IoT: Opportunities in the Post-COVID 19 World

Abstract

We live in a digital era, and IoT enables collecting and sharing data of billions of devices, through the internet, thus making them smart devices. An umbrella, as large as IoT, requires an open enough architecture with open protocols, operational principles and procedures to support a variety of network applications.

While IoT has been a buzz-word over the past few years, it is now poised for wider adoption in terms of making the crucial jump from hobby projects to professional enterprise deployments. What are the key challenges that professionals need to address while deploying Enterprise-grade IoT applications. What sort of architecture would enable this?   In what way does IoT differ from the technologies like M2M and Embedded Systems that we have been working on since decades? What are the latest trends in this field, in view of the recent COVID 19 situation? Let’s explore the answers to these questions, in our webinar by IoT expert - Vijai Simha.

Agenda

• What is IoT ? – Getting to a Common Understanding
• IoT Reference Architecture
• Exemplary Use-Cases
• Old Wine in New Bottle ? – Differences between IoT, M2M, Embedded Systems 
• Key Challenges in IoT
• Moving from Hobby Projects to Enterprise-grade IoT
• Opportunities in the Post-COVID 19 World

About the Speaker

Vijai Simha is a versatile technology professional with 22+ years of experience in IoT, Embedded systems, DSP and Communication Software Development. He has contributed to the industry in a wide spectrum of roles, such as Director, Head of Engineering, Program Manager, Technical Lead and Software Developer. His long stint of 17+ years at Sasken Communication Technologies, culminated in a role where he headed the Engineering Division at Sasken, Hyderabad. 

As a technology evangelist, Vijai has conducted highly successful workshops and seminars for multiple corporate clients in areas related to IoT and Systems Thinking, over the past few years.

Vijai is an alumnus of IIM, Bangalore (Executive General Management Program) and has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering. He is currently the CEO of NeoCortex Networks Pvt Ltd – a company that develops impactful IoT solutions by leveraging emerging IoT Communication Protocols like NB-IoT, UWB, BLE and NFC.