Industry Solutions Research

Besides conducting research in various areas of computer science, one of the major focus areas of IRL is to create and deploy innovative industry solutions based on Research technologies. To achieve this, we focus on the creation of keystone applications and platforms around which industry ecosystems will be built.

The Telecommunications Research & Innovation Center (TRIC) is a core research group at the IBM India Research Lab in Delhi and Bangalore that executes innovative projects focused on the telecom industry. It is the latest in a series of industry-specific initiatives designed to tap relevant Research technologies and expertise for collaborative projects with clients and business partners. TRIC serves as both a global resource for the Telecom industry as well as a conduit for Telecom Service providers into IBM Research at large. Some of the main focus areas of the IRL Telecom group are:

• Enabling IT for Emerging Economies utilizing the Mobile Platform
• Telecom Analytics and Business Intelligence
• Telecom Middleware
• Application Development on Mobile Devices
• Mobile Value Added Services including Mobile Social Networking, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Payments etc.
• WiMAX/LTE (4G Wireless) and Multi-core parallel programming
• Network and Systems Management for Data Centers and Telecom Networks

Besides Telecommunications, IRL also executes innovative Research projects focused on other industries including banking, healthcare, life sciences and retail.

Some current and past projects in Industry Solutions Research include:

Telecom

• Large Scale Presence Federation
• Mobile Business Finder
• Service Composition Toolkit for Telecom Networks and Mobile Devices
• Social Network Analysis of Telecom Business Intelligence
• Spoken Web
• Wireless 4G on PRISM

Banking

• Context-oriented Information Integration

Healthcare

• National Health Data Network (NHDN)

Life sciences

• BioPatentMiner

Retail

• Customer Loyalty for Retail