11 4 月, 2026

The mioty editorial team (met) asked someone who had been with mioty from the very beginning: Peter Hedberg, General Manager at the mioty Alliance.

met: What is your role at the mioty Alliance and how can members reach you?

Peter: I am the General Manager of the mioty Alliance. The role is quite wide in its scope and comprises everything from working on long term strategies to daily operational tasks. The main areas of responsibility are activities to increase the awareness of mioty and the mioty Alliance and securing that the current members get the support they expect so they are successful with their products/solutions based on mioty. The most important activities are to develop the mioty ecosystem by attracting new members and partners and to promote the members mioty-based solutions and offerings. This way we can showcase the values mioty brings in real life use cases. I am also doing a fair amount of conferences and speeches to promote mioty. Then there are some organizational things as well, like budget planning, internal efficiency and processes. But thanks to a highly motivated team, I get a lot of help making these tasks work broaden the market, increasing the market share of the mioty technology.

met: Talking IoT, what initially sparked your passion for the Internet of Things?

Peter: It was when I understood the savings you can reap when you start monitoring and controlling simple “stupid” things. One of the first, and most obvious use cases, I worked with was Smart Service and the value you get from just monitoring a few data points on a piece of equipment. This data tells you, and the service organization, when it is time to go visit the equipment. If all is fine, don’t go there. This saves both money, time and environment. Quite some value proposition!

met: What do you enjoy outside of work that keeps you curious and creative?

Peter: I enjoy outdoor activities, like skiing, mountain biking, hiking etc. And if I can do it together with friends and family, it is even better!

met: If you could place a sensor anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?

Peter:I guess it would be somewhere to monitor how our planet is doing and then send the data to all key decision makers in the world. Some of them obviously still deny what is happening with our planet.

met: What is your favorite superpower of the mioty® technology?

Peter: The extreme resilience against noise combined with the very small spectral footprint. This allows you to deploy massive amounts of devices in your network, with maintained quality of service, and yet it leaves room for other technologies to use the same open ISM bands. This is going to be the big gamechanger the coming years as LPWAN based IoT is growing very fast and at the same time the data is transmitted on the same limited radio bands. If you ask the experts, the biggest future challenge for wireless communications is spectrum scarcity. A lot of it is driven by the data “hunger” of AI systems, and this is just going to continue to increase.

met: Peter, we’ve heard your insights about mioty, but is there something few people know about you – any fun facts about Peter Hedberg?

Peter: Before deciding to study to become an engineer (graduated in 1990 as a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering) I was very close to start studying languages instead. I speak Swedish (obviously), Danish, German, Italian, English and Icelandic. And I was a pretty decent go-cart driver once upon a time; I have raced against both Michael Schumacher and the greatest of them all: Ayrton Senna.

If you’re eager to meet Peter face‑to‑face, two wonderful opportunities are just around the corner: the mioty Days, May 12-13 and the mioty Global Summit, May 20, 2026.