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Rise Of The Connected Ecosystem

"Interdevice connectivity and seamless data flow are ushering in an era of infonomics with focus on cost, efficiency and user experience," says Balesh Sharma, CEO of Vodafone Idea.

The unmatched footprint of cellular technology is getting better with every iteration. Dizzying speed and low latency now permit the grid to connect 'things' with other 'things'. We inhabit a world that is increasingly moving towards a connected ecosystem, a new age where machines intelligently 'sense', 'transceive' (transmit and receive) and 'function' independently.

Interestingly, for a machine to function independently, it needs to be 'connected' to other systems. That mandates the need for sensors to 'sense', edge computing to provide intelligence at the device level, a secure and reliable communication backbone to transmit the data and an application to decode that data.

From governments to various pure play service providers, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become a subject

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