Unlimit, Powered by Reliance Partners with Z Nation Lab to Search Next IOT Disruption

Z Nation Lab, a Silicon Valley and Mumbai based accelerator has partnered with Unlimit - powered by Reliance. Unlimit falls under the Reliance group of industries and is solely dedicated to providing Internet of Things (IoT) services to enterprise customers throughout India.

This comes at a time when the outlook for IoT services and products in India and elsewhere are projected to rise from 200 million dollars to 3 billion dollars by 2020.

Together, they will identify and nurture startups in targeted markets and technologies relevant to Reliance’s businesses; engage meaningfully with startups for pilot projects, investments or strategic partnerships. “We are convinced that the start-up scene in India has a lot of potential, especially in terms of IoT. It is this potential we want to tap with the Corporate Innovation Program,” Matthias Wurster, VP - Marketing & Business Development, Unlimit.

IoT is becoming a reality at many enterprises and homes, hence learning about these technologies and processes of IoT becomes more important now than ever. Z Nation Lab will be making this a reality for the corporate innovation program. “IoT connected devices and establishing networks between machines, humans, and Internet, is leading to the creation of new ecosystems that enable higher productivity, better energy efficiency, and higher profitability. While we are still in the nascent stages of adoption, we believe the IoT opportunity for corporates will amount to a sizable market in the Indian ecosystem by 2020. IoT has the potential to impact everything from new product opportunities, to shop floor optimization, to factory worker efficiency gains that will power top-line and bottom-line gains,” Nilesh Jain, Venture Partner, Z Nation Lab.

Z Nation Lab & unlimit to evaluate IoT product and service companies in sectors like automotive, transport and logistics, utilities, industrial automation, finance, smart cities, and healthcare.

Z Nation Lab provides a global ecosystem to tech entrepreneurs and startups to help them accelerate their growth. It is an early stage accelerator which empowers entrepreneurs with capital, experience and network. Z Nation Lab brings together high quality mentors, subject matter experts, experienced professionals, investors and VCs under one roof to curate a community that offers an environment for innovation to thrive.

Unlimit is equipped with the diverse resources of the Reliance Group, the nimbleness of a start-up, high-profile partnerships and an international management team, and will tap into the growing potential of the IoT market in the country. Unlimit customers will be able to take advantage of the Unlimit Control Center which is based on the IoT connectivity management platform of Cisco Jasper, and includes Reliance’s powerful mobile network.

Its mission is to transform business models and drive value by offering a comprehensive IoT platform from connectivity to application, development and analytics.

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Reliance Launches IoT Platform To Connect Any Device Over Any Network

The Internet of Things (IoT) business unit of India's Reliance Group, Unlimit, and global IoT software provider, Cumulocity have come together and joined hands to launch a suite of new products and services on a new platform called 'Enablement'. Of course, the products and services will have IoT at their core.

According to a statement released by the two parties on the new development, 'Enablement’ as the name suggests will enable businesses to connect any device over any network, and then manage and store asset data, simply by controlling them in real-time by monitoring device availability and administering and rectifying any device faults that may occur.

Enablement's new product line will be showcasing off-the-shelf applications for a number of key verticals such as healthcare, asset tracking, financial services and industrial automation. Not only can the applications be used all across the globe, but they can also be tailored to meet any of the unique demands that the Indian market might have in the present or future.

According to IoT experts, the Indian subcontinent currently boosts of just the right ecosystem to fully exploit the uncountable benefits that IoT has to offer, with the necessity to efficiently manage commercial and public services for a large number of diverse enterprises and consumers that too at an affordable cost. In fact, some recent analyst reports predict that IoT in India will grow at a CAGR of 28% over the next 5 years. This technological growth can even result in India eclipsing some of the world's established economies.

The same sentiments are even echoed by Juergen Hase, Chief Executive Officer, Unlimit. He said, "With the number of connected devices in India projected to rise from 200 million today to 3 billion by 2020, nearly every part of the economy will be positively impacted by IoT."

He further added, "We are delighted to partner with Cumulocity to launch our new platform ‘Enablement’ and unlock the full potential of the Internet of Things for our customers and make the benefits of IoT virtually unlimited."

The partnership will extend Unlimit’s connectivity offerings, with Cumulocity’s advanced IoT application. Their combined platform will enable Unlimit’s customers to massively benefit from rapid machine, sensor and device integration, as well as data collection and real-time analytics for condition monitoring.

According to Bernd Gross, Chief Executive Officer, Cumulocity, Enablement will provide everyone in India with a mobile phone the capability of rapidly building, securing and deploying their own state-of-the-art IoT solution in an extremely cost-efficient way.

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