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IoT Day 2019
April 13, 2019 @ 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Event Summary
Over 250 registered delegates, 30 speakers and 5 emerge awarded start-up spent a wonderful time at the Bangalore International Center gracefully designed new facility. It had a great auditorium open and sunlight courtyards and different feel than a hotel or event facility.
There is a blog covering this event for more detail including coverage on Yourstory . See IoT day 2019
Participants appreciated variety and depth of topics. The LoRa business case, The scaling of Startups and the Open Lab were commented on.
Project Usiru The largest crowd sourced air cleaning project with the GoK Bangalore Smart City limited participation was described by Shri Mahendra Jain Additional Chief Secretary UDD, GoK
The Emerging Start-up awards session had a chat with the 5 and current and past president of TiE Bangalore. The Awardees were
Event Archive
IoTDay 2019 is a day-long event celebrating International IoT Day and the burgeoning IoT startup ecosystem in India. In its third edition, this event will set the context to developments in the rapidly-changing world of IoT!
Don't miss this flagship conference as we bring together leading thinkers, experts, agenda-setters and practitioners from the IoT ecosystem to educate, mentor, debate, discuss, connect and ultimately inspire solutions for solving large problems using IoT as a base for the country.
When: Saturday, April 13 @ 9 am - 6 pm
Where: Bangalore International Centre (BIC), Domlur (Limited Car parking)
Early Bird Tickets: TiE Members: ₹ 750 | Visitors: ₹ 1500 TiE
IoTForum Membership + Complimentary IoT Day Pass: ₹ 6490
Agenda
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Registration |
| 09:30 - 10:15 | Open House - IoT Entrepreneur Challenges In the fifth year IoTForum retraces the Assistance scheme of 2015 and wants to hear issues that are common or ecosystem level for IoT Startups. Come and voice and helps us form themes and constructive ways to work and improve . Help #RaiseIoTQuotient. |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Key Note Address - Rob Van Kranenburg Founder of the IoT Council, the largest independent IoT think tank, Chair of AC04 – IoT Hyperconnected Society, part of the European Research Cluster and a member of the SmartCitiesWorld Advisory Board. Know More... |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Tea |
| 10:45 - 11:45 | LoRa - Business Case LPWAN now commands over 46% of public IoT networks and LoRa has over 100 operators worldwide. Unlike other LPWAN LoRA allows a community to self create a IoTNetwork and is in use in many places. As a new technology it has some issue but now we have many players in India who have installed (Several Smart cities are going here ) and can help you build, use LoRa. Come and explore the business case. Read More... |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Overview of Open Lab IoT Open Lab ArrowAsia has a popular Openlab in Hongkong . That is being replicated under STPI in Bangalore . The facility will help admitted members move from idea to PoC in selecting components, finalizing bill of materials and meeting demanding cost and quality benchmarks. Hear from Sanjeev Keskar MD Arrow, India |
| 12:00 - 13:15 | Scaling of Startup's - A startup leader's insight Gartner has a popular Hype curve and IoT was at peak some years back. We want to showcase some successful startups showing that IoT is emerging from valley of death. Come hear from founders who have managed . See different business models and hear about large installations and funds raised over 550+ Crores and operations outside India too. Read More... |
| 13:15 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | #RaisingIoTQuotient by IoTForum - Arvind Tiwary, TiE IoT Chair |
| 14:15 - 15:15 | Project Usiru - Air Pollution IoT Sensor & AI India leads in polluted cities worldwide. Even our Supreme court has intervened. IoTForum has a project with GoK for an experiment to demonstrate a rich data sensor cloud with AI/ML lead method to find innovative approaches to reducing Air Pollution. Project Usiru is right at our home. Come and hear the plan and contribute to make this a success. Read More... |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | Transforming Lives through Intelligent IoT Applications IoT Devices need to act and change . We live in a time-constrained-world and if devices would be intelligent and understand context they provide ambient intelligence and help a lot. Come hear on examples and ways to do this. Read More... |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Tea |
| 16:30 - 17:30 |
Startup Pitches - Top 5 Upcoming IoT Startups Speakers
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| 17:30 | Vote of Thanks |
Workshops
Workshops are available as given below. Please select the workshop you plan to attend when booking your seat. This will help manage limited space in the alternate rooms for the workshop
| 10:15 - 11:45 |
Fundraising Workshop with M.J. Aravind Learn how to seal the deal and get funding, directly from the one person who’s best equipped to help you - M.J. Aravind, Serial Entrepreneur, Mentor, Angel Investor and Former Partner at Artiman Ventures. Join this Workshop to understand how to attract the right funding, get a sneak-peak into the minds of VCs and gather insight about what VCs talk about after you leave the room! Know More... |
| 15:00 - 16:30 |
LoRa 101 Technology Implementation and Challenges In order to help understand the nuances of technology like LoRaWAN and working together with IoT solutions that makes use of this communication, Workshops are one of the efficient ways. This workshop tries to address how to work with the technology and also address the architectural principles to put things in perspective of other technologies. Know More... |
Speakers
Key note Address: Rob van Kranenburg , Belgium, Netherlands
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Rob van Kranenburg is the founder of the 2009 born Internet of Things Council, the largest independent IoT think tank a hub for the practice and implementation for IoT related technologies. It ranks Nr 2 in a Top 100 of IoT blogs. Rob, is the Chair of AC04 – IoT Hyperconnected Society, which is part of the European Research Cluster and a member of the SmartCities World Advisory Board. His articles are published by the European Cybersecurity Journal, the Strategic Studies of the American War College and numerous web sources. As Ecosystem manager in various FP7 and Horizon 2020 projects, Robert chairs the IERC Hyper-connectivity chain and is part of the CSA Next Generation Internet project NGI MOVE, which successfully operating from Oct 2017. Rob was almost the first blogger on IoTForIndia. See Dec 2015 post Internet of Things; resistance is futile you will be assimilated |
IoTForum has been promoting sub GHZ IoT network and has worked very hard to let DoT/TRAI permit LPWAN in SmartCity rather than insisting on Licensed operators. We have also influenced Spectrum recommendations for IoT .Hear it in the Launch of IoTForum V2.0
Sub GHz Ultra narrow band communication for IoT (LPWAN) has emerged as a clear winner and already commands 46% of public spaces IoT network. For Home networks WiFi, Zigbee, Z-wave and BLE mesh are user administered IoT networks. LPWAN like LoRa has emerged as a similar self-managed IoT network for intermediate range of 3 to 12 Kms. This drive for open hardware and software is accelerating in IoT. ON World’s analysis of nearly 100 LPWA network operators found that unlicensed networks such as Sigfox and LoRa make up two-thirds today. Unusual adoption are best seen in Fleetspace US$2/Device/year success with 1 million devices thru nano satellites. Alibaba, Tencent and ZTE in China have also invested into LoRa.
For the Indian context IoTForum suggests the investment exceeding 100 Billion USD needed by operators on NB-IoT and 5G will delay mass availability to well beyond 2025 or more. In the meanwhile, the ability for private, non telecom operator, free unlicensed spectrum IoT networks like LoRa provide compelling opportunity for big farms, industrial factories and communities. The LoRa Business case – A discussion will cover the Indian situation. The Workshop: LoRa 101 Technology Implementation and Challenges will get into nitty-gritty of components and setup / installation of your own LoRa network.
LoRa Business Case - A discussion
The panellists are running business which have deployed LoRa in India and will describe the solutions and networks in use as well as touch upon the numbers that will help to understand costs, benefits, speed of deployment and other benefits of using LoRa
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Gaia Smart Cities Gaia integrates internet of things, industrial automation and digitalization solutions for enterprises and smart cities. Pioneered with Delhi Jal board early in 2014/2015 and now designed multiple Smart city ICT solutions |
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CiTiLiTy An end to end Mobility platform built on the pillars of IOT, augmented by Application aware AI engine to connect all mobility dots in the city. Work with multiple Smartcity solution integrators to implement solutions, recent one being Jaipur in Rajasthan |
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Tata Communication TCL has rolled out managed LoRa network in many cites and launched a city wide project in Jamshedpur and an unusual LoRa watch |
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Lxier LXIER's expertise is in providing end-to- end IoT solution – from development to deployment with real-time data visualization and analytics |
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Sahaj Synergy Sehaj is a contributing member of the LoRa Alliance™ and develops in house products for the complete end-to-end LoRaWAN ecosystem solution. Sevices available in nine cities across India on their Siotel’s Public LoRaWAN network which offer pay per use service |
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Moderator Anand Tamboli is the founder of KNEWRON Technologies, India & Australia. KNEWRON® builds smarter solutions that can pre-empt problems and mitigate before they happen and has global footprint |
Future sessions
The success of LPWAN has led to a unusually fast adaptation by the cellular industry with CAT-M1 in North America and NB-IOT derived from Neul now Huawei . mMTC (massive Machine Type Communications) and URLLC (Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communications) option are proposed in 5G standards to be approved by ITU in 2020. There are other niche ones like WiSun (IEEE 802.15.4u electric utilities), Zigbee 3.0 (900 MHz ), Wize ( 169 MHz), Weightless (TV whitespace). We will cover some niche and future narrow band IoT appropriate options in different sessions in future.
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Vivek Shukla, Co-Founder & CEO at SmarterHomes Technologies Vivek Shukla, is the Co-Founder and CEO of SmarterHomes, a startup founded in 2014 in response to a real world problem of lack of water metering in apartment buildings. Realizing that people cannot control or change our behavior without measurement and data, and most people are able to bring down their consumption by upto 35% after metering. And, this is what drove Vivek to innovate WaterOn - the world's first 100% IoT based automated water meter. With a 104-member team, SmarterHomes has installed 32,000 meters in multiple metros and raised 8 Million USD |
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Dhruvil Sanghvi , CEO at LogiNext , a Forbes 30 Under 30 Dhruvil Sanghvi is the CEO at LogiNext, he is Forbes 30 Under 30, an Early Stage Venture Investor as well. In a short span under his leadership, LogiNext has moved to #1 position in logistics and field service optimization space, has on-boarded prominent investors like Paytm and Alibaba and has been successful at building more than USD 50 Million of net worth for them. LogiNext currently serves 150+ enterprise clients and has been awarded in 2018 as the Financial Times 29th Fastest Growing Tech Company and also Top 100 Logistics IT Providers by Inbound Logistics. Has raised 10 Million USD. |
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Dr. Tathagato Rai Dastidar, Co-founder @ SigTuple Dr. Tathagato, Co-founded SigTuple Technologies in 2015, a startup which builds intelligent screening solutions to aid diagnosis through AI-powered analysis of visual medical data. SigTuple have so far been funded $25.5 Mn with the backing of key investors like Accel Partners, IDG Ventures India, Endiya Partners, Pi Ventures, Axilor Ventures and more. |
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Arvind Lakshmikumar, Founder & CEO, Tonbo Imaging Arvind Lakshmikumar is the founder and CEO of Tonbo Imaging. Arvind has been a principal investigator and lead sub-contractor on multiple next-generation military programs with clients across the world. Tonbo Imaging till now have raised around $23 Mil from investors like Walden Riverwood, Artiman and Qaulcomm ventures. |
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Raghav Gupta, Co-Founder at Nymble Labs Raghav Gupta, is the Co-Founder of Nymble Labs was founded in 2016. Nymble Labs is trying to change the way people cook and consume healthy home-cooked food. Over time, Nymble aims to build an ecosystem where people can eat fresh home-cooked food suited to their taste preferences without spending a lot of time and effort in cooking. Nymble, post their graduation out of Bosch DNA1.0 Accelerator Program, got their first funding from Govt. of Karnataka and later were funded by Flipkart cofounder Binny Bansal, 021 Capital, WaterBridge Ventures and Angel investors. |
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Krishna Kumar, Founder & CEO at CropIn Technology Krishna Kumar is the Founder & CEO of Cropin and was founded in 2010. It enables data-driven farming through the ‘SmartFarm’ platform, which helps derive real time insight on standing crop and projects across geographies. With almost 200 customers, Cropin has raised a total funding of $12 million till date from investors like Chiratae Ventures (formerly IDG Ventures), BEENext, Invested Development, Denmark-based Sophia Investment, Ankur Capital, BSP Fund LLC and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Strategic Investment Fund. |
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Geetha Manjunath, Co-founder and CEO of NIRAMAI Geetha is the Founder and CEO of Niramai Health Analytix, which is developing a novel solution for detecting early stage breast cancer using machine learning. The company has been funded over 5 Million USD by few of the leading firms like pi Ventures, Ankur Capital, Axilor and 500Startups and Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal Prior to Niramai, she has worked at HP Labs, Xerox Research centre, has been the Steering committee member @ cloud computing innovation council and Chair of the IEEE Computer Society, Bangalore Chapter. |
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Chair: Sanjay Anadaraman Sanjay is TiE Governing Board member with 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur, executive, venture capitalist, angel investor, teacher, advisor and mentor. He is an Advisor to Sattva, iSpirit and VC funds. He continues to write extensively on entrepreneurship. |
India has the (bad) distinction of several cities among the most polluted in the world.
Even South Korea, London or San Francisco and other places suffer. Regulatory approaches including the Honourable Supreme court have used coercive methods like banning diesel cars or Diwali firecrackers in Delhi. Part of the problem is extreme variability of measures like PMI ( up to 100% in a day) and many causes adding to metrological phenomenon. China has taken large scale expensive and very coercive methods to reduce Air Pollution and achieved difference of 30% or more. IoTForum has discussed with stakeholders like Clear Air Platform, KUIDFC, Smart City Namma Bengaluru , Centre for Environmental Science & Engineering, IITK and proposed a crowdsourced project to try several experiments to reduce pollution in Bangalore. This is an innovative approach which intends to use hourly contribution from thousands of residents, hundreds of Corporates, dozens of NGO and open data community with advanced AI/ML and IoT Data Sensor cloud. The Government of Karnataka is supporting and will be a partner in this public-private initiative.
Come hear the plan and join us in individual, team or thru your organization in improving Bengaluru air quality. This will improve health, increase non motor mobility and reduce carbon for Go Green Bengaluru.
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Leslie D'Monte Sr. Associate Editor (South India Editorial Head), MINT, HT Media Ltd |
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Shri. Mahendra Jain, IAS* , Additional Chief Secretary to Government, UDD, GoK ( * Tentative acceptance ) |
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Yogesh Ranganath CEO, Clean Air Platfrom |
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Vivek Raghvan Ex Chief Technologist for Team Indus, Chief Product Manager and Biometric Architect UIDAI |
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Vaidyanathan A Founder PAQS (Personal Air Quality Systems) |
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Arvind Tiwary Chair IoTForum |
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Moderator: Manish Gangey is the Head - R&D at Airtel. He has 25 years of entrepreneurial and leadership experience with large companies as well as start-ups. He has thorough understanding of Indian high technology market, government policies and their impact on business. Manish prior to Airtel, has held key leadership positions right through his career as Vice President at Reliance Jio Infocom and Tejas Networks. He was also the Co-founder and CEO of Elina Netwroks and led the company’s strategy, direction, sales, marketing and operations. |
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Govind Soundararajan, GM & Head of AI Labs and SW Center at Continental Govind Soundararajan comes with an Engineering management experience of 23 years in Product development in VLSI, Software & Artificial Intelligence. Currently he is the Head of Artificial Intelligence Labs & Software Center, passionately engaged in realizing the power of AI - leading a team of Senior Data Scientists, AI algorithm developers, ML & NLP specialists in developing exciting applications for wide variety of use cases in Automotive, Industrial, Biometrics, Computer Vision & NLP- to solve complex engineering problems. His prior experience includes companies like Cypress Semiconductor, PMC Sierra/MicroSemi, and Centillium |
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Ajay Agrawal, SVP, Global Head of Analytics and AI, COE at Happiest Minds Technologies He has been serial entrepreneur and has been instrumental in building world-class products and companies in the high-tech space. He has led multiple start-ups from incubation to success while building high-caliber teams, adapting to dynamic market conditions and demonstrating keen understanding of customer and market needs. He was the CEO and Co-Founder of Cupola Technologies which was acquired by Happiest Minds in 2017. Prior to that he co-founded Verismo Networks and led the successful Series A funding through Intel, and also worked at Ishoni Networks |
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Prabhat Agarwal, Founder @ dhiOmics, an AI on Analytics company Prabhat has been in the industry for 17+ years and is passionate about problem solving by leveraging AI and Analytics. He founded dhiOmics Analytics Solutions and building it. dhiOmics works in the areas of Manufacturing Intelligence-Prognostics, Security and Surveillance, and help client to take data driven Decision by leveraging Analytics and ML/AI. He is also consulting(Probono) Deshpande Foundation's Research and Innovation wing with regard to how to bring an everlasting impact to 1.1 billion lives(DF vision) in India by leveraging IoT and analytics in field of Agriculture and Education in India. He co-founded Sankalp Semiconductor Pvt Ltd, a VLSI design services company, and grew Sankalp from a seed to 500+ people. Prior to founding Sankalp, he has worked at Infineon Technologies and NXP Semiconductors |
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IVK is the Co-Founder and CTO of Crayon Data, a Big data analytics product company at Singapore with a development centre in Chennai. He is an active member of Indian Angel Network, a syndicate for early stage capital to invest in the start-up companies, in emerging areas of technology. He is also one of the co-founders of India Innovation Labs, a start-up in the field of augmented reality and Robotics, which focuses on the Digital media and tourism sector. In the past he was CTO of Wipro’s IT businesses. IVK, is actively associated with many technical and social innovation forums in India and abroad. He co-chairs the India Innovation summit of CII and serves on the jury panels of various innovation and design forums covering both technical and social innovation. |
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Ashish Khushu @L&T Technology Services Ashish Khushu is Chief Technology Officer, L&T Technology Services and drives the company’s technology roadmap, to provide and develop IP’s, Solutions, Platforms and frameworks to address emerging investment areas in Digital Engineering. LTTS Is India’s leading Pureplay Engineering Services Company |
Fundraising Workshop with M.J. Aravind
Learn how to seal the deal and get funding, directly from the one person who’s best equipped to help you - M.J. Aravind, Serial Entrepreneur, Mentor, Angel Investor and Former Partner at Artiman Ventures. Join this Workshop to understand how to attract the right funding, get a sneak-peak into the minds of VCs and gather insight about what VCs talk about after you leave the room!
Key Takeaways:
- Financing options for your startup
- Finding and connecting with potential investors
- Delivering an effective pitch
- The VC checklist and how VCs ‘grade’ your pitch
- What investors look for before investing into a startup
- Creating a good impression
- Negotiation tactics to get the funding your startup requires
Speaker Profile:
M.J. Aravind is a Serial Entrepreneur, Mentor, Angel Investor and Former Partner at Artiman Ventures. He has 10+ years of hands-on experience in the Social Sector and 30+ years of global operational experience with large multinational corporations.
As Partner at Artiman Ventures, Aravind focused on funding and nurturing early-stage startups. Aravind leveraged his operational experience and extensive network of executives to help Artiman's portfolio companies establish operations in India. He was also Co-Founder of Daksh, one of India's largest independent BPO companies, which was acquired by IBM in 2004 for $170 million. At Daksh, he managed operations that grew to 6,000+ employees over 4 years. Prior to founding Daksh, he was a Country Head, India at Compaq and Product Manager at Xerox. Aravind implemented the ISO 9000 and Rank Xerox Business Excellence Certification Programs and won the first President's Gold Medal for quality.
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aravind-mj-9938714/
LoRa WAN 101 Technology Implementation and Challenges, By ClodPi In order to help understand the nuances of technology like LoRaWAN and working together with IoT solutions that makes use of this communication, Workshops are one of the efficient ways. This workshop tries to address how to work with the technology and also address the architectural principles to put things in perspective of other technologies. Who should attend this workshop?
- Developers looking for guidance on implementing a LoRa radio / LoRaWAN solution.
- Engineers looking to get started on any IoT devices with LoRaWAN application.
Benefits you will take away:
- Understanding of LoRa/LoRaWAN technology and its implementation
- Experience using the LoRaWAN Cloud, Gateways and devices
- You will have strong practical experience using these tools and will be able to start developing your own application.
Agenda:
- LoRaWAN system architecture (devices, gateways, networks, Phy Layer, Pkt Fwding etc.)
- Brief overview on Antenna and options at Gateway and Device, Guidelines for efficient achieving antenna/device performance
- Setting up your own device on a LoRa network
- Setting up your own network account
- Connect devices to network and setup uplink and downlink data
- Q&A
Pre-requisites: BYOL and BYOMd (Laptop and Mobile data connectivity for your laptop)
