India witnesses 6 times growth in IoT patents, healthcare leads: Nasscom

New Delhi: There has been six times growth in Internet of Things (IoT) patents in India over the last five years and more than 80 per cent of these patents were related to applications pertaining to Industry 4.0, with the healthcare and automobile industry leading the way, a Nasscom report said on Friday.

Nearly 6,000 IoT Patents were filed in India from 2009-2019, of which over 5,000 were filed in the last five years.

Over 70 per cent of the total IoT patents came from from the R&D centres of global and companies while start-ups accounted for about 7 per cent of such patents, said the report titled ‘IoT: Driving the Patent Growth Story in India’.