Nasscom launches centre of excellence for IoT and AI

Last Updated02/12/2021

Nasscom, in partnership with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and government of Andhra Pradesh launched a centre of excellence (CoE) focussed on internet of things and artificial intelligence at Andhra University Campus, Visakhapatnam.
The centre is aimed at promoting innovation in emerging technologies.

CoE of IoT and AI aims to solve real-world challenges and creating an impact.
It is designed to be a catalyst that will help the industry embrace technology and become globally competitive.
The centre will focus on harnessing the power of AI and IoT to bring new opportunities for industry, startups, and academia.
The CoE is currently working with enterprises interested in collaborating with startups for newer innovative solutions.
The CoE at AU is the fourth in the country and first in the State, and supports CoE IoT incubation infrastructure to support start-ups, SMEs, students, and other innovators based on membership and support from design to prototype in productising their ideas.
It also houses a well-equipped lab with hardware design tools, wireless development kits, application sensors, etc that otherwise would have been difficult for the start-ups to afford.

IoT describes the network of physical objects—“things”—that are embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems over the internet.
These devices range from ordinary household objects to sophisticated industrial tools.

It is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems.
Specific applications of AI include expert systems, natural language processing, speech recognition and machine vision.

It was released by NITI Aayog in 2018 to highlight the potential of AI to solve social challenges faced by its citizens in areas such agriculture, health and education, in addition to the pure economic returns that are brought by this technology.
Since 2018, the deployment of AI in India has only grown, through the support of enthusiastic state governments, research institutions, leading applications from the private sector and a vibrant evolving AI start-up ecosystem.