It is estimated that there will be 75 billion IoT devices in the world by 2025. When used in combination with AI, they stand to revolutionise every aspect of life. Here are some use cases.

Healthcare: The value of medical IoT (IoMT) is being amplified by the growth of AI. Applications of IoMT can be help improve patient outcomes, streamline clinical operations, and provide remote patient care. 

• In 2017, a complete screening tool for diabetic retinopathy detection was developed using Google’s deep learning algorithm. This is being used in 71 vision centres across rural Tamil Nadu which have been established by Aravind Eye Hospital. These centres are supervised by trained technicians who take pictures of patients’ eyes with retinal cameras and send the digital reports to doctors at Aravind Hospital. Read more...
• NIRAMAI has developed a novel breast cancer screening solution as an alternative to mammography. NIRAMAI provide complete hardware-software solution for breast cancer screening in three modes. (a) Sturdy, compact screening device with cloud processing for specialty hospitals (b) Low-cost, handheld device with real-time cloud-based diagnostics for independent medical practitioners (c) A portable solution for large-scale screenings. Read more...
• 3Nethra is a portable device by Forus Health that can screen common eye problems that can lead to blindness. This retinal imaging screening device uses Microsoft Azure IoT Suite and Azure IOT Edge, which delivers the cloud intelligence locally and closer to the eye. This enables doctors to get AI-powered insights even when they are working at eye-checkup camps in remote areas with no or intermittent connectivity to the cloud.

Smart cities: The IoT and smart city technology are rapidly transforming the way we live. These distinct but overlapping devices and technologies provide convenience for personal, business, and societal functions.

• Ambee is a homegrown company that is mapping India’s air quality using sensors & AI. These sensors are EPA benchmarked in addition to having local certifications like NABL and CEE. Ambee has installed 100 such sensors in Bangalore, and are on their way to install 500 across India. Read more...
• Bluesemi R&D creates self-powered IoT devices that can improve energy consumption and efficiency for a range of products including sensors, wearables, retail tech, connected cars and other smart devices. They work towards bringing the most advanced R&D in IoT, Wearables & Retail through our ‘Zero Power'​ Wireless Devices. The company has received the Best Product Award 2018 by NASSCOM and also featured in the Top 10 most innovative semiconductor start-ups 2019 by SiliconIndia. Read more...
• DataGlen, a Bangalore based startup, offers IoT and AI-based products and solutions for distributed energy systems. DataGlen's offerings include a data gateway capable of interacting with the industrial assets. Read more...

Agriculture: With an ever-increasing world population, the incremental throughput needed to produce food for this population is being aided by smart technologies such as IoT and AI. 

• Intello Labs has developed an application that tests, grades, and analyses visual quality parameters of agricultural products. This provides an image-based solution delivered through a smartphone app, which helps in bringing transparency and standardisation to quality assessment and reducing value risk and wastage in agriculture supply chains. Read more...
• NGO Agastya International Foundation has set up AI and IoT technologies in the local farms of Guipalli in Andhra Pradesh. The solutions include edge compute HPE Edgeline EL300, onsite IoT modules, drone imaging and analysis, a user interface and dashboard for monitoring and reporting of various on-ground parameters and activities at the fields. This helps local farmers to remotely monitor the crops, increase the crop’s nutritional value and to reduce water consumption up to 40 per cent. Read more...
• DigiAgri is aiming to be that one-stop shop for a farmer's digital needs - by offering a suite of solutions that leverage AI, blockchain, GIS and IoT - DigiAgri aims to assist smallholder farmers in India improve their productivity and profits. Read more...

Road safety: IoT is already working to ensure road safety in areas such as vehicle maintenance, improved circulation, navigation, and monitoring environmental conditions or the state of the roads.

• Driveri is an AI-driven fleet safety platform that captures and analyses 100% of driving time, delivering real-time insights and alerts and identifying areas for improvement. Netradyne’s efforts are focused towards reducing the number of accidents and improving safety culture. Read more...
• PathPartner’s Driver Monitoring System uses advanced computer vision algorithms to detect, predict and prevent driver distraction. An in-car camera is capable of precise monitoring of driver's facial expressions and eye movements. Read more...

Education: When discussing IoT in education, one might imagine things like an advanced smart classroom, digital board, and voice-based command system. But there are also more grassroot level reforms that the integration of IoT in education is capable of bringing. 

• Class Saathi by TagHive offers clickers for classroom polling and an AI-powered smartphone app for use by students, teachers, parents, and administrators.  The classroom response system is a combination of a clicker for each student and the offline app for the teacher’s smartphone. It is optimised to complement the existing infrastructure of a modest classroom without the need for computers, projectors, internet or even electricity. As the students input their quiz response through the Bluetooth clicker, a real-time report is displayed on the teacher’s mobile app. This feedback is then shared with the parents and administrators on their apps, too. Read more...

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