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2nd edition of the IoT India Congress 2017 opens entries for IoT Start-up awards and the IoT Thought Leadership Awardsedit
Call for entries for the two prestigious awards at the second edition of the IoT India Congress, 2017 opens today. The two signature awards, IoT Start-up Award and Thought Leadership Award aim to recognize excellence in the IoT ecosystem.
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Industry News: Information and Communications
How AI is Shaping Organizations?edit
According to Kartik Iyengar, SVP-IoT, Cognitive, Robotics, VirusaPolaris, the potential of AI extends far beyond helping a given business run faster or more efficiently. Along they will bring disruptive changes and give rise to new problems that can challenge the economical, legal and ethical fabric of our societies.
Artificial IntelligenceIndia’s power, industrial facilities warm up to cyber security systemsedit
Awareness about cyber security has increased in industries and power utilities in recent years. This has been driven by the increasing integration of information technology and the Internet of Things in an age of connected devices and the energy revolution. While it is still too early to speak about volumes of such opportunities, the way the industry and utilities are moving forward, the range of play will only increase,” said Akilur Rahman, chief technology officer at ABB India.
Cyber SecurityIoTAutomated Architecture: IoT as a Technology Works to Service both the Employees and Employersedit
By Ashok Pandey
According to Gartner, there will be 20.8 billion connected devices by 2020. Given the momentum and acceptance, the trend will drastically change the way we do everyday tasks. The challenge lies in assimilating the change in technology’s treatment. Where at a point of time, technology implied people – device engagement, it now includes device – device communication.
ArchitectureIoTIndustry News: Education
Advancing cooperation in higher educationedit
It makes sense for India and the US to strengthen ties in four critical areas of higher education: financing, teaching quality, research and governance
Higher EducationAs automation threatens job market, employees opt for e-learning courses to upskilledit
As automation is threatening the job market and many people are getting pink slips, the key to save your employment is to upskill and the best way to do that is by opting for e-learning courses.
UpskillingDemand for IoT talent up 300% in last 3 years: Surveyedit
With exponential uptick in adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) and machine learning related activities in the country, the demand for IoT talent has surged by 300 per cent since 2014, showed a recent report.
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Record level of wind power producededit
Wind power production has picked up at a time when the state-run power utility has been getting less power from private sector power producers for quite a while. “The increase in wind and solar power has helped GUVNL ease the shortage caused by less supply from private companies,” said industry players.
Renewable EnergyWhat is Hindering Solar Roof Top Sector In India?edit
The renewable energy target of 175 gigawatts (GW) by 2022 is making progressive headways. Solar power plays a central part in achieving this goal and installation of utility scale power has seen a dramatic increase in the past 12 months. Rooftop Solar, however, is still lagging and a lot more needs to be done to achieve its 40 GW capacity target by 2022 within, the bigger target.
Solar EnergyIndia’s increasing green growthedit
India is the fastest growing economy in the world. But how has it performed on green growth and energy efficiency? Electricity usage is an important indicator of energy efficiency, and, all else being equal; using less electricity to achieve a given level of output is more efficient.
Renewable EnergyIndia’s clean energy sector could create 300,000 new jobs by 2020: Studyedit
By Mayank Aggarwal
More than 300,000 new workers can be employed in wind and solar jobs and more than one million total employment opportunities can be created in achieving India’s ambitious clean energy goals to install 175 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power by 2022, said a study released on Wednesday.
JobsRenewable Energy845MW worth solar power plants installed across India: NTPCedit
The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) of India has recently revealed that India now hosts solar power capacity worth 845 MW, after the recent addition of the 225 MW Mandsaur Solar Power Project- a 250 MW solar farm located in Madhya Pradesh
Solar Energy