The first edition of ‘IoT (Internet of Things) India Congress, 2016’ began in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
The three-day event was inaugurated by Union Information Technology (IT) and Electronics Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and JS Deepak, Secretary, Ministry of Telecommunications.
Key Points
The congress aims to bring together key stakeholders across the value chain and verticals to collaborate, ideate and share a common roadmap for IoT implementation.
It will bring the IoT practitioners (hardware-devices, portables, sensors, software, business) and IoT enablers (regulatory, training, investors in IoT, end users) to work together.
It seeks to create an IoT platform that is industry efficient as well as robust.
For this purpose it has brought top executives from multinational companies and tech start-ups on one platform. The event will also host the “IoT Start-Up Awards 2016” and “IoT Thought Leadership Awards 2016”.
What is Internet of Things (IoT)?
IoT is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, or people that are provided with unique identifiers.
Thus it can be said that it is an internetworking of physical devices, vehicles, buildings and other itemsâembedded with electronics, software, sensors and network connectivity.
The internetworking has ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.
IoT is also dubbed as the infrastructure of the information society. It allows objects to be sensed and controlled remotely across existing network infrastructure.
Thus it creates opportunities for more direct integration of physical world into computer-based systems, and resulting in improved accuracy, efficiency and economic benefits.
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