August 18, 2017

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Industry News: Information and Communications

AI to be most disruptive technology: Gartneredit

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.

Artificial Intelligence
3 Megatrends That Will Drive The Digital Businessedit

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.

Artificial IntelligenceIoT
How IT Companies Can Leverage Data Analyticsedit

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.

Data AnalyticsIT
Demand for artificial intelligence, machine learning experts to rise 60% by 2018: reportedit

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.

Artificial Intelligence
Why India must think 5G to become truly digitaledit

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.

IoTTelecom

Industry News: Education

Education sector in crisis, cannot survive if reforms shelved; what you need to learnedit

Financial Express

Given how badly India needs to recast its higher education regulation, the announcement that the government planned to scrap/merge UGC and AICTE to bring in the Higher Education Empowerment and Regulation Agency had been greeted with much cheer.

Education

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Digitization of power grid will cut losses: Schneider officialedit

The Economic Times

“Technology capabilities such as the Internet of Things (IoT), analytics and cloud are a critical part of any digital transformation and can provide the platform for digitizing the grid,” the IDC report said.

Power Grid
Indian thrust on renewables will affect thermal projects: CEAedit

ET Energy World

Overemphasis on renewable energy would result in reducing viability of coal-fired thermal power plants in India, adding to the massive non-performing assets (NPAs) of state-run lenders, Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) Arvind Subramanian said on Thursday.

Renewable Energy
How Narendra Modi initiatives helped discoms clear wind energy duesedit

Financial Express

By Vikas Shrivastava

In a turnaround of financials of state discoms, like those of Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, following government initiatives in the last one year, pending dues to wind energy companies have dropped to an average of four months from 13 months previously, industry officials told FE.

Renewable Energy
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