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.

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…

Infineon will implement ISO standard 21434 for automotive MCUs

The increasing connectivity of road vehicles has subsequently led to a growing need for cybersecurity, a development that Infineon has responded to with its plans to implement ISO/SAE/21434 for its TRAVEO T2G automotive microcontrollers. The United Nations Economic Commission for…

LPWAN “has a voice”, says Jason Legget of Connexin

News of Connexin lobbying the UK government to recognise Low Power, Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) as critical infrastructure passed across IoT Insider’s news desks recently and prompted us to speak to Connexin directly about this particular campaign, which reflects growing…

Recognise verticals are different, says GSMA Intelligence webinar

A recently released report from GSMA Intelligence showed, among other insights, that enterprises are focusing more on improving cybersecurity and boosting their revenue, as opposed to cutting their costs. GSMA, who hosted a webinar delving into these insights and at…

Vodafone and Three merge in £16.5bn deal

Vodafone and Three have finally merged, in a £16.5 billion deal, following approval from the CMA, who launched a months-long investigation in which it sought to make sure that the merger wouldn’t lead to weakened competition and result in other…

Functional safety and modularity next trends in robots, says NEXCOM

Jenny Shern, General Manager of NexCOBOT, a subsidiary of NEXCOM Group, spoke to IoT Insider about AI being the “next trend”, the growth of mobile robots and functional safety, and offering modularisation in robotics, sharing insights into the pain points…