'Sooner Or Later, All Businesses Will Have To Offer Online Sales To Survive In The Market'

With every passing day, we are witnessing more and more players joining the bandwagon of online sales. So why is online sales gradually becoming the most preferred business model? Atul Dumbre, director of Macfos Private Limited, in an interaction with Baishakhi Dutta of the Electronicsforu.com Network, shares how online sales is becoming profitable for businesses. Excerpts follow...

- Baishakhi Dutta

EB: What are the latest hardware and software upgrades in IoT kits?

IoT kits nowadays are becoming more powerful due to the increased capacity of the onboard processor. More and more sensors are being added on board to gather information at the source. There are a lot of devices coming in to market with software dedicated to them. Hence, now people can use a combination of hardware and software in one single package to get the desired results. This is making life easier for end customers since it’s becoming a plug-and-play type of ecosystem for IoT.

EB: What kind of industrial products do you offer?

Basically, we are an online retail store for robotics. We offer microcontroller boards like Raspberry Pi and Arduino. We also offer a variety of sensors like lidars, encoders, ultrasonic sensors, DC motors and motor controllers, lithium batteries and chargers, basic tools and cables.

EB: What is the difference between players importing components and buying them from you?

We provide all the components required for a system, that too, as ready-to-ship stock and without any minimum order quantity. This saves valuable time and effort for our customers. They don’t have to run around for small things or fight with vendors when delivery periods get extended.

EB: What economic benefits do your customers gain by using your products?