Nevatia believes IoT has huge potential
Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) and Vodafone Idea Limited have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to leverage each other’s expertise in their respective domains to develop and deploy IoT and M2M solutions in India. IoT adoption has become critical for any organization’s digital transformation journey.
The MOU, signed 17 May 2022, will address the challenges in IoT implementation for both C-DOT and Vodafone. The partners have agreed to collaborate and work jointly on non-exclusive basis, to evaluate applications and devices from various solution providers against oneM2M specifications and offer joint certificates
However, in the current deployments, certain operational challenges such as device network compatibility, over the air firmware upgrade, remote device configuration, security vulnerabilities and implementation in siloes with proprietary protocols are preventing businesses from reaping the scale benefits of IoT, the Ministry of Commuinications said of the decision for C-DOT and Vodafone to collaborate.
C-DOT Executive Director Dr. Raj Kumar Upadhyay said, “C-DOT has been the flagbearer of IoT and M2M standardization and has been contributing significantly to oneM2M – the global IoT and M2M standard.
“This partnership is an opportunity to see the oneM2M specifications in action in a diverse set of sectors and applications, from smart energy to the connected cars.
“Together we will explore what is next for the industry and learn more about the value oneM2M specifications could deliver. C-DOT’s indigenously developed oneM2M based Common Services Platform (CCSP) could benefit IoT industry.
“Collaboration with Vodafone Idea will provide great opportunity to device and application providers to deploy their solutions in the Vodafone Idea network.
“This platform will enable application providers to use a robust middleware framework with all necessary underlying common services to deploy a secure oneM2M compliant solution.”
“We strongly believe that IoT has huge potential and as a leader in IoT, this partnership will enable IoT application and device providers to launch full-proof standardized and interoperable solutions in the market,” elaborated Arvind Nevatia, Chief Enterprise Business Officer, Vodafone Idea Limited.
“We are delighted to partner C-DOT who have strong capabilities to undertake large-scale development programs in IoT and telecommunication.”
C-DOT and Vodafone Idea Limited reiterated their firm commitment towards building indigenous capabilities for the digital transformation of the country as part of the celebration of “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav”, he said.
C-DOT is a premier telecom R&D organization under the Ministry of Communications, Government of India, carrying out advanced research and developmental activities in optical communication, Wireless technologies, switching and routing, IoT and M2M, Artificial Intelligence, advanced security solutions and other advanced applications.
C-DOT is hailed as the progenitor of the indigenous telecom revolution in the nation. With more than three decades of its relentless R&D efforts in the indigenous design, development and production of telecom technologies especially suited to the Indian landscape, have been in the technology forefront and has significantly contributed to Indian Telecom Network’s digitization.
Vodafone Idea Limited is an Aditya Birla Group and Vodafone Group partnership. It is India’s leading telecom service provider. The Company provides pan India Voice and Data services across 2G, 3G, 4G and has a 5G ready platform. fiinews.com
