An AIoT Evangelist | Startup Founder | Keynote Speaker | Thought Leader | Author | Social Media Influencer
As of Dec. 2022, I used Similarweb to check all three websites I managed.
It seems Favoriot’s website has improved since we published numerous blog articles and have been promoting Favoriot since early 2023.
CBT announced their second annual Top 100 IoT Influencer Award Winners, naming who to follow on social media. My name was selected based on industry standing, reach, credentials, influence, engagement, and content, all of which shaped the direction of IoT.
Read the full release here.
I just realized today that I couldn’t access and edit this Blog. Upon checking, I found out the domain had been auto-renewed in Nov.
Thus, what’s the problem?
My name was first noticed and listed by Onalytica in their “The Internet of Things 2014 – Top 100 Thought Leaders” report published on April 15, 2014. The full report can be downloaded here.
Recently on May 18, 2022, Onalytica released another report entitled “Who’s Who in IoT?” The full report can be downloaded here.
In this report Onalytica takes a look at a range of influencers and personas, answering the key questions below:
As stated by Onalytica, their method of listing the influencers are shown below:
“Onalytica has been creating influencer lists for the last 10+ years, curating an influencer database of 1M influencers across 500+ topical communities within industries such as tech, finance, healthcare, education and many more.
It is our mission to shine a light on the most influential voices that are creating quality content, and driving engagement and impact online across social as well as traditional media.
Onalytica uses a unique combination of our proprietary software, human qualitative analysis,Who-in-IoT-Onalytica and secondary research to analyze online and offline influence, to create the best social influencer lists in the world. Our influence scores are driven by 38 algorithms and this methodology has been continually refined over the past 10 years to evolve with social media developments and how influence is best calculated.
We take into account social media influence across channels like LinkedIn & Twitter as well analyze offline influence through a proxy of online analysis looking at how much people are referenced within a topical context in blogs, media and video sites. We also look at how topically relevant an influencer’s content is and whose content drives the most engagement online and among the wider influencer community.
Each influencer is categorized by a number of criteria such as by role, influencer persona, expertise, location, audience, channel referencing the role they play within the wider influencer community and the way in which they’d collaborate with brands.”
My name has been listed in the “MyOnalytica experts” category which highlights influencers that are part of Onalytica’s marketplace, creating relevant content on social on the topic, driving the most engagement globally and keen to partner with brands. These influencers are often experts, social amplifiers, event speakers and independent analysts all in one. Full report can be downloaded HERE.
The IoT Adventure Book by Dr. Mazlan Abbas is a comprehensive guide to the Internet of Things (IoT) world and how it can transform various industries. The book covers the latest IoT applications and shares Dr. Abbas’s experience as an IoT entrepreneur.
The book is divided into sections covering various topics, from IoT applications to IoT challenges and tips. The IoT applications section discusses the potential benefits of IoT in multiple industries, such as supply chains, smart agriculture, smart buildings, and smart mobility. It also explores IoT solutions for flood forecasting, warning, fleet management, and garbage collection.
One attractive section of the book is on Smart Cities, which delves into the opportunities and challenges of using IoT to build more efficient and sustainable cities. It covers citizen engagement, budget allocation, and data monetization.
The book also includes tips and tutorials on developing IoT solutions, selecting the best IoT platform, and creating IoT talents. It provides insights into IoT middleware, IoT ecosystems, and IoT business models, as well as discusses the impact of IoT on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0).
Dr. Abbas’s book is handy for those interested in building IoT solutions, as it offers practical advice on developing IoT projects efficiently and avoiding common pitfalls. It provides insights into the skills required for IoT talent, how to solve IoT project issues in universities, and how to monetize IoT data.
The IoT Adventure Book also covers Generation-IoT, a new generation of young people driving the IoT revolution. It discusses how Generation-IoT can build its own IoT ecosystem and offers expert advice on becoming a successful IoT player.
The book is well-organized and easy to read, with each section covering a specific topic. It is suitable for beginners and advanced readers, providing a comprehensive overview of the IoT industry while diving deeper into particular issues.
One of the book’s strengths is Dr. Abbas’s personal experience as an IoT entrepreneur. He shares his insights and provides practical advice based on his successes and failures. This makes the book more relatable and valuable, especially for those new to the IoT industry.
Overall, The IoT Adventure Book (Sign Up HERE) is a must-read for anyone interested in the Internet of Things. It offers a comprehensive guide to IoT applications, challenges, and tips, while also providing insights into the impact of IoT on various industries. Dr. Abbas’s personal experience as an IoT entrepreneur makes the book more engaging and practical, making it an excellent resource for beginners and advanced readers. IoT Applications
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Contents of “IoT Adventure” eBook
What’s the best strategy to build a business? To focus on a single product or multiple products? Should we place everything (money) into a single basket or not?
Well, it depends … In almost any Startup, the first product can sucks and your initial vision can change along the way. Pivot is normal in any Startup.
The same thing happen to us — when we build our first product called Raqib. It is targeted for elderly people. But later we pivot the market for Hajj pilgrims.
The second product is Favorsense, which is meant to help the local authorities in handling complaints from the public. It can also be used to collect data and identify the real pain-points of the cities before we start building Smart Cities applications.
Even the target market for Favorsense has been expanded for Campus, Housing Developers, Enforcement Agencies and many others.
The third product is the Favoriot IoT platform itself, which is meant to become an enabler to build new IoT applications. It was offered as Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). It now has more than 5300 users from 115 countries worldwide and still growing.
So far, the Favoriot IoT platform has been more successful than the rest of the products. The traction has been very encouraging. Furthermore, any IoT deployment MUST have an IoT platform and we want our Favoriot platform to be the preferred choice.
When I have this idea to write another E-book on Internet of Things, I was trying to figure what’s the best way to share my IoT journey.
Earlier, I have published two E-books – Your IoT Journey (815 downloads) and IoT Notes (1445 downloads). Both of these E-books I have made it available for free. Initially when it was first launched, it was offered at a price below USD 2.99.
In the latest E-book, IoT Adventure, it will go deeper into the business of IoT. Mainly it will be from my personal experience venturing into IoT entrepreneurship.
It will highlight several things (list is not exhaustive):
You can check more of the IoT Adventure contents here.
Personally, it has been a very exhilarating adventure when I decided to embark on this journey. We have failed and learned a lot and it’s about time to share some of my experience so that we can help new IoT entrepreneurs to be more successful in their mission to solve their customer’s problems.
But I also would like to open to comments from the readers to share their thoughts and experiences about their IoT business too and how it can help the whole IoT ecosystem to spur and grow exponentially.
Sign-up – Please inform me of your new IoT Adventure eBook!
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The path in building an IoT business is not straightforward – especially when it involved many IoT Ecosystem players, new market and mindset transformation.
Dr. Mazlan Abbas
This is the first post to indicate the opening and launching of Mazlan Abbas website dated November 17, 2021.
I was listening to Pat Flynn podcast and was inspired by his work work on Smart Passive Income. It all started two weeks ago and I have just finished his 22nd Podcast. He had over 500 podcast which he published almost every week.
Although, I have my own Blog called IoT World which I have created many years back, I have always wondered whether I should create my personal website using my name. I checked and noticed the domain mazlanabbas.com was not taken and that’s when I decided today to buy the domain and use WordPress as the hosting site for the Blog.
There’s always pros and cons of having our own name as the domain such as we will not be able to sell this domain name later as compared to niche sites. Furthermore, I have many other things which I would like to share but unable to do that on my IoT World Blog.
I have created many other personal or hobby sites such as:
However, all of them did not have it’s own domain name since t’s a free. And I found it’s difficult to manage multiple sites. Thus, I decided to (as of today) to manage only two sites which I have interest and passion. One for Internet of Things (i.e. IoT World) and the other is this Mazlan Abbas blog.
I will keep on posting the progress of this site as I customised it’s theme and content. As usual, currently this site does not appear in the first page of Google yet when we do a search on “Mazlan Abbas” (which it should). And also no one has yet subscribe to this Blog yet – something which I would like to measure the number of followers too.
[The article was originally published in IoT World]
Since early last year (2020), most of us have now lived in the new norm. Most of the things that we do physically has now changed drastically either with the usage of technology of the way we interact.
Digital and telecommunications are two forms of technology which are critical in the new norm. With physical distancing or periods during lockdown, the only way we get in touch is via telecommunications. Pen and paper has been reduced drastically with conversion of content into digital. Usage of Internet especially online conferencing for either webinars or meetings have been a new norm.
But how do technology like Internet of Things (IoT) can play a significant role in the new norm? Check out the video from Dr. Mazlan Abbas, FAVORIOT below.
Dr. Mazlan Abbas 