Shamik Mehta, Author at IIoT World

Shamik Mehta is the Director of Industry Solutions Marketing for Hitachi Vantara. Shamik has around 25 years of experience in product and strategic marketing for semiconductors, renewable energy, e-mobility, IoT, data management and data analytics software. He’s held roles in chip design, pre-sales, product management and marketing for technology products, including software solutions and data platforms. His experiences include 6 years at SunEdison, once the world's largest solar and wind energy Independent Power Producer, leading product management, operations, business development and marketing.

Shamik has experience managing global product marketing, GTM activities, thought leadership content creation and sales enablement activities for technology and software applications for the Smart Energy, Electrified Transportation and Manufacturing verticals. Shamik is a Silicon Valley native, having lived, studied and worked there since the early 90’s.

October 25, 2022 · Connected Industry

Aggregating IT/OT Data Does Not Equal Convergence

Earlier this year, a colleague of mine and I were on our way to the IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona. Although we made our connecting flights, a couple of minutes after deplaning, we received emails and texts from the airline informing us that our luggage was not on the plane. The text then asked us […]

August 31, 2022 · Energy

Down to the Wire: Putting Data to Work to Help Minimize Wildfires

With rising temperatures and increasingly drier conditions in many parts of the world, fires are starting and spreading more easily than ever. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in California where drought and an aging electrical power grid have combined to spark one-third of the wildfires there from 2011 to 2015. But the Golden […]

July 21, 2022 · Connected Industry

Auto and Grid Clouds Collide to Speed Electrified Transportation

When it comes to the future of electric vehicles, many people believe “the sky is the limit.” A more accurate statement might be, “the cloud is the limit.” Where traditional automobiles that run on fossil fuels release copious amounts of CO2 emissions, electronic vehicles or EVs produce a large amount of another, more eco-friendly substance: […]

May 4, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

How Data & AI Can Help Make Utility Line Inspections Safer

Electricity is fundamental to our society. As climate change becomes more severe and demand for clean energy increases, the future is the electrification of everything and along with it, the need for reliable energy. The U.S. infrastructure spans over a vast 200,000 miles and inspecting all of it is a time-consuming and high-risk process that […]

December 20, 2021 · Connected Industry

The power of combining data for utilities

Where and when should a utility trim vegetation near power lines to best reduce the risk of wildfires? When is the most cost-effective time to take a wind turbine out of service for general maintenance? How can customers be convinced to charge their electric vehicle or consume energy at off-peak times that relieve pressure from […]

October 29, 2021 · Energy

A cleaner energy future will depend on reliability and predictability

When power company executives were asked to list the most important issues facing their organizations, 45% overwhelmingly cited their top concern related to the future of energy as “renewables, sustainability or the environment.” At the same time, global energy consumption continues to rise faster than the population. These two realities are reshaping the international energy […]