Vasudevan Aghoramoorthy, vice president, Semiconductor and Systems, Wipro Technologies, spoke to Dilin Anand and Jalaja Ramanunni of EFY about Wipro’s presence in India, how local manufacturers are witnessing increased traction in the country and the late

VASUDEVAN AGHORAMOORTHY VICE PRESIDENT, SEMICONDUCTOR AND SYSTEMS, WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES

Are design houses getting to develop localised innovations for the Indian market too?

The US, Japan and European countries such as Germany, France and the UK have been traditional locations driving demand for product engineering and mobility solutions (PE &MS). But now we are witnessing an increased traction in India and other emerging markets such as China. There is a large amount of the design implementation being done in India. We are working closely with designers to deliver solutions for the Indian market.

For instance, Wipro helped an Indian distributed infrastructure management service provider develop a data acquisition and communication system that collects and aggregates data from various transducers/sensors, measuring equipment, meters, etc, and sends the collected data over GPRS to the client’s servers for further processing. This product was developed by Wipro from scratch to speci cations. Around 1600 units have been deployed in India, France, South Africa, Oman, Turkey, Nigeria and Lesotho for almost a year now.

What are the upcoming trends in the industry?

There are some common trends emerging across these different industries. One of them is the concept of seamless infotainment. Today, the consumer is interested in and looking for a lot of information. The information has to be seamlessly available across mobile devices such as mobile phones, tablets and laptops, and home devices such as TVs and set-top boxes. The entire infotainment value chain needs to work together to provide this seamless experience, wherein the users can access infotainment anywhere, at any time, and on any available device.

To deliver such solutions across the infotainment spectrum, one needs to understand different technologies, design products considering real usage scenarios, conceive products in their entirety, and put together building blocks within a stringent time frame, price and performance point. Creating such a product or solution can prove to be quite challenging.

Wipro is working on seamless infotainment simultaneously across all these verticals. For example, in healthcare, we are working on delivering seamless healthcare through remote patient monitoring. The information is captured from the patient and transferred to a service provider. A healthcare professional should be able to provide the right inference and diagnosis based on this information. The key part is that we are working on both developing the integrated device for the customer with chip design, system design and embedded software as well as providing the overall solution that meets the customer needs.