Business Standard

A new cyber security report from Vodafone, Cyber Security: The Innovation Accelerator, highlights a strong link between how cyber security is used and business success, with 86 per cent of high-growth companies seeing information security as an enabler of new opportunities, rather than simply a means of defence. The research showed a number of perceived benefits that strong cyber security can bring to the relationship between an organisation and its customers.

The Economic Times

The advent of AI is expected to trigger an increase in urbanisation due to the replacement of heavy manufacturing and agricultural jobs. Likewise, migration of investment capital is likely to move towards established sources of human talent in upcoming years.

YourStory

Once relegated to the realms of fantasy and cheesy special effects, today Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made its presence felt in various aspects of our daily lives. It’s the invisible way in which an app tells us how our favourite tennis star will fare on a grass court; it’s in the software that tells our investment managers which fund will have the best returns, and advises our doctor on what the optimum course of treatment would be based on our medical history.

The Hindu Business Line

Telecom operators on Wednesday said that while they are investing a lot on developing future technologies for better services, the sector also needs some relief from the government in terms of taxes, regulatory norms and spectrum cost.

Governance Now

Electronics and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that his ministry would soon announce a slew of policies related to information technology.

Financial Express

During the past few years, in the area of wireless communication and networking, a new standard named Internet of Things (IoT) has been gaining attention.

The Hindu Business Line

The government on Tuesday set up High-Level Forum on 5G India 2020 with a mandate to lay down a roadmap for the rollout of the technology by 2020. The Centre will spend Rs 500 crore in research and development for the same.

YourStory

From competition to collaboration to convergence, the trajectory of the relationship between humans and AI appears predestined and foreseeable.

PTI

Asserting that every piece of technology should help embellish the capability of human beings, Microsoft’s India-born CEO Satya Nadella has said the technology should not “degrade” humanity but provide new levels of inclusiveness.

CXO Today

Airlines and airports are embracing new technologies and turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to support their customer service.

Business World

By Rajguru Tandon

In an interaction with BW Businessworld, Ketan Kapoor, co-founder and CEO of Mettl, online talent management firm, highlights the factors for the downfall of the IT sector and inspects the situation, talking about the skills in demand.

First Post

Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that can detect electricity theft and meter misreadings – a common problem in developing countries. Electricity theft is a huge problem, some countries see as much as 40 per cent of their supply siphoned off largely by users who have tampered with meters, researchers said.

Pharmabiz

The Indian healthcare industry has already been empowered by Internet of Things (IoT), however, there is still a long way to go. Today, attempts are being made to push basic healthcare to rural India through connected care, said Ravi Ramaswamy, Sr. Director Philips Health Systems.

Business World

Technology will converge with humans: IoT enabled applications such as Amazon Echo and Google Home have shown us how the much-hyped connected home could look like thanks to advances in IoT-enabled sensor technologies and natural language processing.

CXO Today

“These CoEs are a platform to connect companies in these emerging areas, especially in terms of finding mentors. They are also zones of collaboration where teams can work together,” he said. CoE Bengaluru was set-up in July last year focusing on IoT and the government has now approved an extension for setting up centers in cities including Ahmedabad, Gurgaon and Vishakapatnam, he said.

Money Control

According to Manoj Sinha: “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.”

The Hindu

On the concerns that artificial intelligence and Internet of Things (IoT) would take away jobs, Mr. Pankaj agreed that jobs would be lost and therefore a choice of career was important. For instance, audio transcription jobs would be lost as automatic speech recognition was emerging. Jobs in call centres, medical imaging, telemarketing, para legal and low-level technical jobs were at risk, he said.

Business Standard

By Alnoor Peermohammed

The task force, set up in August, has been asked to draw up a policy for the accelerated deployment of AI and a five-year roadmap for its use in government and industry research programmes.

The Hindu Business Line

By RS Sharma Disruptive technologies, such as IoT (internet of things) and artificial intelligence, are all poised to change the face of the industry and therefore industrialists should familiarise themselves with the latest technological advances and make use of them judiciously, according to IT experts.

Times of India

Despite the recent criticism that IBM Watson has received, Sriram Raghavan, director, IBM Research India defends its applicability across sectors including healthcare, retail and financial services. Raghavan talks to TOI about how the field of research is changing rapidly with co-innovation, multidisciplinary application and blockchain.

Money Control

Industry body Nasscom is expecting the USD 150-billion Indian IT industry to deliver a strong performance next fiscal on revival in tech spends of the financial sector and demand growth from the US clients.

Hans India

Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Andhra Pradesh Technology Development and Promotion Centre (APTDC) organised the IoT-AI Summit, a two-day conference, on ‘Disruptive technologies for transforming business in a digitally integrated world’ here on Friday.

CXO Today

The fourth industrial revolution—Industry 4.0—has been gathering momentum in recent years and is set to be transformative in 2017. Industry 4.0 is the digitisation of the manufacturing industry and a realisation of the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) combined with artificial intelligence and data science. Done right, Industry 4.0 will enable manufacturers to improve efficiencies whilst reducing costs.

Money Control

The government has also opened a window for banks which can be made aware of infectious messages sent by malwares or bots (web robots). It is also holding workshops and seminars for its cyber security officers. Besides, it has set up a committee, which is still at initial stages, to work on the usage of Artificial Intelligence and IOT (Internet of Things).

Business World

By Rajguru Tandon

Ketan Kapoor, CEO & Co-founder, Mettl believes the sector is set for revival and jobs will take off soon. He told BW Businessworld, “The IoT space is booming in India with about 65 percent of Indian start-ups working on it. The government is working to lay out regulations for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. Once that happens, the sector will truly take off, and job opportunities will follow for those who have the necessary technical knowledge and practical skills.”

The Asian Age

People buy a new oven or refrigerator every 10 years, a new car every 20 years maybe. And these are all run by software, old software, with bugs. And that is “fine” (mind the quotes), to the extent that someone takes responsibility for the system or solution as a whole, the collection of all these parts with a single brand name on the box that is legally responsible. Now think IoT.

CIOL

As manufacturers of Internet of Things (IoT) devices are not held accountable for security, billions of devices are vulnerable to attack, with no patches in sight. Until this is addressed, IPS is necessary to perform virtual patching and block hacks and attacks into IoT devices.

Your Story

The future will not just be about building physical highways, but also information highways that enable new forms of mobility. Cities will turn to IoT technologies to be energy and cost efficient. From smart street lights that alert the municipality on their expiry dates to IoT waste bins that drive efficiencies in waste management – data will make cities more analysable and enable a more efficient and cost-effective delivery of public services.

The Hindu Business Line

Traditional marketers have always relied on their gut instincts to keep track of market trends, making guesswork common and unavoidable. This approach not only makes it difficult to stay ahead of changing market conditions but also the measurement of campaigns and strategies to justify marketing spend. In 2017, we are surrounded by Internet of things (IoT).

The Economic Times

On the first India-China Dalian IoT (Internet of Things) Conference, the government officials and company representatives from both sides agreed that a lot can be done if India’s excellence in software technology and China’s expertise in hardware are brought together.

Business World

By Rajguru Tandon

Ketan Kapoor, CEO & Co-founder, Mettl shared, “The IoT space is booming in India with about 65 percent of Indian start-ups working on it. The government is working to lay out regulations for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. Once that happens, the sector will truly take off, and job opportunities will follow for those who have the necessary technical knowledge and practical skills.”

ET Telecom

From monitoring traffic to tracking epidemic spread to trading stocks, time is of the essence. A few seconds’ delay in understanding information could cost money and life. Big data needs to be fast and smart. This speed and efficiency have become a double-edged sword for privacy. Smart data vision, IOT and data-led world are ringing alarm bells for privacy.

SME Times

Union Minister of State for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) (I/C), Giriraj Singh Tuesday said that the adoption of new technologies like 3D printing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) have potential to bring down time and the cost of doing business.

CXO Today

People buy a new oven or refrigerator every 10 years, a new car every 20 years maybe. And these are all run by software, old software, with bugs. And that is “fine” (mind the quotes), to the extent that someone takes responsibility for the system or solution as a whole, the collection of all these parts with a single brand name on the box that is legally responsible. Now think IoT.

BW Disrupt

IoT will give us more insights: IoT applications that are able to gather huge amounts of data from different sources, which is then analysed in real-time on high-performance cloud platforms and shared, will become indispensable for people and businesses.

Tech News 18

According to Harriet Green, General Manager, Watson Internet of Things (IoT), Customer Engagement and Education, IBM, the capabilities that the vast Indian developers’ community is mastering is unparalleled and by 2021, the country will have the largest developers’ community -bigger than the US and China.

The Economic Times

From monitoring traffic to tracking epidemic spread to trading stocks, time is of the essence. A few seconds’ delay in understanding information could cost money and life. Big data needs to be fast and smart. This speed and efficiency have become a double-edged sword for privacy. Smart data vision, IOT and data-led world are ringing alarm bells for privacy.

YourStory

By Priyanka Kohli

The startup and impact enterprise space in India is growing fast, with India ranking third in the number of startups only behind the US and Britain. Venture funds, incubators, accelerators, corporates and relevant ecosystem players including the Government have been showing keen interest to encourage growth of startups.

Data Quest

Massively scalable platforms are the need of the hour as the volume of traffic increases to unprecedented levels coupled with IoT led and diversity of devices on a network. The humongous volume of network data that enterprises need to process putting pressure on software products that use a traditional rules-based approach. Enter the next generation of SIEMs run on big data architectures and built ground-up.

Forbes

IoT is less about standalone smart devices and more about the symbiotic nature of the entire ecosystem Vikas—a farmer in the hinterland of India—is famous for his excellent problem-solving abilities. He has set an example for his fellow farmers by optimising the use of resources.

Udaipur Kiran

The IoT platform market has been growing at a record pace. Just a couple of years ago, the market only counted a few early vendors that were starting to court enterprises and device manufacturers. Today, the IoT platform space is a hyper competitive market encompassing a broad set of companies from telecommunication operators to platform as a service (PaaS) providers.

CIO

AI algorithms can help a datacenter to “self-optimize” in terms of efficiency with respect to energy usage. Vigilent, a company that uses IoT, machine learning and prescriptive analytics in mission-critical environments, reduces datacenter cooling capacity by employing real-time monitoring and machine language software to match cooling needs with the exact cooling capacity.

Business Today

By Gautham Das

It is likely enterprises will automate and instrument all their processes, going ahead in the book, the authors write: “By instrumenting and creating a Code Halo, you turn everything into a data generator, allowing you to see facts that have never been visible before.” Professionals into Internet of Things (IoT) will, therefore, be in demand.

Data Quest With the recent adoption of nascent technologies such as IoT, AI, machine vision, etc. by developed countries, India has to follow suit and adopt them in order to keep pace and remain competitive. So we will surely see a rapid adoption of AI and IoT technologies by the Industrial Automation market in India as well.

Media Nama We want to bring the brilliant discussion we had on consent (read this, this and this), to Bangalore, where it has been seeded, but also look into more aspects around what people in the community in Bangalore think about, in terms of data categorisation, regulating different types of data differently, the need for data for machine learning and artificial intelligence, and how data collection using IoT needs to be looked at.

Zee Biz The two companies will also collaborate on an on-going basis to evolve standards for 5G, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Software-defined Networking (SDN) and Internet of Things (IoT), and jointly work towards building an enabling ecosystem for the introduction of these technologies in the Indian context,” Airtel said in a release dated September 13.

The Financial Express A smart home is a combination of things that contribute towards convenience and is the sum of its parts rather than one item on its own. It is a system that needs a singular point — such as the phone or tablet — whereby all the disparate parts are managed and made to work together through Wi-Fi or as it is more commonly known in the industry; the Internet of Things (IoT).

Business Wire A highlight of the exhibition was the GSMA Innovation City, where attendees experienced how mobile-connected products and services are improving the daily lives of citizens and businesses around the world, in diverse areas such as home, automotive, health, utilities, industrial and more. Participants included AT&T, Google, KT Corporation and MasterCard, as well as GSMA programs including Future Networks, Identity, Internet of Things and the GSMA’s work supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Business World

By Ravikumar Sreedharan There needs to be an ecosystem that seamlessly integrates laws, organizations and technology. As individuals and companies become more and more digitized they also become more dependent on external institutions to protect their privacy and ensure security. Internet of things, big data, cloud and mobility are important elements of our fast evolving digital future.

Deccan Herald The agreement builds on a history of collaboration between the two organisations. GE has previously worked with Virtustream, Pivotal and VMware, all Dell Technologies companies, to support development of its Predix industrial IoT platform. In addition,GE Digital is a Dell IoT Solutions Partner, and the companies have worked together on a variety of Industrial IoT and OEMinitiatives.

Money Control Technology-wise, there are multiple technologies which would come together. It would be a combination of data science, AI, analytics, IoT, virtual assistance. All those technologies or combination of them would provide those kinds of experiences to our customer’s customer.

Auto Car Professional This approach also applies to connectivity. Over the next five years, the market for connected mobility will grow by almost 25 percent each year. This means that global sales will rise from 47 to 140 billion euros. Bosch says it has the sensor, software, and services expertise that this requires. Even now, 1.5 million vehicles are connected using Bosch IoT software.

Your Story

By Vishal Krishna “Firstly, the smartphone will be the centre of everything. Data sharing between devices, including cars, will become a reality, and securing the information becomes paramount,” says Mahesh Lingareddy, Chairman of Smartron, an IoT company.  He adds society will benefit from lack of dependence on global upheavals of the oil economy, and the digital economy will bring in higher productivity, thanks to information sharing.

DNA Japanese investor and incubator Mistletoe, in partnership with GSF India and Infobride, announced the launch of ‘Gastrotope’, a new agri-food technology accelerator in India. Gastrotope, run by Taizo Son, younger brother of SoftBank chairman Masayoshi Son, aims to invest in start-ups in agriculture and food processing sector here, an official statement said. (IoT)

The Economic Times

By Devina Sengupta Service providers are also expected to focus on new technologies like Internet of Things to target niche user base for early adoption, Sinha said. These services may vary from consumer segment to enterprise segment.

Telangana Today Students gained insights on how to come up with innovative ideas and the importance of entrepreneurial mindset. They were excited to know about emerging technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), Augmented Reality, Cyber Security and Data Analytics.

Pune Mirror “I am working on including features of the Internet of Things (IoT) where there will also be sensors in the unit and it will gauge the room temperature and automatically shut the gas switch off or at least give a warning on the phone,” said Niranjan. Currently at the stage of quality testing, he plans to launch the product with the help of his college’s business incubation centre.

Inc42

By Sumit Sharma The predictable nodes of information are changing. The logistics assets itself are becoming a type of information system. In what’s called the Internet of Things (IoT), sensors and actuators embedded in physical objects, from roadways to Trucks, are getting linked through wired and wireless networks, often using the same Internet Protocol (IP) that connects the Internet.

India Times The new telecom policy will address sector issues and make them future-proof with the onset of disruptive technologies such as fifth-generation (5G) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). “The new policy will be forward-looking and current challenges of new technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence will be taken care of,” Sinha added.

CXO Today

Rapid growth in data volumes, cloud technology and increasing number of connected devices, has brought the Internet of Things [IoT] face to face with new set of challenges. At the same time, through continuous innovation, IoT has also presented a host of new opportunities to businesses of all sizes and industries.

DQ India

Robotics is going through an exciting phase in India. Due to the increased connectivity and availability of rapid prototyping methods, India will catch-up with the global trends in this area in near future. Due to the advancement of IoT and improvement in internet connectivity, the awareness of the public will soon be on par with the developed countries.

The Economic Times

The Internet of Things (IOT) platform market is expected to grow 35% per year to $1.16 billion by 2020, according to Verizon’s State of the Market: Internet of Things 2017 report. The report finds that the biggest growth will be in business-to-business applications which can generate nearly 70% of potential value enabled by IoT.

DQ India

Some use cases which are being tested on a national level are: management of land & health records, smart cities implementation in which IoT devices are to be connected leveraging blockchain network, making better use of agriculture supply chain and bringing national credit rating system on it etc.

CIO

Driven by the internet of things (IoT), smartphone technology has made a serious impact in the healthcare industry. With many other industries embracing this change, healthcare was more reluctant. However, IoT adoption is becoming a must-have competitive factor and this competition is all set to become more relentless and persistent with time.

The Economic Times

“The new policy will be forward-looking and current challenges of new technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence will be taken care of,” Sinha added. Analysts and the industry estimate high-speed data services with cross-industry IoT applications and AI-driven services, could open up close to 20% of additional revenue opportunity.

CIOL

The fourth industrial revolution or Industry 4.0—has been gathering momentum in recent years and is set to be transformative in 2017. Industry 4.0 is the digitization of the manufacturing industry and a realization of the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) combined with artificial intelligence and data science. Done right, Industry 4.0 will enable manufacturers to improve efficiencies whilst reducing costs.

The Economic Times

The three comprehensive programmes — post-graduate diploma in data science, post-graduate diploma in advance data sciences and certificate in advance decision science — are divided into modules, with a special focus on all important aspects of artificial intelligence (AI), analytics, internet of things, deep learning and machine learning.

Business World

In today’s day and age, technology is constantly evolving, leading to a radical shift in how we safeguard our environment. Emergence of cutting-edge technology such as Internet of Things (IoT) has helped boost home security systems. These systems have not only created revolutionary developments in security considerations but have also caused a massive altercation from completely manual systems to fully-automated security frameworks.

Data Quest

IoT and M2M (Machine to Machine) technologies have a lot to offer in the B2C segment that will help companies develop a customer-centric business model. However, B2B adoption of IoT technology is poised to take off more rapidly as B2B businesses are leveraging IoT to enhance the operational efficiency and in turn productivity, lower the CAPEX and OPEX, and to improve the decision-making process in order to ensure results-driven growth.

ET Telecom

By Muntazir Abbas

The new policy will be forward-looking and current challenges of new technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence will be taken care of,” Sinha added. Analysts and the industry estimate high-speed data services with cross-industry IoT applications and AI-driven services, could open up close to 20% of additional revenue opportunity.

The Banking & Finance

He further spoke about the government’s motive of bridging the gap between the digital haves and the have-nots. Recalling the slogan coined by Prime Minister Narendra Modi “IT + IT = IT” and explaining its role, he said it signifies Information Technology plus Indian Talent equals to India Tomorrow.

The Financial Express

In The Connected IoT landscape, billions of devices are talking to each other every second. Companies are striving to develop and deliver innovative and well-differentiated products in a shorter lead time.

ET Telecom

There are four keys to unlocking smart cities to advance more equitable and positive outcomes for people who are aging and people living with disabilities.

Hindustan Times

By Namita Shibad

It’s being tom-tommed as the fourth industrial revolution, Industry 4.0. “The internet took all the data and made it available to people,” says Nikhil Bhaskaran of 6mrt.com, a set-up that aims to train young engineers in Internet of Things (IoT) technology and then, invest in them.

YourStory

By Vishal Krishna

It may seem straight out of sci-fi, but a  Nasscom and Deloitte report says India will soon have 1.9 billion IoT devices installed, with a market size of $9 billion.

Business Standard

The fast pace of technology development over the past few years has brought us to a point where connected devices and machine-to-machine communication hold the key to a more advanced, sustainable and smart future.

CXO Today

Automotive companies are leveraging modern Cloud-computing platforms for creating Cloud native Applications, Operating System, the Internet of Things (IoT), devising a comprehensive software development methodology—all of which have the potential to literally transform it into a global powerhouse.

Data Quest

If you think this is nothing, but a dream, we’re pleased to tell you that it’s slowly becoming a reality. For the past few years, the Internet of Things has been developing at a steady rate. In fact, it’s now considered as the biggest technological trend there is. It’s instrumental in different industries, ranging from home security to field service, and even on construction sites.

The Indian Express

Telecom regulator TRAI today came out with proposals on machine-to-machine communications that include a new kind of permit for companies keen on providing services for this new form of technology. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has suggested to the Department of Telecom (DoT) that all existing operators should be allowed to provide connectivity for machine-to-machine services.

Udaipur Kiran

The most important lesson is that cyber security is a perpetual battle in which neither side gets the upper hand for long and that requires constant incident post-mortems to discover the next measures to keep data and communications safe. Here we look into a few lesson learned from different IoT security incidents.

The Financial Express

The Internet of Things (IoT) and the growing capability of AI and storage will create a revolution by 2050. Today, information is unstructured—transportation, train, airline and traffic updates are available in a haphazard manner. Information needs to be collated with a central mission control centre that can manage and report data real time.

Business World

Next generation sensors enable the superior efficiency in the IoT which assist the technology to work successfully, due to such increasing demand of NGS in the global market is driving the growth in the global market. In addition to driving factor there are factors such as privacy and security concerns and necessity of technological skills is restricting the growth of the global internet of robotic things market.

The Indian Express

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Tuesday came out with proposals on machine-to-machine communications that include a new kind of permit for companies keen on providing services for this new form of technology.

BW Disrupt

Digital technologies have unleashed what is being called the Fourth Industrial Revolution. A combination of technological advancements is transforming consumer lives, creating value for business, and unlocking broader societal benefits at an unprecedented scale.

Deccan Herald

By Uma Kannan

With an increase in the number of FinTech startups, banks are now trying to collaborate with them, thereby leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, to serve their customers better.

Financial Express

By Nandagopal Rajan

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being pegged as the new electricity, a technology that could end up transforming almost every element of human endeavour. It is just that, for now, the jury is out on whether it would be for the best or worst.

CXO Today

Today, one of the fastest growing and nefarious bots include those that exploit Internet of Things (IoT) devices as weapons of attack. These bots are rapidly changing the threats landscape. The Mirai attacks in 2016 demonstrated what can happen when hackers deploy a bot army to take control of insecure IoT devices. Yet, those kinds of attacks may no longer be the worst-case scenario.

INC 42

Finally, the next big thing is a platform correctly poised on the 2017 hype cycle. “Internet of Things Market to Reach $1.7 Tn by 2020:” IDC predicted this in 2014-15 itself. Of all the technology trends that are taking place right now, perhaps the biggest one is the Internet of Things; it is the one that’s going to give us the most headway as well as the opportunity over the next 5-10 years.

CXO Today

According to the study, the top three benefits IoT will deliver include, improving the quality of life (26%), gaining greater insight into business (25%) and creating new services and categories (25%). IoT’s potential to be the catalyst of entirely new business models and supporting services is one of the key factors driving VCs to invest in this space.

The Financial Express

I have been wanting to talk to him about his take on the transformation that the IT industry is going through—all the things that are making headlines, such as artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, deep learning and so on. There are reports saying that the IT services industry alone is set to lose around 6.5 lakh low-skilled positions to automation by 2021.

BW Disrupt

The digital economy we operate in, marks the boundless growth of new age technologies such as IoT, big data, real-time data capturing and analytics, and on-demand services. In this aggressively competitive scenario, cloud provides a conducive environment to create a lean, flexible, and responsive digital eco-system that is required to navigate the rough tides of the connected world.

BW CIO World

The scheme took advantage of Aadhar enabled data and made its Public Distribution System leak proof both in terms corruption and timely delivery. It saved whopping 1000 crore every year on subsidies. Taking cues from it and enabling IoT, Big Data Technologies and Data Science in collecting, refining and generating analytics will surely help to deliver better governance to the citizens.

The Financial Express

In this age of disruptive technologies including IoT, Big Data, artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud, architecture can no longer be looked as a mere back-end function where the solution architects are involved in giving technical architectural inputs and designs.

Deccan Herald

By Uma Kannan

“We have also issued guidelines with regard to downloads, usage of emails, password, social networking etc. With the world getting more interconnected through the Internet of Things (IoT), the touch-points for initiating an attack are growing exponentially. We are fully cognizant of the threats and will continue to work proactively in this space to protect ours and our customers’assets,” says Sharma.

Mint

We believe that AI is fast evolving from an obscure curiosity of the last decade to a powerful utility of the current one. There are physical as well as virtual uses, some of which have been in the news ad nauseam while many remain inconspicuous. In the Indian context, corporations can particularly extract a huge business advantage from “Physical-Inconspicuous” and “Virtual-Obvious” applications of AI due to relative ease of implementation.

Mint

Technology led business disruption, today, is not an exception but a rule. Transformative technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) tools, blockchain, virtual reality (VB), augmented reality (AR), and 3D printing, increased hyper-connectivity through the Internet of Things (IoT). and smarter decision making through big data analytics are altering the world as we know it.

CXO Today

When considering IoT as a business tool, consider if it is appropriate to use IoT by asking if it will provide a value to the end consumer. Once you’ve determined IoT will help you reach your goal and benefit your consumer, it’s important to have a plan that, if deployed, is going to scale. IoT is sometimes confused with the early prototyping stage.