| | June 20188CIOReviewver the last couple of years, IoT has moved from being a mere buzzword to a tech-nology readily avail-able to companies. Several product companies (especially in the consum-er electronics and minor appliances space) have also moved on to the bandwagon of enabling their prod-ucts to be IoT-ready. Many compa-nies in the services and logistics space have also begun touting the benefits of transparency enabled by telemat-ics and IoT, essentially, monetizing their own investments in technology made for their internal processes and creating new products and models to increase business and revenue. Most companies in the manufac-turing space which had tradition-ally invested in machine-to-machine (M2M) communication and sophis-ticated control systems have also taken the logical step of investing in IoT technology.The data capturing, and acqui-sition front has seen an explosion of solutions, products and services, largely driven by competition among manufacturers to provide `IoT ready' equipment. Almost every equip-ment now comes in a default `smart' mode enabled with on-board inter-faces to transmit key operating data of that equipment for management and analysis.On the data storage and analytics front, several partners have rushed in to support the anticipated large vol-umes of data being collected from IoT-enabled devices. Almost all the OBy Vinod Krishnan, Chief Information Officer, Indus TowersIndus Towers is one of India's largest telecom tower companies with over 1,22,730 towers across 15 telecom circles. The company has the wide coverage in India and has already achieved 2,88,913 Tenancies, a first in the telecom tower industry globally.EVOLUTION OF THEIOT LANDSCAPEIN MY OPINION
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