May 16, 2017

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News for other PEI

Talk on ‘Bamboo: Construction Material of the Future’ heldedit

Star of Mysore

The Institution of Engineers-India (IEI), Mysore Local Centre, had organised a technical talk on ‘Bamboo: Construction Material of the Future’ at S.P. Bhat Hall in the Institution premises on JLB Road in city recently. C. Balachandran, Convenor, Bamboo Dairies, Mysuru, was the guest speaker.

The Institution of Engineers-India (IEI)
Workshopedit

The Hindu

A Workshop on Research Methodologies was organized by Department of Telecommunication Engineering, CMRIT in association with IEEE, Bangalore and VTU e-Learning centre, Mysuru. The workshop last week witnessed eminent speakers in the field of engineering.

IEEE

Industry News: Information and Communications

Change The Warning Signsedit

Mint

The Industrial Age, which most IT services firms belong to, is now passé. Analysts and investors have so far rightly judged the performance of these firms by using Industrial Age metrics, such as growth in the number of employees, simply because these firms were “factories” whose sole line of work was increasing the number of people they could use to bill customers.

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IoT: The Game Changer For The Next Decadeedit

SME Channels

When we were looking at Cloud people were very skeptical so also the organizations but today when we talk that we are entering an era of connected world and app based economy people are no more skeptical. They are finding it very inter esting. Therefore, moving into the era of connected world which is based on IoT technologies looks to be easy. They are ready to transact through apps and access solutions through Cloud.

IoT
Artificial Intelligence will Help Address the HealthCare Challenges in Indiaedit

BW Disrupt

To address this we need both conventional and technological approaches, conventional approaches like investment in infrastructure and machines and effective use of emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), IoT and Machine Learning.

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Channel Partners Are A Key To Success In Iot Businessedit

SME Channels

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the future of Internet technologies in which every object around us will be connected using some kind of network to every other object, and they will also have the capability to send and receive data from them. Continuous development and innovation of IoT solutions cannot be executed independently by any organization and it is here that the role of Channel partners fits in.

IoT
Manufacturers gearing up for growth with strategic technology investmentsedit

SME Times

The manufacturing industry must expect cloud, the Internet of Things (IoT) and analytics to be key areas of technology investment. While these were topics of conversation and exploration in 2016, manufacturers will now have the opportunity to move past the design and concept stage to full-on production execution and deployment of these technologies.

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Who’s to blame for ransomware outbreak?edit

The New Indian Express

Questions are swirling over who is responsible for the security flaws exploited by hackers in the world’s biggest ransomware attack to date, which crippled thousands of businesses and public organizations around the world.

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IoT Will Accelerate Global Semiconductor Market: Gartneredit

CXO Today

The demand for more consumer-centric products like smartphones and Tablets have surged the growth in the communication market. With more focus on newer technologies like IoT, semiconductor industry is seeing heightened traction.

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Industry News: Education

How to engineer excellence in higher educationedit

Hindustan Times

The last couple of decades have seen a paradigm shift in the transformation of higher education in India by creating the role of private colleges and universities.

Higher Education
From now on performance to determine autonomy of educational institutionsedit

The Economic Times

By Anubhuti Vishnoi

The performance of educational institutions, measured on quality parameters, will henceforth determine the extent of autonomy and the level of regulatory scrutiny they will face. The government has also decided that top-ranking institutions will be exempt from the UGC’s review mechanism.

Higher Education

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An evolving risk paradigm in the power sectoredit

Mint

The growing risk profile for thermal power plants is likely to result in increasing cost of capital for them. On 9 May, Indian solar tariffs fell to yet another record low of Rs2.44 for Solar Energy Corporation of India’s 500MW project at Bhadla in Rajasthan.

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Government may set up an export council for renewable energy gearedit

The Hindu Business Line

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to boost domestic manufacturing of solar energy equipment is expected to see streamlined efforts. According to officials in the know, the Government is examining a proposal for setting up a Renewable Energy Export Council.

Renewable Energy
Whose Power Plans Are Greener: China or India?edit

The Quint

China and India are the two largest emerging economies and their economic development has been fuelled primarily by coal. And lots of it. China burns more coal than any other country, with India ranking third.

Renewable Energy
India’s energy shift creates ripplesedit

The Hans India

India’s solar tariffs have fallen 40 per cent in just 16 months, an unprecedented rate way beyond any market forecasts, and its energy transformation will have a ripple effect, as is already seen in the UAE, South Africa, Australia and other countries.

Solar Energy
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