On this podcast episode, we discuss how to build and deploy successful IoT solutions, the story behind the award-winning startup Crate.io and how 5G will impact the industrial sector.

Christian Lutz, Founder & CEO of Crate.io, joins the IoT For All team to share the secrets to his success as a serial entrepreneur. We discuss the challenges and opportunities that led to the creation of Crate.io and provide insight into the factors and constraints that go into creating a successful IoT solution. The episode ends with Christian's view on how 5G will impact his business and how to connect different data models in an easy and seamless way.

If you're interested in connecting with Christian, you can find him on Twitter and LinkedIn!

About Crate.io: Crate.io was recently named in Forbes Top 25 IoT Startups to watch in 2019 and won the TechCrunch Disrupt Europe 2014 Startup Battlefield Competition. They develop data management solutions that help companies put IoT and machine data to work. CrateDB is an open source distributed database offering the scalability and performance of NoSQL with the power and ease of standard SQL. The Crate.DB Cloud for Azure IoT is a turnkey data layer, offered as a hosted cloud service on Azure, enabling faster development of IoT platforms and data-driven smart factories. Crate.io is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Berlin, New York City, and Dornbirn, Austria.