IBM India has revealed the name of its Internet of Things (IoT) clients in the country. But these clients are not India’s leading enterprises.
Kone, KPIT, Avanijal Agri Automation and Acculi Labs are the latest IoT clients of IBM India. Out of this, Kone is a global company based in Finland.
“With a growing global ecosystem of over 6,000 clients, 1,400 partners and 750 IoT patents, IBM is uniquely positioned to lead the IoT revolution across industries and help companies in India plug into critical new revenue streams,” said Karan Bajwa, managing director, IBM India/South Asia.
IBM and IoT clients
KONE, a global elevator company, will use the IBM IoT Cloud Platform to connect, monitor and optimize the management of elevators, escalators, doors and turnstiles in buildings and cities. The system will analyze data from sensors embedded in equipment.
Rather than calling a service engineer, KONE can resolve selected technical issues remotely by running tests and making commands over the cloud, allowing it to identify and predict issues and minimize downtime.
KONE plans to leverage a vast developer ecosystem via Application Programming Interfaces (API’s) that will allow developers to make a smoother, safer and more personalized flow of people in some of the world’s busiest cities and buildings including India.
KPIT, a technology company specializing in product engineering and IT solutions to automotive, transportation, manufacturing and energy and utilities industries, is using IBM’s IoT Continuous Engineering.
Avanijal Agri Automation, which provides technology solutions, is leveraging IBM’s IoT on IBM Cloud to collect and log irrigation data from sensors on the field for agronomical analysis which helps further enhance the yield on a continuous basis.
Acculi Labs, which devised a rural healthcare solution called Lyfas for detecting disease, is using IBM’s IoT platform on IBM Cloud and IBM Watson IoT gateway and Apache spark streaming analytics.
UNLIMIT tie-up
UNLIMIT, a business venture of Reliance Group and IBM today announced a strategic collaboration that brings together UNLIMIT’s Internet of Things (IoT) solutions with IBM IoT capabilities in India.
IBM and UNLIMIT will create IoT solutions for industry verticals including automotive, insurance, utilities, and industrial automation.
UNLIMIT and IBM are developing IoT solutions for implementation across Reliance Group companies addressing key segments such as – User Based Insurance (Reliance General Insurance), Asset & Vehicle Tracking (Reliance Commercial Finance), Tower Monitoring (Reliance Communications) and Transformer Maintenance (BSES & Reliance Energy).
“India is becoming the hot bed for digital disruption and we believe there is immense scope for innovation. Our technology platform, with Watson IoT at its core, will provide enterprises with a flexible, scalable and secure solution.’ said Juergen Hase, CEO of UNLIMIT.
“With 2.7 billion connected devices and growing, Indian economy, enterprises and consumers are embracing IOT at a rampant pace,” said Harriet Green, General Manager, Watson IoT, Customer Engagement and Education, IBM.
IBM will provide its Watson IoT Platform to collect and connect data, including sensor data, from devices and provide use- case specific dashboards. UNLIMIT will design IoT use cases for various industries in the Indian market and build them on the IBM Watson IoT Platform.
