Lucy Barnard
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Bringing over two decades in journalism, Lucy Barnard has reported on everything from London’s property chessboard to Abu Dhabi’s vertical ambitions — and always delivered the story before deadline. Lucy is interested in how technology intersects with major global challenges, from climate change to gender equality and social justice. She believes innovation isn’t just about efficiency or convenience—it’s a powerful tool for building a fairer, more sustainable world.

Gen AI tools set the foundation for IoT

The advent of publicly available generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude,and Perplexity brought with it a massive wave of excitement andinvestment. Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta have all placed large bets on AIpartnerships, acquisitions, and branded AI capabilities. As excitement…

“Breaking down the barriers”: Liz Upton explains why she joined BOW

In November 2024 the robotics software company BOW announced the appointment of Liz Upton, Co-Founder and CMO of Raspberry Pi as Chair of its board. In a conversation with Upton following this appointment, she shared a mutual vision with BOW…

Will eSIMS cannibalise traditional MNOs revenues?

The rise of eSIM technology, especially in the travel sector, has sparked a debate on whether it will disrupt traditional mobile network operators (MNOs) by ‘cannibalising’ their revenues. Travel eSIMs offer a seamless and flexible alternative to roaming and traditional…

The convergence of IT, OT, and IoT: talking to Richard Owen, Unisys

IT, OT, and IoT technologies are increasingly converging in manufacturing environments, Richard Owen, Director of Collaboration Architecture, Seamless Collaboration, Digital Workplace Solutions at Unisys told IoT Insider in a recent conversation.  “We see people adopting more off the shelf consumer-based…

Q&A: Skyworks talks through C-V2X, smart city and coexistence

Skyworks Solutions were on hand at electronica to talk through their solutions for cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communications, smart city applications and products in the 2.4GHz range, as IoT Insider spoke to Tom Valencia, Senior Product Marketing Manager and Steve Belletete,…

Q&A: Suman Sehra, HARMAN shares belief in automotive connectivity

Automotive connectivity, which can be understood as enabling the exchange of data, information and situational awareness between cars and their surroundings (or, in other cases, between cars and other cars, or cars and pedestrians) and in more recent years, has…

Q&A: Sam Presley of Nordic deep dives into nRF54 SoC series

There was much hype surrounding the official launch of Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF54 System-on-Chip (SoC) series at electronica 2024. IoT Insider Editor Caitlin Gittins took some time out at the show to speak with Sam Presley, Technical Product Manager, to learn…

Top 10 IoT Unplugged podcast episodes of 2024

As 2024 draws to a close, IoT Insider reflects back on the Top 10 topics and guests that featured in IoT Unplugged this year, giving special mention to the top 10 who inspired, educated and were engaged with by our…

Entering the PQC world: a conversation with Denis Noël from NXP

Denis Noël, Director & Head of Product Marketing, Secure Connected Edge at NXP Semiconductors took some time out at electronica 2024 to speak with IoT Insider about technologies and big talking points – among them, post-quantum cryptography (PQC), how NXP…

IoT Unplugged: S4:E10 – Enabling IoT applications with low code

Wrapping up the season, ZJ, CEO of FlowFuse spoke on the IoT Unplugged podcast about the significance of low-code tools in enabling those not well-versed in code to create applications out of it. FlowFuse focuses on low-code tools that enable…