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Industry News: Information and Communications
Global Intelligent Buildings IoT Market Analysis, Share, Trends and Forecast by 2022- Market Research Report 2017edit
The Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to transform the way people work, play, and interact with products and services. A significant majority of IoT applications will occur within metropolitan areas and will ultimately integrate within a Smart City ecosystem. Improving the operational effectiveness and efficiency, safeguarding assets, and establishing new value-added services are a few of the fundamental goals of Smart Buildings.
IoTSolutions can come from communities tooedit
The solution to several of the city’s woes could lie in the collection of data about the working of the civic agencies. Internet of Things (IoT) devices can help with the data collection, according to city administrators from the United Kingdom who were in Bengaluru on Thursday to discuss methods to tackle civic issues.
IoTIndustry News: Education
How Skill India can take a turn if corporates target womenedit
The industrial age brought in different type of skills to be developed specific to the machines they handled. In India, Apprenticeship Act of 1961 had primarily tasked industries to provide training to around 6% of their work force in various trades varying from six months to four years, in their own premises, with part payment of their stipend being borne by the state exchequer. In addition scores of ITIs (Industrial Training Institutes) were setup, more than one in each state to impart formal practical and theoretical training and certify them.
Skill DevelopmentUGC recast to free up higher education put on fast trackedit
By Anubhuti Vishnoi
The rigid and heavily criticised regulatory regime of the University Grants Commission (UGC), the apex higher education regulator, is set to undergo a major overhaul. The Prakash Javadekar-led ministry of human resource development has finalised the first roadmap to bring in a new system that is less prescriptive and encourages minimal regulation.
Higher EducationUncategorized
The renewables eraedit
India’s renewable energy capacity, and the dynamism of the sector, continues to grow. The country has hit 10,000 megawatts of installed capacity in solar energy, up from only around 2,650 megawatts in 2014. This came with the commissioning of the Kamuthi solar power plant by the Adani group, the world’s largest with a capacity of nearly 650 Mw.
Renewable EnergyMake In India: Renewable Energy Sector Sees Fast Growthedit
By Kshitiz Mohan
India is making giant leaps in the renewable energy sector. In 2016-17 financial year, renewable power projects output rose by 26%, which makes India’s renewable energy sector as the fastest growing in the world. Indian is expected to be the third biggest solar market from 2018 onwards after China and United States of America.
Renewable EnergyGovernment frames solar power scheme to promote powerloom sectoredit
The government today said it has formulated a scheme to provide incentives and concessions to loom weavers to utilise solar energy to increase production. Minister of State for Textiles Ajay Tamta said that for the development of the powerloom sector, the government has formulated the ‘Solar Energy Scheme’.
Solar EnergySolar power rates haven’t fallen in 18 months: Studyedit
By Kaavya Chandrasekaran
Amid widespread talk of falling solar tariffs, a recent study has thrown up a contrary conclusion. The average harmonised price has been Rs 4.31 per unit across the 15,900 MW of projects auctioned during this period by NTPC Solar Corporation of India, renewable energy departments of states and other smaller players.
Solar EnergyCloud, Edge, IoT: What’s running the next Smart Grid?edit
The electricity grid as we know is one of the most advanced technologies powering our homes and businesses for more than a century now. With our urban population growing at an exponential pace and the need for alternate sources of energy rising, electric grids of the future would look very different. They are supposed to derive higher efficiency, reduce losses, integrate with newer sources of energy such as wind, solar, etc. and most importantly become unstoppable.
PowerRenewable Energy