One of the ideas which I have shared in my earlier blogs is to develop "just sufficient" hardware products out of the indigeneous T&M industry.We have in India many Electronics hardware companies (even a few listed companies) which are product driven catering to mass markets of Education and Railways & Process Control.These companies have done well in yesteryears and made mark in sales & production.Now they see effects of business getting globalised and due to Components, supply side economics and duty structure etc are not so competitive.Availability of smart designers who have analog domain expertise and understanding of embedded system together seems to be a rare skillset. Result is the indigeneous hardware industry is practically non-existent!
I believe this very situation can be turned around if we think more broadly and create a combination of hardware and apps meant for Test & Measurement riding over the popular hardware platforms.Today web 2 and higher technologies and Tablet are penetrating the consumer wide market.Education sector is being highly supported by the Government and there lies the big opportunity to create "Instrument Panel" and develop virtual instrumentation largely indigeneously. Again the popular instruments,portables and used in large numbers can be thought off. Even though off the shelf products like a $129 Spectrum Analyser is available commercially, what Indian industry can do is more software,more apps and keeping an inexpensive tablet as the basic platform.By doing this we will achieve scale and volume (keeping hardware standard across group of instruments) and value intact (developing apps,services and software locally through local manpower) !
We will then be selling products to our customers which we dont have to buy! Isnt it a solid arbitrage which Indian IT industry is famous for ?
I believe this very situation can be turned around if we think more broadly and create a combination of hardware and apps meant for Test & Measurement riding over the popular hardware platforms.Today web 2 and higher technologies and Tablet are penetrating the consumer wide market.Education sector is being highly supported by the Government and there lies the big opportunity to create "Instrument Panel" and develop virtual instrumentation largely indigeneously. Again the popular instruments,portables and used in large numbers can be thought off. Even though off the shelf products like a $129 Spectrum Analyser is available commercially, what Indian industry can do is more software,more apps and keeping an inexpensive tablet as the basic platform.By doing this we will achieve scale and volume (keeping hardware standard across group of instruments) and value intact (developing apps,services and software locally through local manpower) !
We will then be selling products to our customers which we dont have to buy! Isnt it a solid arbitrage which Indian IT industry is famous for ?
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