ET CIO

The growth of digital business and the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to drive large investment in IT operations management (ITOM) through 2020, according to Gartner. A primary driver for organizations moving to ITOM open-source software (OSS) is lower cost of ownership.

Business Standard

IoT (Internet of Things) security is top-of-mind for consumers across the globe, according to new research from digital platform security provider Irdeto. The survey found that 90 per cent of consumers polled from six countries including India believe it is important that a connected device has security built into the product.

Mint

Home automation is poised to become the next big thing in India with consumers increasingly opting for video door bells, voice-assisted technologies (like Alexa and Google Home), smart bulbs and surveillance systems.

Mint

This growth comes on the back of increasing adoption of the internet of things by Indian consumers owing to increasing internet penetration, rising smartphone usage and expanding social networks, said a report published by social media agency WATConsult, a part of Dentsu Aegis Network. The IoT market in India is currently growing at a compound annual growth rate of 41% and will continue to grow at the same rate till 2020.

Deccan Herald

By Uma Kannan and N V Vijay Kumar

Nasscom will be the programme manager, and bring industries, technology players and entrepreneurs, among others, together to work on this next wave. The state government will fund the project and help in bringing a few startups that are already funded by them.

VC Circle

A recent study by research firm Gartner found that over 55% of forward-looking organisations are either already investing in AI, or have plans to do so by 2020. This is a clear indication of the importance of this phenomenon, one that is bound to impact decision-making for businesses.

Mint

Artificial intelligence is guesswork—software that can look at a confusing situation, venture a guess about what’s going on, and learn from what happens when it acts.

The Hindu Business Line

The Internet of Things (IoT) market in India holds tremendous potential for telecommunications (telecom) operators, as connectivity is the backbone of IoT deployment. With the country moving towards a digital economy, the growing adoption of Cloud in IoT services, shifting of focus to industrial IoT (IIoT), rising market of M2M communication and increasing trend of wearable technology applications are among the major factors driving the IoT market in India.

Business World

The growth of digital business and the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to drive large investment in IT operations management (ITOM) through 2020, according to Gartner, Inc. A primary driver for organizations moving to ITOM open-source software (OSS) is lower cost of ownership.

Live Mint

But where is this data coming from? Out of 5.5 billion people in the world over the age of 14, 2.5 billion have a smartphone. By 2020, every person will have four personal digital devices. I know of many people who already have more. The Internet of Things will soon bring 50 billion devices online. Smart companies have realized this. Apple, Google, GE, Siemens, Amazon, Tencent, Baidu—all are moving from products and pipes to platforms. These platforms enable products that solve problems but they also capture and own data produced in the interaction.

Hindu Business Line

IoT is a term that encompasses 11 protocols including NFC (Near Field Communication), Bluetooth, ZigBee and a whole alphabet soup of standards. The premise behind IoT is to eventually span the entire breadth of connectivity between devices, systems and services.

CXO Today

The growth of digital business and the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to drive large investment in IT operations management (ITOM) through 2020, according to Gartner, Inc. A primary driver for organizations moving to ITOM open-source software (OSS) is lower cost of ownership. “While acceptance of OSS ITOM is increasing, traditional closed-source ITOM software still has the biggest budget allocation today.

India Times

With over 20 billion internet-connected devices expected to run by 2020, the deluge of data streams from these devices would warrant the use of edge computing, sophisticated analytics and AI. Innovative interplay of such technologies to produce desirable use cases is egging on the growth of Internet of Things (IoT) today.

YourStory

Heralding the shift from centralised to decentralised manufacturing, Industry 4.0 integrates IoT, data, and services, and creates networks where connected devices can talk to each other.

Forbes

Industrialists from every sector are looking to jump on the bandwagon of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and digitalization, not wanting to get left behind and implement technologies like Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, services and people, machine and deep learning in their factories. Digitalization is all about increasing output per human that inhabit our planet.

CXO Today

Simultaneously, an increasing number of enterprises across the country are moving to the cloud, implementing Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, and trying to understand customers better through analytics and social media platforms. As a result, tremendous opportunities are emerging for information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services (ITeS) providers.

Media Nama

Mirai botnet malware: A botnet malware named Mirai took over the Internet targeting home router users and other IoT based devices. The malware affected 2.5 million IoT devices; it’s not clear how many systems were affected in India. CERT—In had also issued an advisory regarding the attack back in October 2016.

CXO Today

Technology will play a pivotal role for betterment of the industry. With the implementation of IoT, transporting goods to long distances can be done far more efficiently. This is possible by accurately capturing and processing real time data. The logistics of the near future is based upon sensor technology that measures factors like traffic flow, area specific volume and movement of people and infrastructural strength of the area.

Data Quest

Internet of Things, a well-known name in the IT industry and other areas of technology, engineering and production. IoT is generalized and explained briefly as “a worldwide network of things” or “devices and humans connecting virtually with each other at a large scale”. In this 21stcentury of technology, the Indian industry is re-crafted and planned by the digital sector. This is further surged to the transpiring technological fields like the introduction of IoT

CIO

The world of logistics is more volatile, uncertain and competitive than ever before. With the consumers’ demanding changes and with Uberization seeping in, the logistics industry is undergoing a major transformation with all signs indicating that this will only intensify hereon.  Global organizations are struggling to keep up with the demands of an increasingly insatiable market while remaining profitable.

Indian CEO

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are the buzz words of the tech world, every day I get to see a new startup utilizing current AI and machine learning capabilities to solve some real world problems. I recently chanced up on to use Amazon machine learning algorithm for one of the apps we are developing. The idea is to get outcomes based on the user purchase behavior and predict his next purchase.

Business Standard

Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be the new technology buzzword. Hardly a day passes without an article, research report or announcement on the subject. Views on AI range from fear for the human race itself to unalloyed positivity that this technology is as big as the Industrial Revolution itself in its potential to transform productivity and the way we work and live.

DataQuest

Dataquest spoke to T R Ramachandran, Group Country Manager, Visa India & South Asia to understand how VISA plans to enhance its reach in the Indian market where digital payments are under spotlight due the demonetization drive

The Shillong Times

This information can be in various forms from medical records to biometric information. It may also mean information of financial details, bank passwords, and corporate formulas among others. In a rapidly changing world which is increasingly being governed by the Internet of Things (IoT) a person generates a number of information each day that he/she interacts.

The Asian Age

The DoT is in process of formulating a National Telecom Policy that will focus on areas such as Internet for all, next-generation technologies (like 5G and Internet of Things), skills development, and security, among others. The DoT plans to go for a wide consultation and outreach before finalising the new policy, and expects to have it in place by March 2018.

The Financial Express

Internet of Things (IoT) has a large role to play in the future of smart cities. IoT can be used in practically all scenarios for public services by governments to make cities environment friendly. Sensor-enabled devices can help monitor the environmental impact on cities, collect details about sewers, air quality, and garbage. Such devices can also help monitor woods, rivers, lakes and oceans.

The Financial Express

By Sudhir Chowdhary

Emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality, robotics, the Internet of Things, cloud computing, will recast our relationship with machines—creating deeper, more immersive partnerships. That’s not all. Humans will serve as digital conductors and the way we conduct business, discover talent and learn will be radically different.

The Economic Times

Tata Communications deploys a countrywide LoRa network and builds a complete end-to-end technology infrastructure to deliver a smooth and seamless IoT management service capability The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to grow exponentially, taking the total number of devices installed to 30 billion by 2020. This excludes the regular devices such as smart phones, PCs and tablets.

BGR

Owing to its market hype, almost all established software vendors are working to introduce AI into their product strategies which is creating considerable confusion in the process.

India Retailing.com

With the advent of digitization and technology, customer demands are going through a radical change. Enterprises are thus taking a leap, in order to adapt to the newer technologies which are not only faster and flexible in nature, but also helpful in creating a truly delightful customer experience. Similarly, with Internet of Things or IoT marking an epoch, retail environment has been truly revolutionised with positive disruptions, leading towards a monumental shift in the way retailers address their customers today.

PC Quest

For business decision makers and technology providers, some measure of clarity and progress can be made by understanding the challenges of applying IoT to business. In this article we analyze two principal challenges in making this happen.

DQ Week

IoT is not a new concept to the digital era as it stands for the interconnection of devices via smart sensors or grids in such a way that they are able to exchange or collect data. It’s another form of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) interaction where machines interact with other and make the tasks done on the behalf of manpower.

Business Standard

The deployment of smart sensors, wearables and mobile devices, augmented and virtual reality and location detection technologies substantially enhance the customer and employee experience with the products, Internet of Things and 3D printing and human-robot collaboration enable connectedness and virtual-physical interfaces to provide living examples of digital connectedness.

Mint

By Rozella Laha

Gartner predicts that by 2020, artificial intelligence technologies will be virtually pervasive in almost every new software product and service and will be one of the top five investment priorities for more than 30% of CIOs globally

The Hindu Business Line

Data is the lifeblood of the Internet of Things (IoT). It animates a new generation of powerful, connected devices that have already begun to dramatically impact our world, and self-driving cars are only one example.

The Indian Express

As many as 50 billion devices, ranging from smartphones and TVs to watches, pipelines and trucks, will be connected by 2020, a new report said on Thursday. According to a report by global research organisation Software.org: the BSA Foundation, IoT has the potential to drive huge economic gains.

The Hindu

Technology companies PTC and Tech Mahindra have announced the opening of an Industrial Internet of Things Center of Excellence at Tech Mahindra’s campus in Bengaluru. It is designed to showcase technologies that companies can utilise for their digital transformations — from product design through IoT connectivity and augmented reality.

CXO Today

Vaccines travel through cold supply chains. Internet of Things (IoT) together with real-time monitoring can decrease wastage in vaccines through improved identification and resolution of storage and transit issues than incumbent systems. A Lux Research report investigated the return on investment (ROI) for cold supply chains in case organizations switched to IoT-based systems from the existing ones.

Live Mint

How do we uphold data privacy in a “smart” world dominated by the Internet of Things (IoT), sensors, algorithms and apps? Can individuals have a meaningful degree of control over the vast amount of personally identifiable information (PII) generated and transacted across platforms in cyber space?

ET CIO

By Bharath Joshi

At least seven km of roads in the central business district area of Bengaluru will be developed as ‘Smart SURE’ roads, a terminology coined by the civic corporation to refer to streets that will have IoT enabled solutions for citizens. The high streets in the vicinity of Vidhana Soudha including MG Road, Brigade Road and Commercial Street will be covered under this plan.

Hindustan Times

In The New Digital Era, Google’s Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen wrote: “Technology empowers all parties, and allows smaller actors to have outsized impacts. And those actors need not be known or official. To wit, we believe it’s possible that virtual states will be created and will shake up the online landscape of physical states in the future.”

ET CIO

The report argues that only the surface of what IoT can achieve has been scratched, and industry and government must be prepared to help this emerging technology succeed. Fifty eight per cent of decision makers surveyed for the report said IoT is strategic to their businesses and another 24 per cent saw it as transformational.

India Infoline

We need to think of and prepare for an ecosystem where Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are mainstream, and connectivity is seamless, designed to improve the quality of e-governance and education, as well as to enable financial inclusion, smart cities, and an intelligent transportation system amongst other things, added Sinha.

Money Control

The Future Connected Conclave held in New Delhi gave visitors the perfect opportunity to explore some of the leading IoT solutions across diverse sectors for a connected world along with a host of insightful sessions on how technology is transforming every aspect of our lives.

The Economic Times

Moreover, the capabilities presented by technology today are far surpassing their earlier counterparts. As the concept of the Internet of Things is gradually taking shape, the industry is gradually embracing technology that is smarter and more dynamic in nature.

The Financial Express

Even as they are evaluating the relevance of technologies such as sensors, robotics, IoT, 3D technologies, augmented reality, cloud computing and others, they are already being drawn into the digital ecosystem which necessitates adaptation due to new ways of functioning brought on by other stakeholders.

Business Standard

By Sanjay Sharma

It is important for the industry to implement smart automations. This means we need to understand what the role of the operator will be in future. In Industry 1.0 and Industry 2.0, the operator was like a commander, giving commands to the machine. In Industry 3.0, the operator is kind of a captain, telling the machine via a software or program on what it has to do.

ET CIO

These next-generation offerings are fueled by business and technology platforms that will be the driver for new categories of spending. “Industry-specific disruptive technologies include the Internet of Things (IoT) in manufacturing, blockchain in financial services (and other industries), and smart machines in retail. The focus is on how technology is disrupting and enabling business,” said Lovelock.

Deccan Chronicle

Automation and artificial intelligence have already started affecting India with the pace of job creation failing to match the economic growth rate.

The Economic Times

By Rica Bhattacharyya

The massive industry disruption led by digital meant that we needed to rotate ourselves to the new (which is digital, analytics, cloud, mobility and security). Today, 50 per cent of our global revenues come from digital. As a people business, rotating ourselves internally to the new means we must train our people. We spend nearly $1 billion on training globally.

The Economic Times

As many as 50 billion devices, ranging from smartphones and TVs to watches, pipelines and trucks, will be connected by 2020, a new report said on Thursday.

Times of India

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more sophisticated, the threat that this automation will displace a wide number of jobs is very real. This obviously creates a distressing picture for many of us.

Business Standard

Several programmers have already attempted to create a job application robot. This type of online robot, or “bot”, is a programmed piece of software that performs a variety of functions on behalf of the applicant.

Trak.in

We are well past a phase where a mention of Artificial Intelligence used to take our thoughts to the realms of science fiction. A look at the investment flowing into AI will let us know that serious money is backing the dawn of the AI era. The investors, however, are a limited set right now.

The Economic Times

Technologies such as 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) will form the basis of Digital India and hence will be among focus areas along with skill development, investment inflow for continuous upgrade of networks and high security.

Business World

While it is applicable to all businesses, it is most best suited to drive business that operate at the realm involving the convergence of IOT (Internet of Things), Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Commerce and Smart Governance.

Business World

One of the most notorious case is the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on DNS services supplier Dyn last October that hijacked IoT devices to temporarily shut down popular web services, including AirBnB, Amazon Web Services, Netflix and Zendesk. The recent ransomware attack which affected 123 countries including India, just exposed our vulnerability.

Financial Express

The fight between man and machine is time immemorial and with each technological advance there are benefits and costs, whether it’s jobs or the loss of privacy.

Times of India

The Internet of Things refers to the rapidly growing network of connected objects that are capable of collecting data using embedded sensors and exchange it with many applications. Many appliances can be connected to IoT like lights, cars, thermostats and more.

Live Mint

The global manufacturing landscape is being transformed by digital technologies such as the “internet of things” and robotics collectively called “Fourth Industrial Revolution” or “Industry 4.0”. Huge efficiency and productivity gains are being realized through cost reductions, quality improvements, customization and a quantum leap in performance.

Indian CEO

The land record management is another interesting use case. If we look at the broader picture, All legal proceedings can be leveraged using block chain. This will help in making sure the public documents have transparency and change log available for viewing.

ET Tech

For Indian healthcare, the game changer will be the combination of Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The challenge is to bring in new generation of healthcare solutions at the primary care level, with focus on preventive care.

Business World

The success of Digital India campaign has resulted in an explosive growth of mobile devices, migration to cloud, emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) and Software Defined Networks (SDN). This in turn has opened doors to better customer experiences and greater access to information throughout the business ecosystem.

Live Mint

By Sanjay Gupta

The report, prepared by the International Telecommunications Union, scored all its 193 member states on their “commitment” to cybersecurity. Singapore tops the list. India ranks 23rd (surprisingly ahead of Germany and China but way below Malaysia and Oman) and Equatorial Guinea occupies the lowest berth.

The Financial Express

This is referred to as the Internet’s “Third Platform” and this is where innovating your information security strategy is imperative. While cloud, mobile and the Internet of Things (IoT) present undeniable efficiencies and opportunities in the business world, the reality is that they also add a multitude of cyber security complexity and potential exposure.

First Post

The health apps which are downloaded in mobile phones often become the source of big-data not only for the company that has produced it but also to the other agencies which are hunting for data in the internet. “We often click various options while browsing internet and thus knowingly or unknowingly give a third party access to some data stored in the device or in the health app,” she adds.

CXO Today

5G network will be widely embraced in the US and in Asian countries, as it is set to become mainstream by 2020, according to research and consulting firm Global Data. In fact data shows that Asia has taken the lead on the development of 5G, which will help smartphone users embrace the new tech era of artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), big data, the Internet of Things (IOT) and robotics.

Live Mint

By Leslie D’Monte and Sanjay Gupta

Manufacturing is “another big area”, in addition to the potential for analysing all the data from multiple devices of the Internet of Things (IoT) that is set to get a big boost from the government’s smart cities initiatives in the next few years. “We are in advanced discussions on several initiatives as we speak and hope that by the fourth quarter of 2017, we should see some clearly defined projects,” said Kagalwalla.

Financial Express

By Ishaan Gera

It would be definitely beneficial for large data processing and also for low latency situations like some Internet of Things (IoT) cases. For example, a machine needs to stop when it reaches certain critical parameters say heat, speed, etc., to avoid damage. Round trip can be expensive and by the time an instruction is sent back to the machine, it may already be damaged.

Mint

An internet shutdown compromises our democratic freedoms and should only be allowed in the most rare cases, rather than as a first response

Money Control

Watch Future Connected Conclave held in New Delhi which highlighted the role of Internet of Things (IoT) across diverse sectors for a smarter India. The conclave held insightful sessions on a host of subjects including smart homes, smart agriculture, and mobility.

Telangana Today

Wikipedia defines the Internet of Things to be the inter-networking of physical devices, vehicles (also referred to as “connected devices” and “smart devices”), buildings, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity which enable these objects to collect and exchange data.

Data Quest

With its prescriptive security analytics capabilities, the solution analyses and correlates high volumes of structured and unstructured data from different sources (IT, OT and IoT), and monitors not only the internal customer network but also the social networks, the deep web and the dark web, for a full environment screening.

Tech Story

What is needed today is digital transformation. Not only of the software but the process and the business as a whole. Digital Transformation is the continuous adoption of digital technologies in business that cause vital changes in the operations and the way that they value their customers. You may have heard of IoT, Big Data, hyper-connectivity, cloud computing, etc.

ET Health World

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have found that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States alone. And the situation is similar in India. According to a 2013 National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare providers (NABH) study, 98,000 deaths occur in India every year due to medical errors.

The Economic Times

Smartphones have driven down the costs of using internet sharply, and allowed the increase of penetration, and are set to further revolutionize our lives by taking control of all home & kitchen appliances and electronics at our homes and offices. Not only will they allow us to control remotely, but artificial intelligence will go hand in hand with IoT and make life a lot easier.

Business World

Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence powered security solutions, with the capacity to constantly monitor digital systems, predict and detect upcoming threats and self create preventive solutions, at the same swiftness, could be the ideal antidote

Mint

Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence system that may accurately predict which IVF embryos will grow into healthy babies

The Hindu Business Line

By Rakesh Rao

The future of the global economy is digital. In the light of the rise of Industry 4.0 and the proliferation of the Internet of things (IoT) within the industrial space, digitalisation is bringing about advances in contemporary automation, data exchange and manufacturing technologies. Digital transformation is poised to bring about a gamut of opportunities and challenges.

Data Quest

Amazon will never share their buying behavior data and Google will never share their search data. Therefore, it suggests that data triumphs the algorithms. For us to have an impact on AI, one of the biggest opportunities is Internet of Things since IoT is going to provide us a lot of real world data about who we are and what we do.

The Statesman

Asia has taken the lead on the development of 5G, which will help smartphone users embrace the new tech era of artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), big data, the Internet of Things (IOT) and robotics.

Data Quest

By Onkar Sharma

With the rapid digitalization of functions and processes of organizations, the need for adopting secure cyber practices is becoming extremely important. Establishing a cyber security program and business continuity program for drafting various security policies is a vital role of CSOs and CISOs.

Business Standard

By Rakesh Rao

The future of the global economy is digital. In the light of the rise of Industry 4.0 and the proliferation of the Internet of things (IoT) within the industrial space, digitilisation is bringing about advances in contemporary automation, data exchange and manufacturing technologies.

BW CIO World

Five years ago, terms like ‘smart factory’ or ‘Industry 4.0’ or ‘Industrial Internet’ were unheard off. But these are quite common today especially when the discussion veers towards digital transformation. Digitisation in manufacturing is driven by new demands from the business and customers. It is enabled by technologies like IoT and IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things).

Business World

Autonomous Mobility has been making increasing inroads across many domains globally. In such a scenario, the traditional fear has been that automation will take away human jobs. But as empirical evidence demonstrated after the Industrial Revolution, while some job categories became redundant, the emergence of technology triggered job creation in other spheres.

ELETS Online

In the last couple of years Internet of Things (IoT) has been established as one of the most prominent emerging technology. IoT has caught up in several sectors and research firms predict that this potential trillion-dollar market will grow progressively. The benefits of IoT are relevant for both private and public sectors.

Data Quest

We have entered a “Machine to Machine” (M2M) era where digitization of things has become a prominent part of our lifestyle. The era witnesses the growth of IT industry and smart cities with inter-connected network of devices via all sorts of communication tools. As the name itself suggests, M2M stands for Machine to Machine interaction while eliminating the need for manned operation.

ET CIO

As a part of Digital India initiative, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Internet of Things (IoT) in July 2015. The goal of this announcement was to accelerate IoT ecosystem in the country and leveraging India’s skills and capabilities in the IT.

BW CIO

By Brian Pereira

The manufacturing industry in India is finally embracing digital technologies like IoT and machine learning. Yet there are many challenges in the road to digitisation.

Live Mint

One is, of course, the pervasiveness and business-critical nature of the cloud, made possible by reliable and secure networks. Second is the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT is empowering businesses to transform how they serve their customers, and the way people interact with the world around them.

Live Mint

More broadly, we see the “digitization of operations,” a key component of Industry 4.0. With sensors declining in cost and the Internet of Things (IoT) coming into play, this digitization of operations is resulting in a wealth of data that is now driving business insights powered by analytics.

Business Standard

Going ahead, 5G deployment will be driven by the need for enhanced mobile broadband capabilities as well as industry solutions for efficiency and automation. Also, 5G will support a diversity of use cases. Ericsson’s latest Mobility Report pegs 5G subscriptions in 2022 to be around 500 million, not including IoT connections. By then, 5G is expected to cover around 15 per cent of the world’s population.