Business World  

By  Jai Prakash Shivahare 

Many smart cities are known to leverage technological advancements using Internet of Things (IoT) platforms to monitor city infrastructure, overseeing everything from traffic flows, parking, water and even air quality, and using the resulting data to handle long-term planning around environmental sustainability.

BW CIO World 

According to the 2018 SANS Industrial IoT Security Survey Report, security is the biggest worry when it comes to the Industrial Internet of Things. This comes after it was found that most organisations globally are looking at a 10 to 25 percent growth in the number of their connected devices.

E Gov 

By Gautam Debroy

An extensive use of ICT enabled services require a sound communications backbone. In this context, we can say that ICT is not the“end” but only the “means” to an “end” – the end being improved service quality and information availability. This includes social media; mobility, Machine-to Machine (M2M), Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, and Cloud Computing will become the backbone of next generation smart cities

Business Standard 

As the Internet of Things (IoT) adoption picks up in India, sectors like energy and utilities, industrial manufacturing, transport and logistics and agriculture will lead the market and industrial IoT will surpass the consumer IoT space in the country by 2020, a new report said on Wednesday.

The Economic Times  

By Danish Khan

Bharti Airtel Global CIO Harmeen Mehta has said that Indian telcos, industries and startups need to form alliances to drive the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem in the country, and that the next 24 months are crucial to define the scope in the country. Mehta, who has been recently appointed as co-chair of IoT committee, IAMAI, told ET that there’s an immediate need for all stakeholders, including the government, to come together and demystify the entire IoT space, which is currently developing in silos.

ET Telecom 

An increasing base of tech-savvy consumers and rising data consumption will help India take up a leading position in the Internet of Things (IoT) market, chip maker Qualcomm today said. Qualcomm Senior VP and General Manager (Connectivity and Networking) Rahul Patel said the IoT market in India is about USD 5.6 billion with more than 200 million connected devices.

Business World 

Can IoT-based technologies become the ‘adequate measure’ everyone is looking for? Large-scale IoT-based water purification systems along with sustainable technologies have lately offered a ray of hope in the fight against the imminent water crisis. They are providing people an uninterrupted supply of potable drinking water through energy-efficient systems.

Money Control 

IOT can present an opportunity of up to USD 12 billion for the players in the industry and industrial IOT is expected to consume the higher majority of share when compared to the consumer IOT. There are some industries that are expected to experience a larger disruption than others and hence will contribute a larger share. As per Deloitte and IAMAI report’s estimate, the Energy and Utilities sector is expected to comprise of as much as 25% of the IOT market share followed by Industrial Manufacturing sector at 18% by 2020.

Elets Online  

By Mukul Kumar Mishra

Technologies including Electronic Health Records (EHRs), telemedicine, cloud computing, IoT (Internet of Things), artificial intelligence, and block chain, have played a pivotal role in improving the healthcare delivery. Nipun Goyal, Co-founder, Curofy says, “Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled technologies are some of the digital development in the healthcare sector and are truly making a difference in this sector.”

Business World 

By Parag Amin

With advancement in sensor, entrepreneurs started to create meaningful drone solutions that are reliable, safe and efficient and helped solve manpower-centric problems. As more sensors are developed, drones will make use of them along with other Internet of Things (IoT) devices to collect immense amounts of data, feeding it into Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) data models, allowing for real-time, life and mission critical operations.

ET CIO 

According to the report, digital transformation across the globe has led to the growth of new business models that are focused on driving growth and profitability for organisations including Cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data and Blockchain. Indians recognise encryption with Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) capabilities as the top security tool for securing sensitive data in Cloud environments and continue to spend their resources on the same technology, the findings showed

Business Insider  

By Audry Noble

“Affluent households are far more likely to become early adopters of new technology than the average consumer, and smart home systems are no different,” Winnie Bekmanis, who works in product marketing for the Internet of Things (IoT) at Qualcomm, told Business Insider. “What differentiates the pricier smart home systems is the scale of installation and personalization.”