Wipro, a global information technology company, has announced that it has joined the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), a global, member-supported organization that promotes the accelerated growth of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
With this membership, Wipro is hoping to bag opportunities to engage and innovate with multi-partner test beds and adopt best practices to drive digital transformation for customers.
According to the company, IoT is a key enabler of Wipro Digital’s transformation strategy for its customers. Wipro Digital is the digital business unit of Wipro that is an innovation-led, digital transformation partner built to overcome today’s digital challenges.
The IT giant claims to have explored the IoT space largely to leverage connected assets for the transformation of enterprise business, services and processes. It further claims to have expertise in all stages of the IIoT system-development lifecycle across industry sectors such as industrial manufacturing, healthcare OEMs, retail, oil & gas, Utility and transportation.
IIC coordinates ecosystem initiatives to securely connect, control and integrate assets and systems of assets with people, processes and data. It uses common architectures, interoperability and open standards to deliver transformational business and societal outcomes across industries and public infrastructure.
IIC holds that establishing universal interoperability in the Industrial Internet of Thing is a pre-requisite for its proliferation, which is a complex endeavor. This is why it launched the Industrial Internet Interoperability Coalition (I3C) with the goal to identify those hotspots that require special attention and place them on a heat-map. I3C can then bring partners together to address clusters of interoperability hotspots with an integrative, holistic perspective.
By Baishakhi Dutta
