You certainly are familiar with or have at least heard of location based applications used to precisely locate assets, machines, individuals in or out of buildings. Among all these applications, the ones that stand out and frankly really add value, are the ones that don’t just do observation of things location. They are the ones that allow automation and integration into workflows. Location does matter, and we will discuss why with Paul on this new episode of the IoT Show. Paul comes from the world of Air Traffic Control and is an entrepreneur passionate about using IoT and location based services for innovations in healthcare. He even came up with the concept of Care Traffic Control! Don’t forget to subscribe to stay up to date on all things IoT and give us a little like if you appreciate the conversation and leave a comment to share your perspective Learn more at https://whywherematters.com

Time for an update on Particle. Zach Supalla, Founder and CEO, shares some backstories and gives us an update on where things are at Particle, how they decided to bundle multiple radios in a single System on Module, or why they made their development boards production-ready. Learn more about Particle at https://particle.io

If you are using the MQTT protocol to connect your IoT devices to the Cloud or to communicate with one another, you will want to check out the Azure Event Grid MQTT Broker. Seth is a Program Manager in the Event Grid team and will tell us all we need to know, as IoT practitioners, about this new feature of Event Grid. Yes, there are existing open source brokers you can deploy yourself in a VM in the Cloud, but you might be surprised how much more you can get by opting for an MQTT Broker as a service such as the one the Event Grid team offers.