About We talk IoT – The Internet of Things Business Podcast
The We talk IoT podcast keeps you up to date with major developments in the world of the internet of things, IIoT, artificial intelligence, and cognitive computing. Our guests are leading industry experts, business professionals, and experienced journalists as they discuss some of today’s hottest tech topics and how they can help boost your bottom line.
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About the host:
Stefanie Ruth Heyduck is a science and tech journalist with over 20 years of experience. She has worked for renowned magazines, research institutions, and tech companies. Also, she is an experienced communications consultant and supports her clients with digital and content strategies and new work transformations.
No Ctrl+Z: What physical AI changes on the warehouse floor – We Talk IoT #90
Warehouses run on data, yet that data often lags behind reality. The system shows a pallet on the shelf. The shelf stands empty.
In this episode, Oana Jinga, co-founder and Chief Commercial and Product Officer of Dexory, explains what physical AI means. Digital AI is really good at giving answers, physical AI needs to sense, reason and act in the real world. And pressing Ctrl+Z is not an option.
Dexory’s robots reach up to 18 metres, scan between 10,000 and 12,000 pallet locations an hour with cameras and lidar, and feed a live digital twin of the warehouse. Oana describes a site where 350 picking robots kept stalling at empty locations. A month after Dexory started scanning continuously, the site posted three record days.
We also discuss who signs off on warehouse automation, why scaling from one site to hundreds is the real test for physical AI start-ups, and why Dexory sees its future as a data company rather than a robot maker.
#PhysicalAI #WarehouseAutomation #Robotics #DigitalTwin #Logistics #Dexory #WeTalkIoT
Summary of this week’s episode:
01:20 From a home robot to the warehouse floor
03:11 What physical AI means – and why there is no Ctrl+Z
04:44 Sense, reason, act: physical AI in the warehouse
06:06 What warehouse management systems miss
07:26 Data-driven automation vs conveyor belts and picking robots
09:33 The universal problem: data that is worse than you think
11:23 Use case: 350 picking robots and three record days
14:12 Why warehouse space is the industry’s currency
15:46 A 24/7 shift: 18 metres, cameras and lidar
18:02 Built to blend in on the warehouse floor
19:18 Adoption: who decides and what convinces them
20:47 The most common objection
21:34 The real test: scaling from one site to hundreds
23:21 How warehouse workers react to the robot
25:22 From robotics company to data company
27:44 Global customers and messy spaces
Show notes:
Oana Jinga: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oanajinga/
Dexory: https://www.dexory.com/
Read more about connected devices and physical AI: https://my.avnet.com/silica/resources/article/from-connected-devices-to-physical-ai/
Listen to the "We Talk IoT" Soundtrack on:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/05MOV4OV2MH2in2txsAGtG?si=ad08112cb8d443f4
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-NvQ6VJYtE&list=PLLqgVFfZhDRVYmpEqbgajzDvGL4kACRDp
About Avnet Silica:
This podcast is brought to you by Avnet Silica—the Engineers of Evolution.
Subscribe to our newsletters here: https://my.avnet.com/silica/resources/newsletter/
You can connect with us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/silica-an-avnet-company/. Or find us at www.avnet-silica.com.
24 Sept 2026
From Runway to Real-Time: Data Lands on the Airport Ramp — We Talk IoT #89
Airports run on machines many passengers don’t even notice. Tugs, loaders, de-icing truck, hundreds of vehicles are moving across the tarmac every hour. If only one gets it wrong, the cost is not just downtime, it’s safety.
Matthias Moulinier, VP of Product and Customer Success at Adveez, explains how connected ground support equipment (GSE) is changing life on the ramp. He walks us through the system that tracks who drives what, when and how. From badge-scan access control to automatic speed reductions when a seatbelt is not engaged.
We explore how airports balance their fleets in summer and winter seasons, and how data helps operators avoid over-buying equipment. We talk electrification, autonomous GSE and what you learn from tracking more than 30.000 vehicles across 280 airports.
#GSE #airport #IoT #fleetmanagement #saftey #wetalkiot
Summary of this week’s episode:
01:34 Matthias's background and role at Adveez
02:08 How airports are evolving as GSE gets connected
03:41 What Adveez actually builds: hardware, cloud, and platform
05:47 Life before Adveez: paper-based, or no tracking at all
06:40 Badge-scan access control and driver authorisation
08:36 Seatbelt monitoring and automatic speed reduction
09:47 Fleet management: real-time visibility and utilisation data
13:58 Electrification: state-of-charge alerts and charger data
18:48 What's next: autonomous GSE on the ramp
23:04 Adveez by the numbers: 32,000+ tracked assets, 280+ airports
Show notes:
Matthias Moulinier: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthias-moulinier-1a8b5359/
Adveez: https://adveez.com
Listen to the “We Talk IoT” Soundtrack on:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/05MOV4OV2MH2in2txsAGtG?si=ad08112cb8d443f4
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-NvQ6VJYtE&list=PLLqgVFfZhDRVYmpEqbgajzDvGL4kACRDp
About Avnet Silica:
This podcast is brought to you by Avnet Silica — the Engineers of Evolution.
Subscribe to our newsletters here: https://my.avnet.com/silica/resources/newsletter/
You can connect with us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/silica-an-avnet-company/. Or find us at www.avnet-silica.com.
10 Sept 2026
Nobody forges their own screwdriver: Inside the chip-down versus module debate — We Talk IoT #88
Harvesters, buses and mining machines are becoming rolling computers. The hardware inside them has to last decades. Yet the AI running on top of it changes every quarter.
Ralf Kapahnke from Tria Technologies and Frank Neelen from Avnet Silica discuss where the CAV CAV (Commercial and Agricultural Vehicles) market is heading. Cameras that spot-treat pesticide or milking robots that turn farmers into a roboticists, are just two use cases we cover. And the decision facing every OEM: solder the processor onto your own board, or fit a module.
#CAV #embedded #functionalsafety #agritech #edgeai #iot #wetalkiot
Summary of this week’s episode:
01:30 What CAV means
03:20 Why AI and connectivity change the requirements
04:10 Functional safety: when a tractor meets a human being
06:30 Talking to your machine: LLMs moving from cloud to chip
07:15 AI-driven autonomy, from drone irrigation to predictive maintenance
09:00 Spot-treating pesticide with camera-based systems
10:45 Autonomous milking robots
13:30 Beyond agriculture: street cleaning, buses and people counting
15:20 Mining: robots underground
16:30 What keeps developers awake — and why software now leads hardware
19:00 What chip-down actually means
20:30 The module case: less risk, faster time to market
23:00 Where scalability pays off for an OEM
24:00 Volume, ARM versus x86, and the OSM trend
26:30 Modularity as a business strategy
Show notes:
Ralf Kapahnke: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralf-kapahnke-a713b912b/
Frank Neelen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-neelen-93008376/
Tria Technologies — commercial and agricultural vehicles: https://www.tria-technologies.com/commercial-agricultural-vehicles/
The episode with AGCO Fendt is called “From the cab to the cloud: How AGCO Fendt is making smart farming real”: https://my.avnet.com/silica/resources/podcast/episode-86-agco-fendt-makes-smart-farming-real/
Listen to the “We Talk IoT” Soundtrack on:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/05MOV4OV2MH2in2txsAGtG?si=ad08112cb8d443f4
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-NvQ6VJYtE&list=PLLqgVFfZhDRVYmpEqbgajzDvGL4kACRDp
About Avnet Silica:
This podcast is brought to you by Avnet Silica — the Engineers of Evolution.
Subscribe to our newsletters here: https://my.avnet.com/silica/resources/newsletter/
You can connect with us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/silica-an-avnet-company/. Or find us at www.avnet-silica.com.
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