Bosch all set to foray into IoT space

Robert Bosch is now moving from being an automotive company to one in the connectivity and mobility space using the Internet of Things (IOT), said a senior company official today.

Rapid changes are happening in the world of automobiles and an inter-disciplinary approach is imperative for success, Vice President of Robert Bosch, T V Sriram said at the inauguration of Bosch Centre for Automotive Electronics at Kumaraguru College of Technology (KCT) here.

Google and Tesla, who do not have any background in automobiles, have got into making cars and more and more functions in the automobiles are becoming not only electronic but software driven, he said.

Stating that 60 to 70% of Bosch revenues today come from automobile products and solutions, Sriram said that the company is now moving from being an automotive company to one in the connectivity and mobility space using the IOT.

"Bosch is increasingly looking at people who are not only technically sound but who can engineer new solutions," he said.

The new centre based in the automobile department will be one of 6 such centres in colleges across India, KCT Joint Correspondent Shankar Vanavarayar said.

It will be inter-disciplinary and students from 6 departments will have access to it, and the partnership could bring out significant outcomes not only for the student but for the automobile sector as a whole.

The new centre uses the version currently used at Bosch, he said after exchanging an MoU between KCT and Bosch.

Bosch has set up a curriculum in automobile engineering for KCT which is offered both as a core subject and as an elective, Anil Prakash, General Manager-HR and Head of University Relations, said.

This has been followed up by the setting up of the Lab, he said.

The controller and the hardware devices in the centre were contemporary and were used in the i8 engine of the BMW. It was ahead of the kits used for training freshers at Bosch.