Etisalat group in partnership with Oberthur Technologies (OT) and ThingWorx, part of PTC will launch a new Internet-of-Things (IoT) application development and device management platform for businesses and government providing a critical element for the realization of Smart Cities of the future. The new service platform will be designed to enable customers to develop and deploy IoT solutions for the growing Machine-to-Machine (M2M) market estimated to be worth billions of dollars.
According to Etisalat, IoT/M2M solutions are being increasingly used by organizations around the globe to improve productivity (through real-time operational measurements and smart controls), reduce costs, enhance customer experience, improve the current services and open new revenue streams. This increasingly complex ecosystem requires more advanced platforms, including IoT device cloud, IoT development and big Data capabilities, working together in full interoperability.
Khalifa Al Shamsi, Chief Digital Services Officer, Etisalat Group
The new service platform will enable customers to develop and deploy innovative new IoT solutions for the growing Machine-to-Machine (M2M) market estimated to be worth billions of dollars to businesses now and in the future. Etisalat believes that IoT is essential for the regional development and has made a commitment to build the best-in-class IoT capabilities to offer to the market, we have earlier launched the first in the region M2M control centre in 2013 and now we are following with IoT application platform.
