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Episode 62:

The Internet of Everything with Rob Rastovich of ThingLogix

November 17, 2021

On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas have a conversation with Rob Rastovich, the CTO of ThingLogix, a Bay Area company that provides IoT services and solutions. Additionally, Rob lives on and operates a 200-acre cattle ranch in Oregon that utilizes the IoT. 

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Notes:

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

  • Rob’s career began as an early adopter in internet marketing and then he got the bug for machine-to-machine IoT (2:47)
  • Making assumptions about mass scale (8:44)
  • Pervasiveness of IoT in the market (11:47)
  • Initial reactions to technological advances that we take for granted today (17:28)
  • What makes IoT unique (23:56)
  • Killing the SQL server (29:11)
  • What really separates a smart device from a dumb device that can send data to the cloud (33:13)
  • 5G, LoRa, and drawbacks and advances in widespread IoT adoption (37:05)
  • Security and privacy in IoT (41:23)
  • Using IoT as a cattle rancher (45:20)

 

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