March 16, 2017

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News for other PEI

How to hack a phone with sound wavesedit

ET Tech

A security loophole that would allow someone to add extra steps to the counter on your Fitbit monitor might seem harmless. But researchers say it points to the broader risks that come with technology’s embedding into the nooks of our lives.

IEEE

Industry News: Information and Communications

IT’s knowledge society nowedit

The Hindu

Draft policy proposes to integrate IT with manufacturing The government on Wednesday unveiled a draft information technology (IT) policy with focus on establishing Kerala as a knowledge powered society by 2020 through the application of digital technologies in empowering citizens, creating lifestyles, and promoting commerce.

IoTIT
IoT Protocols: Finding Value Through The Chaosedit

CXO Today

The Internet of Things [IoT] communication protocols is like a maze, but when implemented in the right direction, it can bring tremendous value to business. IoT evangelist Matt Smith, who also heads the engineering team at Cortet by CEL, believes that new ideas and protocols are becoming available at a rapid pace and some companies are pushing technologies that aren’t yet ready for prime time. This makes it confusing.

IoT
Digitization in the Retail Industryedit

 

ET Retail

This technological evolution emergence of e-Commerce, digital and mobile wallets, mobility, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, internet of things (IoT), proliferation of data, emergence of social media, real-time analytics, automated personalization has changed the way retail business is conducted in many an industry. And in this evolution, the Financial Sector is seated at the epicenter.

IoTRetail
Big Data Analytics for Test and Measurements Market Size, Share, Development, Growth and Demand Forecast to 2020edit

Tech Announcer

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the interconnection of computing devices with the existing internet structure. IoT and big data continue to grow simultaneously; however as the internet of things continue to evolve, the need for big data analytics testing and measurement services continue to upsurge.

IoT
Cyber security: Soundwaves-based hacking exposes gaps in networksedit

The Financial Express

As companies are vying for more IoT penetration—according to Gartner, 8.4 billion connected devices will be in use in 2017—they are also finding out new security gaps that need plugging. Although research on cyber security has been restricted to only algorithm tampering, researchers have found a new window to hack your devices.

Cyber SecurityIoT

Industry News: Education

New horizons in education: Looking beyond the US and the UKedit

Hindustan Times

By Lavina Mulchandani 

In a time of confusion over US President Donald Trump’s evolving policies and Britain’s exit from the European Union, students are looking for alternatives, as we discussed in HT Education a few weeks ago. But most of those alternatives are from the same predictable pool — Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.

Higher Education
India more than doubles representation in Times Higher Education’s list of Asia’s best universitiesedit

The Economic Times

By Sreeradha Basu

India has 33 institutions in the top 300 of the newly-expanded The Times Higher Education (THE) Asia University Rankings 2017, compared to 16 in the top 200 last year. Seven of these institutes are new entrants, and eight in the top 100. “It is great news that India has more than doubled its representation in this year’s ranking of Asia’s best universities” said Phil Baty, editor of the Times Higher Education rankings, in a statement.

Higher Education

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Smart Moveedit

Business India

“While achieving this goal, on the one hand, there is a need to understand the evolving trends in the intelligent management of future grids like advancing metering, IoT, cyber security, micro grids and renewable integration. On the other hand,” adds Agarwal, “we would also require qualitative and quantitative improvements in the existing grid to augment its reach and improve its health”.

PowerRenewable Energy
Power sector has little to cheer about from budgetedit

The New Indian Express Another 1000 MW is expected to be generated from a solar energy park in Pavagada and another 1,375 MW is expected to be added from renewable sources. The government has also decided to clear some dues that gram panchayats owe to Escoms and KPCL. An amount of Rs 3,766 crore, which is pending as on March 31, 2015, will be cleared to provide some kind of leverage to the Escoms and invest this amount in infrastructure.

PowerRenewable Energy
Adding more green power than conventional energyedit

The Hindu

For the first time in the State, the government will add more renewable energy than conventional power in the coming year. Out of 3,975 MW to be added to the grid in 2017-18, renewable energy accounts for nearly 60% or 2,375 MW. Much of this addition, of 1,000 MW, comes from the Solar Energy Park in Pavagada of Tumakuru district.

Renewable Energy
The dark secret behind India’s solar plan to bring power to alledit

Mint

By Saket Sundria, Rajesh Kumar Singh and Anindya Upadhyay

India plans to expand renewable generation capacity more than three-fold to 175 gigawatts by 2022, with the majority from solar. Like generations before him, the only light Jurdar Thingya has at night in his one-room mud hut in Maharashtra comes from a small wood fire on the floor. A broken solar panel is all that the 35-year-old farmer has to remind him of the government’s promise to bring electricity to all of India’s villages.

Solar Energy
Indian solar power producers may get module prices reliefedit

Mint

By Shailaja Sharma

Global prices of solar modules, a key component in setting up solar power plants, could fall by as much as one-fifth this year, companies and analysts say. That will come as a shot in the arm for Indian producers of solar power and could increase the financial viability of projects.

Solar Energy
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