Telecom giant Vodafone India is in the process of introducing narrowband IoT in the country, as per a recent ET report.
The company will become the second telco in the country after Reliance Jio Infocomm to start such a network, the report added citing Nick Gliddon, director of business at Vodafone India.
Gliddon said that the evaluation process adopted after a few smart city projects were successfully deployed in Kolkata and Pune.
He added that besides smart cities project, the company was exploring use cases in healthcare, automobile, manufacturing and retail.
Narrowband IoT is a low power wide area network (LPWAN) radio technology standard developed to enable a wide range of devices and services to be connected using cellular telecommunication bands.
