Information Technology Secretary Jayesh Ranjan said the Telangana government has taken a conscious decision to create a conducive environment and infrastructure for Internet of Things developers.
Mr. Ranjan was speaking at a panel discussion at The Things Conference here on Friday.
He said over a dozen IoT innovations were being tested at present, of which some have even been scaled up. The government has used IoT to predict weather conditions, especially heat waves, across about 855 weather monitoring stations. The technology has been used in agri-tech to assess the condition of crops.
Speaking about LoRaWAN, CEO and The Things Industries co-founder Weinke Giezeman explained the company’s journey and the technology’s use cases. “LoRaWAN is a technology where you can build networks yourself by gateways. These have 10-km range, and can connect 10,000 devices per gateway. All these gateways can create a network,” he said.
Mission Director, Atal Innovation Mission, Ramanan Ramanathan, said with around 10,500 engineering colleges in the country, every world-class institution should have world-class incubators. These incubators should have world-class startups.
This he said, would ensure, world-class opportunities. Over 5,400 Atal Tinkering Labs have witnessed 50,000 students coming up with 6,000 innovations in IoT and robotics, Mr. Ramanathan said.
