Telecom Lead Asia: WebNMS, a division of Zoho Corp, is set to take on IBM and Delta with its cell tower manager being priced at Rs 45,000 (excluding sensors).
WebNMS’ telecom tower manager ensures around 50 percent reduction in operation cost, promises 35 percent reduction in carbon footprint, offers 98 percent utilization and 99 percent utilization.
At present, IBM is working with Airtel’s Bharti Infratel for select towers in few telecom circles offering similar solutions. WebNMS will target 500,000 telecom towers across the country to deploy the newly developed M2M solution.
Leading IT companies, which are in the telecom space, are unable to deliver best solutions because their analytical solutions are not supporting all OEMs. WebNMS officials say they are able to source products cost effectively and they do not charge for their big data analytical solutions.
The Chennai-based company has already conducted pilot trials in select areas across the country and received overwhelming response from the mobile industry. The company is also keen to approach the Department of Telecommunications and telecom minister Kapil Sibal to create awareness of the product and the benefits it offers to the mobile industry.
Sudhakar S Marthi, vice president, global business development, Zoho Corp, said: “Our M2M solution offers significant cost benefit to telecom operators and telecom tower companies than our competitors. We hope to work all telecom operators and their tower companies.”
According to statistics, the size of the machine2machine (M2M) market in India is expected to increase from $27 million in 2012 to $98 million in 2016. “We keen to play a larger role in the M2M market,” said Prabhu Ramachandran, director – WebMNS.
WebNMS’ cost effective telecom tower manager ensures is designed to remotely monitor, control and manage telecom tower stations, providing real time information to telecom site managers.
The telecom tower manager solution enables telecom tower companies to address the operational issues like fuel and power pilferage, escalating operational cost and green concerns and derive a solution to optimize asset utilization and reduce carbon footprint.
