$\"\"$ BARCELONA: Bharti Airtel<\/a>, India’s largest telecom service provider, is in advanced stages to set up a digital innovation lab in Bengaluru to work on emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality as part of its broader strategy to develop strong in-house technology capabilities.
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\nThe telco, which is currently transforming itself into a major digital operator in India, has identified these technologies as a big focus area, and will establish the lab under its digital innovation project -- Project Next – for which it will invest Rs 2,000 crore over three years to bring digital solutions to the market.
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The digital lab project is being spearheaded by Harmeen Mehta, Ai<\/a>rtel’s Global Chief Information Officer. \"She has made multiple trips to Bengaluru along with senior management members of Airtel to finalise details of the project... IoT<\/a>, AI, AR\/VR that will become a major play for Airtel with the arrival of 5G in a couple of years,\" a company official told ET.
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\nThe Sunil Mittal-led telco has already established a large in-house engineering and development team of about 550 people that are focused on rolling out digital platforms. The new digital lab will house 150-odd tech specialists.
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\n\"Hiring has already begun for the project and Airtel has specifically chosen Bengaluru to dip into the large talent pool in India’s IT capital. It is also looking at some of India’s top engineering colleges to get talent on board and may even tap talent from the Silicon Valley,\" another company official aware of the matter said.
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\nThe first official said that Bharti Airtel is also looking to collaborate with tech start-ups to share learnings from the lab and co-create solutions.
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\nThe official said that AI technology is already being used within Airtel for doing a lot of mining to provide better customer experience. Äirtel is also using it in certain applications that help resolve problems.
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\n\"We are bringing the AI technology first in the call centres to really help them to resolve customer issues by bringing predictability. With this, they'll know the problem before the customers start to face it. In addition, there will be a lot of applications,\" the official said.
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\nBharti Airtel is planning to enter the home automation or smart home segment with its IoT and machine-to-machine solutions in a move aimed at expanding its revenue base.
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\nThe new lab will help the telco to develop and identify new use cases around IoT. Airtel's 4G rival Reliance Jio Infocomm is also gearing up to harness Internet of Things (IoT), focusing first on enterprises and industries while initiating talks with car manufacturers and consumer durable companies as well, among others, for the consumer segment.
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\n\"The emergence of IoT will drive data uptake...With house and cars getting connected, and everything getting automated… IoT will be the major data driver,” Mehta had previously said.
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\nAirtel is already providing an e-challan solution through its enterprise arm to several state governments. It also works with electricity boards through its smart meters, besides managing traffic lights in Telangana.
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MWC2018: Bharti Airtel AI,物联网、虚拟现实和基于“增大化现实”技术,建立数字创新实验室在班加罗尔

第一个官员说,Bharti Airtel也考虑与科技初创企业合作分享经验从实验室和共同创造的解决方案。

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巴塞罗那:Bharti Airtel印度最大的电信服务提供商,在晚期在班加罗尔建立数字创新实验室从事新兴技术,如人工智能、物联网、增强现实、虚拟现实作为更广泛战略的一部分,发展强大的内部技术能力。

目前的电信转型成一个大型数字运营商在印度,已经确定这些技术作为重点区域,并将建立实验室在其数字创新项目——项目,将在三年内投资2000卢比给市场带来数码解决方案。

数字实验室项目是由Harmeen Mehta牵头,人工智能rtel的全球首席信息官。”她已经多次前往班加罗尔以及高级管理层成员Airtel敲定项目的细节……物联网AI AR / VR,将成为一个主要为Airtel 5克的到来在几年,”官员告诉公司等。

的苏尼尔Mittal-led电信内部已经建立了一个大型工程和开发团队的大约有550人关注推出数字平台。新的数字实验室将房子150多名技术专家。

”招聘项目已经开始和Airtel选择了班加罗尔动用大型人才库在印度的资本。也看一些印度的顶级工程学院人才上,甚至可能从硅谷挖掘人才,”另一个公司官员意识到说。

第一个官员说,Bharti Airtel也考虑与科技初创企业合作分享经验从实验室和共同创造的解决方案。

这位官员说,人工智能技术在旅馆已经被用于做很多矿业提供更好的客户体验。Airtel在某些应用程序也使用它帮助解决问题。

“我们首先是将人工智能技术在呼叫中心真正帮助他们解决客户问题,将可预测性。之前,他们就会知道这个问题客户开始面对它。此外,将会有很多应用程序,”这位官员说。

Bharti Airtel计划进入家庭自动化或智能家居领域的物联网和机器对机器解决方案,此举旨在扩大收入基础。

新实验室将帮助电信开发和识别新的用例在物联网。Airtel的4 g对手依赖Jio Infocomm也准备利用物联网(物联网),首先关注企业和行业而与汽车制造商开始会谈,耐用消费品公司,其中,消费市场。

“物联网的出现将推动数据吸收……房子和车连接,一切都变得自动化…物联网将驱动程序的主要数据,”梅塔曾说。

Airtel已经通过其企业部门提供一个e-challan解决几个州政府。它还适用于电力董事会通过其智能电表,除了管理交通信号灯建邦者在纳。

(记者是在巴塞罗那的世界移动大会的邀请高通)。