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Time to leverage cable broadband connectivityedit
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With the announcement by ACT Fibernet in March this year, Hyderabad has become India’s first city to offer one gigabyte per second speed in wired broadband connectivity. Such high-speed connectivity means the customer can start quality viewing of TV and other rich content thanks to cable broadband. This is a form of broadband internet access in which infrastructure previously used solely for cable television carries digital internet signals as well.
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New site to guide young inventors applying for patentsedit
By Ankita Bhaktande
A number of colleges, in collaboration with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) — among the world’s largest technical professional associations — is set to launch a website to encourage students to patent their innovations. The colleges that have banded together to spearhead this initiative include Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Thakur College of Engineering & Technology and Alamuri Ratnamala Institute of Engineering and Technology.
IEEEHalf of Mumbai’s electricity can be generated by solar power: Reportedit
Mumbai’s need of electricity is typically around 3 GW and out of this roof-top solar installations can make around 1.72 GW of energy, the joint study ‘Estimating the Rooftop Solar Potential of Greater Mumbai’ -carried out by five organisations National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education (NCPRE), Centre for Urban Science and Engineering (C-USE) at IIT Bombay, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Bombay Chapter, the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and Bridge to India has shown.
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Telecom trends: From customer experience management to customer managed experienceedit
The benefits of Customer Empowerment go beyond creating satisfied and loyal users. Telcos can also look forward to increased consumption of services and better resource utilization for increased revenues. With advanced technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) & Virtual Reality (VR), the consumption of data will dwarf the voice services. It is a major shift in the industry which will have customers in the centre of everything.
IoTTelecomIt is not tech versus humans; it will be tech with humansedit
The smartphone is expected to continue to take big leaps over the next 1-2 years as technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), virtual and artificial reality and internet of things (IoT) help us work with remotely connected devices in our house or office, help us reach our destinations in driverless cars and most importantly bring in greater efficiencies.
IoTChatbots are smarter and more communicative, and they will drive the evolution of customer serviceedit
Most Bot applications today are specialized, i.e. they do a good job in one or few scenarios, like answering an FAQ or retrieving bank details. These are what is known as Weak AI. In the future, the explosion of data through channels like IoT and cheaper computations will enable building of intelligent systems which can learn a new topic like humans do.
ChatbotsIoTNow, Nasscom plans to set up IoT CoE in cityedit
By Swati Rathor
“We have already set up one of the IoT CoEs in Bengaluru. The Union government is looking at setting up more and Hyderabad is one of the cities. If you look at IoT, it is one of the game changing technologies that can have tremendous impact in many verticals such as retail, e-governance and healthcare, among others,” said Nasscom sector skill council chairman B V R Mohan Reddy, who was also Nasscom chairman during 2015-16.
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Skills, not theory, to be yardstick for judging engineering studentsedit
By Kritika Sharma
This is one of the many steps that the central government is taking to improve the quality of engineering education in the country. The AICTE which has a large number of private as well as public institutions under it has prepared a 10 pointer plan to be implemented.
EngineeringMandatory for engineering colleges to revise curriculum every yearedit
Engineering colleges will be required to examine the curriculum through subject-wise industry consultation committee (ICC) every year wih the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) mandating the same. The information was shared by Minister of State for HRD Mahendra Nath Pandey in response to a written question in Lok Sabha.
EngineeringAICTE Approves Measures To Improve Technical Education Standardsedit
With a view to improve the standards of technical education and to provide competent technical manpower for the Make-In-India campaign, the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has approved various packages of measures to be implemented by all the technical institutions. Minister of State (Human Resources Development), Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey today in a written reply to a Lok Sabha question listed these measures taken by AICTE.
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Solar energy can help city generate 50% of total useedit
By Yogita Rao and Somit Sen
Mumbai has a potential of 1,720 MW of solar energy across rooftops-more than 50% of its peak consumption of about 3,200 MW generated through conventional sources (during summer). While attaining the maximum potential could be impossible at this stage, experts believe realising even 20% of this potential would be good enough for the city.
Solar EnergyNo agreement stops India from using any energy source: Piyush Goyaledit
Replying to supplementaries, Coal Minister Piyush Goyal said coal will continue to remain our mainstay as it was a domestic raw material for producing energy. “Paris Agreement does not in any way stop the government or any country from meeting its energy needs from whatever sources of energy one may choose. India is giving a big thrust to renewable energy.
Renewable EnergyIndia’s solar power capacity crosses 12 GWedit
India added 5,525 MW solar power generation capacity last fiscal, taking the total from this clean source to 12,288 MW. The country has abundant solar power potential which has been estimated to be 748 GW, New & Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal stated in a written reply to Rajya Sabha today.
Solar EnergyHow Narendra Modi government got it right on wind power; prices set to tumbleedit
By Vikas Srivastava
Solar power tariffs came down to roughly a third in the last five years thanks to price discovery through the competitive bidding route. Wind power prices, after remaining rather stable through these years, appears to be on the solar sector’s heels now.
Solar EnergyMinistry of New and Renewable Energy plans to push auction route for wind poweredit
The ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) has proposed to allow state-owned power distribution companies (discoms) to conduct reverse auctions for procuring wind power. The move, an effort to promote the competitive bidding mechanism, is likely to encourage state-owned discoms to award wind projects through a bidding route, instead of feed-in tariffs (FiT) — a cost-based compensation system.
Renewable EnergyChina first, India second in energy sector mergers in Asia-Pacific in 2016edit
However, the Asia-Pacific energy M&A logged a 33 per cent drop in value terms year-on-year while the number of deals (196) were similar to 2015, the report titled Volatility and opportunity: Energy M&A in Asia-Pacific by law firm Eversheds in collaboration with deal tracking firm Mergermarket.
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