September 19, 2017

News for the IET

KIIT University gets prestigious IET, UK accreditationedit

MBCET

The B.Tech programmes of KIIT University have got the accreditation of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) of UK. With the IET accreditation, KIIT has become the only university in India to get this prestigious recognition.

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IoT to create 15 million jobs in India: Telecom Secretaryedit

Electronics B2B

Sundararajan was speaking at the second edition of IoT India Congress 2017, organised by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) India, being held in Bangalore.“IoT represents a paradigm that can overcome the deficits that India has been facing in terms of agriculture, healthcare, transportation, garbage disposal in our cities etc.,” Sundararajan said.

IoT India Congress 2017

Industry News: Information and Communications

Solving Cyber Security Quagmire Through The Prism Of Big Dataedit

Data Quest

Massively scalable platforms are the need of the hour as the volume of traffic increases to unprecedented levels coupled with IoT led and diversity of devices on a network. The humongous volume of network data that enterprises need to process putting pressure on software products that use a traditional rules-based approach. Enter the next generation of SIEMs run on big data architectures and built ground-up.

Cyber Security
IoT-Connecting The World Through Integrated Devicesedit

Forbes

IoT is less about standalone smart devices and more about the symbiotic nature of the entire ecosystem Vikas—a farmer in the hinterland of India—is famous for his excellent problem-solving abilities. He has set an example for his fellow farmers by optimising the use of resources.

Internet of Things
How Startups Can Compete in the IoT Spaceedit

Udaipur Kiran

The IoT platform market has been growing at a record pace. Just a couple of years ago, the market only counted a few early vendors that were starting to court enterprises and device manufacturers. Today, the IoT platform space is a hyper competitive market encompassing a broad set of companies from telecommunication operators to platform as a service (PaaS) providers.

IoTStartups
How artificial intelligence makes datacenters smarteredit

CIO

AI algorithms can help a datacenter to “self-optimize” in terms of efficiency with respect to energy usage. Vigilent, a company that uses IoT, machine learning and prescriptive analytics in mission-critical environments, reduces datacenter cooling capacity by employing real-time monitoring and machine language software to match cooling needs with the exact cooling capacity.

Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence will kill several old jobs, but will create new ones tooedit

Business Today

By Gautham Das

It is likely enterprises will automate and instrument all their processes, going ahead in the book, the authors write: “By instrumenting and creating a Code Halo, you turn everything into a data generator, allowing you to see facts that have never been visible before.” Professionals into Internet of Things (IoT) will, therefore, be in demand.

Artificial Intelligence

Industry News: Education

Rethinking the essentials of higher education reformedit

Hindustan Times

By Pankaj Chandra

Universities in India continue to give out credentials through rote learning and standardised examinations, have uninspiring classrooms with extremely low engagement, and a student experience that is violent and intolerant both on the body and the mind.

Higher Education

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India to be number one in power generation, consumption: Union minister R K Singhedit

The Economic Times

Union minister R K Singh today said that the Centre proposes to make India the number one country in both generation and consumption of power but set no time-frame to achieve the goal. “We are the third largest country in the world vis-a-vis power generation but we are the fourth largest in power consumption.

Power Generation
Energy security: Renewables the savior?edit

Sentinel Assam

Energy independence and energy security are two closely connected terms, basically in most cases improved energy security means also improved energy independence. Threats are on to energy security, – for instance political turmoil in rich oil producing countries, the rise of new economic giants (China, India, South Korea, among others, that present heavy competition over energy sources), natural disasters and accidents, etc.

Renewable Energy
A case for continued support for green energyedit

Mint

By Amit Kumar

Going by recent reports, it appears that the Union government is contemplating withdrawing all kind of incentives that are being provided to renewables-based electricity by 2022. It is said that there will not be any targeting of renewable energy after 2020

Renewable Energy
Solar power capacity goes up to 2,275 MWedit

The Hindu

The installed capacity of solar power generation in State has increased to 2,275 MW from the 48 MW capacity at the time formation of the State, making it one of the leading States in solar energy, Chairman and Managing Director of TS Power Generation Corporation D. Prabhakar Rao has said.

Solar Energy
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