News for the IET
Skills that can save your jobedit
By Katya B Naidu
As technology is slowly innovating jobs out of existence, the fear of large-scale unemployment is gripping people and economies alike. Tesla founder Elon Musk like many other thinkers is supporting the theory of ‘universal basic fixed income’ where a country compensates humans for lack of jobs.
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Industry News: Information and Communications
Home Automation: The Rising Star Of Tech Worldedit
It has transformed every facet of our lives. Today, with introduction of Internet of Things (IoT), consumers have the power to control the lighting and temperature of their house while driving to home from work. It has given consumers the ability to talk to their devices like coffee brewing machine and refrigerators with an extremely simple way, a voice command.
AutomationIoTIntelligence and Automation – The Rise of Another Disruptive Eraedit
By Raj Kumar Maurya
Technological advancements and digital transformations are drastically changing the way we do business today. Technologies like Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning (AI/ ML) are the new buzzwords of today, transforming user experience, engaging the consumer, analyzing patterns and enabling proactive and real-time response.
AutomationIoTThe Future Of Cloud Computing In Healthcareedit
Adoption of cloud computing in the healthcare industry will continue to evolve and accelerate in the coming years. The increasing penetration of IoT (Internet of Things) in the healthcare segment is predicted to be one of the biggest drivers for Cloud adoption in the coming days.
HealthcareIoTSmart Home will take sometime to make gains in India, say LG’s Amit Gujraledit
By Shruti Dhapola
Smart home, the internet of things, connected devices: Buzzwords which we’ve been hearing for sometime now. But how viable is a concept like smart home, especially in a market like India where internet connectivity is still a challenge?
IoTSmart HomeIndustry News: Education
Engineering colleges eye small IT firms for campus placements amid hiring slowdownedit
By Bidya Sapam
Engineering colleges are also diversifying courses on offer and skill development programmes to help students look beyond IT jobs at campus placements. Smaller engineering colleges in India are looking at mid-size and small technology firms to do the bulk of hiring in the coming campus placement season after a slowdown in hiring by the information technology (IT) industry.
EngineeringCan India build 20 Harvards in 20 years?edit
Higher education in India is in deep crisis. Most Indian graduates are unemployable. Research in both the sciences and the humanities is generally below par. And even elite Indian universities do not make it to the very top of global listings.
Higher EducationUncategorized
REC says over 10% lending this financial year will be in renewablesedit
By Amritha Pillai
As the country ‘s energy sector increases focus on renewable options, one of the main power finance companies, Rural Electrification Corporation (REC), expects its lending to the industry to grow significantly in the current financial year.
Renewable EnergyIndia and Spain sign seven MoUs: Cyber security and renewable energy prime areas of cooperationedit
India and Spain on Wednesday signed seven agreements, including on cooperation in cyber security and renewable energy, following talks in Madrid between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Spanish counterpart Mariano Rajoy.
Renewable EnergyState urges industrialists to switch to solar energyedit
In a bid to promote solar power generation in Goa and bring down costs for industrialists, the state government has urged industrial estates to adopt solar power technology. State secretary for power Sanjay Goyal presented the salient features of the Goa state solar policy, at the Verna industrial estate, on Wednesday.
Solar EnergyRural India needs solar power for more than just lighting, study findsedit
In the next five years, India plans to install 10,000 small-scale solar-power grids across the country to bring basic electrical power to communities without it.But providing access to a minimal supply of clean energy – enough to power two LED lights for a few hours and charge a mobile phone – is probably not enough to significantly improve people’s lives, new research suggests.
Solar Energy