Centre of Excellence in Intelligent IoT sensors to come up in Kochi

Thiruvananthapuram: The Digital University Kerala (DUK) in association with Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET), will set up the country’s first Centre of Excellence in Intelligent Internet of Things (IIoT) sensors near Maker Village, Kochi. The Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has given approval for setting up Rs 41- crore Centre of Excellence (CoE), which will be established with the support of Kerala Startup Mission.

MeitY, along with the state IT department, will fund the project which is the first-of-its-kind integrated facility for sensor manufacturing and indigenous development of IoT products in the country, an official statement said here.