Q&A: EPAM Exec On Company's IoT Practice

Could you tell us about the smart greenhouse case study that won an award from Oracle?

We had been developing it for a few years … . The idea was very simple: At EPAM, we have a concept called "Garage," which is effectively an innovation area … physical space, multiple areas distributed globally where [engineers] can come in and try different things. One of the ideas was this thing that we [did] for the award ... where people were just interested in … connected capabilities into either preservation of greenhouses or rapid development of whatever grows in there.

So it was completely, if you will, a grassroots effort within EPAM. A couple of engineers sort of got interested and developed a concept that was presented to Oracle.

This was quite successful in … showcasing the capabilities internally, making a playground for teaching engineers [in] how to implement these things, and making sort of an end-to-end, tied, connected experience, from hardware, software, artificial intelligence, etc.