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Priyanshu Gandhi∗ , Ravi Sharma∗ and Ankit Maheshwari†
∗ Medi-Caps
University, Indore, India
Email: gandhi.priyanshu@gmail.com, ravi.sharma@medicaps.ac.in
† Intel Mobile Communications, Bangalore, India
Email: ankit.maheshwari@intel.com
Abstract—With growing evolution in computing and communi- The selection of a protocol for IoT depends on the ap-
cation technologies consolidated with the demand of supervising plication requirements. IEEE 802.15.4 or IEEE 802.11 are
physical and environmental conditions gave rise to the expansion the principal standards in IoT which forms the basis for the
of Internet of Things(IoT). An Internet of Things is a wireless
network comprising of diffused independent devices (Things in most frequently used wireless communication standards [1][5].
IoT) using sensors and actuators for monitoring and controlling Closing the loop is yet another feature that is being added to
of environment. It has been expected that trillions of such devices IoT which brings in the unification of sensing, communicating,
in coordination with billions of smart systems using millions of computing and control (SC3). IoT find its application in many
applications will be in use. The most of the internet traffic will areas such as smart Health care, Security and Surveillance,
be carried out by all such IoT devices in future. This brings
up the challenges for diffused and cooperative computing and Environmental Monitoring (Watershed, Pollution Monitoring,
communication. The paper shows the road map and role of IoT Weather Study), Smart and Creative Industries, Structural
as mother technology for the key of success for ongoing and Monitoring (for building and bridges), Smart and Precision
future projects in India, such as clean and green India, smart Agriculture, Smart Automotive/Vehicular, Supply Chain Man-
city, high speed railway projects, pollution control systems, smart agement, Future Markets, Smart Dust, Smart Cities, etc. Nest,
agriculture and many more.
Index Terms—Internet of Things (IoT), Sensors, Actuators, 4Control, Lifx, GE, AGT Intl., Jawbone Up, Fitbit, Pebble are
cooperative computing, communication. some of the well known examples today [6].
The history of Internet of Things marks its beginning in
I. I NTRODUCTION late 90’s, to promote RFID technology. Until 2011 it has not
A Internet of Things (IoT) is a special kind of device accelerated its popularity but reach to a market hike in early
enabled wireless network comprising of diffused independent 2014. According to a report published ny IDC, IoT is expected
devices (Things in IoT) which use sensors and actuators for to have 8.9 trillion dollar market by 2020. The Industrial
supervising the physical conditions of the environment like internet and Machine to machine communication sub-segments
temperature, sound, pollution levels, humidity, wind etc. and the term Internet of Things rather opposing its core concepts.
thereby compiling the collected data at a central location The paper is structured as follows, Section I explains the
The IoT is a network which consists of small devices or background and a brief history about Internet of Things. The
nodes whose range varies from several hundreds to even current research and development trends in IoT is given in
thousands embedded with a radio transceiver where every section II, and Funding, Investment and Challenges is shown
device is linked to one(or sometimes several) sensors and in Section III. The real world use of Iot in different sectors are
actuators. These devices can organise themselves into a suit- shown in IV. Section V shows the opportunities in Iot in India
able structure to collectively perform a specific task. Each followed by its shares in different cites of India and different
device typically consist of different parts which includes (a) Industries in subsection V-A and subsection V-B. The different
a micro-controller, (b) a radio transceiver with an internal IoT emerging start-ups are shown in section VI. Finally the
antenna or connection to an external antenna, (c) an electronic concluding remarks and future work of IoT is given in Section
circuit for communicating with the sensors and (d) an energy VIII.
source [1][2][3]. For providing wireless connectivity back to
the wired world and distributed nodes, a gateway is integrated II. C URRENT R ESEARCH AND D EVELOPMENT T RENDS
with the IoT system. To change the way we live, IoT is an
accrediting technology that can transfigure information and The development in Internet of Things (IoT) benefitted
communication technology by utilizing World Wide Web and several application areas such as Agriculture, HealthCare,
the Internet. Iot enables us to track activities happening at Defence, Disaster Management and Industrial Applications
distant and generally remote locations. During development [10]. Different research deployments have been conducted for
of IoT devices, it must be ensured that there is a limitation all these applications so as to address more concrete issue.
on cost, computational capability, battery power, memory and IoT holds a significant promise to the industry because of
the physical size of the sensors and actuators [4]. its capability of enriching system’s performance remarkably.
Hence different industries and Start-up companies like Sen- based networks can be established in cooperation with the
tilla, Point8, Crossbow etc. have also funded Internet of Things Government. Different limitations in IoT research development
research [11][12]. IoT have been classified as one of the top and deployment are affordable sensors and actuators, economy
10 emerging technologies with a major role in cyber-physical of scales, lack of skilled manpower, broad deployment cycle,
systems, pervasive computing, Body Networks and Embedded unlicensed spectrum and need for impetus for sensor and
Systems. The algorithm design and the hardware design marks actuators development.
the existing status of IoT technology. The issues such as Various strategies that could have a major impact on re-
energy-efficiency, self-configuration and low cost hardware search, development, prototyping and incubation of IoT tech-
design poses a challenge for the deployment of long-lasting nologies are setting up of virtual centres, long term policies,
systems in the real environments. IoT have been receiving high funding for incubating developments, funding for hosting
interest across the industry and academia but it is becoming international conferences, collaborations and funding based on
difficult to make the fundamental contributions due to the the performance. The IoT technology should be made available
growing popularity of IoT as a research field.. It will become in schools and universities as it will be great to have different
clear in the upcoming years where the lasting contributions and applications equipped with IoT technology accessible to young
research directions lie. IoT have also encountered some major minds. The Government of India should administer more funds
research issues like Transducer design, Electronic System de- for deploying IoT to large sectors of Indian Business such
sign, Node design, System design and protocol. The single-hop as Agriculture in the coming years.Initially target application,
(star topology) and multihop (particularly tree topology) are should be those that are challenging and significant, yet viable
considered for Distributed Detection using Internet of Things [16].
[13]. Some of the recent contributions in Distributed Detection
and Target Tracking using Internet based Internet of Things IV. R EAL W ORLD OF I OT IN I NDIA
are tracking a mobile target using Energy restrained Wireless The Internet of Things (IoT) seems to be gaining wide pop-
Sensor Network and Multi-hop Cellular Sensor Networks ularity these days. With many top notch companies focusing
[14][15]. on different IoT enabled project, the Internet of Things seems
to be a major trend. The IoT ecosystem is accelerating at a
faster pace and there are many companies mushrooming up
in the area of IoT building new products and solutions across
all the verticals. With the initiatives like Smart city or centre
of excellence for Internet of Things, India is making a rapid
progress towards the digital world and taking significant steps
towards a better connected world.
The analysis of different applications of IoT clearly depicts
a clear picture. With respect to searches on Google,talks on
Twitter and posts on LinkedIn the different applications of IoT
were measured and ranked relatively [18].
Smart Homes: The statistics clearly predicts that the Smart
Fig. 1. IoT Analytics- Quantifying the connected world.
home is the most prominent IoT application. Nearly about
61k people currently explore Smart home monthly which in
III. F UNDING , I NVESTMENT AND C HALLENGES itself is not a surprise. Smart home technology, also known
as home automation, provides homeowners security, comfort,
For the complete research and development of IoT the
convenience and energy efficiency by allowing them to control
collaboration should be tripartite including Government Agen-
smart devices, often by a smart home app on their smart-
cies, Academia and Industry which play equally important role
phone or other networked device. Around 250 companies and
in terms of finance, research and commercialization leading to
startups have shown its involvement in the Internet of Things.
complete end to end development of the IoT [10]. To resolve
More than $2.5bn have been spent for funding Smart home
different research problems concerned with the design and
Startups. Nest, AlertMe and multinational corporations like
development of IoT is the key role of the academia. Iden-
Philips, Haier etc. are the eminent startups included in this
tification of products and their specifications, price structure,
funding list.
market survey, manufacturing, deployment etc. are the sole
Wearable: The wearable also seem to be quite popular
responsibility of the participating industry. The theoretical
among the consumers. With evolution in new gadgets like
research part of the project must receive complete financial
Smart watches and activity tracker, wearable devices marks
support from the Government who may demand indemnities
the core of every major discussion involving Internet of Things
from the industry at a later date. The modern standards for
(IoT). With around $0.5bn funding, Jawbone is probably the
application domains that benefit from the sensors and actuators
one with largest funding among all IoT startups.
0 In Fig.1 the data of monthly Google search of IoT applications, Tweets Smart City: The modification of conventional elements of
with #IoT, Linkedin post include IoT application name. city life like streetlights into intelligent lighting system has
been made possible because of reliable wireless connectivity
and IoT technology. The smart city also received a good
response with third highest popularity among consumers.
With the Prime Minister of India paying a huge amount of
interest in clean India and preparing a list of smart cities has
drawn people attention. Over 40,000 people seems to have
searched smart city across search engine. From distribution
of water to management of traffic, to managing the waste,
security and supervising the environment the Smart city ranges
across different use cases. The Smart city solutions assures
to diminish the problems faced by people living in the cities
which thereby provides a major boost in its popularity.
Smart Grids: For restraining the use of appliances, there Fig. 2. Technology distribution of IoT market shares in India.
was a need for introducing the advanced form of analog
technology. Hence Smart grid technology came into existence
that contains the use of appliances by implementing two-way Smart Supply Chain: The supply chains popularity re-
communication. It has been practically feasible to employ mains limited even though they are getting smarter since past
Smart grid technology due to familiarity of Internet access few years. There have been a various number of solutions
everywhere around. To improve the reliability, efficiency and developing for tracking the goods. There also been different
economics of electricity,the future smart grid guarantees to solutions for interchanging inventory statistics by the suppliers.
make use of information about the actions of electricity sup- These solutions have been marking their presence in market
pliers and consumers in an automated manner. The popularity since past few years, hence integrating them with the Internet
of Smart grid technology can be marked by its over 40000 of Things in coming years will definitely give a major boost.
searches on Google. Smart Farming: Smart farming is basically an approach
Industrial Internet: Through integrating concept of intelli- for transforming agricultural development. The consolidation
gent machines, or distinct pieces of equipment, with embedded of Internet of Things with farming to overcome the abstraction
technology and the Internet of Things (IoT), the Industrial of farming operations and the large number of livestock
Internet marks its presence in the IoT application field. The that could be supervised would lead to transfigure the entire
industrial internet does not seem to have as much popularity farming process. But this notion is yet to reach broad attention
as Smart home and wearable do but it is considered to be one with least popularity among all the different above mentioned
of the special Internet of Things Application and a concept applications. But nevertheless it still remains an application
with highest overall potential. that can not be underestimated and can definitely become an
Smart Vehicle: Taking in consideration that in the automo- important application in near future.
tive industry, development cycles takes the span of about 2-4
years, the connected car is advancing steadily. The substantial V. I OT O PPORTUNITIES IN I NDIA
automakers and different growing startups are working on As Internet of Things is hitting the products and services
the connected car solutions. In the near future, if the big side of it, creating many opportunities like never before, the
automakers like Fords, Mercedes, BMWs aren’t able to deploy demand for skilled professionals in the area has gone up many
connected car then other well known giants definitely would. folds opening up a plethora of opportunities for the aspirants.
It is believed by many experts that the connected cars are the Many mid notch companies have especially contributed to
vital element of the enormous Internet of Things network. an increasing demand for the workforce, which along with
Smart Health care: Smart health, also known as technology MNCs have led to tremendous creation of works in the field.
enabled care (TEC) intends to maximize healthcare resources Estimated 2.5K job openings related to IoT are currently
and thereby providing increased, flexible opportunities for available to be filled in India. India seems to be lagging far
patients to engross with the physician and better self-supervise behind the world in terms of job openings contributing to only
their care.The popularity of Smart Health care has been limited 8% of open jobs currently. But this number is expected to grow
as the idea of Smart Health care and smart medical devices at a rapid pace in coming years due to increase in interest of
hasn’t reached to the commonality. The eminent use cases and leading MNCs in the field of IoT [17].
the success of broad start-ups still seems awaited.
Smart Retail: Smart retail is a niche segment with not much A. IoT market shares in Cities of India
popularity. Smart Retail encompasses the set of technological According to the above statistical data, it is observed that the
solutions enabling us to convert a conventional physical store number of IoT opportunities is maximum in Bengaluru which
into an interactive point of sale, firstly to meet the new needs accounts to be more than half of the total IoT opportunities
of buyers brought about by the digital revolution and, secondly, in India. Being the technical hub of India, Bengaluru is the
to provide retailers with the necessary tools. But it still remains home for many upcoming IoT related startups. The Chen-
an area that still requires being grown. nai and Delhi/NCR regions are the distant contributors after
Benglauru. Internet of Things is a recent trend thats evolving
up and hence mostly concentrated in the top IT sector regions.
Pune, Mumbai and Hyderabad are some other contributor with
a less share.
B. IoT market shares in Industries of India
The biggest influence in the IoT market is the Telecom-
munication sector with about half of the total shares. The
Telecommunication industry stands at the conjuncture of new
yield strings and new provocations brought by the innovation
of connectivity as the Internet of Things continue to diffuse in
every sector of the enterprise and consumer worlds. Adoption
of Internet of Things (IoT) and associated technology would
expand the IoT market with a growth of about $9bn over the
coming years. The other significant influences are Engineering
Industry, Electronics and Semiconductor, Automobile, Internet
and E-commerce, Banking and Finance. There are some other
industry contributors like Foods and Beverage, Advertising
and PR, Pharmacy and Biotechnology.