Goa, India (February 1, 2019) – UIB Holdings Pte. Ltd. (UIB) today announced that it has won the ninth annual Aegis Graham Bell Award in the “Innovation in IoT” category for its UnificationEngine conversational IoT platform. Gartner Cool Vendor-designated cloud computing company UIB was recognized today at a ceremony hosted by the Government of Goa at the Entertainment Society of Goa in Panaji. Late last year, UIB opened up a new AI Centre of Excellence in Bangalore, India.
UIB Chief Executive Officer Toby Ruckert said, “Five years ago, we brought together a small team of cloud computing engineers and entrepreneurs to find a way to solve the problem of how to simply communicate. How can we talk and text all of our different cloud-connected software, services, chatbots, and devices? What we invented, UIB’s UnificationEngine intelligent IoT messaging platform, created conversational IoT.”
Continued UIB Chief Technology Officer Aby Varghese, “When users add a UnificationEngine-powered SmartContact® to their smartphone’s address books, our AI allows them to talk to any connected ‘thing’ or service on over 20 of the world’s most popular communications platforms, including email, SMS, smart speakers, social media messaging and chat apps. UnificationEngine works with WhatsApp (UIB is an official WhatsApp Business solution provider), Facebook Messenger, Viber, WeChat, Telegram, and many more.”
Varghese concluded, “What really makes UnificationEngine unique is its omnichannel messaging, its ability to operate any connected IoT device, its Natural Language Processing (NLP) engine’s AI-independence, and its conversational analytics. It’s a true honor to have our technology – and specifically, the impact our technology has had on helping our customers around the world to achieve their objectives – be recognized by winning the ninth annual Aegis Graham Bell Award.”
“Their platform has converted science fiction to reality! Imagine “talking” to any IoT device in any language, using any communication channel, traditional and modern and getting things done! The Unification Engine developed by UIB and their Smart Contact concept can revolutionize how we interact with devices and machines. We often see people walking by talking into their cell phone, chatting with other people – well, now they can do the same with devices! I congratulate UIB for their unique innovation” – Dr Vinay Kulkarni, Jury, Aegis Graham Bell Awards; Director, Aegis School Of Business, Data Science, Cyber Security & Telecom.
Aegis Graham Bell Awards (AGBA) has been promoting innovations in the ICT domain. AGBA has been rewarding those who have been contributing in these fields, for 8 years with a vision to foster and stimulate innovators for India to become the nucleus of innovations.
Learn more about UIB and how its Unification Engine can power your company’s conversational IoT at www.uib.ai.
About UIB
We make human to machine communications simple.
Named a Gartner “Cool Vendor” in Unified Communications and Collaboration Technologies, UIB is a global cloud computing company. The creators of conversational IoT, we solved the problem of how to talk to cloud-connected software, services, chatbots, and devices. UIB provides its customers, partners, and developers with omnichannel messaging solutions using its patented UnificationEngine®, Unified AI®, and SmartContact® technologies.
Adding our UnificationEngine-powered SmartContact to your smartphone’s address book allows you to talk to any connected “thing” or service on over 20 of the world’s most popular communications platforms, including email, SMS, smart speakers, social media messaging and chat apps — such as WhatsApp (UIB is an official WhatsApp Business solution provider), Facebook Messenger, WeChat, and many more.
Our award-winning technologies help smart home and connected appliance manufacturers, real estate and PropTech companies, hospitality companies, telecommunications providers, museums, airlines, enterprise software companies, government authorities, and others to increase their revenues, decrease their costs, and delight their users. With a SmartContact in your smartphone’s address book, you can talk via natural language voice and instant messaging to any device on any channel in any language with or without the device’s native mobile app or a virtual assistant.
Learn more about UIB now at www.uib.ai; try out UIB’s UnificationEngine for yourself at demo.unifiedbox.com, nest.unifiedinbox.com, and hue.unifiedinbox.com; and download UIB’s newest white paper at www.uib.ai/whitepapers.
About AGBA
Aegis School of Business, Data Science, Cyber Security, and Telecommunication established the Aegis Graham Bell Awards (AGBA) nine years ago as a tribute to the father of telephony, Alexander Graham Bell. This Award is intended to promote innovations in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to provide recognition for outstanding contributions by the innovators. The award is powered by mUni Campus. It is organised with the support of Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), and Telecom Centres of Excellence (TCOE) India, a public-private partnership initiative of DoT with 08 Centres at premier academic institutes (06 IITs, IISc and IIMA) of the country, each supported by a Telecom Service Provider and Convergence India and KPMG as knowledge partner. For more information, please visit: www.bellaward.com
Contacts
Mr. Ken Herron
+1 973-223-1439
UIB Holdings Pte. Ltd.
ken.herron@uib.ai
Ms. Shweta Chavan
+91 84339 69263
Aegis Graham Bell Awards
shweta@bellaward.com
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