solutions will gear up to exploit everything that this particular domain has to offer.
2. And that my ‘smartphone’ was not really smart and if IoT materializes into everything it
is expected to be, the next time I would just have to let my phone know about the topic
of my article submission and it will gather and arrange all the information into a comprehensible format on its own (bazinga!).
However, for a developing nation like India, IoT, especially, in the consumer space would
need to reckon with a few hurdles. For Consumer IoT adoption in India, issues like internet
availability, cost of IoT enabled systems, data security, lack of standardization, overall infrastructure
challenges, result in a slow paced Consumer IoT
adoption in India.
And thus practically, Commercial IoT has much better prospects in India. It is not that these challenges
(especially internet connectivity and cost of IoT) are
not there in the commercial space; they can just be
more easily addressable by commercial organizations. Even globally, IoT adoption and usage is much
higher in the commercial space.
Considering the fact that even after 6 decades of independence, India is primarily deriving a
major contribution to its GDP from the agricultural sector, the implementation of IoT and its
benefits to the field of Indian Agriculture and Research can be as revolutionary as the Green
Revolution. For crops, smart farming means preparing the soil, planting, nurturing and harvesting at precisely the best time via access to market data.
The various other fields which can be benefited by incorporating the best of IoT along with
the conventional methods are:
Health & Wellness: The most dynamic feature of the “things” which would be communicating with each other is that there scope is not restricted to the ‘Machine-to-Machine’ level interaction
only, but evolves to a P2M (Person to Machine) relationship, enabled by a powerful interaction between
smart objects and people in areas of health care, monitoring, diagnostics, medication administration, fitness
etc. Remember how Jarvis could monitor Tony
Stark’s artificial heart’s anxiety levels, potassium and
sodium contents, and figure out loads of incomprehensible medical jargon and fix up everything on its own in Iron Man? Well, in the world of
IoT and all things cool, that won’t be a Marvel fictional track anymore. It would be a real
thing, accessible to many.
Disaster Prediction and Management: IoT has the potential to serve a critical, life-saving,
role in the event of disaster. Though it is not possible to completely avoid disaster, impact
can be minimized by using a combination of GIS, remote sensing and satellite communication. GIS applications such as Hazard Mapping can be used by meteorological departments
to quickly communicate the risk. Remote sensing can speedily gather data across channels to
signal impending disaster. In 2007, a bridge collapsed in Minnesota, killing many people, because of steel plates that were inadequate to handle the bridge’s load.