Telecom Minister, Manoj Sinha on Friday said that global cooperation is vital for the promotion of standard-based technologies and the number of devices or machines connected to the Internet would be four fold higher than the entire population.
International co-operation is important for spread of technology, especially the standard-based technologies that provide a global market and competition, Sinha said at an industry event.
Sinha also hailed the collaboration between the European Union (EU) standards development organisation with the Indian counterpart TSDSI.
ETSI or the European Telecommunications Standards Institute is collaborating with the Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI) with a focus to contribute to the worldwide standards to fuel machine to machine (M2M) services.
Standardisation of machine to machine communication will ensure that there is a participation of many players in realisation of smart city ICT infrastructure and it will be a platform on which new applications like e-health, e-traffic control, e-waste management, e-mandi and e-education and many other applications will evolve,” he said.
The global community is inching towards a sustainable and uniform standards to develop common M2M application based on M2M.
The industry estimates including from Machina Research, a part of US-based Gartner said that smart cities would waste as much as $341 billion by 2025, if a fragment approach is adopted towards M2M adoption.
Present day telecommunications and networking, according to him is expanding its boundaries, and voice-based networks are getting changed to data-oriented networks.
Sinha also stressed that India has a large pool of talented young engineers and capability in both software and hardware design development and in the coming decade more innovation and contribution would come from India.
Government’s telecom research and development (R&D) agency C-DoT has developed a Public Data Office (PDO) that will allow small village-level entrepreneurs to retail data bandwidth at affordable price to further fuel Internet penetration and facilitate digital access to those unconnected.
C-DoT’s initiative will also promote Make in India, Digital India and Startup India, the vision of Prime Minister, Sinha concluded.
By Baishakhi Dutta
