Nasscom, Georgia Tech to collaborate on innovation in IoT

NEW DELHI: In order to encourage innovation in internet of things, software industry body Nasscom’s Centre of Excellence for IoT and Georgia Tech Advanced Research (GTARC) have signed an agreement for advancing internet of things (IoT).

GTARC provides contracting, grant, and research administration services for the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), while Nasscom’s CoE-IoT is engaged in building talent, supporting startups and creating applications for some of India’s key projects such as smart cities, smart health, smart manufacturing and smart agriculture.

Talking about the memorandum of Understating between the two organisations, Sanjeev Malhotra, CEO of Nasscom’s Centre of Excellence for Internet of Things said, “The breadth of the startups working in India is quite large. We spoke to Georgia Tech about how we can exchange information, and the partnership was born.”

The two will work and share information across a variety of sectors — from industrial, healthcare, agriculture and smart homes, and the use of IoT to improve productivity with reduced natural resource use. Georgia Tech focuses on emerging technologies and Nasscom hopes both will mutually benefit from the partnership.