Real-Time Insights: How Sensors Transform Facility Management

In this episode of Facility Voices, David Trask sits down with Charlie Thiel, Chief Revenue Officer at IOTACOM, for a candid conversation about how sensor technology is reshaping the daily reality of facilities teams. Charlie shares his wide-ranging career journey—from years in security technology to consulting across North America—and explains how those experiences led him to IOTACOM’s mission of connecting, collecting, and analyzing data to help people make smarter decisions. Together, David and Charlie explore why digitization in facilities continues to lag behind personal technology adoption, how emerging connectivity standards like LoRaWAN are lowering barriers, and why real-time insights are becoming essential for predictive maintenance, safety, and energy management. Charlie also offers practical advice for organizations starting their sensor journey, emphasizing that small pilot projects often unlock the biggest breakthroughs.

Tune in to hear Charlie Thiel’s story and insights from the front lines of facilities management.

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 Charlie Thiel is the Chief Revenue Officer at IotaComm, Inc., bringing over three decades of leadership across technology, consulting, and public service, including founding Thiel Strategic, leading business development at CSi, and completing executive education at Wharton. A strong advocate for educational equity, he helped drive Pennsylvania’s first comprehensive equity policy and contributed to the state’s landmark Basic Education Funding Formula while serving on the Allentown School District Board. He now applies his strategic and civic experience to advance IotaComm’s mission of building smarter, safer, more sustainable communities. 

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