BANGALORE: In 2014, the country made meaningful progress in systematically integrating data and technology into the way they conduct government business. In the New Year, they’ll face the next challenge of ensuring that this new data-driven approach goes beyond the walls of city hall and empowers them to be responsive to citizens’ wants, needs and ideas. Technology trends are, after all, disruptive trends. Even within tech though, there are different levels of disruption.

So let’s find out what trends should we be looking at as we head into 2015 and beyond?

1. Internet of things

We can no longer talk about something abstract that will happen in the future. We live in the age of the Internet of Things, now we need to start talking about its impact. On the business front, that means thinking intelligently about how and where you deploy internet-connected sensors, how you aggregate the data they provide and using Smartphones as a bridge between the real world and the world of the Internet of Things.

Enterprises should not limit themselves to thinking that only the Internet of Things has the potential to leverage these four models. For example, the pay-per-use model can be applied to assets (such as industrial equipment), services (such as pay-as-you-drive insurance), people (such as movers), places (such as parking spots) and systems (such as cloud services).