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GUWAHATI, July 25: Airtel Business, the B2B division of Bharti Airtel, has achieved a significant milestone by becoming India’s first ICT service provider to connect more than 20 million devices through its IoT solutions. Airtel IoT is empowering enterprises across various industries, including automobile, energy, utilities, logistics, financial services, and manufacturing, with secure and dedicated private networks for safe data transmission across connected devices.
Airtel’s IoT platform has recently secured several key wins, including partnerships with Secure Meters for deploying 1.3 million smart meters in Bihar on NB-IoT, TP Western Odisha Distribution Limited for 200,000 Smart Meters in Odisha, and Matter Motor Works to power 300,000 bikes through cellular IoT.
Ganesh Lakshminarayanan, CEO of Airtel Business (India), expressed delight in achieving this milestone, stating that IoT plays a crucial role in India’s digital growth journey. He emphasized Airtel’s commitment to empowering enterprises with efficient and cost-effective automated IoT solutions, enabling them to extend their reach even to remote parts of the country on a secure platform as they scale their businesses. Airtel Business aims to continue partnering with enterprises to support their digital transformation journey with innovative IoT solutions.
Airtel Business’s IoT platform offers a suite of solutions, including asset tracking, vehicle telematics, industrial asset monitoring, smart metering, and more. The platform caters to various IoT requirements, supporting 5G, 4G, NB-IoT, 2G, and satellite technologies.
The platform is future-ready, scalable, and secure, providing enterprises with seamless management of their connected devices through the user-friendly Airtel IoT Hub. The portal also offers advanced analytics tools for diagnostics, live session checks, real-time data-usage monitoring, and more.
Airtel Business has emerged as India’s number one B2B brand and has experienced continuous growth. It was the first to deploy a private 5G network for enterprises in the country. Alongside Cellular IoT, the company is a leading provider of connectivity, CPaaS, and data centers in India, boasting a wide data center footprint with 12 large data centers and over 120 edge data centers across the country. Airtel Business also holds a strong global presence, covering the US, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia-Pacific, SAARC, and other locations, with a submarine cable and satellite network spanning over 400,000 R kms across 50 countries on five continents.
