| | JULY 20209ofieieva and Russians, Irina Tchachina, Yevgeniya Kanayeva and Alina Kabaeva. Upasa, was the new generation of Ekalavya's learning from her Digital Dronacharya, YouTube; she had just become a part of the growing world of Internet of Skills, that is rev-olutionizing learning and transforming experiences across industries.By enabling the delivery of physical experiences remotely, the Internet of Skills will revolutionize op-erations and servicing capabilities for industries. It will transform the way we teach, learn, and interact with our surroundings for consumers. It will be a world where our best engineers can service cars in-stantaneously around the world, or anybody can be taught how to paint by an artist who is from the other side of the globe. With blazing fast speeds, massive bandwidth and capabilities like network slicing from 5G, the Inter-net of Skills will have the enabling communication technologies to transform our capabilities in unimag-inable ways. Wearing haptic gloves, a piano teacher from Europe could teach a student in India in real time; the student and teacher feeling the same sensa-tions as they hit the keys simultaneously. It is almost as if the hands of the teacher in Paris are guiding the fingers of the student in Kolkata. Aided by AR & VR (Augmented and Virtual Reality), the student can also feel and learn the same way she could pick-up her lessons seating next to a teacher!Whilst haptic communications have been around for a long time and the principles of the zero-delay Tactile Internet have long been laid-out, the design of an Internet of Skills requires a ground-breaking cross-disciplinary approach in combining communi-cation engineering (communications, networking), computer science (artificial intelligence, data sci-ence) and mechanical engineering (kinesthetic ro-botics, tactile). Advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are the other enabling technology for Internet of Skills to take-off. AI together with networks play an instru-mental role in giving the perception of zero-delay networks. The use model-mediated teleoperation sys-tems will have AI predict movement on the remote end and thus give enough time for the signal to reach the other side of the planet. The haptic control loops typically require a delay of 1-10ms, which translates to 100-1000 km range under typical networking con-ditions; a range which can be extended by model-me-diated approach to the tens of thousands of kilome-ters needed to cover the entire planet.The application of Internet of Skills is limited only by our imagination. A child in trouble torn Gaza can be taught painting by a teacher in California; a broken car in Africa can be repaired by the engineer in Germany; a doctor in Chennai will be able to op-erate on a patient in Patna. Operational costs are one of the largest expenditures for industries, with ineffi-ciencies due to sub-optimal/wrong skill being one of the biggest contributors. The Internet of Skills will allow matching specific needs in one physical loca-tion with the best skill available in another location. Broken cars and airplanes can thus be serviced remotely; industrial plants inspected and repaired; high value manufacturing supervised ­ all in a sig-nificantly more efficient and effective manner. The 5G-enabled Internet of Skills will facilitate remote skillset delivery and thereby democratize labor the same way the Internet has democratized knowledge.So far, technology has engaged two of our six senses ­ sight and sound. It will now be engaging the sense of touch. Imagine a virtual experience with objects that feel perfectly real, including weighing as much as you would expect, forests that smell from trees, and online grocery stores where you can taste samples before buying. In the next few years, we will engage our brains to interface with machines. The world of screens that we live in today will change as we will all be wearing lightweight and fashionable augmented reality glasses to engage in an immersive world of technologies. We would then have stepped into the world of Internet of Senses. But that's another story. WITH BLAZING FAST SPEEDS, MASSIVE BANDWIDTH AND CAPABILITIES LIKE NETWORK SLICING FROM 5G, THE INTERNET OF SKILLS WILL HAVE THE ENABLING COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES TO TRANSFORM OUR CAPABILITIES IN UNIMAGINABLE WAYS
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