WebNMS – Gearing up for future mobility

Karen Ravindranath, Director, WebNMS, the IoT division of Zoho Corporation, speaks to Sarada Vishnubhatla about the company’s strategy, product roadmap development, innovations and how they are gearing up to cater to future mobility. Her passion for work comes through when she talks about how IoT connectivity can bring about transformation in asset management. WebNMS caters to major industry domains, including automotive, transportation and logistics.

- Sarada Vishnubhatla

Established in1996 as the founding product of Zoho Corporation, WebNMS is an enterprise scale IoT platform that provides edge-to-cloud solutions to various industry domains, including automotive, transportation and logistics. The idea behind it was to ‘enable their customers including OEMs to develop their own IoT solutions’. From the time of its inception, WebNMS has evolved into creating customized solutions for different domains.

Karen Ravindranath, Director, WebNMS says: “We saw that combining IoT capabilities with telematic solutions and giving more with the analytics was the game changer. That is how we launched the FMS which is comprehensive solution that not only tracks but also utilizes IoT for monitoring multiple aspects of a fleet. We have a proven track record with more than 400 customers and software implementation in over 25000 service provider networks.”

WebNMS began catering to the automotive domain in 201415. They could offer their innovative and disruptive solutions for monitoring issues like vehicle vibrations, temperature in reefers, cargo health monitoring – not merely from the vehicle but from inside the cargo itself.