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 because the firm’s inception in 2003. With over 20 years of expertise in wi-fi knowledge, mobile, IT, and cloud video surveillance, David has constructed a pioneering cloud video internet hosting and real-time surveillance infrastructure with use circumstances 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 defend the individuals, locations, and issues that matter probably the most. Iveda’s know-how has the facility to supply on the spot intelligence to present infrastructure, enabling cities and organizations around the globe 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 units developed to help with use circumstances surrounding public security, safety, aged care, vitality effectivity, and surroundings preservation.
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(01:35) Introduction to David Ly and Iveda
(05:39) The evolution of IoT
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(12:28) AI and IoT safety and privateness
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Transcript:
– [Ryan] Whats up everybody and welcome to a different episode of the IoT For All Podcast. I’m Ryan Chacon, and on as we speak’s episode, we’re going to be centered on speaking in regards to 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 considerations, an entire lot of subjects that I feel you’ll discover a whole lot of worth in.
With me as we speak will likely be David Ly, the CEO of Iveda. They’re an organization that could be a supplier in international options for cloud based mostly video AI search and surveillance applied sciences. In case you are watching this on YouTube, please like this video and subscribe to our channel in the event you’ve not achieved so already. In case you’re listening to this on a podcast listing, we’d actually admire it in the event you’d subscribe to see the newest episodes as quickly as they’re out.
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It’s scalable, platform suitable, 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 facility 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 talk.
Earlier than we get into it, I’d find it irresistible in the event 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 actually, I’m a civil engineer by schooling, actually not by commerce. By the point I graduated, I fell happily into the period of the dot com again in San Jose, California. In order that’s the place my know-how background and expertise actually began is with all of the early dot coms and the expansion of the the period of the web and knowledge consolidation, et cetera.
Provided 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 have been one of many first corporations, however their identify was Ricochet, in case anyone’s curious about historical past.
One of many first corporations that had large space wi-fi connectivity. And guys, what which means is, we’re so used to our 5G as we speak and Wi Fi as we speak. Again then we had a modem about this large 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 obtained on-line with Juno, Go America, Prodigy. That is how early web I obtained 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’ll confirm an incident remotely or at one other geographical location earlier than they despatched out an individual in a car, that may be fantastic. Now thoughts you that is 2003, 2005, web was nonetheless T1, T3. We have been one of many first corporations, Ryan, that did distant IP video evaluation in actual time. Now IP video cameras have 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 obtained began and after a decade and two, Iveda developed as we speak to what of us as we speak.
From our background of huge knowledge administration, dealing with and streaming. We needed to discover a means of constructing that extra environment friendly. Human labor in evaluate and assessments, too costly. Right here it comes. In 2014, we utilized one thing known as machine studying, and we taught the machines find out how to search for sure objects inside the plethora of knowledge 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 as we speak and what makes us robust is leveraging our progress and the know-how. And going again to IoT now’s info sensor knowledge now has intelligence behind it. In order that, that in a nutshell is Iveda, an AI IoT sensible metropolis firm.
– [Ryan] Incredible. Very thrilling background too. You’ve been, you’ve seen the evolution of issues, actually been within the trenches, understanding, enjoying with constructing applied sciences from the early days to now. Let me ask you, because it relates notably to IoT, clearly we have been, this was M2M, now it’s IoT.
I’ve been within the area for about seven years. It’s grown. It’s modified so much. It’s developed so much. What has, inform our viewers a little bit bit about the way you’ve seen the evolution of IoT. Not must, it may be one thing like simply excessive degree 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 now we have entry to all this knowledge that IoT options are in a position to acquire. However simply discuss us by the evolution that you simply’ve seen.
– [David] Yeah, positive. Most not too long ago 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 college, again then we talked about, I used to be at school within the nineties, however we talked about seventies, eighties the place the facility corporations and the phone corporations already had sensors all through their strains that,, the switch strains, in order that they’ll measure sure energy and even temperature of the transmission only for security. Now that’s what IoT is. It’s at all times been there. It’s been round, proper? Machine sensors and knowledge, however the distinction, and I’ve seen the evolution Ryan, is all the way in which up till very not too long ago, 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, completely different fashions to present us the information that we have to make choices with, proper? So whether or not it’s climate, temperature, stress, sensors and units have at all times been round and actually that’s the idea of IoT. Evolution, I’ve seen so many extra sensors from the great previous days of the RadioShack, open closed door sensors to now we’ve obtained espresso darkness.
It’s what’s occurring is there’s much more element concerned. And this segues into, given all this element of knowledge and the benefit of assortment now due to the evolution of simply the web usually, proper? Web of issues are starting to only make extra sense. Earlier than, it was simply extra very skilled, industrial, business.
However as we speak, you, me, our children, 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 widespread 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 as we speak.
– [Ryan] I feel corporations are additionally beginning to actually see the worth of those applied sciences and options and what it may do for his or her enterprise and entry to knowledge 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 knowledge so we are able to 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 linked to generative AI instruments, speaking about ChatGPT, issues that folks can go and play with and contact themselves.
However AI has been working its manner 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 units, sensors, and options?
– [David] I’ve obtained an ideal situation I feel that may assist give our listeners or viewers a really clear, actual world perspective. From expertise right here, Iveda, the corporate, now we have this resolution known 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’d in all probability use the time period sensible house, and I’ll even go additional, RadioShack had door sensors, window sensors, alarm sensors, movement sensors, proper?
However in the event you take a collective of all these fantastic sensors, and also you simply add on a little bit bit extra like moisture, humidity, temperature, and you place this right into a setting the place you’ve got a dementia care affected person or simply grandma, grandpa at house alone. Prior 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 as we speak. With present infrastructure, this is essential and the very best worth I imagine of AI. Leveraging present IoT infrastructure.
AI now is available in and is smart of all these alerts. As a substitute of you and I simply getting a ding each time a door opens, the AI is wise sufficient to know 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 a number of seconds or minutes, it may imply that she could have fallen.
That’s AI. So it’s that knowledge processing and evaluation achieved in break up seconds, after which including widespread sense to that in a singular manner, provides you and I the information factors that may be extra helpful to us.
– [Ryan] And the way have you ever seen, I do know you all play a task in in relation to safety and completely different options associated to safety, which as you’re speaking about this instance, from in relation to getting older in place options, aged care options. There’s a privateness level that always will get introduced up once we’re speaking about amassing knowledge after which when AI is coming in how that’s additionally going to have an effect on privateness and safety considerations. How have you ever all out of your perspective seen organizations greatest deal with and stability that safety and privateness considerations 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 folks that there could also be taking a look at, monitoring, amassing knowledge from usually are not prone to being uncovered on a private degree or guaranteeing you’re adhering to these privateness necessary issues.
– [David] Yeah. The privateness concern, particularly for a video surveillance startup firm twenty years in the past, it’s nothing new to us. That’s one of many greatest considerations 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 personal enterprise homeowners 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 known 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 with no consideration that the shops we stroll in, Walmart, every little thing like that’s by alternative, timing, location, all of that’s thought-about knowledge 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 individuals’s faces and what they’re doing in public areas, once more, there’s at all times 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 assist of AI is definitely safer.
And I’m going to attempt to add some colour to that. Prior to now, it might take a human. It at all times, the human is at all times the troublemaker right here, proper? Not the know-how. I’ll communicate to that. It at all times concerned a human doing one thing foul. It’s an emotional resolution to take motion, good, unhealthy, or ugly. I imagine that with the assist and good thing about AI, the AI is being requested to do a really particular activity.
And when that activity 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 as we speak will even take note of that piece of knowledge.
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 prior to now twenty years wouldn’t have sufficient time nor useful resource to care about us, Ryan. All of us suppose 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 assist the monitoring of crucial conditions for security, effectivity, and we are able to depend on that now greater than we are able to 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 know-how proponent.
– [Ryan] And let me ask you. In order we get away away from simply safety aspect of issues in relation to privateness, we additionally been seeing clearly elevated adoption in communities and cities the place individuals 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 simply all do, the place are we proper now with sensible metropolis adoption but additionally schooling for individuals 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 a giant query. I’m gonna attempt to encapsulate it right here. Sensible metropolis adoption, I must say sensible metropolis consciousness is choosing up dramatically. Adoption remains to be at a not so favorable tempo proper now, in my view, and there’s nothing unsuitable with that. And what which means is, you requested about schooling.
That’s crucial. Educating the stakeholders and practitioners. I feel that’s ramping up. The builders, the events which might be deploying the know-how and the functions, I feel that, there, that group is now extra conscious. Extra conscious implies that they lastly as we speak perceive the know-how that’s concerned and the functions that do happen with the intention to formulate a useful finish results of some sort.
Now I’m encapsulating so much, 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 strains, the facility strains, the water strains, every little thing that we see from road lights, air conditioners in our buildings, automated 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 really interconnected, once more, it’s nothing new for we, the residents. It’s already there. It’s in existence. The profit now is a brilliant metropolis turns into sensible when it may collect all of this knowledge that’s already flying amongst us.
I’m gonna come again to that story. Sensors are already submitting info someplace. It’s greatest that if a metropolis is receiving this info and knowledge, that they’ve some technique of group or else it might be ineffective to you and I as residents of the 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 neighborhood at giant, the entire. So as soon as now we have temperature, as soon as now we have climate, now we have visitors situations, the place it piles up, the place it’s mild, we as drivers and as residents, we sit in visitors and go, Oh my God, why are they doing development now?
Can’t they do it at evening? Man, why don’t they increase this? All of the issues that we complain about, a wise metropolis really is designed to cut back these forms 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 nations, creating nations I see, are adopting sensible metropolis at a way more fast tempo than we the developed nations.
Why is that? It’s an obligation. Site visitors sucks, infrastructure sucks, they can not construct new. Nobody can construct new. So you must benefit from present infrastructure and get, and, , the previous adage, work smarter, not tougher. So these nations are obligated to work smarter with the intention 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 feel consciousness is very elevated and due to that consciousness is the place we’re getting the query of oh my gosh, privateness points.
– [Ryan] There’s at all times going to be a gaggle that has a problem with change. Every municipality is so completely different in relation to funds resistance to new know-how adoption. So it’s powerful, I feel for us to see the or I suppose it makes, I perceive why adoption has been slower than I feel we wished it to be in relation to sensible metropolis options.
Nevertheless it’s necessary for individuals to know that these are oftentimes constructed with the perfect intentions in thoughts to make the expertise higher, to gather knowledge with out having to hassle the residents of the neighborhood, and have sufficient, have entry to the information that they’ll make choices extra rapidly to once more enhance that have for the people who find themselves dwelling day after 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 rapidly as some anticipated, however the very, I’m nonetheless very optimistic on what may be achieved and what this could do for the standard of life in numerous communities.
– [David] High quality of life is the largest promoting level, proper? And the largest advertising and marketing phrases that we hear and however on the again finish, somebody that’s working to truly deploy this know-how, 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 might be leveraging present infrastructure.
And I’m going to say that so much. 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 known as streetlights. Streetlights are already present infrastructure with energy provide to it. You understand how fantastic IoT and AI performs to, into present infrastructure now?
The creating nations leveraging the place they work so laborious to get a pole up and electrical strains 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 vital. In order that’s energy effectivity.
However past that, you’ve got 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 techniques, the system now will assist residents. That present infrastructure has simply elevated higher visitors stream, info and administration.
It simply elevated public security by having the general public perceive that these cameras listed here are defending you day and evening and officers have entry to them somewhat than strolling off in a boondock someplace. That little instance of how a wise metropolis deployment or implementation can nearly instantly improve the lives of the native present residents, not simply normal ideas.
So I’m a giant proponent for that. I’ve seen it. After which there are cities that have a whole lot of flooding in main climate that we don’t expertise right here too typically. 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 know-how 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 in regards to the lighting fixtures within the present infrastructure has been one thing that has positively come up earlier than and never only for completely different sensors, but additionally for gateways to increase protection and to, I do know we talked to individuals within the LoRa world they usually speak about completely 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 ideal 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 knowledge, to do issues which might be higher for everybody concerned. It’s a really fascinating area to comply with, to proceed to see new cities undertake completely different applied sciences …
– [David] You introduced up a great level, sure. Prompt enhancement of communication and web entry, proper? Simply including on to the wi-fi topography with out counting on the mobile sign that will not attain all of the world communities. In order that’s one other nice rapid profit as properly. You’re proper.
– [Ryan] David, I actually admire you taking the time to do that, this dialog, you shed some mild on some crucial 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 needs to be taught extra about what you all have happening, possibly comply with up on this dialogue, chat additional, what’s the easiest way they’ll try this?
– [David] I feel the simplest manner is to go to iveda.com, i v e d a dot com. And so far as utility to be taught extra, I recommend not simply going to the web site and historically taking a look at merchandise, that our viewers appears 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 functions and work being achieved, leveraging IoT and AI.
So there’s, I invite everyone to do go to and have a look at these.
– [Ryan] Incredible. 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.