In this episode of the IoT For All Podcast, Nick Earle, CEO of Eseye, joins Ryan Chacon to discuss the state of IoT adoption and challenges facing the industry. The conversation covers Eseye's 2024 State of IoT Adoption Report, emerging IoT use cases, IoT device firmware, SGP.32, Amazon's ambitious 'Amazon Key' project, IoT initiatives in Africa, and predictions for IoT in 2025. 2024 State of IoT Adoption Report: https://www.iotforall.com/white-paper/eseye-2024-state-of-iot-adoption-report Nick Earle is the CEO of Eseye where he spearheads Eseye’s strategy. He firmly believes in connectivity that ‘just works.' He’s a visionary business leader with a distinguished career in technology spanning more than 30 years, oscillating between start-ups and global technology corporations. Previously, Nick led organizations and cross-company transformation programs for two $50B global corporations; Cisco where he ran the Cloud and Managed Services business as well as their Worldwide Field Services function, and Hewlett Packard where he ran the global Enterprise Marketing function and the internet transformation strategy. As a world leader in IoT connectivity solutions, Eseye helps customers to realize lasting value from global IoT projects. They bring the deep device expertise needed to integrate, manage, and optimize IoT connectivity for estates of any scale or complexity, seamlessly connecting devices across 190 countries and more than 700 networks. All with near-100% uptime. Discover more about IoT at https://www.iotforall.com More about Eseye: https://www.eseye.com Connect with Nick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nearle/ Our sponsor: https://www.qoitech.com (00:00) Qoitech (00:35) Intro (00:49) Nick Earle and Eseye (01:16) The state of IoT adoption (05:12) Challenges in IoT connectivity (09:39) What makes connectivity a challenge? (14:30) Device firmware and security (18:02) Predictions for IoT in 2025 (22:57) SGP.32 standard (27:32) Emerging IoT use cases (33:52) Learn more and follow up Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2NlcEwm​ Join Our Newsletter: https://www.iotforall.com/iot-newsletter Follow Us on Social: https://linktr.ee/iot4all Check out the IoT For All Media Network: https://www.iotforall.com/podcast-overview