L&T Technology and Cisco to explore IOE opportunities for transportation

NEW DELHI, INDIA: L&T Technology Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Larsen and Toubro is entering into a strategic collaboration with Cisco to explore potential IoE opportunities for Transportation and other industry verticals and joint go-to-market opportunities globally.

Cisco and L&T Technology Services will make joint contributions to a Global Solution Centre to showcase innovative and breakthrough connectivity and convergence based solutions.

The Solution Centre which will be housed within the L&T Technology Services facility in Bangalore will focus on both technical and business considerations of connected transportation as well as ways to make Rails and mass transit more productive, intelligent and safe.

The Solution Centre will offer a range of products and services addressing both on-board and trackside deployments in a variety of applications.

The collaboration will focus on bringing together the best-in-class, complementary capabilities of Cisco’s end-to-end IoT architecture and robust vertical solutions with L&T Technology Services’ deep understanding of the needs of the industrial sector along with global technology services capabilities.

The joint collaboration will - focus on assessing the business value of various IoE solutions for the railway segment, and plans include expanding to other areas such as manufacturing, defense, CPG and the off-highway transport segment.

India and the Middle East are seeing a robust opportunity in the infrastructure sector. The market opportunity in India for signaling and telecom is expected to be about $1.8B over the next three years.

The size of the opportunity and the need towards improved safety and security, converged networks for greater mobility, and increased operational efficiency and productivity will help transform the transportation and mass transit industry.

The collaboration between Cisco and L&T Technology Services will include networked mobility and innovations for connected stations and connected railway infrastructure; smart video surveillance systems with edge analytics for securing stations and rail cars; and complete railway infrastructure with converged communication systems for emergency response.