September 4, 2017

News for the IET

The Best Opportunities are at the Intersection of Industriesedit

Electronics For You Internet of Things (IoT) solutions are evolving day-by-day and opening up new gateways for progress and innovation. In a conversation with Paromik Chakraborty of Electronics For You, Shekhar Sanyal, director and country Head, IET India, talks about the business opportunities for startups in IoT space, impact of IoT on industries and endeavours of the IoT Congress Shekhar Sanyal, Director and Country Head, IET India Shekhar Sanyal, Director and Country Head, IET India

Mr Shekhar Sanyal: Director and Country Head of the IET

News for other PEI

IEEE’s Nagpur Subsection to ensure engineers’ growthedit

The Times of India

A new chapter was opened in the engineering field of the city with the installation of ‘Nagpur Subsection’ of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) at a function held on Saturday. The subsection will guide engineering students and professionals and counsel them by organizing various events to enhance their knowledge so that they could become competent enough to accept the challenge the globalization has posed.

IEEE

Industry News: Information and Communications

How IoT Is Emerging As The Next Trillion Dollar Sector In Indiaedit

INC 42

Finally, the next big thing is a platform correctly poised on the 2017 hype cycle. “Internet of Things Market to Reach $1.7 Tn by 2020:” IDC predicted this in 2014-15 itself. Of all the technology trends that are taking place right now, perhaps the biggest one is the Internet of Things; it is the one that’s going to give us the most headway as well as the opportunity over the next 5-10 years.

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IoT Experts Should Have Sound Big Data & Analytics Skillsedit

CXO Today

According to the study, the top three benefits IoT will deliver include, improving the quality of life (26%), gaining greater insight into business (25%) and creating new services and categories (25%). IoT’s potential to be the catalyst of entirely new business models and supporting services is one of the key factors driving VCs to invest in this space.

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Outsourcing business will decline further; it will do more with less people; see what this meansedit

The Financial Express

I have been wanting to talk to him about his take on the transformation that the IT industry is going through—all the things that are making headlines, such as artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, deep learning and so on. There are reports saying that the IT services industry alone is set to lose around 6.5 lakh low-skilled positions to automation by 2021.

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Six Cloud Trends That are Making Waves in 2017edit

BW Disrupt

The digital economy we operate in, marks the boundless growth of new age technologies such as IoT, big data, real-time data capturing and analytics, and on-demand services. In this aggressively competitive scenario, cloud provides a conducive environment to create a lean, flexible, and responsive digital eco-system that is required to navigate the rough tides of the connected world.

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Data: The Currency, Gold and Diamond of the Futureedit

BW CIO World

The scheme took advantage of Aadhar enabled data and made its Public Distribution System leak proof both in terms corruption and timely delivery. It saved whopping 1000 crore every year on subsidies. Taking cues from it and enabling IoT, Big Data Technologies and Data Science in collecting, refining and generating analytics will surely help to deliver better governance to the citizens.

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Digital transformation brings in wider opportunities for enterprise architects; see howedit

The Financial Express

In this age of disruptive technologies including IoT, Big Data, artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud, architecture can no longer be looked as a mere back-end function where the solution architects are involved in giving technical architectural inputs and designs.

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Artificial Intelligence to power bankingedit

Deccan Herald

By Uma Kannan

“We have also issued guidelines with regard to downloads, usage of emails, password, social networking etc. With the world getting more interconnected through the Internet of Things (IoT), the touch-points for initiating an attack are growing exponentially. We are fully cognizant of the threats and will continue to work proactively in this space to protect ours and our customers’assets,” says Sharma.

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Industry News: Education

Engineering: How a dream career choice has fallen out of favouredit

The Economic Times

Though graduates from India’s premiere engineering colleges such as the IITs are still in demand, it is the thousands of other engineering colleges and ITIs which churn out millions of graduates every year whose employability is questionable.

Engineering
Let go of the decades-old curriculumedit

The Financial Express

Increasing Digitisation And use of Big Data and artificial intelligence is threatening jobs and challenging old business practices. Companies operating in the manufacturing and IT space have sacked over 56,000 engineers in 2017 so far.

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AICTE Planning To Shut 800 Engineering Colleges Next Academic Yearedit

NDTV

At present there are 10,361 engineering colleges in the country. The maximum number of engineering colleges, that is 1,500, is in Maharashtra followed by Tamil Nadu which has 1,300 engineering colleges. Uttar Pradesh has about 1,165 colleges and Andhra Pradesh has 800 engineering colleges. Some colleges have sought a time of one year from the council to improve the number of enrollment.

Engineering

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Renewable energy : Micro grids mooted for power evacuationedit

The Hindu Business Line

By RS Sharma

His company has taken up such projects at the solar parks in Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan. He also mooted a green energy corridor. Harshitha S Kumar, business head of Solar Rooftop PV Systems, of the L&T group, said separate energy storage parks should be set up as part of green energy corridors.

Renewable Energy
No more coal power as India shifts to sun, windedit

Deccan Chronicle

The installed power capacity is 3,30,153 MW, of which thermal power comprises 1,94,432 MW and renewable energy 58,303 MW. The Centre has taken a decision to add 1,00,000 MW of solar power and 60,000 MW of wind power by 2022.

Renewable Energy
Air pollution throws shade on India’s solar successedit

The Hindu

New research has found the smog and dust that sickens millions across India every year is also sapping solar power generation by more than 25 percent, far beyond levels previously thought. In the first study of its kind, U.S. and Indian scientists measured how man-made particles floating in the air and deposited as grime on solar panels combined to seriously impair sunlight from converting to energy.

Solar Energy
Coal stocks ‘critical’ at power unitsedit

The Financial Express

By Anupam Chatterjee and Saurabh Kumar

Coal stocks at thermal power plants across the country have dropped to alarmingly low levels. Private power companies are the worst-hit, as state-run NTPC, under government patronage, is getting out-of-turn supplies. According to sources from power companies, the shortage of fuel supply is primarily due to reduced production by Coal India (CIL) and its failure to open new mines and commission new railway sidings for seamlessly transporting the dual power plants.

Renewable Energy
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