Tips and links for Knowledge discovery among thousands of items to search. Context will provide conceptual guide but jump to Recent or Historical and click away
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| Goal | Mailing List & Directory | Discovery |
| Groups | Forums | Verticals |
| Components | HashTags | Blogs |
| Recent ( Last item . Scroll up for 6 months or more…) | ||
| Blogs | News | Discussions |
| Product | Company | Skill |
| Report | Jobs | Invitations |
| Historical (Now to beginning) | |
| By Group | By Vertical |
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M&A/Funding, , Use cases, Biz Model, TechTrends, Tips |
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Sensors, Drones, IoTNetwork, Regulation.. |
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General
Special
Goal
The goal of IoTForum is to help educate the Indian IoT entrepreneurs, mentors and policy makers on this vast, rapidly evolving technology that will likely transform all industries. The goal is to raise the IoT quotient of India. We plan to evangelize usage of "India appropriate technology" and cut thru PR and motivated sales talk . We consider that IoT is new and evolving and there are no role models or templates to copy . We must be prepared to make choices without waiting for the train to pass by and then find out best practices or what works. This is new as our policy makers, mentors and advisers are habituated to copy from somewhere else and are too much in awe of printed stuff much of which may not work. As Startups we question the received wisdom and will chart the new untrodden path if needed.
Components
Different users and scenarios need different tools. We use Telegram Channel for recent and 24 by 7 connection. We have long form Blogs, third party Topics and reference type Wiki entries. Topics can be contributed by anyone from published news and websites. Announcements can feature promotional brochure and other content
Our IoTForIndia channel is pubic and even non Telergram users can view content. You need to scroll up from most recent to past. The IoTForIndia website is source of most content and a long term archive for search. It came online 3Q 2017 and is active since 3Q 2018. Currently averages 120-200 topics and 0-3 blogs per month. We also have a formative IoTWiki. This has been offline but is expected online by August 2019. We also have a Twitter presence @IoTForIndia. We have an active email-based newsletter too.
Join our Mail list & Directory
If you want to receive communication about or events, our newsletters do become a User on our website by registering at this link. Do join our Channel for Smartphone connection. If you want to contribute topics do post in our Telegram Group or write to us. We offer Education newsletters on using our resources. Once you join our mailing list you will get an option to subscribe to these newsletters.
We encourage you to subscribe as a member to our email list using your personal email as you may be “lost” when you change roles. If you are a founder at an IoT Start-up do get listed in our Start-up Directory. Provide your Official company email there. We will segment emails to Start-ups differently from more mass communication to the IoT Community. We also have by invite Telegram group for IoT Start-ups. Message us on Telegram official Account @TiEIoTForum for an invitation.
You should enable Notification on relevant Telegram Group and mute others so as not to miss out. ( We do live in a mass of WhatsApp noise ) . On Emails we offer you an option to unsubscribe from a Newsletter or an Event campaign. This will still allow you to receive IoTForum communication.
Discovery
Knowledge discovery is a primary way to become more effective and efficient. As we expect a large volume of content, we want to make it easier for infrequent readers to find or discover relevant content. We use Groups [ Link to http://www.iotforindia.org/about/how-to-use/#Groups] and Forums [ http://www.iotforindia.org/about/how-to-use/#Forums ] ]to structure content. We encourage categorizing item you create by a Topic Tag or Category (knowledge) tree ( administered by website Editors) and by tagging ( Hashtag). We use a Topic Tag word cloud that you will see on Website Topics and Category Tree for Blogs and Wiki. This enable readers to browse and discover issues and concepts. Free text Search is also available but presumes the seeker knows what they are looking for. On Telegram Hashtags like #Product or #Company will help in fast scroll up on filtered posts.
Hashtags
We use and recommend these on posts in Telegram. Allows indexed searches.
A small photo (1 MB or less) are welcome. If you wish them to be re circulated on our website , newsletter, twitter etc please forward to our official Telegram account @TiEIoTForum
#Event for Conferences, Webinar, Meetups.
#Company Profile as an announcement.
#Product Profile as an announcement.
#Skill Consultancy Profile as an announcement
#Invitation for Application for Pitches, Awards, Challenge
#Report for Your or third party Market Research report
#Job for a position placement
#Celebration for your start-up being showcased. A Photo is welcome
Groups
Each open public Group has a Group Landing page and discussion forums. Ultimately the community will decide what groups and what topics are covered in which Group or Forum but this is our starting assumption
| Group | Expected Usage |
| AgrItech | A specific vertical around Rural, Food and Agriculture, Diary and Logistics for these. We hope to evolve to more vertical specific interest group. This covers market and not just IoT startups |
| General | A broad Omnibus Interest group covering Regulation &Standards, Markets & Verticals ( use case, Size, ), News(ecosystem, deals, Technology), Showcase ecosystem players like VC, ESDM Suppliers, Industrial designer. |
| IoT Stack | A place for all things technical around IoT. From conceptual topics around IoT Stack and actual implementation tools and issues for Application SW Dev( IoT Platform, Middelware) and HW Development( Microcontrolelrs, PCB, Casing, Antenna) &Manufacturing and sourcing |
| IoT Security | Special Interst around IoT Security |
| Startup | Covering Startup as a business( less the technology and engineering around IoT) Things like strategy ,business models, business development and compliance , News about Startups, Showcase startups. |
Forums
Each group has three public Forums
- Announcements You can post a short Profile of yourself (if a freelancer or independent consultant) or your company when you first join the WPSite or Telegram Group and when a significant update is needed. You can post a announcement for any meetup or Event you are hosting. There are 4 expectations for this community service
- Minimize Noise. Keep your posting brief and provide a link for more information or call to action.
- Do not spam . Posting an event more than twice will get you muted. Posting a self-promotional more then once in 6 months is likely to get you muted
- The Announcement should be directly connected to you the member. It is your event, meetup, product or company. We discourage PR folks and marketing folks from bulk and mass postings. We are here to help the IoT ecosystem thrive and are concerned at excessive noise drowning out quality content.
- Use the Official Hashtags like #Event, #Company,
- News You are encouraged to post links to stuff you read that is topical and relevant to the group. Please keep the following in mind
- Post a URL to that item and a short commentary ( 200 words or less if possible)
- For trending news do check the item has not been already posted. If it has add a reply to that item to contribute your Point of View. Search by URL or key words in Telegram
- If you have a longer-term Point of View or question you expect to discuss for days and weeks use the Discussion Forum and cross link to the News item. In Telegram you can copy a link to a item and use it as a URL to post a new item. Use #Discussion Hashtag in your post
- Discussion This is for longer running and more detailed debate or exploration of any news, trend or issue that is of interest. By separating high volume news and announcements into separate forums we hope to let the community engage in extended debate and resolve issues. We expect the consensus or alternative PoV to be summarized in a blog post , lead to an “official” position paper or advisory by IoTForum. Use #Discussion Hashtag in your post
Verticals
We have classified by Industry or vertical or sector . Similar in IoT Start-up Directory
| Vertical | Description |
| V1 Consumer | House, Apartment, Mobile on person |
| V7 Wellness | Healthcare, Diagnostics, Clinical, Sport, Quantified Self, Wearable, Ingestible |
| V2 Commercial | Office, Co-Work, Warehouse, School ,Bank Branch, Data-Centre |
| V3 Retail | Shops, Mall, Stadium, Cinema, Disco, petrol station, |
| V4 Industrial | Factor, Plant, Manufacturing, Off-Shore Oilwell |
| V5b SmartCity |
Smart City, SEZ, Campus, Gated Community, Township. V5 Safe nation. |
| V6 AgriTech | Village, Farming, Diary, Hydroponics. Agriculture/Food/Livestock/ and specific logistics / transport just for these |
| V8 Utility | Power, Solar, Wind, Waste, Water. Grid, Towers, Right-Of-Way Tracks. |
| V9 Transport | Mobile Vehicles car, truck etc. Logistics, Fleet. Drones, Robots for carrying, UAV, Cars, Trains, Bikes EV/HV. Rail, Space, Underwater |
| V10 IoT Services | SI and Services for product development and solution implementation. HW ASIC, Semiconductor, Radio, Dev boards, Training, Portal and SW tools for analytics tailored for IoT. Design and manufacturing services. |
| V11 VMisc |
Education, Oil, Mining, Defence, BFSI, Adtech, Not elsewhere Classified (NEC). |
Blogs
For long form content. Blogs are common across the all Groups. We have partnerships with many prolific national and international bloggers and will be curating content and making it available here. We encourage the community to cross post relevant, unusual or provocative posts that they have authored or have seen somewhere else. As a matter of policy all such cross posting must be clearly attributed and if the content is valuable or behind a paywall evidence that permission has been obtained should be available. We would like to avoid copyright issues.
