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Industry News: Information and Communications
Powered by Personalisation: How AI and IoT Will Shape Unique Experiences for Customersedit
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.
Artificial IntelligenceIoTIndian culture is full of innovationedit
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)
Internet of ThingsHow IoT is shaping the future of healthcareedit
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.
HealthcareIoTIndustry News: Education
The Entire IT Workforce Can’t be Reskilled—and Shouldn’t beedit
If we have a reskilling challenge, it is multiplied 5x inside our clients. There are clients saying, “I can’t get my hands on these skills. Give us people who are experts in IoT, mobility, data scientists or AI.” They actually turn to us — “can you be my lean-to partner, can you be the one that brings in those skills?”
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MNRE and GIZ ink pact to improve renewable energy gridedit
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH India on behalf of the Government of Germany signed an agreement on technical cooperation under the Indo-German Energy Programme, Green Energy Corridors (IGEN-GEC) in New Delhi.
Renewable EnergyPoor contract enforcement in India is turning away renewable power investorsedit
Falling renewable energy tariffs in India have prompted some state governments to tell generators that they can’t buy the energy at prices agreed upon, exposing the businesses to risks due to poor enforcement of contracts.
Renewable EnergyThe false burden of social cost on renewable energyedit
Given the intermittent nature of solar and wind energy, India would depend on coal or storage for regular supply of electricity. So, it is difficult to understand why these misleading estimates of social costs have been added to renewable energy burden when it is clear that coal is always going to dominate India’s energy mix. India is one of the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change and we should be doing everything in our power to move away from coal, towards renewable energy. This move seems counter-productive to ambitious stance taken by the Modi government.
Renewable EnergySecond auction of wind power projects: Tariff tumbles to Rs 3.42 a unitedit
The current government has retired the feed-in-tariff regime in the wind sector to introduce more competition and bring down prices. With an ambitious target, the new and renewable energy ministry plans to auction wind power projects every month. However, it will strictly monitor the bid prices to keep them at affordable levels, Piyush Goyal, minister of state for coal, power, new & renewable energy and mines, had said in July.
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