March 28, 2017

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India semiconductor news: IoT radio by Aura uses Bluetooth IP from Mindtreeedit

EE Herald

Aura has partnered with another Bengaluru-based leading semiconductor design services company Mindtree to use its latest Bluetooth IP for Aura’s IOT radio.  Bluetooth IP expert  Mindtree is a long-time leader in Bluetooth IP and has actively participated in creation of new version of Bluetooth specifications. Mindtree says it is the first company in the world to qualify its Bluetooth 4.2 IP. Mindtree’s Bluetooth IP Product Portfolio covers Bluetooth low energy 5 and 4.2 Bluetooth Controller and Digital PHY, Bluetooth 5 and 4.2 Dual Mode Stack and Profiles, Mesh over Bluetooth low energy, IPv6 Stack over Bluetooth low energy or 802.15.4, IEEE-11073 Personal Health Device IP over Bluetooth low energy and USB.

IEEE

Industry News: Information and Communications

IoT can help pharma industry to overcome quality challenges: Studyedit

Business Standard

In the recent times, Indian pharmaceutical industry has been facing quality issues with the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA), with the US drug regulator issuing import alert, warning letters or observations under 483 Form to many of the leading Indian pharma companies. To overcome quality issues in the industry, technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) can prove to be handy, says an Assocham-Sathguru joint study. The increasing frequency of the US FDA inspections in India and the upward trend in warning letters has put the industry in a panic drive. “In an export driven market, where credibility weighs high to maintain market share, at this point in time India cannot afford this kind of reputation ...IoTPharma

Inexpensive pricing key to digital connectivity, says Trai’s Sharmaedit

ET Telecom

By Muntazir Abbas

Sector regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) ​​has said that affordable tariff​s would play a significant role to boost ​ digital connectivity but there was much to be done on the broadband front by private service providers. “Digital connectivity and proliferation of affordable pricing is very significant. There is a lot of work to be done to enhance broadband penetration both by telecom service providers and stakeholders,” Trai chairman RS Sharma told ETTelecom.

Didital ConnectivityIoT
‘Consumers’ appetite for retail tech is conservative’edit

Fibre2Fashion

Consumers are most willing to engage brands with new retail technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), automation, drones, virtual reality (VR) and more, if they feel that they are in control of their experience, according to a recent report. Artificial intelligence (AI), VR and IoT present the opportunity to better anticipate consumers’ next purchase.

 

IoTRetail Technology
Cloud, mobility is a big play for Entrust Datacard channels: Kathleen Phillipsedit

Channel World

By Yogesh Gupta

Cloud, mobile and IoT are modifying organizations’ security posture, says Kathleen Phillips, Global Channel Chief of Entrust Datacard.

Entrust Datacard encompasses a huge portfolio of authentication, certificates, PKI, payments and other security solutions for organisations. CSO India in an exclusive interaction spoke to Kathleen Phillips, VP-Global Channel Strategy & Operations, Entrust Datacard during her India visit, on the company’s product roadmap, channel blueprint and the security landscape.

Cloud TechnologyIoT
Cloud can deliver government projects without cost revenues miss-matches: IBM’s Agarwaledit

ET Tech

By Aritra Sarkhel

Shailesh Agarwal, Director – Strategy & Operations,IBM talks about their cloud plans for 2017, their tryst with government on tech deals, plans for Africa, their SMB roadmap and how IBM is helping up skill people. Shailesh Agarwal, Director – Strategy & Operations, IBM talks about their cloud plans for 2017, their tryst with government on tech deals, plans for Africa, their SMB roadmap and how IBM is helping up skill people.

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Better cyber security reportingedit

Business Standard

By Mrutyunjay Mahapatra

As Indian banks compete to establish differentiated business models based on efficient operations, technology has assumed the pole and pivotal position in their strategies. Ecosystem disruptions like demonetisation, emergence of payment banks, fintech play, micro banks and pseudo and para banking activities of telcos and retail chains have put technology as the sine qua non and God-gifted saviour for banks. But gifts are bundled often with miseries.

Cyber SecurityIoT
Artificial Intelligence In The Next-Gen Automobileedit

PC Quest

By Adeesh Sharma

Needless to mention here, such advances in AI depend heavily on the security, resilience and interoperability amongst different IoT networks. Many auto manufacturers have already demonstrated and are also working on advanced self-driving capabilities, however, the network that works in most cars still remains isolated with a myriad of protocols that require oodles of work to secure.

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‘Sensors should connect all projects under Smart City’edit

The Times of India

“It is very essential for smart city to join all its projects with sensors. They must process all information through cloud computing and deliver it directly on mobile,” said of U B Desai, director, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, while delivering key not address on the subject ‘No smart city without sensors’. India’s future lies with towns and cities and so we need to join smart devises also with internet and not be satisfied with joining smart phones, he added.

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Industry News: Education

Skill Development Boosts Women Empowermentedit

BW Disrupt

From the increasing media reports on sexual assaults to alarming statistics highlighting the fact that 33% of women population is illiterate, women’s empowerment in India is a crucial national issue. Considering its neighbouring countries in South Asia, female working population rate (WPR) is one area in which India is lagging. Women participation in the Indian labour force is 31.8%, whereas male WPR stands at 73.2%. While north-eastern India has performed well on female WPR, the situation is worrisome in states such as Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, with WPR as low as 9%. According to a Mckinsey Global Institute study, India could boost its GDP by $2.9 trillion by 2025, if female workforce participation rate is increased ...Skill Development

How Automation Helps Achieve Engineering Excellenceedit

PC Quest

With digitalisation, the primary work location shifted from the factory to the office. Increasing level of automation and remote operation of factories allowed engineers to focus on electronic design and software implementation for factory and office automation. Today, with the democratisation of digitalisation offered by mobile phones, engineers are building cyberintelligent systems that digitalise every conceivable decision through algorithms.

Engineering

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Renewable energy is the way forwardedit

Down to Earth

By Samar Lahiry

There is a rising sense of environmentalism in people now—they are more conscious about the different kinds of environmental hazards that could affect our future. This has led to cost savings and shift towards sustainable living. Green power has now assumed centre-stage as a way to continue progress through clean technology. The Fifth Assessment Report (ARS) of the Inter-Governmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) states that CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes contributed about 78 per cent of the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emission increase. In India, the energy sector is the largest emitter of CO2, contributing 55% to the national emissions (Amit Kumar, 2015). Augmenting green power capacity in ...Renewable Energy

Higher power purchase by states must for India to meet solar targets: Mercomedit

ET Energy World

By Debjoy Sengupta

State power utilities need to buy more green power if India has to meet its solar installation targets, said analysts from Mercom Capital Group. “Renewable power purchase obligation (RPO) is the single most important policy driving renewable energy installations and achievement of an aggressive goal of installing 175 GW by 2022 including 100GW of solar power capacity,” the analysts said.

Solar Energy
Even as US rakes-up solar energy row with India, world panel producers eye market here for future businessedit

The Financial Express

By Amitendu Palit

The WTO’s dispute settlement function has been a trustworthy mechanism for settling disputes between WTO members. It has run well, since WTO members have accepted rulings of the multilateral trade body on various disputes and amended domestic policies accordingly. But this may no longer be the case if some WTO members are ‘directing’ changes in domestic policies of other members following WTO decisions. The India-US solar power dispute is a pertinent case.

Renewable Energy
Climate change a challenge caused by human beings: Piyush Goyaledit

The Indian Express

Power Minister Piyush Goyal today squarely held human beings responsible for the climate challenge, saying they can address it ultimately. “It is time that human beings understood that climate change is a challenge caused by humans only and ultimately it is humans who can address it,” Goyal said while addressing the World Conference on Environment 2017 here in a statement.

According to a power ministry statement, the minister said such conferences are very appropriate in the current scenario as these discussions help us come up with new ideas and bring back the focus on sensitive subjects like climate change.

 

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