Bangalore, Feb. 23, 2015: The Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), India, has launched an Internet of Things (IoT) panel to focus not only on the technology but also its application across sectors.
The IET is a multi-disciplinary organisation with a focus on Information & Communications, Energy, Transportation, Design & Production and Built Environment. The need to set up such a panel to study IoT apps was felt since the IoT was eventually expected to connect energy, power grids, vehicles, homes, entire cities and manufacturing floors, computers and mobile devices. With 1.9bn devices expected to be connected in India alone, by 2023, IoT and related technologies will thus assume relevance of significant proportions, the IET felt.
The IoT panel, claimed the IET, was the first of its kind in India, with focus on facilitating discussions that will help in making the connected world more efficient, smart, innovative and safe. It will focus on technology, security and regulatory concerns and the need for nurturing capabilities and talent for a quicker adoption of IoT in all spheres. The panel will also constitute sub panels to study IoT apps, focusing on the application of IoT in agriculture, retail, energy and healthcare domains. Each of these sub panels will work towards undertaking neutral pilots and studies and publishing white papers around the application of IoT in the respective domains.
The panel will be chaired by Rishi Bhatnagar, Vice President, Global Head Digital Enterprise Services, Tech Mahindra. It will have eminent industralists and well-known corporate leaders on its panel including Ravi Pagar, Regional Director ASEAN, Element 14, Vineeth Vijayaraghavan, Director, Solarillion Foundation, Shyam Menon, Investment Director, Infuse Ventures, Joy Rajan Cheruvathoor, Sr. Vice President, Strategic Alliances & M2M, Vodafone Business Services, Dinesh Chand Sharma, Director, Standardization, Policy and Regulation, (SESEI – Seconded European Standardization Expert in India).
The IET India IoT Panel will provide a platform for stakeholders to participate in becoming an authoritative, but neutral voice for the evolving movement of IoT in India. It aims to enable all the IoT practitioners (including people from the hardware – devices, portables, sensors, software, business) and IoT enablers ( including people from regulatory area, training area, investors in IoT, end users) to work together on relevant areas to make this industry efficient as well as robust. The panel envisions laying a solid foundation by supporting policy makers, industry in the next step of adoption of IoT.
The IET India IoT panel will be guided by a Global Advisory Body. The board members include: Prof. William Webb, President of the IET, Sir Robin Saxby, Founder of ARM Holdings and Jim Morrish, Director, Machina Research.
The IET India is part of the global IET which is a registered charity firm in England. It’s aim is to be a facilitator in solving problems and issues relevant to India through the application of essential engineering intelligence. IET India drives activities that lead to the IET’s vision of “enhancing people’s lives by sharing and advancing knowledge through the global science, engineering and technology community.”
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