Under the communications ministry, the Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC) passed a 'Code of Practice for Securing Consumer Internet of Things (IoT)' to safeguard related devices and ecosystems while managing vulnerabilities.

These guidelines are solely prepared to be used by IoT device manufacturers, service providers, system integrator and application developers, among others.

Regarded as a baseline requirement these guidelines are in sync with global standards and best practices.

It is crucial to ensure that endpoints fall in line with safety and security standards including guidelines that not only can they protect users, but the network that connects IoT devices considering the potential growth of this technology in the coming years.

Also, hacking is another threat to everyday devices used by companies, organizations, nations and more importantly people, these guidelines speak more importance in securing the IoT ecosystem from end-to-end. That is, shielding them from device to applications is necessary.

Since IoT is a rapidly growing technology that provides immense benefits to society, industry, and consumers, its deployed for the construction of smart infrastructure for power, automotive, safety and surveillance, remote health management, agriculture, smart homes, smart cities among other sectors using connected devices.

Currently, the technology draws benefits from advances of several technologies such as sensors, communication technologies (cellular and non-cellular), AI/ ML, cloud/ edge computing etc.

As per the National Digital Communication Policy (NDCP) 2018 released by Department of Telecommunications (DoT), an ecosystem is to be created for five billion connected devices by 2022. Therefore, it is expected that around 60 percent of five billion, that is, three billion connected devices may exist in India by 2022.