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he popularity of IoT has been phenomenal over the last couple of years. And if projections are to be believed, it is the next big revolution in making. Increased usage of smartphones, better internet connectivity, cheaper data tariffs, and most importantly the luxury of smartly using home and office appliances are seen as the most motivating factors behind its growing popularity. Global IoT market is estimated to grow from $ 2.99T to $8.9T by 2020 that too at a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 19.92%. Not only big enterprises but common citizens also are not left untouched with its fascinating features.

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A big part of IoT is consumer IoT, or IoT tech used in consumer products like smart watches, smart passenger cars, and smart washing machines. If it is a warm day and you want your house to cool down before you reach, you can now ensure your air conditioning is switched on, thanks to IoT tech. Things like making coffee even by sitting remotely are just few of the most fascinating features which make everyone enthrall by. As long as you and the device are connected to the Internet, you can do these things from wherever you are.

But with fascinating features, every technology comes up with its own set of challenges; those challenges need to be addressed in proper manner in order to make a hassle free usage of technology. Security is the main challenge which needs to be countered and needs up gradation. Robust and secure web interface, user authorization, network services, transport encryption, security configurability can enhance IoT services to the next level. Upgraded firmware versions, more secured mobile and cloud interface is the need of the hour. Without optimizing these security aspects, growth of IoT cannot reach to its pinnacle.

Leaders thus have to upgrade the security infrastructure around IoT devices that too on top priority to let this popular technology flourish all across the business spectrum.

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usinesses run with the sheer dedication and passion towards the unified goals. Success story craft with the commitment towards vision and diligence towards work but no matter how adept professionals you hire, one thing that decides the future endeavors of any organization is its ability to embrace the change. With the recent advancements in the technological field, no organization can be in the race for long unless they adapt the leading-edge technology in their business process. Technologies like AI, IoT, AR, and more are playing a crucial role in crafting cutting-edge products. These technologies are assisting companies to build something that can revolutionize the computing world, IoT in special playing a pivotal role in raising the standard in manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, consumer electronics, and other business verticals. We thus have come up with an issue of “The 10 Best Performing IoT Solution Providers” that are known for utilizing advanced tools and techniques and delivers results more than what clients generally expect from them.

On the cover, we have showcased, VotaryTech. It is one of the fastest growing embedded technology companies in India which has a mission to empower its clients by providing a robust, integrated and tailormade mobile solution for attaining better efficiency, productivity, and profitability.

Cubical Labs is an IoT based company which develops, designs, manufactures and markets home automation product along with a few peripheral ones for households, offices, hotels, and so on.

Syslogyx is a leading IoT company which offers subtle solutions to the Industrial IoT, Embedded systems, Machine Learning & AI, Product Development, and RPA fields.

Waypals provides the most advanced and comprehensive Connected Vehicle Service to automobiles players, consumers, and telematics insurers.

We have included some intriguing articles written by industry experts and our in-house editors as well that you will find captivating.

Interviews of Dr. Keshab Panda and Deepinder Singh are also included in this issue.

So, do flip the pages and enjoy reading!!

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VotaryTech: Unraveling the Challenges of Contemporary Times with Leading-Edge IoT Solutions

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he power of IoT fascinates everyone. IoT gives the enduser the ease of finding the contents of their refrigerator from a remote location with the assistance of mobile device. Any old machinery with IoT helps the manufacturer determine the operational efficiency of the machine, thereby preventing complete shutdown. For example, an IoT enabled air conditioner can automatically send a service request when an air conditioner needs a repair.

A Smart home with automatic door locks, tracking and monitoring different service in real time and the smart security system are enthralling facets of IoT supported devices.

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A fully integrated and functional IoT requires a trusted and prominent name that has proven its mettle time and again by successfully implementing IoT services. VotaryTech is the trendsetting company that has built a robust niche in the market through its incredible and cutting edge IoT services. Founded in 2009 and within a decade the company has made deep inroads into the technological sphere by delivering a seamless integrated solution of hardware, software, data, and service.

VotaryTech is one of the fastest growing wireless technology companies in India with a mission of empowering its clients by providing a robust, integrated and tailor-made mobile solutions for attaining better efficiency, productivity, and profitability.

This Hyderabad-based company has a team of adept professionals who have deep expertise in mobile technology.

VotaryTech professionals always focus on delivering extraordinary results with world-class standards in mind. With the strong mobile technology experience and innovative culture, they have created many products that are now gaining immense popularity in the

computing world. The company has proficiency in delivering solutions for various mobile platforms.

Innovative Solutions that are benefitting the World VotaryTech has established healthy relationships with some of the significant Fortune 500 companies in the world and has demonstrated incredible progress as well due to its superb product quality and effectiveness which it brings to its clients businesses.

VotaryTech has innovation as DNA and their white paper is published in Intel’s insight.tech and they are part of Intel® IoT Solution's lead management system Alliance as well.

Some of their advanced IoT enabled services include VITA (VotaryTech IoT Architecture), Smart Campus, Smart Transportation, and ReachSafe security platform.

VITA: VotaryTech has developed VotaryTech’s IoT Architecture (VITA) which enables IoT Services to focus on Smart sensors, Device hubs, Gateways, Cloud & Analytics. Consumers can leverage their VITA (VotaryTech IoT Architecture) platform to solve real-life problems by having E2E control of their systems.

Their technology solution and flexible business models cater different sectors, technologies, devices, and applications.

VITA provides easily pluggable, reliable and scalable base platform allowing customers the flexibility and ease to develop and deploy SMART services & solutions rapidly.

VotaryTech’s IoT solution framework helps customers to reduce risks/operational inefficiencies, costs and take proactive, knowledgeable data analyses measures in line with their business policies. This trademark solution can be utilized across varied

VITA has embedded analytics that provides clients real-time knowledge to proactively identify risks thereby increasing their profitability.

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Smart Transportation: Travelling is a vital part of life. Students travel to schools/colleges, and professionals commute to go to their offices. While taking public transport many times, commuters need to wait due to a variety of reasons. To overcome this problem and to save precious time while commuting, VotaryTech developed Smart Transportation.

This ‘IoT Connected’ solution helps monitor transportation assets with an end-to-end, scalable and secure IoT solution which includes a centralized web-based IoT Portal that seamlessly integrates mobile apps and enterprise systems.

It enables commuters to track the exact location of the vehicle and the estimated time of arrival as well. It also sends alerts if there is any emergency happening during the travel along with the precise location. It provides an end solution for transportation manager as well. With this solution, administrators can check each move of the vehicle instantly on the touch of a finger, ensuring the safety of commuters with utmost care. Due to its time saving and advanced safety feature, this solution has been deployed in many places across India and has become an excellent boon for parents, students, and working professionals. Wide-ranging analysis, realtime dashboards, key performance indicators (KPIs), capacity utilization report and smart alerts make this solution a musthave among people in schools, colleges, and the corporate world.

ReachSafe Integration Solution: Safety of women and child holds a significant concern in our society. The horrific case of Nirbhaya shook the nation's conscience and forced the government to come up with stringent laws for women safety. VotaryTech took the

cognizance of that awful incident which happened in Delhi on 16 Dec 2012 and pledged to strengthen women security with the power of technology. ReachSafe is the result of that pledge. This solution is now being used by schools and parents to live track their children’s travel.

The ReachSafe is the only solution integrated with Police Control Room where monitoring continues round the clock-

24*7. Due to its effectiveness and vast popularity, this solution is now being used by employees of over 150 companies daily through SHE Shuttle.

Apart from these advanced services, the company also has immense expertise in Device Management, Storage Management, Smart Applications, Analytics, Hardware- Design Implementation, Design Verification, ASIC Design and FPGA Design.

These leading-edge solutions have assisted the company in earning valuable praises from the industry and also helped to attract prominent client across the spectrum. Telangana Police, Government of Telangana, Airvana, KPIT, Navionics, LG Electronics, Accenture, Flextronics, Qualcomm, Xilinx, Toshiba, Sony, Reliance and more are some of the notable clients of VotaryTech. They are also licensed partners of Qualcomm in some of the fastest selling chipsets in the world.

Nurturing a Pool of Talent to Cater Diverse Client Needs The lack of skilled human capital is a big concern in every industry including IT. Management faces challenges in onboarding right talent as the skills required by the industry are not present in most of the job applicants. To bridge the wide gap between the industry requirement and relevant skilled professionals, VotaryTech has started a Competence Center (Academy). The competence center instills core technical skills, domain skills and soft skills among engineering professionals to make them future ready for any role. The flagship VGate program is a seven-stage training module that is exclusively designed by VotaryTech to help the engineering talent to graduate into global standards professional.

They have state-of-the-art labs, equipped with Cadence, Xilinx Vivado licenses as the team is working on cutting edge Multimedia and IP verification projects.

Ingenious Architect of VotaryTech Sanjay Kamtam, a veteran technologist, is the Founder and CEO of VotaryTech. He has a

vast corporate experience of over two decades in the mobile technology industry, where he has worked in various top management positions for many prominent companies like Tieto and Motorola.

At Motorola, he started his career as a software engineer and developed SMS and Cell broadcast stacks on GSM technology. His sharp technical skills, diligence, and meticulous attention in every assignment gradually assisted him to move up the corporate ladder, taking additional responsibilities.

Sanjay has worked in Motorola for nine years and gain valuable insights of mobile technology space. His ambitious persona, patriotic soul and a wish to do something better for the youth of India encouraged him to start his entrepreneurial stint, and this gave birth to VotaryTech.

After working in Product based companies, Sanjay has started his professional career in service based company by joining Fortuna Technologies, specializing in Mobile Platforms, which was later acquired by Tieto. Sometimes after, he joined Tieto and led its Mobile Devices business.

Sanjay has done a master’s degree in computer science from the University of South Alabama and B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Nagarjuna University.

Future Endeavour Change is the only constant. This proverb holds true in the technological sphere also. When one technology becomes outdated, a new technology emerges as the beacon of the industry. The management of VotaryTech thus believes in constant innovation and up gradations. They always put their energy into learning new technology for making their product far more alluring than earlier. They want to continue with greater zeal and passion for grander client satisfaction. They are confident to make necessary improvement in the embedded technology and infrastructure space to boost their IoT expertise further to make their products accessible to the far wider audience.

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Cubical Labs cubical.in

Dhruv Ratra CEO, Swati Vyas COO

Cubical Labs is an IoT based company which develops, designs, manufactures and markets home automation product along with a few peripheral ones for households, offices, hotels etc.

Faclon Labs faclon.com

Rishi Sharma Co-founder & CEO

Faclon Labs is a Mumbai-based IoT startup that is working to automate water management in urban India.

Inventrom inventrom.com

Pranav Pai Vernekar Founder & CEO

Inventrom has expertise in Automation, Cloud Platform, and Internet of Things.

Maven Systems mavensystems.com

Dhananjay Kulkarni Director

Maven Systems has expertise in hardware board design, embedded applications and cloud/mobile applications.

Numadic numadic.com

Luke Sequeira Founder & CEO

Numadic builds supply chain visibility and coordination solutions for B2B transporters and consignors.

Shoreline IoT shorelineiot.com

Vinayak Bhide Co-founder

Shoreline IoT is a product engineering consulting and services company focused on IoT products. It provide end-to-end solutions to OEMs interested in IoT enabled products.

Syslogyx Technologies syslogyx.com

Ranjit Singh MD & CEO

Syslogyx is a leading IoT company which offers subtle solutions to the Industrial IoT, Embedded systems, Machine Learning & AI, Product Development, and RPA fields.

VotaryTech votarytech.com

Sanjay Kamtam Founder & CEO

VotaryTech is one of the fastest growing embedded technology companies in India which has a mission to empower its clients by providing a robust, integrated and tailor-made mobile solution for attaining better efficiency, productivity, and profitability.

Waypals waypals.com

Sukhvinder Lamba CEO

Waypals provides the most advanced and comprehensive Connected Vehicle Service to automobiles players, consumers and telematics insurers.

Prashant Pallati CEO

Xtensible is a software development company has expertise in e-commerce website development, web enablement, product development, product migrations, web applications, mobile application and many more

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ith buildings consuming 40% of the world’s energy, there is a need for energy efficient solutions. Also, the myriad, disparate systems such as HVAC, Lighting, security, etc. that form the crux of a smart commercial building have ushered in the need for integration and effective utilization of resources. Use of IoT and cloud-based applications makes it possible to achieve these two objectives – making buildings energy efficient, comfortable, automated and truly smart.

Legacy building controls systems are overbuilt and expensive for most commercial building owners and operators. Those systems are being displaced by new, born-digital solutions. Fueled by the proliferation of affordable sensors and cloud computing, this new breed of building intelligence solutions combines the Internet of Things (IoT), wireless communications, big data and cloudbased algorithms to sense, predict and proactively manage the needs of the building occupants.

A leading player in this segment is 75F, an award-winning, IoT and Machine Learning company taking a fresh approach to HVAC, indoor air quality, lighting and controls in commercial buildings. 75F offers data-driven, proactive, predictive building intelligence and controls. 75F has delivered hundreds of energy-efficient, comfortable and healthy spaces to enthusiastic customers who rave about the results.

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The Visionary Founder The young trailblazer Deepinder Singh founded 75F in 2012, after he had designed some of the world’s fastest core networks for Tier 1 service providers like AT& T, NTT and Verizon. As Deepinder Singh, CEO and Founder, 75F puts it, “I am not originally from the HVAC industry. By profession, I was a networking geek, have been part of 6 startups, and brought a host of embedded products to market. My key goal in every endeavor is to simplify operational complexity and make products instinctive.”

Deepinder’s determination to create intuitive technology, make an impact and challenge the status quo forms the ethos of 75F. Which is why 75F is the only brand today, that can effectively address the energy, air quality and comfort issues of more 99,000 commercial buildings in India and 15,000,000 worldwide.

75F is also the only player to offer a predictive solution for solving the comfort and energy challenges of the commercial building market, at an installed price point that offers sub year return on investment. The solution takes in hundreds of data points like weather forecast, building orientation, sun positioning, humidity, air quality and mean radiant temperature. 75F delivers a balanced space, better air quality, significant energy savings and predictive maintenance – all contributing to increased employee 16

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productivity (social), reduced energy usage (environment) and increased profit (economic).

A Voyage from Concept to Company When asked about the genesis of the company, Deepinder reminisces, “When my daughter was one year old, she would wake up in the middle of the night crying. It was then that I found out that the thermostat was in the master bedroom but in her east-facing room, the temperature was nearly 8-10 degrees cooler than in the master bedroom. In the dead of winter, when temperatures in Minnesota are nearly 30 Degrees Celsius, it was no surprise that my one year old would wake up due to the discomfort. So, I did what any self-respecting engineer would do.

I quit my job and set out to find a solution to fix this problem. I soon built the algorithms that would consider the temperature from different parts of the building, understand how the sun would impact these temperatures (solar gain) and calculate what’s called ‘thermal loads’” While a personal experience is what inspired the inception of 75F, Deepinder realized that the problem is applicable to a whole lot of buildings and wanted to make sure that everyone has access to equitable, comfortable temperatures. The true motivation behind the company were the studies

by Carnegie Mellon and Harvard which prove beyond doubt that people who work in comfortable environments are at least a 101% more productive ™

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and effective.

Contributing to the IoT Sector 75F operates in the true confluence of Cloud Computing and IoT. As Deepinder points out, what is really driving the advances in 75F is ‘ubiquitiveness’ of IoT i.e. the pervasiveness of IoT and the Cloud Computing power. Using sensors spread across in a building 75F collects millions of data points from each building. The ability to process this data rests in the cloud where the data is analyzed to draw intelligent insights.

This enables 75F to be able to proactively predict how the building is going to behave in conjunction with factors such as weather forecasts, angle of the sun, etc. and determine the optimal control strategy in advance.

Deepinder further adds, “There are three aspects of the indoor environment that truly impact an employee’s ability to perform: Thermal Comfort, Indoor Air Quality and Lighting. Harnessing the power of IOT and Cloud Computing, 75F is uniquely able to control and optimally adjust each of these three aspects ensuring maximum occupant experience always, while saving energy.”

Focusing on (OE)2 75F delivers improved Operational Efficiency and enhanced Occupant Experience to its clients, or as they call it internally - (OE)2. 75F’s unique approach significantly reduces energy consumption and optimizes facility management thereby improving Operational Efficiency. Using the right algorithms, the system saves nearly 30-40% on energy, typically paying for itself in less than 3 years. At the same JUNE 2018

time, the system also greatly impacts human capital. The 75F solution ensures improved employee productivity and health, thus enhancing Occupant Experience. A true win-win for all their customers!

Innovative Solutions by an Intuitive Company Two of 75F’s biggest solutions in the Indian market are “Dynamic Airflow Balancing™ Solution” and “Dynamic Chilled Water Balancing™ Solution”.

Leveraging IoT design philosophy and the power of cloud computing, the 75F solutions has achieved what was once thought to be only theoretically possible; continuous commissioning or perfect air balancing. The company also offers Lighting Automation and Control, Outdoor Air Optimization, and Indoor Air Quality Management solutions which adopt the smart building trends while taking IoT to the next level. Through IoT, 75F is enabling a smart building concept which mainly focusses on providing a cost-effective and an advanced environment.

Another highlight of 75F’s products is Facilisight, a futuristic energy management tool with a dynamic UI. Fascilight’s suite of web and mobile apps allow customers to manage temperature and lighting remotely and round the clock. It is an extremely user-friendly interface that has simplified the process of overseeing and managing 75F systems across sites irrespective of geographic location or complexity. It is compatible with iPhone, iPad and Android phones.

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pioneering and disruptive technology.

75F India was awarded the ‘Hot 100 Race to Grace 2017’ award and had been listed as one of the Top 50 SMEs

by ASSOCHAM in India. Committed to innovation, the company is well poised to revolutionize the way energy efficiency and comfort is managed in the future.

75F global has also been conferred with the title of ‘Titans of Technology2016’ and won the ‘People’s Choice Award’ at CleanTech Open 2014 and the Eureka awards 2016. They were the Presenters at the 2014 Google Demo Day. 75F also scored big at the Regional Entrepreneurial competition and the Minnesota Cup in 2014 apart from winning $100K cash recognition from AOL’s founder Steve Case.

Contributing to a Sustainable Ecosystem for Future Generations The 75F name stands for 75 degrees Fahrenheit. It was inspired by a United Nations resolution in 2008 to change the temperature in their global office meeting rooms to 75 degrees from 70 degrees in the cooling season (with the process reversed in the heating season), as a sustainable energy-savings measure that came with corresponding relaxed dress codes.

75F is a member of the United Nations Environment Program-Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative (UNEP-SBCI), an international platform for stakeholders to jointly carry out activities supporting sustainable development. In India, it has partnered with India Green Buildings Council (IGBC) and Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy (AEEE).

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stablished in 2013, Cubical Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. is currently the market leader in retrofit segment of home automation in India. As a company, they are putting their best efforts to bring new technologies together to provide convenience in the day to day life.

institution. Three years ago, Dhruv brought together the present team of the company in a technology incubator at IIT Guwahati, and hasn’t looked back since then. Dhruv sees the future of his company as one that is tied to the future of internet of things.

On the other hand, Swati has also completed her B.Tech in Electronics and Communications from IIT Guwahati. She started out with building the range of hardware products for Cubical. Currently, she is handling complete Operations, Finance and Hardware R&D at Cubical Labs. She takes great pleasure in dealing with the intriguing practical problems that spawn during the development of consumer electronics that are innovative, work with stability in extreme conditions, and are commercially viable.

Cubical was born out of the research endeavours at one of the technological nerve centres of India – IIT,Guwahati.

The venture revolves around building wireless,retrofit, costeffective, safe and smart home solutions, all of which can be controlled remotely through a mobile device. It is one of the company’s primary realizations that home automation systems can be both state-of-the-art and cost-effective.

Cubical Labs is making these solutions available to people without burning holes through their pockets.

The Novel Products Range With its innovative and state-of-the-art product range, Cubical Laboratories has brought convenience into the life of its customers by providing them with complete control of their homes, at their fingertips. Reduction in electrical consumptions is one of their major ideas, which have been realized. Optimal utilization of the system also increases the life span of the appliances.

Cubical is one of the fastest growing IoT company which designs, develops, and manufactures home automation products along with a few peripheral ones for households, offices, hotels etc.Today, Cubical Labs has its presence in 70+ cities with 50+ dealer distributor network across the country,and 50,000+ products, booked already.

The Leading Light of Cubical Labs Cubical Labs is driven by Dhruv Ratra, CEO and Swati Vyas, COO. While Dhruv is the key figure behind the rapid success of the company; Swati realised the substantial commercial promise of the platform which allowed remote lighting, temperature and device control.

The major drivers for Smart Homes are security, convenience and energy efficiency. The awareness of Smart Homes is very high among customers from upper income segment and urban areas. Low entry barriers like open source technologies are encouraging more number of players to look for innovation and to provide better value proposition for their customers. Cubical Labs have come up with a home grown wireless technology, patented dimming methods and acclimatizing of the solutions to the Indian

Dhruv is a proud alumnus of IIT Guwahati, having completed his B.Tech in Electronics and Communications (Major) and Computer Science (Minor), from the

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electrical conditions. This has helped it become one of the leaders in the retrofit home automation space.

Patented Dimming technology helps its dimming to be much more stable and immensely cost-effective. Cubical Labs’ proprietary CUBE-R protocol being a scalable RF protocol helps easily connect new devices and allows devices to work on a mesh network. It also enables the system to be functional at low band-width.The products are a retrofit and can be installed quickly behind switchboards, without any rewiring, within 15-30 minutes only. The products are well accustomed to the Indian electrical conditions, and are very reliable home automation systems.

The low pricing of the product without compromise on its quality is what makes them very competitive. Their product costs 1/5th of the traditional home automation system prices. Energy Analytics is another key aspect which saves money, since the products can tell exactly what appliance is consuming how much electricity in real-time making Cubical Smart homes among the most advanced homes out there. They have a quick response service after sales, which are supported directly through cubical and is an intuitive & easy to use interface, which can be controlled by voice, gesture, or app. Cubical Labs envision becoming the one stop shop or single largest platform for all home IoT requirements.

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Insights into the Future of the Industry AI is the next big thing or is the big thing now. Currently, the AI based platforms like Amazon Alexa and Google Homes are readily available in the market and customers nowadays are quiet aware of them. Cubical Labs have integrated these platforms with its system to provide its clients with the voice control of their electrical appliances.

With huge improvements in telecom sector & deep penetration of smartphones, every home owned by an upper middle/upper class person with a stable internet connection is a potential client.

Cubical Labs are coming up with a wireless security line of products that will be best in class. The Company’s focus is to keep upgrading products to meet the ever-rising customer demands, while making sure to continuously upgrade the existing line of products. To achieve this they leverage software based solutions so the existing users can also benefit. The company is looking at expanding its bouquet of products to offer security, smart sensing technology, datadriven intelligence and a range of third-party devices.

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Augmented Reality: he word “augment” means to add or enhance.

Augmented reality is an enhanced reality, which is created by overlapping natural world with a virtual world to make a better experience for the user. Both the environments, natural and virtual, exist harmoniously with each other creating a better and an improved reality, which helps the user in various day-to-day activities. With the help of improved graphics, sound, and touch, what a person sees, hears, and feels is made better. Imagine walking down a street and pointing the phone at an object and all the information needed about the object suddenly pops out of thin air! It will make everything a person looks at a little more interesting. AR (Augmented Reality) is almost like a science-fiction idea turned into a real technology. It is about to bring dramatic changes in countless fields.

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Advancement in Retail Business

The notion of augmented reality has been round for a while now, but recently it has been transformed into a powerful business tool. Starting from the games like Pokemon Go to the image filters on various social media platforms to AR apps for buying and selling products, it has entered various sectors of the market. Incorporating AR in the smartphones has revolutionised the mobile experience altogether. The possibility to use AR in mobile platforms and developing AR supporting apps will contribute in expanding the reach of this technology. According to a prominent source, the growth of AR technology is expected to reach $117.4 billion by 2022.

Benefiting Manufacturing and Industrial Sector

Some retailers have developed AR supporting apps to display and sell their products. Say a person wants to buy a car from a specific company, a newly developed app by that company allows the user to virtually place the car in his/her driveway to analyse the colour, the shape, and various other aspects of the car without even going to the showroom.

Similarly, other objects can be looked at, matched with the surroundings, analysed, and then purchased by the consumers from their home itself, without having the need to visit any store. Virtual trial rooms for clothes and accessories, the floor plan of a new apartment a customer wishes to buy; everything can be displayed, viewed or tried on with a great ease and without physically having to go somewhere.

In the manufacturing and industrial sector, the workers can wear the glasses to monitor and manage each product from a single desk. AR also enables the feature of pop-up information of an object, whenever a worker looks at it. The defects and problems can be easily scanned, as well as the workers can be assisted with the methods of fixing them.

This feature can also be incorporated in maintenance of the already sold products. The customers themselves can fix the product, in case of breakdown or failure, with the help of the assistance provided by user and maintenance manuals that are improved using AR.

Applications of AR in the field of business are innumerable. Some of these have been implemented, while others still are mere ideas. Especially in retail and industrial applications, AR is already being used.

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Upgrading Marketing Strategies AR advertisements can have a lot of influence on the

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decisions of users. Image recognition helps a user to point at any product and all the features and values of the product can be displayed instantaneously. Anything can be virtually projected using AR and hence, the advertisers can project their ad, both online and offline, in an interesting and unique way, moving ahead of their competitors. As it is something new and exciting, AR marketing will attract more number of customers and create the necessary buzz for any product. With the help of AR, advertisers can personalise the marketing schemes for every customer, attracting greater numbers. As AR creates better experience and makes everything more intriguing, customers will visit the app or the website displaying their products more often.

experience from Earth itself. With doctors being able to see the 3D image of the patients’ internal organs and body conditions, surgeries will become more efficient and less risky.

Betterment in Travel Industry AR can also benefit tourism industry. Along with showing directions, GPS with AR can provide information about the sightseeing and road signs. Monuments and museums can become more interesting if information about every part of them will be displayed to the tourists along the way.

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Transforming Workplaces Using AR in the offices and workplaces can transform the scenario of a company completely. The employees will be able to design their cabins and office spaces according to their imagination, virtually; nobody other than themselves will be able to see it. AR glasses can assist in this. This will help to create personalised working environment and hence, provide better work culture and improved employee performance. Digital data, such as emails and digital documents can be arranged and accessed in a more efficient and interesting way. Boardroom meetings with far away clients can be arranged in minimum time, without actually physically being present at the destinations, using virtual projections of all the members. AR can completely remodel the workplaces into something more comfortable and better.

Elevating Education and Training Methods In educational institutes, the learning experience can be improved and made more real using AR. With the help of AR, medical students can perform dissections with more accuracy and astronauts can have their first space ™

Gaming experience is taken to a whole new level with AR, and there is still a lot of scope for enhancement. Gamemakers can modify the real world according to their imagination, without any boundaries. The thrill of any game can be increased extensively using AR. Use of 3D images and 360 degree videos can change the world of games completely.

The application areas of AR are nearly endless. AR has gained a lot of popularity and it is expected to be used in the markets on a large scale by the year 2020. It can be used in numerous areas in the practical business environment and some of them are already being implemented. AR can be helpful for businesses to stand out in a unique and intriguing manner, and reach the people in the ways that wouldn’t have been possible before. The world of buying and selling can transform completely with AR. Looking at its fast evolution and development, a lot more interesting changes in the business methodologies can be expected in the coming future. Augmented reality has brought a new wave of technological development with it.

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L&T Technology Services Limited: Engineering the Change

About Dr. Keshab Panda CEO & MD

A Scientist turned Tech Industry Veteran, Dr. Keshab Panda is the Chief Executive Ofcer and Managing Director of L&T Technology Services Limited. With over 31 years of global industry experience in research, conceptualizing, creating, operationalizing and turning around complex technology and engineering services businesses, Dr. Panda believes in providing solutions to all kinds of engineering problems. His visionary and exemplary leadership has played an instrumental role in driving the company’s business to new heights and has spearheaded LTTS to win several awards & accolades.

A strong supporter of India’s status as a startup hub, Dr Panda's vision is to take technology to the most remote regions and use it for the benet and betterment of the people.

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ith the advancements in wireless technology and hardwares, Internet of Things (IoT) has witnessed tremendous growth in this decade.

Emerging technologies such as autonomous vehicles, smart homes, smart cites, and more are making IoT more valuable for their smooth functioning. It’s fair to say that the upcoming times will be much more dependent on the IoT. In an interview with Insights Success Magazine, Dr. Keshab Panda, CEO & Managing Director of L&T Technology Services shared his keen observations and experiences in the IoT space and his journey in growing and leading his company in this new era.

What do you think about the current scenario of IoT Solution industry?

The IoT landscape across the globe is gradually maturing with businesses realizing the imminent benefits arising out of its adoption. Verticals such as manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, telecom, energy to name a few, are leading the race towards adoption of the concept. The result is a massive sea change in the way these sectors have digital transformed. The resultant benefits are not only restricted to financial parameters, but also positively impacting factors such as workforce safety, green environment to name a few.

Sir, please tell us something about your company and its services.

L&T Technology Services Limited (LTTS) is a leading global pure-play engineering services company that possesses a multi-vertical expertise and serves more than 200 customers globally, 48 of which are included in the top 100 Global Engineering R&D spenders. The customer base of the company is spread across the globe including 52 Fortune 500 companies and its global workforce numbering

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over 11,000 is spread across 15 global delivery centers and 28 global sales offices. In the last five years. The company has made investments in 39 innovations labs catering to areas such as IoT, Engineering Analytics, Value Engineering, Augmented Reality Applications and security to name a few.

Entrenched in the belief that curiosity shapes the contours of a better future, LTTS has crafted an innovation-led strategy to steer its growth trajectory to evolve into a global leader in Engineering Research & Development service (ER&D). The ER&D service of the company caters to all major industries like Transportation, Industrial Products, Telecom & Hi-Tech, Medical Devices and Process Industry offering solutions in the areas of mechanical & manufacturing engineering, embedded systems, software engineering & process engineering.

The company is constantly engaged in scaling up its proprietary IoT solution UBIQWeise™ which is a homegrown platform with a low deployment barrier and no cloud lock-in constraints. This platform is used by customers for data collection and aggregation, device health monitoring and predictive and prescriptive analytics. LTTS has deployed numerous unique solutions leveraging UBIQWeise™ including Smart transportation, Smart homes & Smart kitchen appliances, Smart construction etc.

Additionally, LTTS has also perceived how the proliferating connected devices will drive the demand for massive connectivity bandwidth in the near future. To bank on this opportunity, the company has developed Narrow Band IoT solution (NB-IoT) that will allow a wide range of IoT devices and services to connect using cellular telecommunication bands.

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How did you get inspired to become an IoT Solution provider?

Engineering services based value proposition has been the core fundamental of LTTS. Our journey has spanned from being leader in conventional ER&D services to value engineering and now to digital engineering space. Thus we have consistently and proactively sensed the needs of the changing times and our offerings in the IoT domain are basis this approach.

From the beginning till today, list out toughest difficulties you faced and lessons you have learned from them?

IoT has gained traction only in the last few years, however we have been working with the technology for the past many years and over the time, we have conducted numerous experiments in the IoT space. However, it is quite a task to capitalize on each and every experiment. Typically IoT projects go through three phases- PoC, pilot and rollout.

And each of these phases have a dropout possibility. These dropouts can be due to a technical failure, where the solution would work well in the lab but not as intended at the client site. It can even be due to business or return over investment (RoI) related issue, where the cost of deploying the technology is far greater than the value it would generate. We also come across situations where the workers are reluctant to adapt to new technology due to various reasons. Altogether, we have comes across multiple difficulties in terms of technological barriers, process barriers and ROI barriers and it has helped us to develop a mindset that gives us the strength to give our best in overcoming any challenge that one may encounter.

What are the out-of-the-box offerings that make your company unique in the market?

LTTS has a strong focus on four transformative areas namely - Digital Engineering, Smart Manufacturing, Pervasive Engineering and Perceptual Engineering. Betting on these four pillars of new-age engineering, LTTS aims to disrupt the traditional ways of doing business and enable its clients to stay ahead of the curve. LTTS is at the global forefront of enabling smart manufacturing having already carved out success stories for its clients such as integrating a new automobile model into existing manufacturing lines using virtual simulation of robotic welding, PLC programming and HMI design.

With the introduction of new technologies like AI and vast improvement in wireless technologies & telecom infrastructure, what are the scopes and challenges coming with it?

With the advancement in technologies like AI and IoT, the telecom sector is witnessing a phase of disruption. This ongoing process of transformation into a next generation network will employ an extensive system of modern network elements such as digital telephone exchanges, mobile switching centers, media gateways and signaling gateways. Also with the 5G wave already upon us and its unique structure to power the internet of things, the 5G paradigm will deliver wireless connectivity with low latency, high reliability, strong security and always-on availability. This will allow the telecom companies to provide more services and capitalize on the valuable user data born from IoT devices.

On Digital Engineering, LTTS’ indigenously built i-BEMS platform is deployed to develop the world’s smartest office campus in Israel in collaboration with Microsoft. The smart campus will be the centerpiece for a new era of modern Smart City technologies that use energy efficiency systems, lighting controls, thermostats & sensors.

On the Pervasive technology front, LTTS will continue to invest in domain of embedded applications. The company has developed a welding machine that learns machine usage patterns using an AI Algorithm and creates a library of different users as per their skills. The welding machine provides Real Time Weld Score and suggests training to welders based on the score.

Perceptual engineering will make machines and products intelligent and give them the ability to think and learn.

Already making progress on this front, LTTS has developed advanced driver assistance solution (ADAS) to automate and enhance vehicle systems. Majority of the systems leverage multiple cameras and radars whose data is processed by sophisticated imaging algorithms in order to become the eyes of the vehicle and the security, the technology also provides luxury to the driver in order to make navigation hassle free.

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What can be expected from your company in near future?

The company is emphasizing towards building learning capabilities into its analytics and not just delivering analytics like long terms trends, correlation or clustering.

We will leverage technologies like AI and machine learning to integrate learning capabilities within the data.

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About the Author Karthik Nagendra is the Founder & Director of ThoughtStarters. He has a decade of core marketing experience with prime focus on branding, communication strategy, executive communication & thought leadership marketing. He has been instrumental in creating many award winning marketing programs for leading brands like MeritTrac-India’s largest Skills Assessment Company, Wipro Technologies and Accenture. He has worked closely with leading universities, industry bodies, analysts and research firms globally and acted as a catalyst in providing best practices and insights to customers across sectors. He has authored papers & articles on thought leadership marketing in international journals & has been a guest speaker at many Ivy league Universities globally.

At ThoughtStarters, the first end to end Thought Leadership marketing company in the world, Karthik & his team help businesses transform from sellers to influencers by helping them unearth their ‘big idea’ and thus brand them as experts in their field. While their approach is grounded in facts, they seek fresh perspectives to showcase clients’ USP through research, academia collaboration and strategic content marketing.

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rom being just a buzzword in 2011, content marketing has become the number one priority for the marketing department in 2017 and accounts for 26% of a marketers’ entire budget.

According to the 2017 benchmarks and trends report published by Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs, more than 60% of B2B marketers said their content marketing strategies were more effective than it was one year before; success being attributed to the better quality of the content, a well thought out strategy, and sound investment in content distribution.

With companies seeing success in their content marketing efforts, companies that made a consistent investment in content marketing may begin to get complacent.

Content marketing trends will continue to adapt and evolve in 2018; giving companies opportunities to sustain their success As B2B marketers, to stay ahead of the game in the constantly evolving landscape, look out for these three predictions in content marketing.

3 Key trends you will see in 2018

Content created by Artificial Intelligence – Google’s Digital News Initiative (DNI) supports innovation in European digital journalism. In 2017, Google invested more than $800,000 in the Press Association’s initiative to generate news stories solely through the use of AI. In this initiative, while journalists will be involved in spotting and creating stories, AI will be used to assist with massively increasing local stories that would otherwise be impossible to provide manually.

While content and the creation and ideation are still not fully automatable, platforms like Quill

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New formats of content – With consumption of content increasing on mobile platforms, the need of the hour is to develop a content strategy that is more refined and creates better customer engagement.

Instagram stories, Facebook and Snapchat videos are all new formats and are using motion graphics and animations in ways never imagined before.

Brands that come up with short dynamic content and ensure that the highly sought formats of ebooks, white papers are optimized for mobile platforms will see success in their omnichannel marketing strategies.

Interactive Content – The internet of things (IoT) has brought content to us through voice-controlled technology.

Through a deep understanding of consumer demographics and the way they want to use content, voice-activated software like Alexa and Siri are rising phenomenally in importance.

In order to experiment with this fairly new trend, brands need to consider if their audience is an adopter of voice-enabled devices, if they can consistently produce high-quality audio content, and if they are looking for a new channel to reach their audience.

Aligning trends with strategy Many of the content marketing trends such as those listed above are already impacting our lives.

Keeping abreast of the trends and aligning the objectives of the business with the evolving needs of the consumers, identifying the right partner who can help brands achieve such desired outcomes is what will result in a successful content marketing strategy.

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oday, most of the organizations are facing a number of challenges like tracking difficulties, manual data entry, unavailability of real-time data and more, which are hampering the overall efficiency of the organizations. These ambiguities are incapacitated by the innovatory IoT technology. Hence, the organizations rely on the IoT solution providers who are believed to be the saviors in handling various issues.

Ranjit is a solid supporter of ‘Make in India’ campaign and follows the IDDM (Indigenously Designed, Developed, & Manufactured) strategy for the advancement of the company. He is a supreme leader who is keen on maintaining high quality in the operations and delivery divisions. Also being a sports fanatic, he co-founded a gaming company ‘Manthan Studio’ which has many successful stories attached to it. Under his effective leadership, the company has surpassed many prosperous years making the company a leading player in the electronic and software sectors.

One such trusted name in the field of IoT is Syslogyx Technologies. It is the prominent IoT solution provider company which is engaged in the divisions of Research, Designing, and Manufacturing of seamless embedded systems along with Comprehensive Mobile & Web Application Development. The company holds a vivid goal to provide customized end-to-end Industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions to its customers.

Offering Outstanding Services under One Roof Syslogyx is a leading IoT company which serves to a wide range of fields such as Defence, Manufacturing, Mining and many more. It also specializes in developing smart electronics and connected devices and has shown its excellence by delivering military-grade drones to the DRDO under IDDM strategy.

The Rock Pillar of the Company Ranjit Singh serves as the MD & CEO of Syslogyx and founded the company in 2002. He is a tech-savvy persona and started his entrepreneur journey with designing and developing embedded systems for the consumer and industrial sector. With a strong determination to develop embedded systems for the military equipment, his team successfully designed and developed an embedded system for an Indigenous ballistic missile. The company’s on-board embedded and development team and a strong belief on IoT’s potential inspired him to dive into the world of IoT and IIoT.

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In Software domain, Syslogyx concentrates on offering unique designs and supreme quality solutions using various mobile and web development technologies. With the help of IoT, the company is upgrading to the effective manufacturing productions with its smart factory solutions for the customer’s satisfaction.

The flexible structure of the company offers high quality and cost effective solutions to the customers. It also develops magnificent products for the defence, automobile

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and mining sectors, which include production of Electronic Fuze, Electronic Detonator Blasting System, and the Drones & Embedded systems.

The Trend-Setter of IIoT The Industrial IoT (IIoT) is presently in its primary stage and it holds a high potential to change the facets of the manufacturing industry. Due to the rapid technological transformations, Syslogyx had made early investments which made it the harbinger of the IIoT domain. The unique strategy of Syslogyx has increased the client’s operational efficiencies by turning their services into the smart factories. The company provides a complete set of tailored IIoT services with its all in-house expertise in various domains like hardware, cloud, network and protocols, software, and etc.

sleeves to set a benchmark for its competitors. The company is developing an ‘IIoT Empowered Smart Factory System’ for the live tracking of the production process and to make real-time data available for management.

Moreover, it is implementing an ‘IoT based Smart TBM System’ which will focus on executing the TBM (Time Based Maintenance) activity in an efficient way. It will also monitor every single part of the machine using smart hardware. The ‘Smart JH System’ will conduct daily Jishu Hozen (JZ) activity using PC software & an embedded unit.

The Glorious Future of Syslogyx

Syslogyx is planning to expand its operational offices in Bangalore and Singapore within a short duration of time.

Syslogyx is looking forward to toil more on Industrial IoT and offer unique solutions for each of its manufacturing clients. The company has recently collaborated with an MNC to help boost country’s defence by developing indigenous products. It is growing stronger by indigenously constructing autonomous, economical, and end-to-end solutions for its diverse clients. The company is also focused on building varied systems and has rolled up its

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A certain premise where an entire organization’s IT operations and equipment are centralized and, where it stores, analyzes and distributes large amounts of data is known as a Data Center (DC). Earlier, the data processing needs were not too high but now-a-days those needs have grown exponentially. Data centers are now essential for daily operations and are important for business continuity. They are reliable to store enormous amounts because of their avant-garde security levels that keep the organization’s data safe at all times. The DC site, which is also known as a Server Farm, is connected to a communication network so that information can be accessed easily and remotely. There are thousands of very small powerful servers running in a data center which can be harboured in a room, a floor or an entire building.

Important components of a Data Center Power Power is unarguably the most important factor in a data center.

Within the data center, the Colocation equipment and web hosting servers run on a dedicated power source. Every data center needs power backups to make sure their servers are always up and overall service uptime is received.

Cooling Cooling is just as important as power in a data center. The colocation equipment and web hosting servers need proper cooling so that they don’t heat up and continue to function smoothly. A data center should be designed in such a way where there is proper ventilation and the systems are kept cool at all times.

Network Operations Center Network Operation Center (NOC) is a room for staff or dedicated personnel appointed to monitor, administrate and maintain the computing resources in a data center. A NOC is able to provide

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all the information of the data center and gives updates of each and every activity. Person responsible in a NOC is able to see visualizations of network which are being monitored and can be managed.

Safety Measures You need to have security protocols in place in order to have a secure data center. You need to first figure out the vulnerabilities in your DC premises.

Multi-factor ID authentication, surveillance throughout the facility, metal detectors and biometric systems are some of the steps which can be taken to have top level security.

Physical Security Organizations do employ security guards to protect their data centers 24/7. These guards protect the inside and outside of the data center for enhanced security. Mantraps are generally used for access control. Onsite security guards are an essential part of a data center. Some organizations allow these professional guards to carry firearms for higher security.

Redundancy & Reliability High availability in a data center refers to the components which are continuously working. Systems are maintained from time to time to ensure smooth operations in the future. You can create a failover where you create server and they switch responsibilities to a remote server to have higher levels of redundancy.

Redundant Systems eliminate threat of single point of failure in the IT infrastructure.

Backup Systems include uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and generators. A generator can be programmed to start automatically during power outages. As long as the generators are fueled up, they will continue to run in an outage. UPS systems should also have redundancy built in them so that a failing module

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Maintenance of a Data Center Regular maintenance of the data center ensures optimum reliability by taking precautionary steps to reduce downtime and avoidable failures. Let’s take a look at these 3 steps which will help you maintain your data center in the most effective way: Safety First There are numerous problems in a data center which can affect the life and health of the technicians working in it.

Technicians should make sure their safety and health is not compromised while working on maintenance tasks and they should be trained before working in such scenarios.

Power Maintenance Performing maintenance on regular intervals on UPS and batteries reduces the chances of failure whenever there is a power outage. Preventive maintenance will decrease the chances of failures and reduce the amount of energy consumed.

Get a Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) CMMS is a best way to track, measure and improve your maintenance schedule. This software lets the facility manager to track the status of maintenance work for their assets and costs associated with the work in the system. This software will help drive down cost of maintenance and will increase productivity from within.

Conclusion This blog covers only the basic information which will give you a rough idea about what exactly is a data center and what are the important components in it. To build an efficient data center it is essential to realize your requirements which will support your needs in the future.

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will enable them to communicate with human beings in various ways.

According to researchers and industrialists all across the globe, the latest and upcoming applications of IoT are expected to rule over every industry, community and household very soon. Industries like healthcare, manufacturing, retail, telecommunications, automotive and utilities currently benefit from the applications of IoT. At the look of it, these applications will soon make life much

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EASIER, SAFER AND HEALTHIER more convenient and happy. Some of these revolutionary applications are mentioned and briefly explained below.

Smart Home The process of creating automation for a house is called home automation or domotics. With the use of IoT in houses, various day-to-day functions will be carried out just by a tap on the screen of a smartphone. Smart lighting will switch the lights on or off at a specific time chosen. Specific

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rooms can be illuminated at the chosen time of the day and the light intensity can also be decided. HVAC (Heating, ventilation and air conditioning) regulation will provide the ease of cooling a particular room beforehand. On seeking permissions from the user, it will also decrease the cooling of the room if vacancy is detected. Secured homes provide the necessary peace of mind to the owners. Therefore, a vital application of smart home is smart security systems which include door and window sensors, motion detectors, video cameras and other such mechanisms which provide

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real-time information regarding the security status of homes. All this will certainly make homes a more delighted and safer place to live in.

real time monitoring of garbage bins. Such sophisticated advancements will help enhance quality, performance and interactivity of urban services, to reduce costs and resource consumption and to increase contact between citizens and government.

Connected Health Wearable smart devices like smart wristbands, watches, shoes, headbands, and eyeglasses provide useful health related information like heart rate, blood pressure, number of steps walked, amount of perspiration, body fat count and much more to the users and the doctors. All this information is used by the doctors to diagnose a disease in a person and immediately provide the necessary treatment. Apart from this, IoT based devices help hospitals in real time environmental monitoring like checking the temperature of wards and ICUs. Hospitals can also track the real time position of various medical apparatus like wheelchairs, stretchers and other operating instruments. IoT devices assists patients in controlling room temperature and lighting, communicating with friends and family via video calls, connecting with nurses via intercom, and regular reminders about medicines. Thus, with the advancements in the technology, people will stay connected to their health anytime, anywhere.

Connected Car Automakers have begun to collaborate with telecom manufacturers in order to provide connectivity to their vehicles. This will result in the introduction of various userfriendly and technological advances in vehicles. For example, crash response will enable a car to send real time data and location to crisis teams which will save lives by enhancing emergency response. Cars will soon be able to prevent breakdowns by sending information to consumers about a part much before it fails so as to save time and to reduce repair and warranty costs. Smart Navigation will detect fuel levels and track the distance to the nearest fuel refilling station and will automatically change the destination. The advanced navigation system will also access the owner’s calendar and keep a track of upcoming meetings and will not only calculate the time to reach and distance to cover but will also suggest the best route to the destination. All these advances are predicted to be revolutionary and game-changing.

Smart City An urban area which uses electronic data collection in order to manage assets and resources efficiently is termed as smart city. Cities have lots of roads, buildings, offices, gardens, shopping and entertainment centres. To ensure that the people, traffic and other functions are managed efficiently, planners need to take lots of efforts. In order to create an ease in the process, sensors are spread over the town or city to generate large amounts of data. Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dublin, Madrid, Singapore, New York and China are some of the cities where implementation of such programs can be seen. Such programs include Smart street lights where the street lights adapt intensity based on weather conditions. Smart traffic management helps in carrying out real-time traffic monitoring and managing the traffic accordingly. Smart parking will help in monitoring traffic conditions at an earlier stage in order to look for parking spaces in a pre-planned manner. Smart Utility which includes smart water and waste management will help water suppliers, water management companies and residents in having control on sewer disposal by allowing

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The whole world has been already introduced with thousands of devices which use internet in order to become digitally intelligent. The above mentioned applications and similarly many more are undoubtedly ready to make lives easier and fun. This will very soon make every person techsavvy. IoT is evolving to create a world in itself and its applications are here to add on to it. Its shortcomings can therefore be overlooked completely.

Apart from making the lives easier and fun, these applications will help everyone in developing, growing and moving towards a more modern zone. Every single person including students, doctors, engineers, lawyers, media, government, businessmen will get a chance to avail its capabilities to the fullest. It can therefore prove to be a boon for the mankind.

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elematics Insurance is gaining popularity these days. According to reports, telematics insurance market is expected to reach USD 2.21 Billion by 2020 that too at a CAGR of 20.9%. Upsurge in the demand of telematics solution in insurance and automotive sector, increased penetration of smartphone and internet and consumer enthusiasm for in-car connectivity are seen as the motivating factors behind this optimistic projection.

Insurance companies and automotive players thus need solutions that offers flexible, scalable and secured cloud based infrastructure that can handle multiple devices in real time and analyze voluminous data generated from multiple sensors. Noida based Waypals is one such innovative solution provider.

products. So, they look out for reliable solution providers who can provide these services to them.

Waypals fulfills that need by providing a separate admin console. Through this console, Insurance companies can access fully processed insured’s data on the touch of button and can view complete vehicle data.

Waypals has a team of adept data scientists that have proficiency in crafting effective data architecture and can derive meaningful insights by processing this valuable data with the assistance of advanced analytical tools.

Robust Data Security makes its Solution More Reliable Waypals understands the importance of client’s data.

Therefore, its efforts always in the direction of providing leading edge solution while safeguarding back-end systems and hardware components from any vulnerability. While crafting the solution at the initial stage (design), Waypals professionals take care of cyber-proofing its IT infrastructure and services. Their systems are built with advanced network protection at different layers and follow security channels with layers of encryption, firewalls and other access control systems. In order to upscale the security to the next level, the company supports Over-TheAir (OTA) updates that allow clients to make firmware and configuration updates remotely to their devices at any point of time to eliminate any susceptibility.

Waypals is a pioneer in the field of Telematics Insurance and Automotive IoT services. The company leverages the potential of advanced technologies like Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics and Cloud Computing in crafting stateof-the-art automotive solutions. The company assists and empowers insurance companies and especially underwriters to do risk based pricing based on various parameters including driving behavior, type of road driver is using, distance travelled, speed and more. Their technology can also monitor braking and cornering to build up a picture of driving style. In short period of time, the company has built a niche in the market with its cutting-edge solutions with special focus on scalability and security of end-user’s data.

USP of Waypals Insurance companies want to launch Telematics products, but would not like to worry about backend technology, devices, networking and analytical tools. They are more concerned about the technology that provides data, which can benefit their underwriters and actuaries to calculate the justifiable and competent pricing for their insurance

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The company is on the way to upgrade its security further by implementing the popular facets of Block Chain technology.

Benefits of its Services Theft Control: Today, almost every car comes up with an OBD port.

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Pioneer in the field of Connected Vehicle Technology with specialization of Consumer Cars and Telematics Insurance Waypals provide IOT devices that can be easily fit on the OBD port of the car. Incase one needs added security, Waypals provides other variant of these Connected Vehicle Devices that can be hard-wired into the car and in case of theft, the driver can immobilize the car.

This added security feature is a big hit among customers as the apprehension amongst the car owner has augmented sharply over the years due to the increased cases of car theft in many regions in the world. According to source, in UK alone, cases related to car theft have risen sharply by 30 percent (in the last year).

Crash Alert: Life is full of surprises, the good one and the bad one as well. In India alone 1,50,000 people get killed each year due to road mishaps. Destiny is not in anyone’s hand but one can control the damages if prepared in advance. Many people get killed only due to the non-availably of critical resources on the crucial hours or due to the delayed availability of those vital resources. Waypals thus have introduced an Emergency Crash Alert System, which automatically sends an alert to your emergency Contacts with the exact location of the crash site. This quick alert at the time of calamity can prove to be a life saver as it can mobilize critical resources at the location of crash in quickest possible time.

Sukhvinder Lamba CEO

social chat group among others are some of the services of Waypals that provides a great sigh of relief and comfort to the car owners.

The Judicious Leadership The architect who is crafting the success story of Waypals is Sukhvinder Lamba, the CEO. He is Computer Engineer and an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) who has a relentless desire to succeed.

With his vast corporate experience of over 20 years in the space of IoT, Connected Automobiles, Telematics Insurance and Cloud Computing, this astute entrepreneur is driving Waypals towards the path of glory.

Waypals is the market leader in Connected Vehicle Technology with specialization of Consumer Cars and Telematics Insurance (UBI and Driving Score). “In near future, the company has aspiration to expand its business footprint even into the unchartered territory and want become preferred partners for Automotive OEM and General Insurance companies in India and abroad,” concludes Sukhvinder.

Automobile real-time location update, access to vehicle document via cloud, secure car park, battery health update,

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The Lingua Franca of the Internet of Things (IoT) A

develop it further. It’s an open source software framework that allows devices to communicate other devices around it.

It is flexible, promotes proximal network and cloud connection (which is optional). E.g., a motion sensor letting appliances in the room to know that no one is in the room so that these appliances can shut themselves off.

few years back, not long ago, I used to access internet only through my computer. But now, I can access it using my phones, tablets, game consoles.

More and more everyday use devices like watches, cars, etc. are getting linked to the internet. I am interacting with these devices, communicating with them to other connected devices to improve my productivity, have a better lifestyle, reduce my surprises and lower my operating costs of appliances. IoT promises the next technical revolution.

Management gurus, technology companies, always uncover the next big thing and through it the next source of income.

They are rapidly creating new opportunities around “the internet of things” and converting it into almost “the internet of everything.”

To realize the “promise” of IoT, technology companies have to work well on the common standards, which is adopted by a majority of them so that devices can get connected and talk seamlessly with each other. Naturally, it will not happen without jostling between rival products and competing systems. It has happened for trains, televisions, video recorders, and the internet itself. It will happen the same for the connected devices.

The manufacturer or operating system agnostic, AllJoyn sits in a device. It communicates over the wireless links such as Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. The broadcast information it relays is a common language. Other connected devices or platforms understand it.

The need for connect-and-communicate devices and underlying platforms has incubated some industry groups.

Amongst them, the most prominent is the AllSeen Alliance.

It is a consortium of firms with diverse domains likes semiconductors, white goods, consumer electronics and retails. Some of the most prominent members are Microsoft. Qualcomm, Panasonic, LG, and Haier. AllSeen Alliance’s member Qualcomm has created a free piece of software, AllJoyn. It was then handed over to its member to

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The common language can result into many other not-yetthought-of applications. Though it sounds simple, the challenge remains considerable. It is a daunting task to accommodate diverse nature of connected things, their thousands of uses and their sophistication. Also one has to think about future compatibility, to make people habitual about installing regular software updates for things like smart kitchen appliances.

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Atul Gunjal Co-founder & CEO

Atul Gunjal is the Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer of IWORKTECH. It is Alpharetta, GA based company.

It has development centre in Pune, India.

IWORKTECH develops solutions and products in the areas like Utility, Healthcare and Education.

It has wide experience in providing Enterprise Wide solution.

Like, AllSeen Alliance, there is another group called the Industrial Internet Consortium to “define common architectures” for smart objects. AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM, and Intel have formed it.

AllJoyn is focusing on for short-distance object-to-object communication. The Industrial Internet Consortium is focusing on commercial and industrial use cases.

Just to give you an idea about devices, brands which are currently in the market ecosystem, I am sharing a comprehensive analysis done by a blogger Chris McCann.

He has divided things into two categories like ThingConsumers and Thing – Enterprise. He has created a third category, Internet-infrastructure under which he has covered Hardware/ Connectivity platforms, Board/Chipsets, Software Platforms, Analytics, Data Storage.

Similarly IPSO Alliance, which promotes the usage of the Internet Protocol, which eventually standardises the way that data could flow across different types of network.

The Open Interconnect Consortium (Broadcom, Dell, Samsung and others), and IEEE are working to build consensus on standards.

There are interesting observations he has shared, and I liked are: • Currently, more devices are connected on the internet than humans • IoT has potential to transform the operations of industries • As of today, IoT is in a nascent stage. On consumer side it is still mainly for the hobbyist, on enterprise side, it is still for early adopter • IoT security is a big deal and big unresolved problem • Full ecosystem of IoT is huge Summary I sometimes wonder whether number and verities of the connected devices can make the emergence of a single standard near to impossible. Keeping my fingers cross and hoping to arrive at “Universal” languages for the connected devices and to have a better life.

As one can see efforts put in by these alliances and consortiums are both competing and complementing. E.g.

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