The need of promoting innovation and harnessing the potential of Internet of Things (IoT) is imperative for solving practical problems in India, said Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan. 

"All initiatives in IoT should translate into business models which can be replicated across sectors," Aruna Sundararajan added. 

She was inaugurating a seminar on IoT organised by Deprtment of Telecommunications in collaboration with GSMA, New Delhi.

Sundararajan also underlined the need to work across silos in technology, policy, regulation, licenses, and use cases. 

There should be a drive to spread awareness and initiate capacity building across several key ministries like health, agriculture, transport, urban development and energy as use cases will be initiated from these ministries, she said.

The seminar is the first among series of capacity building programmes planned with the support of GSMA as per the bilateral agreement between DoT and GSMA during Mobile World Congress 2018 at Barcelona.

IoT deployment has been included as one of the important focus technology area in the draft National Digital Communication Policy 2018 released recently.

Evolving IoT ecosystem in India is likely to accelerate the IoT deployment leading to socio economic development.