcement will present the actual world perspective and purposes and work being accomplished, leveraging IoT and AI.

So there’s, I invite all people to do go to and take a look at these.

– [Ryan] Implausible. David, thanks once more a lot for taking the time. Actually admire it and excited to get this out to our viewers.

– [David] Thanks, Ryan, for having me, man. It was enjoyable.