CoE for IoT & AI in India

About Us

The Center of Excellence for IoT was announced by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in July 2015 as a part of Digital India Initiative to jump start the IoT ecosystem taking advantage of India’s IT strengths and help the country attain a leadership role in the convergent area of hardware and software. The main objective of the center is to create innovative applications and domain capability by harnessing the innovative nature of startup community and leveraging the experience of corporate players.

The nasscom Center of Excellence – IoT & AI is the largest collaborative innovation platform in the emerging technologies of IoT, Analytics, AI/ML, AR/VR and Robotics for Digital Transformation. It is part of the Digital India Initiative to jump-start and drive the emerging technologies ecosystem in India, by leveraging India’s IT strengths and assist the country to attain a leadership role in the convergent area of hardware and software.

The main objective of the CoE is to help Indian Deep-Tech Startups & Companies leverage cutting edge technologies to build market-ready products. Through the Startups Program, CoE aims to build industry capable talent in an entrepreneurial ecosystem by facilitating Incubation, Funding, Acceleration, Industry Connect and Mentoring.

nasscom CoE was set up in July 2016 as part of the Digital India initiative of MeitY, with the objective of aiding innovative start-ups in the emerging technologies. nasscom CoE-IoT has centres in Bengaluru, Gurugram and Gandhinagar.

Objectives

To create innovative applications and domain capability across vertical for country's needs such as Smart City, Smart Health, Smart Manufacturing, Smart Agriculture, and others

To build industry capable talent, start-up community, and entrepreneurial ecosystem for IoT.

To provide an ecosystem for innovation to thrive and embrace enterpreneurship

To energise research mind-set and reduce cost in Research and Development by providing neutral and interoperable, multi technology stack laboratory facilities

To reduce import dependency on IoT components and promote indigenization

To position India as a provider of end-to-end solution in engineering space

To provide environment for product creation, testing and validation

The IoT market in India is poised to become a USD 15 billion opportunity by 2020.

Manufacturing 45%
Automotive 5%
Next Gen Commerce 10%
Healthcare 30%
Market Share of India in The Global IoT Market -2020
Startups to drive the market- With almost 60% startups incorporated post 2010

nasscom CoE – IoT & AI acts as an enabler to drive the various initiative by leveraging the knowledge of Industry, Academia, Government & Startups to democratize innovation in the IoT & AI Industry

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