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Student wins awardedit
Shubham Saraff, a third year student of Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, was declared the winner of the IET South Asia ‘Present round the world’ (PATW) finals recently. Saraff’s winning presentation focused on the topic ‘Neurons that shape our civilisation’ and was awarded a cash prize of £1,000.
IET India IoT PanelMr Shekhar Sanyal: Director and Country Head of the IETHealthcare Surveillance: The next step of evolution is making sense of terabytes of dataedit
Healthcare is a term of growing importance across the globe. In India, the term is known only to the urban population while in rural or semi urban communities it is relatively unknown. Rural areas are not easily accessible and the technologies that exist in the tertiary centers and corporate hospitals are not available to them. (IET)
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Why we should not be afraid of AIedit
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!
Artificial IntelligenceSkill DevelopmentNeed to Make Electric Vehicles More Affordableedit
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.
Connected CarsIoTInternet Of Things (IoT) and cyber risksedit
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.
IoTHow telecom gear-maker ITI turned aroundedit
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).
IoTIoT in TelecommunicationsCelebrating Indian tech: From homegrown startups to indigenous geek breakthroughsedit
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.
IoTSmart ManufacturingMuch more to look forward toedit
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.
IoT in TelecommunicationsThis is India’s new soft power. An open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modiedit
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.
Artificial IntelligenceHealthcareIoTSmart Glove: New Way To Communicateedit
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.
IoTSamsung embeds IoT technologies in devices to track usage pattern dataedit
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.
IoTSmart HomeNissan India launches Nissan Connect smartphone integration platformedit
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)
Connected CarsIoTTransportationHow Microsoft Cloud helps companies track carbon emissions?edit
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.
Cloud TechnologyIoTChaos, capital, connectedness: the India story at 70edit
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.
IoTSmart ManufacturingAs India turns 70, its economic future will greatly depend on what it does todayedit
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.
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Delhi will get 25 skill development centres in a yearedit
The Hans India Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday promised to open more than 25 skill development centres and fight dengue and chikungunya in the national capital. “Within one year, we will open 25-30 centres (for skill development) in Delhi,” the Chief Minister said in his Independence Day address at the Chhatrasal Stadium here.
Skill DevelopmentASSOCHAM for unified skill development; urges realignment of skill ecosystemedit
ET CIO Though India has the advantage of a higher population of youth, which can be cultivated to build a skilled workforce in the near future, the numbers to be trained are very large and can be achieved only if we try to overcome the various issues and challenges that impede progress, such as demand and supply mismatch, employer’s buy in, scalability, inadequate skill training facilities, mismatch between youth aspirations and jobs available, lack of good quality trainers and so on.
Skill DevelopmentWith degrees but no skills: Youths question country’s faulty education systemedit
By Ayesha Banerjee Only 26% of the respondents feel that their education has contributed highly to their personality development or interpersonal management skills, the two key traits required for interviews and employment.
Higher EducationSkill DevelopmentNSDC, Google to introduce mobile skill development programmeedit
Hindustan Times The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), a public-private partnership enterprise under the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE), took a giant step towards scaling up the mobile developer ecosystem in India along with Google India by creating an Android Skill Development Program.
Skill DevelopmentIndia @70: India’s startup movement is fast gaining momentum, says Amitabh Kantedit
The Economic Times These labs have equipment like 3D printers, robotics and electronics development tools, IoT (internet of things) and sensors etc. and have programmes that are aimed at fostering curiosity, creativity and imagination in young minds. The AIM team has established 941 tinkering labs across India, and aims to establish 2,000 such ATLs by the end of 2017.
IoT‘Converge all skill development schemes under one ministry’edit
The Times of India Various skill development schemes under the administrative control of different ministries should be handed over to the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship for better outcome, a report has suggested. “The NDA government has established a separate ministry for skill development.
GovernanceSkill DevelopmentASSOCHAM for unified skill development; urges realignment of skill ecosystemedit
ET Telecom The country is facing a paradoxical situation, where on the one hand, young men and women with higher education entering the labour market are looking for jobs, and on the other hand, industries are complaining of the unavailability of appropriately-skilled manpower.
Higher EducationSkill DevelopmentAI, Robotics find way into B-school curriculumedit
By Rica Bhattcharyya
The institute aims to expose students to full ecosystem of IoT, said Anil Vaidya, area head of information management at SPJIMR. “A management graduate will not do an engineer’s job, but in a world where automation is fast disrupting businesses, anyone in leadership position must have knowledge of technology, which they can use to improve business,” he told ET.
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Clean Funedit
The Hindu Business Line Renewable energy creates three-times more jobs than fossil fuels. By 2018, renewable energy is expected to contribute 25% of global gross power generation.
Renewable EnergyIndia to add 9.4GW solar power capacity this year: Bridge to India reportedit
By Mayank Aggarwal India is expected to add 9.4 gigawatts (GW) of solar power capacity in 2017 but rising competition is squeezing investor returns, said a report released by Bridge to India (BTI) on Monday (Renewable Energy).
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