Anil Amabani-led Reliance Group has appointed Juergen Hase as CEO of its Internet of Things (IoT ) business. Reliance Communications has a partnership with IoT Things platform provider Jasper (subsequently acquired by Cisco) which would use Reliance’s 11 data center facilities as well as its Global Cloud Exchange to deliver its services. Under the partnership, Reliance Group has piloted several projects including smart grid management to decrease power transmission and distribution losses and demand side management to help consumers lower their energy bills for Reliance Energy. They also developed a pilot for fleet management of maintenance vehicles. Another project was developed for Reliance General Insurance for vehicle telematics to assess the risk profile of vehicle insurance customers. Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital has pilots for remote healthcare and assisted living. The company said that these projects are intended to be scaled up and made available for external customers under Hase's leadership. Juergen has more than 25 years of industry experience. Prior to his appointment, he was IoT and M2M director at Qatar-based telecom company Ooredoo. At Ooredoo he was responsible for the IoT business in the Middle East , North Africa and South Asia in vertical segments such as automotive, telematics, smart cities, healthcare, insurance and energy. Hase was also vice president of the M2M Competence Center at Deutsche Telekom (DT) for over a decade. He will be based out of Reliance Group's new HQ at Reliance Centre in Santacruz, Mumbai, reporting to Group Managing Director, Amitabh Jhunjhunwala. Developments in the IoT space - Gaia Smart Cities, a machine-to-machine communications company,…
Please subscribe to MediaNama. Don't share prints and PDFs.
You May Also Like
News
Google has released a Google Travel Trends Report which states that branded budget hotel search queries grew 179% year over year (YOY) in India, in...
Advert
135 job openings in over 60 companies are listed at our free Digital and Mobile Job Board: If you’re looking for a job, or...
News
By Aroon Deep and Aditya Chunduru You’re reading it here first: Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised...
News
Rajesh Kumar* doesn’t have many enemies in life. But, Uber, for which he drives a cab everyday, is starting to look like one, he...