Bengaluru hosts first edition of IoT India Congress

The first edition of IoT India Congress 2016 kick started on 7 September 2016 in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
•    The IoT India Congress 2016 is one of the largest events of its kind in India.
•    It will bring together stakeholders from various facets of the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem.
•    It aims to bring together key stakeholders across the value chain and verticals to collaborate, ideate and share a common roadmap for IoT implementation.
•    The event will also host the IoT Thought Leadership Awards 2016 and the IoT Start-Up Awards 2016.
•    In 2013, the Global Standards Initiative on Internet of Things defined the IoT as the infrastructure of the information society.
•    The IoT allows objects to be sensed and/or controlled remotely across existing network infrastructure.
•    British entrepreneur Kevin Ashton coined the term in 1999 while working at Auto-ID Labs.