IoT Will Spur Diversification In Indian Telecom

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By – Angira Agrawal, COO, Skylo

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The Internet of Things, or IoT, refers to the billions of physical devices around the world that are connected to the Internet – collecting and sharing data. It is estimated that this creates one billion GB of data every day. Globally, 42 billion IoT-connected devices are expected by 2025. The Internet of Things (IoT) is projected to reach approximately $1463 billion USD by 2027, and is backed by rising awareness regarding precision farming to aid in the growth, predicts Fortune Business Insights.

Specifically, narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) is unleashing powerful machine and sensor connectivity, delivering specific data, low latency, and increased power efficiency. And, it’s likely to drive millions of different types of connections and use cases.

Connecting billions of devices presents challenges due to several concerns — security, standardisation, authentication, and ubiquitous connectivity, the number one roadblock when deploying IoT.

Nowhere is this dynamic more apparent than in India, a country largely connected using inadequate terrestrial telecom networks and very limited coverage across India’s vast hinterlands. Today, connectivity remains intermittent at best, often failing totally, while many still experience non-existent coverage in remote areas, where remote farms operate, at the borders, at rural power line stations, at last-mile distribution centres, far out to sea, and many other industrial operations.

Even as IoT deployments grow to connect billions of machines, the increased volume of devices will take the deployments into remote parts, where they will experience little or no connectivity – and what connectivity is available will not be affordable. Existing cell networks are designed where people primarily go, and a significant percentage of these billions of IoT devices will be located away, i.e., outside of cell coverage areas.