Internet of things (IoT) Skills Development WG

Skills Development Global Advisory Board Core Panel Horizontal Groups Skill Development Vertical Groups Telecom Energy Healthcare Agriculture Smart Living Ganga Rejuvenation Cyber Security Team : Vijay Kumar (Ex Sr VP - TechMahindra) Shivoo Koteshwar (General Manager and Site Head, MediaTek Bangalore) Aniruddha Kannal (Founder and CEO xcelerator.ninja) Ashish Bedekar (Head, MediaTek Labs) Dr Loviraj Gupta (Executive Dean Lovely Professional University) Surekha Manchikalapati (Ex -Vice President, Program Head, Tech Mahindra) Pravin Ahuja (Delivery Head, NIIT Technologies)

Charter: Skills Development Understand the multidimensional skills required to develop and implement the IOT systems (horizontal / vertical / others) Assess the status of the availability of these skills and the processes of building of the skills (Universities/ Industry / government) Understand the processes of ensuring the quality of the generation of the skills , and of meeting the requirements of the industry Assess the role of IET in aiding the addressal of the skills shortage (alignment of the courses with industry requirements / augmenting the skills of the faculty/ practical exposure)

Technology Landscape Horizontal Skills Intro and End to End Architecture Sensors & Gateways ( Arduino Boards, Bluetooth, Zigbee…) Connectivity – Networks and Protocols ( LAN, WAN , LTE, Lora, Sigfox…) Application Enablement Platforms ( PTC, Bosch, Aries, MS ….) UI/UX designing Mobile App development ( MS, Java, Eclipse…) Hosting & Deployment tools ( MS, AWS, Jenkins….) Information Security Vertical Skills Business Cases for the senior users Domain specific applications/solutions Implementation challenges Others Design ( alignment of capacities, integration …) Program management Skills ( multi partner based , large supply chain rollout...) Product mind set

Journey So Far Academia Review of the Introductory Courses of IOT of several universities Understanding the challenges – contents, experienced faculty, labs , practical projects Review of the quality of the courses / Accreditation process Suitability to the industry requirements / employability Development of a ‘101’ Course for the Universities White Paper ‘ Delivery Challenges of an IOT project’ Understanding the requirements of a wide range of users Development of a product based solution Large supply chain type of implementation rollout Multi partner based program management

October 2018 Congress Workshops For both, students and the University Administrators / Faculty Understand the requirements of the beginners/ students End use cases Which of the wide range of technologies to focus on Integration of each of them Extent of hands on exposure Understand the challenges of the Universities Constantly changing contents / global trends Appropriately trained faculty Split between theory and lab work Infrastructure facilities / labs set up Advisors Dr Pritam Singh : Academician , ex Director ( IIML) Dr T G Sitharam : Chairman , AICTE , ( South West) Prof Prakash Bagri : Visiting Faculty ( IIM B )– disruptive technologies Mr L Ravichandran :President ( Tech Mahindra) – the end user Mr Sachin Gaur : CLO, Deloitte Consulting ; and others

See you there October 2018 Congress Workshop – Day 1 : Brief Overview of IOT – for beginners / students Workshop – Day 2 : Starting an IOT Course in the Universities – Challenges / Solutions : For University Administrators/ Faculty See you there