Lok Sabha Question No. 3772 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-08-09
Subject: Internet of Things
Ministry: COMMUNICATIONS
Asked by: GEETHA KOTHAPALLI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.3772 TO BE ANSWERED ON 9 TH   AUGUST, 2017

## INTERNET OF THINGS

3772. SHRIMATI KOTHAPALLI GEETHA:

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS be pleased to state:

- (a) the major features of internet of things along with the benefits thereof;
- (b) whether the country aims to capture twenty per cent market share in Internet of Things (IoT);
- (c) if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) the steps taken/being taken by the Government in this regard?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE (IC) OF THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS & MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (SHRI MANOJ SINHA)

- (a) The Internet of Things (IoT) uses a device (such as a sensor) to capture an event, which is relayed through a network (wireless, wired or hybrid) to an application, that translates the captured event into meaningful information.  The term IoT is also being inter-changeably used with Machine to Machine (M2M) communication.

IoT will play an important role in bringing intelligence to the field level in various sectors and facilitate in transforming them to smart sectors, by reducing the humanmachine interface. As IoT is the basis for automated information exchange between machines,  it  has  the  potential  to  dramatically  impact  various  industry  verticals  like Smart  City,  Automobile,  Energy  and  utilities,  Water  Management,  Health  care, Agriculture, Safety and Surveillance,  Supply Chain etc. It can bring substantial and tangible  social  and  economic  benefits  to  consumers,  businesses,  citizens  and governments by improving efficiency.

- (b) The Government recognises the potential and big opportunity offered by IoT and is  committed  towards  development  of a  vibrant  IoT  ecosystem.  According  to a market estimate, India would have a share of 5-6% of global IoT industry.  However, no such target has been set by the Government at present to capture market share in IoT.
- (c) Not applicable in view of (b) above.

(d) Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has set up a Centre of Excellence (CoE) on Internet of Things (IoT) at Bengaluru to be executed jointly by ERNET  (Education and Research Network) India and NASSCOM  (National Association of Software and Services Companies) in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode with  participation  of  State  Government.  Its  objectives  are  to  enable  India  as innovation hub in IoT through democratization of innovation and will promote design, prototype and manufacturing ecosystem for IoT by harnessing and creating capacity with academia, startups and technology providers. In addition, more than 15 research projects  in  the  domain  of  IoT  have  been  initiated  by  MeitY  in  R&D  institutions  for technology development.

Besides,  'National  Telecom  M2M  Roadmap'  was  released  by  Department  of Telecommunications (DoT) in May, 2015 with the purpose of boosting development of M2M based products and to provide efficient  citizen  centric  services  in  India  .  The Roadmap  outlines  the  broad  policy  and  regulatory  approach  to  facilitate  the  M2M ecosystem in the country. The Roadmap focuses on communication aspects of M2M with the aim to have interoperable standards, policies and regulations for growth of M2M in the country.

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