Keeping in mind the growing influence of Internet of Things and Big Data in the enterprise world, this is opening up new doors for the systems integration community as they can focus towards providing critical device and solution integration around IoT, Big Data, Cloud and M2M or Machine to machine communications and wireless networking.
With 3G and 4G communications coming to the fore, the Internet is ever-progressing and fast expanding beyond PCs and mobile devices into enterprise assets such as field equipment and consumer items. For a truly connected city ecosystem to happen, it has to adopt ‘IoT’ (The Internet of Things) to transform how both an emerging or developed city delivers services and how business and people interact with one another. This can be done using advanced technologies and solutions that are not just reliable but also deliver high productivity at the enterprise level.
As far as integration of such systems and solutions is concerned, systems integrators in India can play a big role in terms of propagating these concepts ahead and work hand in hand with global vendors.
The IoT installed base is forecasted to grow to 26 billion units by 2020.1 Also, worldwide IT spending will grow by 3.1 per cent to US$3.8 trillion this year, driven by businesses starting to harness ‘big data’ garnered from smartphones and other devices.
These are the solutions that can transform the vision of a connected city into reality and deliver mobility with an increased productivity at the hands of business users.
A combination of technologies such as big data, business analytics software, cloud services, embedded technology, sensor networks, RFID, GPS, M2M, mobility, security and wireless networking can help companies, cater to a wide spectrum of market sectors such as education, banking & finance, healthcare, hospitality, retail and utilities sectors, deliver a better way to live and do business.
