NDTV

The world of IoT, virtual Assistants, and AI, takes personalisation to a new level. In Alexa or Google Assistant, I have my own personal assistant. Based on my footprint, Google enhances my experience of using phones. Google tracks my emails, calendar, and reminds me of shipments coming my way, without me setting up any reminders. Pandora learns about my music preferences and likes and creates personalised radio stations for me to listen to. Amazon creates offers and recommendations based on past purchase, browsing habits and many such data elements.

The Financial Express

There is a lot of investment coming to India. We have signed some very large memorandum of understandings; for instance, Hitachi, Siemens and CII have got into a consortium to enable certain smart cities in India. We have done some acquisitions in India, mostly around skill sets and people services. The Indian market is large and so is the potential. The investments are coming into R&D and business. We are also acting as One Hitachi now. Earlier, one part of Hitachi did the manufacturing and the other did the IT and consulting. (IoT)

Yourstory

The global Internet of Things (IoT) healthcare market is projected to grow from $41.22 billion in 2017 to $158.07 billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 30.8 percent. These are impressive figures and they reveal the extent to which IoT is getting entrenched in this crucial vertical. But beyond these numbers lies a story of how IoT is bringing about a transformation in the way pharma products are being conceptualised, manufactured, transported and consumed.

The Economic Times We need much more backhaul and increased fibrerisation of networks. We want to encourage fibre-sharing onlines of the tower-sharing model within the industry. Without this, we won’t have the fibre for smart cities or Internet of Things (IoT).

The New Indian Express To address this issue, is an IoT and app device, which can not only tracks the exact location of one’s car, but can immediately lock the car’s ignition mechanism (once it is known that a car is stolen), leaving car thieves helpless. This device was recently presented at the IoT (Internet of Things) Conference held recently in the city.

The Economic Times

By Gulveen Aulakh We will also consider all underlying networks, up till the cloud, as one continuum of infrastructure that can serve the digital economy. We need much more backhaul and increased fibrerisation of networks. We want to encourage fibre-sharing on lines of the tower-sharing model within the industry. Without this, we won’t have the fibre for smart cities or Internet of Things (IoT).

Business Standard The Gartner Hype Cycle for ICT in India, 2017 exemplifies the trends in India related to taking interest in new and emerging technologies, yet also taking a cautious approach toward mainstream adoption, according to Gartner, Inc. The market is also witnessing the entry of local vendors in emerging (as well as mature) technology segments, covering such areas as the Internet of Things (IoT), robotic process automation offerings and machine-learning-based technologies.

DQ India Analysts predict that the total market size of IoT will be $1.7 trillion by 2020. Some of these IoT devices are monitoring industries power plants, manufacturing, oil extraction fields, and jet engines and others are monitoring health and efficiency from bracelets and watches, saving lives and transforming industries. One of the greatest possibilities lies ahead in the “Smart Home” market.

Business Standard “If you look at digital, it is not one thing. Some years ago, I would have said digital is SMAC (social, mobile, analytics, cloud). But today, digital is so many other things, too. It is internet of things, additive manufacturing, blockchain, and so on. In each of these areas, clients have multiple choices of technology, and multiple providers of technology.

The Hindu The government on Tuesday said it would announce the new ‘future-ready’ Industrial Policy in October, by suitably incorporating measures to facilitate the use of smart technologies such as the internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics for advanced manufacturing.

The Economic Times Accenture will help define a digital roadmap for BIAL and develop tailor made solutions using a combination of digital technologies including Internet of Things, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, augmented and virtual reality, in addition to social and mobile platforms.

Business Today The other seven bands include 60 per cent of unsold radiowaves of the last auction. In addition to providing simply faster speeds, 5G (fifth generation) networks are expected to meet new uses, such as the Internet of Things (internet connected devices), as well as broadcast-like services and lifeline communication in times of natural disaster.

The Hindu

Companies, big and small, are increasingly depending on niche technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things to boost performance. Incedo, a US-based technology solutions firm, launched at their Bengaluru facility last week a set of services, IoT NXT, for businesses to leverage cutting-edge solutions more efficiently.

Hindustan Times

IoT and advanced technologies are expected to replace all the conventional tools and systems at the work places with the irdigitized versions by 2022 in all the top 10 economies of the world. Now, the questionarises, are the traditional businesses ready to adopt digital transformation?

CXO Today

Advances in technology, such as enterprise mobility, cloud computing, cloud storage, and Internet of Things (IoT), have helped the government sector to develop and expand its communication networks, which enables faster and easier networking and exchange of information.

ET Telecom

The internet of things (IoT) spectrum has grown so deep and wide that it has become a market of its own, and growing. Some of the IoT categories are fast heading toward a peak, many others are at a nascent stage of development while others are in between.

ET CIO

The way in which the businesses, governments and the consumers interact with the world is undergoing a major change. This change is not small in nature but revolutionary in the kind of disruption it is going to bring about.

The Economic Times

While the technology is ever changing, one of the primary game changers in the Indian healthcare sector will be ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT). The IoT Healthcare market is estimated to reach USD 283.04 billion in 2022, growing at a CAGR of 16.70% between 2016 and 2022 according to a recent study.

The Statesman

“There is a lot of interest in using waste energy to power the Internet of Things, such as arrays of distributed sensors,” Li said. “Twistron technology might be exploited for such applications where changing batteries is impractical,” said Li.

DNA

Home automation is one the latest buzzwords which has come out of the forthcoming Internet of Things (IoT). These systems have been designed to ease the consumers comfort in their own home.

CXO Today

Technology has made it possible to enter a citizen’s house without knocking at his/her door and this is equally possible both by the State and non-State actors. It is an individual’s choice as to who enters his house, how he lives and in what relationship. The privacy of the home must protect the family, marriage, procreation and sexual orientation which are all important aspects of dignity.

ET CIO

By Malini Goyal

A chunk of India’s $150-billion IT industry, which contributes over 9% to GDP and employs close to 4 million people, is under threat. Built on cost arbitrage in the 1990s, their business model is facing challenges. Digital disruption and new technologies like cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), IoT (internet of Things) and big data are the new buzzwords.

The Economic Times

By Tina Gurnaney

Mobile phone operators in India will be betting on Internet of Things (IoT) as a future revenue generator beyond traditional voice and data services, rates for which will continue to remain low under competitive pressure, analysts say. IoT offerings can contribute 10-15% to overall revenue of telcos over time, compared with less than 1% now, they estimate.

Forbes India

The emergence of the digital five forces Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) is creating new and valuable sources of business information, ways to interpret data and the means to do so cost-effectively. The value of digital in India is huge; as per a study by the World Economic Forum just four digital initiatives could unlock US$ 1.2 trillion of value for the Indian industry and society over the next decade, representing about 40percent of national GDP in 2015.

ET Telecom

Amidst rapidly changing technological realm, opportunities and challenges that the technology provides has become elusive. We are at a crossroads as we move from a society already snarled with the internet to the coming age of automation, Big Data, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

DQ India

IoT, which stands for the Internet of Things, has been able to connect so many aspects of people’s modern lives. Everything from your smartphone to your car can now be connected, making your life easier and more streamlined. But, the Internet of Things has also made its way into the healthcare field to help advance the way that doctors and other medical professionals assist patients every day.

DQ India

By Krishna Mukherjee

Without doubting, 5G, though a far-fetched dream, it is going to be the backbone for Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence, e-governance and education as well as to enable financial inclusion, smart cities, and an intelligent transportation system, amongst other things.

E Health

Smart healthcare is gradually yet surely changing the way health services are delivered in India. From smart and connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices, sensing technology and real-time data analytics to mobile apps connecting patients with doctors and test laboratories, technology is propelling the country’s healthcare industry into the future.

The Financial Express

The Bharat Broadband Network Ltd and its implementing agencies need to work with greater zeal. Another reason for slow implementation of Digital India is lack of understanding of new technologies such as cloud, mobility and IoT. Also, cyber-security is not being given the attention it deserves.

BW CIO World

Advances in technology, such as enterprise mobility, cloud computing, cloud storage, and Internet of Things (IoT), have helped the government sector to develop and expand its communication networks, which enables faster and easier networking and exchange of information.

The Pioneer

These include attracting global talent, slowdown in investment on research and development, and new technology deployments. They will also impact the 5G rollout in the country adversely, along with Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud based services, to their full potential. This leaves the country with the bare minimum, while the world forges ahead.

Your Story

A tap on your phone screen and you can switch on/off the switches in your house, have mobile access to your office’s surveillance cameras, these are some of the facilities that Internet of Things has in store for a future which is around the corner. As clamour grows in favour of Internet of Things or IoT, the much-debated topic has arrived into the business sphere and companies are scurrying to grab as much market share as possible.

BW Disrupt

Incidents like these have raised industry concerns. In Gartner’s 2016 IoT Backbone Survey, 35% of IT leaders cited security as a top barrier to Internet of Things (IoT) success. It’s time to have a strategic discussion regarding the future of industrial cybersecurity.

Financial Express

Tata Consultancy Services’ (TCS) global report states that 68% of companies use artificial intelligence (AI) for IT functions. However, 70% believe AI’s greatest impact by 2020 will be in functions outside of IT such as aspects of customer service and marketing. AI is transforming the media industry, using chatbots to deliver services and optimising media buying spends.

Business World

By Prateek Shukla

Internet of Things (IoT) will not only transform the way we operate and function in our day-to-day lives but can also give an impetus to exports of the nation. According to the latest report by Zinnov Zones, India has a 43 per cent share of the IoT market. India’s hold on the IoT market can help increase the IT exports of the country.

CXO Today

What is the Internet of Things (IoT) — how will we use it and what will that impact be? These are important questions, especially when you consider that IoT may have as great an impact on society as computers and the Internet have had.

ET Telecom

These challenges are driven not only by changing user experiences, such as video and cloud applications, but also by the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Both of these introduce machine to machine communication and in the case of IIoT, require reliable networks and low latency response times for critical applications.

The Indian Express

Imagine what will happen tomorrow when the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes ubiquitous. Who owns the data collected by smart wearables, transport and energy systems and billions of other connected devices, is going to be a very complex question.

First Post

By Sohan Maheshwar

The Internet of Things ecosystem is huge! Intel predicts the ecosystem to grow to 200 billion IoT devices across the world. That is 200 billion smart devices that use wireless technology to talk to each other. Currently, all consumer applications of IoT use mobile apps as an interface for users. For instance, a user can dim the lights on a smart bulb or increase the temperature on a smart thermostat, using its corresponding mobile app.

The Times of India

Back in 2010, Ericsson predicted there would be 50 billion internet-connected devices by 2020. Now, it has shaved 20 billion devices off the estimate. The ‘internet of things’ (IoT) revolution isn’t happening yet. As Gartner says: “The IoT remains on the peak of inflated expectations for the third year in a row as vendors push the hype even higher, but most companies struggle to find use cases beyond proof-of-concept.”

The Financial Express

According to Acadgild, with the IT industry leaning towards automation, there is a growing demand for professionals skilled in the areas of analytics, Big Data, IoT, AI, robotics, cloud computing and cyber security and blockchain technology.

Business World

By Pradeep Chakraborty

The Indian electronics industry has its latest entrant, Pune-based Artificial Machines. This has given the ‘Make in India’ initiative a massive boost. Artificial Machines. was founded in April 2008. It has sales office in Wall Street, New York, USA. Artificial Machines is focusing on IoT, smart machine design, and artificial intelligence (AI).

The Hindu

By Peerzada Abrar

The new job roles that will dominate the IT workforce are within digital domains such as big data, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing and cybersecurity, according to the report “How Automation is Changing Work Choices: The Future of IT Jobs in India” released this month by Simplilearn.

The Hindu

“The shift from compartmentalised technical infrastructure to ecosystem-enabling platforms is laying the foundations for entirely new business models that are forming the bridge between humans and technology,” according to the report. Key platform-enabling technologies to track include 5G, blockchain, digital twin, IoT platform, quantum computing and software-defined security.

CXO Today

The shift from compartmentalized technical infrastructure to ecosystem-enabling platforms is laying the foundations for entirely new business models that are forming the bridge between humans and technology. Key platform-enabling technologies to track include: 5G, Digital Twin, Edge Computing, Blockchain, IoT Platform, Neuromorphic Hardware, Quantum Computing, Serverless PaaS and Software-Defined Security.

Data Quest

These applications can be roughly categorized into two categories: batch processing of large, historical sets of data and real-time or near real-time processing of data that is continuously collected from devices. This second case is often referred to as streaming and is found in most Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

Mint

Demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning specialists in the country are expected to see a 60% rise by 2018 due to increasing adoption of automation, says KellyOCG India.

ET Telecom

Even as India is in the midst of 4G rollouts, it may already be time to start planning for 5G. One big reason is internet of things (IoT), without which a truly digital landscape would remain elusive. While the current generation of LTE networks too could be used for IoT, and even for the more specific needs of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications for some time, it is not natively optimized for IoT networks.

The Hindu Business Line

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new engine that is going to launch the fourth industrial revolution after loom, steam engine and assembly line, according to Malcolm Frank, Executive Vice-President, Strategy & Marketing, Cognizant Technology Solutions.

The Hindu

By Peerzada Abrar

Data is being vacuumed out of the country and going into unaccountable systems that don’t come under Indian law, which probably share data with foreign governments

Business World

The biggest area that the AI revolution is likely to impact is the low-skilled market and the jobs that machines can do easily and more efficiently. Oxford University researchers have already predicted that at least 40% of jobs will be lost to automation by the middle of the century.

Channel World

The sole partnership with TrakitNow gives us the first mover advantage in IoT, said Aditya Narain Kakkar, Director, Intensity Global Technologies. Intensity Global Technologies (IGT) is eyeing big opportunities with new age technologies like IoT. The systems integrator and service provider company is the sole partner of the U.S. headquartered TrakItNow in India. Delhi-based IGT aligned with TrakItNow last year to explore the market potential for IoT solutions.

Computer World

From CIoTO to automation architect, new IT roles are rising to fill emerging needs. Some may fizzle, but others may have a long future thanks to underlying IT trends. Unusual job titles aren’t new in the IT world. Before the Twitter ninja and social media rockstar, before the webmaster was hired to conjure up HTML sorcery, there was the software evangelist, an IT job title that merged the worlds of sales and religion. In the early ’80s an Apple executive coined the term for an Apple marketer who would praise the first Macintosh to potential developers and customers.

The Financial Express

Former UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani on Wednesday pitched for new regulations to protect and regulate data in India. The country cannot blindly imitate the data policies of the West, he said. Addressing the Carnegie India panel discussion on ‘Who owns personal data: Technology and Policy frameworks’, here on Wednesday, Nilekani said, “We can’t imitate the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the Indian context.” He said the European GDPR was over two decades old and that India needs a new framework in the time of Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Hindustan Times The National Skills Development Corporation will need to evolve into ‘National Future Skills Development’, as we as a civil society prepare to bring the future into the present!

The Economic Times

By Satish John Third, we have an engineering company which has a strong expertise in embedded software, Internet of Things, or IoT, and connectivity solutions that is outside the public listed company. It is a 100% privately owned company by Robert Bosch Engineering Services.

The Hans India IoT is the inter-networking of physical objects which enable them to interact with each other through the internet. It describes a world where just about anything can be connected to communicate with each other. According to industry analysts, it is estimated that around 40-50 billion devices will be wirelessly connected to IoT within next few years.

The Hindu Business Line Thirteen years after it filed with the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR), ITI, the public sector-backed telecom equipment maker, has embraced change and turned its focus into new areas such as data centres and Internet of Things (IoT).

Digit

By Arnab Mukherjee One other area the manufacturing industry needs to focus on right now is incorporating the latest innovations being adopted around the globe. The Internet of things is especially taking manufacturing processes to the next level. Implementing sensors and network connections on existing equipment is providing greater control and a much deeper level of insight.

Millennium Post India has also the world’s second-largest Internet user-base. Indian telecommunication industry employs an extensive system of modern network elements such as digital telephone exchanges, mobile switching centres, media gateways and signalling gateways at the core, interconnected by a wide variety of transmission systems using fibre-optics.

Your Story

By Shradha Sharma This will enable the youth of India, specifically students, and young scientists to seek around 1,000 grants in sectors ranging from medicine (moving from generics to building patented products), to biotechnology, to manufacturing, IoT (internet of things), AI (artificial intelligence), VR (virtual reality), healthtech, and agritech among other areas.

Tech Shout

By Sameer Kotian  It was created by a Saudi national, Hadeel Ayoub, who is a media artist and also a designer. Her inspiration came from the fact that she has a niece who is verbally impaired. From that, she saw it fit to invent something that would make it easy for her and others who have a similar problem to communicate freely with anyone.

The Hindu Business Line

By Venkatesh Ganesh According to Rishi Suri, Director, Consumer Electronics, Samsung India, Internet of Things (IoT), the sensors will be an integral part of every device — from TVs to washing machines. He pointed out to the newly launched washing machine, which comes with a combination of washer-dryer machine and with Internet-enabled capabilities that can be controlled through smartphones.

The Navhind Times NissanConnect is an integrated information and communication platform which connects with the customer’s smartphone to provide enhanced driving experience Nissan India has launched the NissanConnect in the country. NissanConnect is an integrated information and communication platform which connects with the customer’s smartphone to provide enhanced driving experience.(Internet Of Things)

News18

By IANS Available on its Cloud computing service Azure, Microsoft’s ‘green’ platform uses technology from WattTime -a US-based company that brings clean energy to Internet Of Things (IoT) and buildings -which uses data from the power grid operators around the country and allow companies to track carbon emissions.

The Financial Express Not merely connected, never alone These are momentous times but not isolated times. Smart device manufacturers apart, the Internet of Things (IoT) phenomenon is currently more of hope than reality in India. But it’s still a very realistic hope and not a delusion because India has always been an Internet of People (IoP), if you will, pre-dating the internet itself. Only the expression has evolved with the times.

The Economic Times India with its strong information technology (IT) talent has the unique opportunity to build its presence in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), big data, cloud, robotics and Internet of Things (IoT). Closer convergence of innovation, manufacturing and services could be achieved through a new industrial policy to take Make in India to the next level based on these new technologies.

Telangana Today

  While the industry is talking a lot about implementation of IoT, Amazon is actually doing it. It is creating the ultimate shopping convenience by deploying the latest and greatest technology in its 1,800 sq ft grocery stores where customers can walk in, browse all they like, pick items and walk out of the store. Though it will not be obvious,

ET Telecom

By Danish Khan “The traditional business is coming under pressure, and telecom companies are looking for new revenue streams which are going to come from new areas like IoT, location based services, cloud-based voice services. They are looking into these newer areas,” the executive said.

Data Quest

With the rapid proliferation of internet and smart devices, enterprises have become empowered in terms of harnessing the potential of machine to machine and machine to human based interactions. At present, millions of devices can be connected to Internet and people can store, access and share data across various storage platforms such as Cloud.

Data Quest

Clearly there are myriad motivations for looking at advanced analytics approaches to security. These include: the proliferation of advanced and persistent threats and a new emphasis on more rapid detection and mitigations of those threats; the vast accumulation of security data; and a dramatic increase in the number of entities that need security monitoring due to shadow IT, cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT).

File Hippo

Of course, conferences like DefCon only served to illustrate a timeless problem whenever innovation and profits intersect: the manufacturers don’t want to disclose or discuss for fear of lawsuits, lost revenue, and stock devaluation, even while the researchers are shoving clear evidence in front of them. Perhaps the ongoing conversation will move both innovation and security along hand-in-hand. Protect your IoT and connected devices

The Economic Times

10 years down the line, the demand for data would be 1000 times as compared to the current scenario, thanks to Internet of Things (IoT) driving the need for more connections and more data. With this increase, the network operators will be able to provide more support in devices accessing the network, without a noticeable impact on speed.

CXO Today

By Moumita Deb Choudhury

Homes in India are also to see digital transformation with IoT. Indian telecom major Bharti Airtel is set to enter home automation and smart home segment soon. The new segment will be driven by Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine solutions which enables users to control house-hold utility such as heating, air conditioning, music, lighting and security systems through smartphones.

Business Standard

This becomes especially important when new sources coming in like AI, IoT as they add new dimensions. It’s almost like a non-living becoming a living. There are skills that are evolving around that and so obviously we are investing very extensively in terms of getting to be a leader in that space.

The Economic Times

By Danish Khan “The traditional business is coming under pressure, and telecom companies are looking for new revenue streams, which are going to come from new areas like IoT (Internet of Things), location based services, cloud-based voice services. They are looking into these newer areas,” the executive said. IBM is also exploring partnerships with telcos around the network functions virtualization (NFV) technology.

The Financial Express In the age of IoT/IoE, advanced manufacturing, energy efficiency and sustainability, large area and flexible electronics has a ground-breaking potential as it offers innovative product concepts that entail low energy consumption, low cost of production and eco-friendly materials.

Business Standard

By Romita Majumdar Internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and big data are our major focus areas. We have built innovation centres around the world, which helps us identify solutions in these technology areas. We also partner with clients to solve their business problems. We are seeing a significant shrinkage in average time to deploy projects due to digitisation.

The Hindu

By Shubashree Desikan The algorithm can tell kidney cysts from stones A team of researchers from IIT Hyderabad has been working to use the Internet of Things (IoT) to accurately diagnose kidney and liver disorders with the help of ultrasound scanning devices.

The New Indian Express

By M Rajendran The aim is to reduce casualties among forces and bring in more stringent monitoring. “From a national perspective, IoT technology is playing a key role as the Indian government fences its border with Pakistan and installs sophisticated security and surveillance equipments,” said sources who recently made presentations to senior defence ministry officials responsible for procurement

Business World

By Prateek Shukla

It is estimated that the IoT market potential is set to reach $16.8 billion by 2012 with the speedy implementation of IIoT (industrial IoT) and government smart city projects. With the country moving towards a digital economy, the growing adoption of Cloud in IoT services, shifting of focus to IIoT, rising market of M2M communication and increasing trend of wearable technology applications are among the major factors driving the IoT market in India.

Sify

Available on its Cloud computing service Azure, Microsoft’s ‘green’ platform uses technology from WattTime -a US-based company that brings clean energy to Internet Of Things (IoT) and buildings -which uses data from the power grid operators around the country and allow companies to track carbon emissions.

ET Tech

By Vikas SN Akamai, one of the largest content delivery networks in the world, is looking to help video platforms reduce the unpredictability of the Internet infrastructure through its suite of recently launched media products. Sidharth Pisharoti, Akamai’s regional vice president for media in Asia Pacific and Japan, told ETtech they are currently testing products like predictive content delivery and media acceleration with select content providers in the country, but declined to disclose specific names. (IoT)

Business Standard

By Tinesh Bhasin

Most homes will need fixed-line internet in the future. “The 4G mobile internet will not suffice as we move towards smart cities and Internet of Things (IoT), where your washing machine, refrigerator, air conditioning, lights and other devices will all be connected to the internet,” says Tarun.

Elets Online

India has always been flexible to the winds of change which has accepted global firms to function in Indian market leading to exchange and build-up of new ideas and technological advancements. With the advent of IoT, smart factory connected solutions, India is not only becoming a country with best technologies but also contributing to the country’s economic growth by upgrading the employment opportunities.

Exams Watch It will cover 40% Practical, 40% Theory and 20% project work. The course will cover Network Security, Cloud Security, Web Security, Mobile Eco System, Internet of Things, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Banking Information Technology, Cyber Law, Cyber Forensics, and Security Compliance Management. Summer and Winter Internships will also be given throughout the course.

The Economic Times

By PTI “The NDA government has established a separate ministry for skill development. It is desirable that this central ministry takes the core elements from various ministries and pools them under one minister and under one budget, which could be around Rs 25,000 crore,” a joint study by Assocham and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) said.

Business Standard

By Alnoor Peermohmed Chai Point, India’s largest chain of tea cafes, will soon introduce advanced, (IoT) Internet of Things-enabled tea and coffee dispensers as it expects its business-to-business (B2B) unit to drive nearly 70 per cent of its sales in the coming years. From allowing customers to pay for tea digitally to altering its blend remotely, the new dispensers will do it all.

Morung Express

By IANS

There is an urgent need to realign the skill ecosystem in the country to ensure quality, scalability and sustainability as it is estimated that only 2.3 per cent of the workforce in India has undergone formal skills training, as compared to 52 per cent in the US, 68 per cent in the UK, 75 per cent in Germany, 80 per cent in Japan and 96 per cent in South Korea,” the statement said.

BW Disrupt

While we witness digital transformation becoming the next big enterprise trend that will see businesses amplifying their IT strategies, the Internet of Things (IoT) and the infrastructure which will underpin it are being viewed as the next great enablers of technological innovation.

First Post

Artificial intelligence robots are turbocharging the race to find new drugs for the crippling nerve disorder ALS, or motor neurone disease.

Business Standard

Another technology that is increasingly penetrating the Swedish markets is the Internet of Things (IoT) market in the vehicle, health, banking and logistics space,” said Nasscom quoting the findings of the report.

Live Mint

Legitimate-interest processing can legitimize many ordinary business uses of data, such as improving and marketing a company’s own products or services, or ensuring information and network security. It also plays an increasingly significant role in the context of Big Data, the Internet of Things and machine learning by enabling beneficial uses of data where consent is not feasible and the benefits of the proposed uses outweigh any privacy risks or other harmful impact on individuals.

Hindustan Times

Norms that may be ripe for discussion outside the GGE process could include protected status for the core functions of the Internet; supply-chain standards and liability for the Internet of Things; treatment of election processes as protected infrastructure; and, more broadly, norms for issues such as crime and information warfare.

Business Standard

For example, AI is helping communities in developing nations implement local renewable energy systems by providing intelligent automation and monitoring – almost like an online “doctor”, making sure the system is “healthy” and working properly. This means communities not only gain access to affordable and sustainable energy but can also engage in trading of any surplus energy to other consumers or utility companies.

The Financial Express

With the transition towards Industry 4.0, also known as IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things), there is an opportunity for man and machine to constantly communicate and complement each other’s performance. A connected shop-floor based on a sturdy Industry 4.0 framework is enabled with transparent and real-time data analysis and so is a lot more competitive, efficient and flexible.

Data Quest

Fleet managers who deploy Internet of Things through a vehicle tracking solution to improve fleet processes stand to benefit from better bottom line revenues and better customer relationships. An IoT-based fleet management effort works at two levels. One involves better vehicle management and the second involves delivering a better customer experience.

First Post

Majority respondents (57 percent) believe that their organisation’s main intention to use 5G is to drive Internet of Things (IoT) communication, making the technology the most popular use-case. “This finding is surprising, as the number of deployed ‘things’ that need cellular connectivity won’t exceed the capacity of existing cellular IoT technologies before 2023 in most regions,” noted Fabre.

The Hindu Business Line

Former Aadhaar Chairman Nandan Nilekani has asked regulatory bodies such as RBI, SEBI, and TRAI to collaborate through technology and address the country’s economic issues arising out of information asymmetry.

ET HealthWorld

India’s healthcare system is largely fragmented and episodic in nature. 70% of our current healthcare infrastructure is concentrated in the fewer cities that cater to only 28-30 % of the population in India. Add to that, the doctor to patient ratio in India is 1:1700, i.e. much below the standard WHO norm of 1:1000. 

IANS Live

By Nishant Arora

“AI-powered chatbots are essentially meant to reduce manual labour and cut down tedious tasks that humans performed hitherto. With AI, automation, IoT and experimentation riding high, one can argue these are probably the best times in technology as the innovation is expected to touch every industry vertical,” noted Suman Reddy, MD, Pegasystems, India.

ET Telecom

To conclude, the future of the communication industry looks very bright as the demand for data continues to grow. IoT presents unprecedented growth opportunity for service providers. To successfully seize these growth opportunities, the service providers must transform their networks to achieve unprecedented levels of agility, elasticity and automation.

The Economic Times

By embedding short-range mobile transceivers into a wide array of additional gadgets and everyday items, enabling new forms of communication between people and things, and between things themselves, IoT has added a new aspect to the world of information and communication.

Business Standard

By Romita Majumdar

Indian information technology (IT) services companies now own about two-fifth of the global Internet of Things (IoT) market. In all, about 43 per cent or $1.5 billion of the global $3.5 bn market, says a report by research and strategy consultancy Zinnov Zones. The share in Western Europe and North America is 27 per cent and 23 per cent, respectively.

Forbes

We are at a pivotal point today as the next phase of the digital revolution is in the offing. Cars, houses and a multitude of other devices are connecting to the internet, forming a complex ‘internet of things’ the time to act is now. Ensuring security of Indian cyberspace is a collective effort – consumers, contributors and regulators need to proactively manage evolving threats.

Scroll

New career paths for India’s IT workforce will open up in digital domains such as big data, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and cybersecurity, the company said in a press release on August 1. Simplilearn surveyed 7,000 IT professionals, and mined job portals such as LinkedIn and Naukri.com for its assessment.

BW Disrupt

The global Internet of Things (IoT) technology spend stands at $140 billion in 2017, and is expected to grow at 18 per cent to $322 billion in 2022, according to a recent study released by management consulting firm Zinnov. The study points out that industrial, automotive, and energy & utilities verticals are the biggest spenders, currently contributing to over 45 per cent of the overall IoT Technology spend.

The Financial Express

By PP Thimmaya

Nasscom has set up its centre of excellence for Internet of Things (IoT) in Bengaluru and similar such setups will come up at locations such as Ahmedabad, Gurugram and Visakhapatnam. “This is the place where one can co-create and get the necessary volumes,” said Vishwanathan.

Times of India

With several sectors reaching saturation, it is time for young entrepreneurs to look for futuristic startup ideas, experts have said. While talking about startup success stories in India, the first one to be recalled is e-commerce giant Flipkart, but the secret of success lies in going beyond such business models with truly game-changing ideas.

Mint

Artificial Intelligence is not going to go ‘rogue’ and turn on humans, at least in the near future, but there are other very real issues raised by AI

Deccan Herald

Consumption of video content is also forecasted to be 75% of India’s mobile data traffic by 2021, compared with 49%in2016. Advancements in innovative IoT technologies, like health monitors, smart transport, smartmeters among others, are projected to result in 21% increase in M2M services.

Forbes

Actively driving this trend forward is technology. Dominated by big data, cloud and IOT, technology-enabled processes are providing manufacturers a bird’s eye view of the entire supply line that is at once far more comprehensive in its reach as well as far more detailed in its scope simply due to enhanced visibility.

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As cities continue to grow smarter, they will also become easier to hack. With millions (if not billions) of dollars going into research for urban domains and the Internet of Things (IoT), there will be more opportunities to utilize technology to define, access and improve smart city services and infrastructure. In these smart cities, information security plays a huge role in protecting the highest levels of confidentiality, availability and integrity for city resources and utilities.

Financial Express

By BV Mahalakshmi

Digitising waste management processes is one of the priorities for any state government developmental programme. A first of its kind by any state government, the Telangana government has decided to formalise the waste management process in a move to automate urban recycling operations for smart cities. The state government, in association with waste management start-up called Banyan Nation, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to deploy technology across different municipalities and help in waste management

BW CIO

For enterprise software, operational efficiency trumps superfluous features. When it comes to optimising these applications, however, particularly for the Internet of Things (IoT), enterprises need to focus their efforts on the basics of business optimization rather than insight driven innovation. A recent GlobalData survey of 1,000 IoT professionals revealed a heavy reliance on traditional business intelligence (BI) software. And, 40 percent of those surveyed ranked business intelligence platforms well above all other means of analysing data.

First Post

The Information Technology has never had it so bad as it has since a year ago when job cuts and summary dismissals have been the order of the day. No matter which blue chip IT firm an individual works for, the jobs they are hold at risk, irrespective of seniority.

The Economic Times

By Ranjani Ayyar

Worried about being laid off? If you are in IT sector, these are the roles you need to move towards – cloud engineer, DevOps engineer, information security manager amongst others.

Business World

A recent study titled ‘IoT India Salary Study 2017’ carried out by IoT India Magazine, a part of Analytics India Magazine Pvt Ltd, in association with Jigsaw Academy suggests that the salaries of IoT professionals in India is around 76 per cent higher than that of IT professionals. The median salary of IoT professionals is RS 15.2 lakh compared to RS 8.65 lakh per annum in IT sector.

We are always looking for new ways to make our lives better, easier, and more efficient. The Internet of Things (IoT), for example, continues to gain momentum for this very reason.  According to Nasscom, the IoT market in India is expected to grow up to $15 billion by 2020 from $5.6 billion this year, with the total number of connected units growing from 200 million in 2016 to 2.7 billion units by 2020.

DNA

By Jayadev Calamur

When the 21st century began, we spoke of how Artificial Intelligence would soon replace blue-collared workers and take over that space, leaving a susceptible job market. While that prediction was true, nobody saw the advent of AI taking over legal jobs, managerial jobs, and even reporting jobs.

Financial Express

Earlier what was once called ‘Machine-to-Machine’ was merely an idea, next thing we know, Internet Of Things (IoT) took the world by storm as we entered the 20th century. Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, Cloud transaction, Social Media, IoT device, IP networking, TCP, global computer network Contrary to these misconceptions, IoT is a digital realm of every device including inanimate objects such as a toaster that is connected on a global computer network, ie, the internet.

NDTV

With the number of connected IoT devices predicted to supersede Earth’s human population by 2017, such incidents are gradually shifting the outlook towards an IoT ecosystem from being the foundational enabler into the Achilles heel of smart living.

Data Quest

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the key to unlock the customers of tomorrow in today’s ‘digital-first’ market. With many enterprises adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) to deliver contextual, conversational, seamless and personalized services, the time is now to be intuitive and proactive about how customers will experience it.