News for the IET
No specific news for the IET todayedit
Scroll down for key industry stories for the day.
News for other PEI
No specific news for the PEIs todayedit
Scroll down for key industry stories for the day.
Industry News: Information and Communications
Government CIOs spend 21 percent of IT budget on digital initiatives: Gartneredit
Digital security remains a critical investment for all levels of government (57 percent), particularly in defense and intelligence (74 percent). The Internet of Things will clearly drive transformative change for local governments (68 percent), whereas interest in business algorithms is highest among national governments (41 percent).
IoTITIndia ranks 4th in online security breachesedit
The year 2016 saw a resurgence of the email as an attack channel, multi-million-dollar virtual bank heists, ransomware and new frontiers like IoT and cloud getting exposed to threats. While China has managed to bring down hacks from nearly 24% in 2015 to under 10% in 2016, India saw instances of fraud increase from 3.4% in 2015 to 5.1% in 2016.
Cyber SecurityIoTIndia is catching up with smart lighting revolution at a rapid paceedit
The exciting thing that is happening in lighting is that it’s now adapting to Internet of Things (IoT). It’s becoming connected lighting, whether it is for smart cities or it is for smart homes. The world of lighting is moving from being a standard Rs 10 bulb to smart lighting devices in our houses and cities.
IoTSmart LightingIoT devices worldwide could be infected with mysterious ‘Hajime’ malwareedit
A new mysterious malware that builds a vast peer-to-peer botnet to infect the Internet of Things (IoT) worldwide has been identified with almost 300,000 devices under its control, ready to perform a large-scale DDoS attack.
Cyber SecurityIoTIndustry News: Education
Sustaining higher education a major challenge: Pranab Mukherjeeedit
President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said sustaining and reinvigorating higher education has become a major challenge, especially in public institutions. He identified escalation of costs of learning, market-oriented fast-track skill acquisition as the sole goal of learning, the allure of invasive dominant communication systems depleting attention span, and corrosion of trust as the major challenges for the administration of an institution of higher learning.
Higher EducationMore than half of IT teams will struggle due to a lack of the “Right” skills: Brocade Studyedit
Brocade has announced a new Global Digital Transformation Skills Study, which aims to uncover how well-placed global IT leaders consider themselves and their teams to be in terms of meeting current and future business demands. Of the six markets surveyed, Germany was found to be the best prepared to meet its digital transformation goals, closely followed by the U.S., while the UK lagged well behind its counterparts.
Skill DevelopmentUncategorized
Large conglomerates eye solar power sector with long-term game planedit
By Shailaja Sharma
The solar energy sector that has seen the entry of start-ups and foreign firms alike has not missed the attention of India’s large conglomerates.
Solar EnergyFor sustainable solar shine, integrated energy policy is keyedit
India’s insatiable appetite for electricity and the government’s push for clean energy have meant sunny times for solar power. Plunging solar tariffs—including a record-low bid of Rs3.3/kWh (kilowatt hour) recently—augur well.
Solar EnergySolar tariff wars heat up in Indiaedit
By Utpal Bhaskar and Mayank Aggarwal
The latest was the record low tariff of Rs3.15 per kilowatt hour (kWh), quoted by France’s Solairedirect SA on 12 April to win the rights to set up 250 megawatt (MW) of solar plants at Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh and sell power to state-run NTPC Ltd. The tariff is expected to fall below Rs3 a unit during auctions for the Bhadla solar parks in Rajasthan.
Solar EnergyPower Grid Corp. of India girds up for solar challengeedit
By Gireesh Chnadra Prasad and Utpal Bhaskar
Grid stability is important because of the intermittent nature of the infirm power. We are conscious of the event of 2012. The transmission part has been planned in a modular way to help renewable energy rich states transfer electricity. The grid parameters needs to be maintained in terms of transmission, dynamic compensation and forecasting,” said Sen, who is tasked with operationalizing the green corridors.
PowerSolar EnergyGreen power capacity addition hits a record, neck and neck with thermaledit
The renewable energy sector reported a record capacity addition of over 11 gigawatt (gw) in fiscal 2017, an increase of around 60% over the previous year. The addition is neck and neck with thermal power capacity addition of 11.5 GW in FY2017, which has declined from the peak capacity addition of 22.5 gw in FY2016.
Renewable Energy