Industries are embracing IoT for smart homes, surveillance drones, driverless cars, trains, vehicle platoons and many more applications. Communications service providers (CSPs) have a huge role to play beyond the obvious one of providing wireless and wireline connectivity for ecosystems of devices and machine-to-machine communications (M2M) players. The networks they provide must be secured by encryption to protect anonymity and be tamper-proof to reduce the perceived threat to operational assets, transaction attributes, and users’ data flowing between machines or machines and the network. At the same time, IoT ecosystems are predicted to grow exponentially, with billions of eSIM devices coming online that can act autonomously. A secure means of onboarding and delivering end-to-end services is critical. To meet these needs, Jio Platforms developed and built the Jio IoT Platform from scratch as an integral part of its wider Jio IoT Solution. The Jio IoT Platform has embedded Blockchain technology and is aligned with TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture (ODA). The platform uses Jio’s pan-Indian network with 99.999% assured availability to help enterprises penetrate deeper into markets through superior customer experience. It manages SIM and device lifecycles, leaving partners free to focus on their top line while removing expense from the bottom line: Partners don’t have to bear the costs of building up different businesses or operational support for information systems. Jio’s platform is designed with a highly scalable architecture so that third-party applications can easily be integrated. The ATOM platform also complements the Jio IoT Platform by enabling enterprises to run batch jobs, look in real-time at device states, perform event and device data analysis and implement machine learning algorithms for anomaly detection and other purposes. The platform can ingest, process and store hundreds of petabytes of data. Blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) provides assurance, trust and reliability to any business application using smart contracts and consensus techniques. Private Blockchain technology enables enterprises to adopt the IoT ecosystem with confidence. They can configure a Blockchain network to meet their requirements and information security guidelines. A well-defined governance model is used to ensure that any change in network configuration, such as endorsement of policy definitions or network topology, requires prior approvals and is traceable.
