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Optimally leveraging Electronics And Digitisation To Transform Manufacturing Through Industry 4.0edit
Moderated by Dr. Andreas Middendorf, Fraunhofer-Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration Panelists: Ninad Deshpande, Specialist – Open Technologies, B&R Industrial Automation Shekhar Sanyal, Director & Country Head, India, IET India Marutish Varanasi, Head of Big Data Analytics and Data Sciences, Marvelogic Consultancy Services Hrishikesh Kamat, CEO, Shalaka Technologies.
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Solar energy can give city half of its power: Studyedit
The study, initiated in 2015, was conducted jointly by the National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education (NCPRE), the Centre for Urban Science and Engineering (C-USE) at IIT Bombay, the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Bridge to India and IEEE Bombay Section
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Industry News: Information and Communications
Winning strategies for companies to succeed in ever-changing pharma marketedit
Business Standard Embrace technology to increase efficiency and improve quality: Big data analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are expected to shake the pharmaceutical industry with their immense potential.
HealthcareIoTIIoT Transforming into Reality for Industrial Sectoredit
We are at the verge of the fourth industrial revolution wherein the industrial sector is seeing a plethora of opportunities for both businesses and consumers. The adoption of IIoT across industries is a major breakthrough that is here to stay and will see increased adoption as more use-cases become apparent and the technology infrastructure matures to support its growth.
Industrial SectorIoT2.5 Million IoT Devices Affected by Mirai Botnet in Q4 2016: McAfeeedit
Two and a half million Internet of Things (IoT) devices were infected by Mirai botnet by the end of fourth quarter last year, a new report by cyber-security company McAfee said on Tuesday. Mirai is a malware that turns networked devices running on obsolete versions of Linux into remotely controlled “bots” which can be used for a large-scale network attacks.
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IITs, NITs to audit quality standards of it isedit
By Sanjeev K Ahuja
Two of the country’s top engineering institutions, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and National Institute of Technology – NIT, earlier known as Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs), will now audit the quality standards of technical training and other infrastructure of industrial training institutes (ITIs) in their respective states.
Skill DevelopmentIndia-Australia relations: Education as the tipping pointedit
By Amit Dasgupta and Shaun Star
One of the significant challenges that India faces is in higher education. Within the next three years, India will have the largest tertiary age population in the world and would have outpaced China. While India has one of the largest number of higher education institutions in the world, quality issues, such as, poor infrastructure, archaic pedagogy and lack of quality faculty have adversely impacted learning outcomes and employability.
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Solar Tracker Market To Grow Significant In 2017-18, Says Reportedit
According to the report ‘India Solar Demand Forecast’, Five Indian states have scaled to more than 1 GW each of installed solar capacity and are still leading the race. While majority of the projects in India use fixed-tilt structures, developers, recently, have started focusing more on the advantages of tracking technology, following the global trend.
Solar 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 EnergyEnergy Efficiency 2.0edit
By M Ramesh
The bygone financial year has left behind a trail of milestones —10 GW of solar installations, 30 GW of wind and 50 GW of all renewable energy (which includes small hydro and biomass). These milestones have been duly recognised and celebrated. However, there is one more, which has gone unnoticed.
Renewable EnergyClean energy in a new Indiaedit
Before delving into clean energy technology and the barriers faced by it from intellectual property law, it may be helpful to define the term clean energy. Clean energy means energy created from renewable sources of energy with low impact on the environment.
Renewable EnergyDiversifying India’s Energy Mixedit
Apart from geopolitical rivalries and geo-economic calculations around energy as a commodity, energy as a resource has acquired a strategic character as it impacts on so many levels of human interactions — economic, social, political, bureaucratic, legal, technological and environmental.
Renewable EnergyPayment delays, lower tariffs hurt renewable energy sector: Mercom studyedit
Payment delays by power distribution companies (Discoms) is posing a major challenge to the growth of the renewable energy sector, as it chokes liquidity and creates roadblocks in further funding of projects. While in some states the delay has been up to four months, the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) has stoppped buying power from wind power generators for the past three years, resulting in heavy losses, said a report.
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