Mazlan Abbas Posts

People assume a PhD is about becoming an expert in a narrow field. You pick a topic, spend four years buried in it, defend your thesis, and walk away with a title in front of your name. That was how I thought about it when I started mine at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia back in 1989. I was wrong. The research was almost the least important part. What the PhD actually gave me, I only fully…

A few years ago, I walked into a facility that had spent close to a million ringgit on an IoT deployment. Sensors were installed. A dashboard was running. The operations manager proudly pulled up a screen showing hundreds of data points flowing in, live, in real time. I asked him one question: “What decision did you make yesterday based on this data?” He paused. He looked at the screen. He…

What Is Operational Blindness? | IoT World by Mazlan Abbas IoT World iotworld.co Thought Leadership · AIoT What Is Operational Blindness? A Definition for the AIoT Era Your sensors are running. Your dashboards are live. Your reports land every morning. And yet you still cannot answer the one question that matters: what is actually happening in your operations right now? MA Dr. Mazlan…

The question organisations almost never ask after a successful pilot is the most important one: if this worked so well in one location, why has no one replicated it? The Pilot That Never Grows U Across factories, campuses, logistics hubs, and municipal infrastructure projects throughout Southeast Asia and beyond, a familiar story keeps repeating. An organisation invests in an IoT pilot. Sensors…

Everyone celebrates a successful IoT pilot. Nobody talks about what happens six months later. I have been in this industry long enough to see the pattern repeat itself more times than I care to count. The pilot runs well. The demo impresses the right people. The case study gets written. And then, quietly, the project stalls. The vendor stops getting replies. The internal champion gets moved to…

What happens when a man who spent decades inside some of Malaysia’s most established institutions decides to walk away from job security, a senior title, and a predictable salary to build something from scratch — at age 56? Most people would call that a midlife crisis. Dr. Mazlan Abbas calls it the beginning. The story of Favoriot is not a straightforward startup narrative. There are no venture…

What if the job your child will spend their career in does not have a name yet? That is not a hypothetical. That is the reality of the Internet of Things industry right now. IoT is not simply a technology trend. It is an economic restructuring that is quietly and systematically building an entirely new category of work. And most students, parents, and career advisors have not caught up with what…

Smart Energy Management Using the Favoriot Insight Framework Project Challenge #5 · Smart Energy Management How Energy Data Becomes Trusted Decisions Smart Energy Management is not only about meters, dashboards, and monthly bills. It begins with clear intent, trusted data, meaningful insights, and timely action. Explore the 6 Layers Schedule an Appointment From Intent to Action Smart…

How many times does a potential customer need to encounter your brand before they are ready to act? Most marketers have heard of the Rule of 7, the long-standing principle that a buyer needs at least seven brand exposures before taking action. The University of Maryland traces this back to early advertising research, and while the number has been cited across decades of marketing literature, the…

Smart Chilli Fertigation Powered by Favoriot Insight Framework Project Challenge #4 | Smart Agriculture | Favoriot Insight Framework Smart Chilli Fertigation Powered by Favoriot A structured IoT and AIoT approach to help chilli farms move from raw sensor data to trusted fertigation decisions. Schedule an Appointment Email Favoriot From Intent to Action 🌶️ Chilli Crop Intelligence Monitor…

Architecture overview Multi-Tenant IoT Platform: One Platform, Many Clients System Integrator (SI) Single platform account ↓ Client ASmart Building Client BFleet Monitoring Client CCold Chain ↓ Shared IoT Infrastructure Device mgmt · Data · APIs · Dashboards Key benefits for system integrators Lower cost per client Shared infrastructure means no separate platform spin-up for each…

Let me ask you something. If you wrote something today and nobody read it, would you write again tomorrow? Most people would say no. And I understand why. We live in a world that measures everything in likes, shares, reach and impressions. If the numbers don’t move, the assumption is that nothing is working. That you are wasting your time. That maybe you should stop. I started blogging around…