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
Top 5 technologies that will scale through beyond 2025edit
The services aligned to advanced threat protection, email security, cloud, mobility and IoT security solutions, data center and network security solutions will take a mainstream of business for some of the leading cyber security service providers like Symantec, Force point and the major consulting firms will take the lead in this space.
IoTWhy government departments need to work on accelerating the digital journeyedit
To become truly digital, one has to move beyond the obvious, come out of silos, and adopt an integrated, inclusive and collaborative approach. This would naturally push us to adopt revolutionary technologies, like mobility, cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), etc.
IoT‘Imaging of Things’ is imperative for ‘Internet of Things’edit
With the dawn of IoT, the world has been steering into a futuristic dynamics. Today, there has been a gradual co-dependency on technology to drive social as well as personal lives. As societies familiarize with technological advancements, they become qualified to take benefit of Information Technology and enable communication amongst devices without human intervention.
IoTPitch for adopting IoT in civic governanceedit
Shortly after Bengaluru made what could be its last pitch at making it to the “smart city” list, a workshop organised by the Smart Cities India Foundation here on Wednesday made a bid at roping in startups in the process of strengthening digital and telecommunications in the city, as well as batting for adoption of Internet of Things (IOT) in civic governance.
IoTNext Evolution in IoT Will Be Sentient Tools and Cognition or Predictive Computingedit
In Europe, IoT connections are set to exceed 9 billion by 2021. Dedicated venture funds for IoT development will help create an ecosystem that is conducive to the growth of startups in the region.
IoTCan an AI burglar alarm predict break-ins before they happen?edit
Despite all of the talk surrounding smart, connected homes and the Internet of Things, according to analysts and research firms, the only area where the technology is really gaining traction with consumers is home security, an area where the benefits are clear.
Artificial IntelligenceIoTUnsecured IOT Devices Open Doors for More DDoS Attacks in 2017edit
DDoS (Denial-of-service) attacks are quite frequent, and hackers mainly use this method to target unsecured websites or those with weak security, to begin with. Over the past number of years, there have been several advances in the bid to cut down on the amount of DDoS attacks per year – but as expected, new problems usually arise.
Cyber SecurityIoTIndustry News: Education
Break the chains: Javadekar admits higher education regulators like UGC are stumbling blocks, so subdue their powersedit
The All India Council for Technical Education has told institutions under it to involve NSS and NCC in a campaign to end spitting. This is a telling sample of the micromanaging mindset of India’s education regulators, whose top-down whimsies choke bottom-up innovation. With more than 10,000 engineering and technical institutions and more than 20 lakh students under it, the big picture before AICTE is an uphill global jobscape.
Higher EducationUncategorized
Spurt in ‘green energy’ projects skews States’ power dynamicsedit
The recent drop in solar power prices to as low as 3.15 per unit, from ?12 a unit barely a few years ago, accentuates the changed dynamics of power pricing. In 2016-17, capacity additions in the renewable energy space, at 11,320 MW, were close to those of the thermal power segment, at 11,551 MW, for the first time.
Renewable EnergySolar system 2.0 found 10 light-years awayedit
One model indicates that warm material is in two narrow rings of debris, which would correspond respectively to the positions of the asteroid belt and the orbit of Uranus in our solar system. Using this model, theorists indicate that the largest planet in a planetary system might normally be associated with an adjacent debris belt.
Solar Energy500 MW solar plant to come up in Chhattisgarh soonedit
A 500 megawatt (MW) power plant will come up in Chhattisgarh under the state’s solar power project said the Purander Mishra, chairman of Chhattisgarh Renewable Energy Development Agency (CREDA) on Wednesday.
Solar Energy