September 18, 2017

News for the IET

India’s largest conclave on IoT concludes in Bangaluruedit

VAR India

As part of annual initiative focusing on IoT,the IoT India Congress introduced the Argonaut session that provided a platform for startups to interface with angel investors. It has concluded its 2 days session today with an enthralling series of panel discussions, key note addresses, Healthcare Live exhibition session along with an addition of the uniquely designed Argonaut session and also recognises the top three IoT focussed thought leaders and start-ups in India.

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IoT alone will create 15 million jobs: Aruna Sundararajanedit

ET Tech

By Nilesh Christopher We believe, or rather it is estimated, that India can have 10-15 million new jobs created in IoT alone,“ Sundararajan said at a news conference at the IoT India Congress 2017. IoT in a nutshell is about connecting all devices -phones, watches, cooker, stove, TVs, watches etc -to the internet so that it can send and receive data to make smart predictions. The sensors in these devices enable the

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KIIT gets IET UK accreditationedit

The Pioneer The KIIT University has added a major milestone to its credit as it has received the prestigious Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, accreditation for its BTech degrees. The significant achievement is yet another reflection of the world-class quality education provided by the university. Presently, the KIIT is the only university in India to get such a kind of accreditation.

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News for other PEI

Extension lecture heldedit

State Times Department of Electronics, Government MAM College Jammu held an extension lecture titled ‘Future Prospects in Electronics’, here on Saturday. Head Department of Electronics University of Jammu, Senior Member IEEE (USA) and Fellow IETE India Prof Rakesh Kumar Vaid was the Resource Person.

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The Times of India Sardesai made the statement while speaking as the chief guest at the 50th Engineers’ Day celebrations in commemoration of the 157th birth anniversary of Bharat Ratna Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya organised by the Goa unit of the Institution of Engineers (India) held in a city hotel on Saturday evening.edit

By Konika Miglani| IEL committee member Meera Dhabu highlighted the works of Visvesvaraya. Rajesh Pande, principal, RKNEC, was felicitated by Surve. Hemant Thakare, council member of IEI, Kolkata, delivered the presidential address. The programme was conducted by Satish Raipure while Milind Pathak, secretary, IEI, NLC, proposed a vote of thanks.

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Building plan approval process to go online: Vijaiedit

The Times of India Sardesai made the statement while speaking as the chief guest at the 50th Engineers’ Day celebrations in commemoration of the 157th birth anniversary of Bharat Ratna Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya organised by the Goa unit of the Institution of Engineers (India) held in a city hotel on Saturday evening.

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Site-specific action plan mooted to tackle flooding, water-logging issues in cityedit

The New Indian Express

By S Bachan Jeet Singh

In the light of heavy rains lashing the city at regular intervals leading to inundation of houses in low-lying areas and water-logging of roads in various parts of the city, the Institution of Engineers (India), Telangana has suggested the need to identify areas and roads which are frequently flooded and formulate site-specific action plans for carrying out road profile correction, pumping measures, wherever needed, for implementation forthwith.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

IIoT and AI Can Enable Companies To Improve Utilization And Achieve Productivityedit

Data Quest With the recent adoption of nascent technologies such as IoT, AI, machine vision, etc. by developed countries, India has to follow suit and adopt them in order to keep pace and remain competitive. So we will surely see a rapid adoption of AI and IoT technologies by the Industrial Automation market in India as well.

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Announcing #NAMAprivacy Bangalore: The Future of User Data on 5th October #adedit

Media Nama We want to bring the brilliant discussion we had on consent (read this, this and this), to Bangalore, where it has been seeded, but also look into more aspects around what people in the community in Bangalore think about, in terms of data categorisation, regulating different types of data differently, the need for data for machine learning and artificial intelligence, and how data collection using IoT needs to be looked at.

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Airtel, Vodafone, Idea now ramping up their internet services to fend off competition from Reliance Jioedit

Zee Biz The two companies will also collaborate on an on-going basis to evolve standards for 5G, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Software-defined Networking (SDN) and Internet of Things (IoT), and jointly work towards building an enabling ecosystem for the introduction of these technologies in the Indian context,” Airtel said in a release dated September 13.

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Living it up the smart wayedit

The Financial Express A smart home is a combination of things that contribute towards convenience and is the sum of its parts rather than one item on its own. It is a system that needs a singular point — such as the phone or tablet — whereby all the disparate parts are managed and made to work together through Wi-Fi or as it is more commonly known in the industry; the Internet of Things (IoT).

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GSMA Announces More Than 21,000 Attendees Visited Inaugural “Mobile World Congress Americas, in Partnership with CTIA”edit

Business Wire A highlight of the exhibition was the GSMA Innovation City, where attendees experienced how mobile-connected products and services are improving the daily lives of citizens and businesses around the world, in diverse areas such as home, automotive, health, utilities, industrial and more. Participants included AT&T, Google, KT Corporation and MasterCard, as well as GSMA programs including Future Networks, Identity, Internet of Things and the GSMA’s work supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Digital Terrorism Is The New Global Threatedit

Business World

By Ravikumar Sreedharan There needs to be an ecosystem that seamlessly integrates laws, organizations and technology. As individuals and companies become more and more digitized they also become more dependent on external institutions to protect their privacy and ensure security. Internet of things, big data, cloud and mobility are important elements of our fast evolving digital future.

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Dell Technologies announces multi-year agreement with GEedit

Deccan Herald The agreement builds on a history of collaboration between the two organisations. GE has previously worked with Virtustream, Pivotal and VMware, all Dell Technologies companies, to support development of its Predix industrial IoT platform. In addition,GE Digital is a Dell IoT Solutions Partner, and the companies have worked together on a variety of Industrial IoT and OEMinitiatives.

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CSS Corp’s Nishikant Nigam: Small deals here to stay, enough room for alledit

Money Control Technology-wise, there are multiple technologies which would come together. It would be a combination of data science, AI, analytics, IoT, virtual assistance. All those technologies or combination of them would provide those kinds of experiences to our customer’s customer.

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Bosch bullish on mobility solutions biz, forecasts 7% growth in 2017 to 47bn eurosedit

Auto Car Professional This approach also applies to connectivity. Over the next five years, the market for connected mobility will grow by almost 25 percent each year. This means that global sales will rise from 47 to 140 billion euros. Bosch says it has the sensor, software, and services expertise that this requires. Even now, 1.5 million vehicles are connected using Bosch IoT software.

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A new world order is coming, driven by electric cars and AIedit

Your Story

By Vishal Krishna “Firstly, the smartphone will be the centre of everything. Data sharing between devices, including cars, will become a reality, and securing the information becomes paramount,” says Mahesh Lingareddy, Chairman of Smartron, an IoT company.  He adds society will benefit from lack of dependence on global upheavals of the oil economy, and the digital economy will bring in higher productivity, thanks to information sharing.

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Younger Son rises for Indian agri-food start-upsedit

DNA Japanese investor and incubator Mistletoe, in partnership with GSF India and Infobride, announced the launch of ‘Gastrotope’, a new agri-food technology accelerator in India. Gastrotope, run by Taizo Son, younger brother of SoftBank chairman Masayoshi Son, aims to invest in start-ups in agriculture and food processing sector here, an official statement said. (IoT)

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Telecom War Being Fought Over Quality & New Servicesedit

The Economic Times

By Devina Sengupta Service providers are also expected to focus on new technologies like Internet of Things to target niche user base for early adoption, Sinha said. These services may vary from consumer segment to enterprise segment.

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Telangana: Workshop on Entrepreneurship at KITS-Warangaledit

Telangana Today Students gained insights on how to come up with innovative ideas and the importance of entrepreneurial mindset. They were excited to know about emerging technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), Augmented Reality, Cyber Security and Data Analytics.

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Teen creates device to control lights, fans from smartphoneedit

Pune Mirror “I am working on including features of the Internet of Things (IoT) where there will also be sensors in the unit and it will gauge the room temperature and automatically shut the gas switch off or at least give a warning on the phone,” said Niranjan. Currently at the stage of quality testing, he plans to launch the product with the help of his college’s business incubation centre.

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How Technology & IoT Is Disrupting The Trucking & Logistics sectoredit

Inc42

By Sumit Sharma The predictable nodes of information are changing. The logistics assets itself are becoming a type of information system. In what’s called the Internet of Things (IoT), sensors and actuators embedded in physical objects, from roadways to Trucks, are getting linked through wired and wireless networks, often using the same Internet Protocol (IP) that connects the Internet.

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8 Things Govt’s National Telecom Policy Claims Will Achieve To Get 1.3 Billion Indians Onlineedit

India Times The new telecom policy will address sector issues and make them future-proof with the onset of disruptive technologies such as fifth-generation (5G) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). “The new policy will be forward-looking and current challenges of new technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence will be taken care of,” Sinha added.

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Industry News: Education

In India, Global In-House Centres Employ 1 Million Techies. How They Hireedit

NDTV “The India IT industry is facing a structural headwinds from having higher exposure to slower-growing legacy segments as spending shifts towards newer areas like Digital (social, mobile, analytics, cloud, security and IoT),” says Nomura, adding that “insourcing adds to already existing challenges to growth for India IT”.

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How new technology boosts business for budget hoteliersedit

Hospitality Biz India From the search stage, to bookings and right up to checkout, technology has had a transformative effect on customer-engagement with budget hotels. Previously, travellers generally booked in advance and confirmed their bookings over a phone call. On arrival, they were quite likely to find an unreliable experience in the way of musty rooms, dirty linen or washrooms leading to lack of trust in this option. (Internet Of Things)

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Futuristic Chatedit

The New Indian Express Industry experts pose with posters at the curtain raiser of ‘AIR Summit’, a three-day meet on Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Robotics on Thursday. The conference is slated to be held from October 10 to 12 at HICC Novotel.

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Centre of Excellence for IoT to come up in APedit

The Pioneer The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of Government of India has sanctioned ‘Centre of Excellence for Internet of Things (IoT) to Andhra Pradesh to establish in Visakhapatnam. The Administrative approval was reached on Friday to State’s IT Minister Nara Lokesh.

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Telangana plans e-vehicle policyedit

Business Standard

By Dasarath Reddy  A White Paper released by T-Hub and Carnegie India suggested technologies such as smart grid, smart communication and internet of things have tremendous potential as a value addition to differentiate EVs from traditional vehicles. Features such as intelligent charging solutions, vehicle-to-vehicle communication, optimised power distribution, self-diagnosis and remote services could significantly advance the user experience for EVs, it said.

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REVA University students’ innovation to end manual scavenging?edit

The Times of India The students have developed a robot that will clear sewage blockages. Advanced technology, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computational Intelligence (CI) and Internet of Things (IOT) have been utilized in this project. The robot is placed in drainages, where it opens up and detects blockages. Once a blockage is detected, the material that is causing the obstruction is picked up on a tray and taken out of the manhole, thereby not requiring any human involvement.

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Making the workforce skilled through RVTIedit

The Hindu Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu lay foundation stone for the institute in city Union Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan spoke of the government’s plans to set up one regional vocational training institute (RVTI) in each State.

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Telangana: Workshop on Entrepreneurship at KITS-Warangaledit

Telangana Today Students gained insights on how to come up with innovative ideas and the importance of entrepreneurial mindset. They were excited to know about emerging technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), Augmented Reality, Cyber Security and Data Analytics.

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Smart Tutor for Smart Kidsedit

Business World

By Vaishali Dar We are also ready with one of our most versatile and accessible product SPELLO. Spello is our adaptive learning IoT product aimed at providing millions of children with affordable tool to learn fundamental concepts like spelling, math operations and computational thinking.

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Explore The Offbeatedit

The Times of India Internet of Things is a new academic programme which is much in demand. The programme draws on disciplines of computer sciences, mechatronics, engineering, design and media. Modules of these courses include virtual reality, artificial intelligence, image processing, computer graphics, machine learning, graphical modelling, iCloud computing, machine communication,

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Bihar considering giving tablets to youths under skill development programme, says Sushil Kumar Modiedit

First Post Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had on 2 October, 2016, launched three different projects for students’ welfare under the scheme ‘Arthik Hal, Yuvaon Ko Bal’, aimed at improving the financial condition of youths. Under the three separate schemes, the state government launched student credit card for providing education loan up to Rs 4 lakh, the ‘Swayam Sahayta Bhatta (unemployment allowance)’ and ‘Kushal Yuva Karyakram’ (skill development).

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AICIE, HireMee in recruiter-student pactedit

Financial Chronicle HireMee, a web portal and mobile application, has joined hands with the All India Council of Technical Education {AICTE) to connect thousands of recruiters with tens of thousands of students spread across mini metros and interiors of the country with the first of its kind skill testing recruitment platform.

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India’s fastest-growing clean energy sector hits an air pocket in new worry for Modiedit

The Economic Times India will push back the date for an auction of 1-gigawatt of additional capacity by about 2 1/2 weeks to Oct. 4, Sanjay Sharma, general manager at the Solar Energy Corp. Of India, the country’s implementing agency for renewable targets, said by phone on Friday without elaborating on the reason for the deferment.

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We can be leaders in renewable energy: Prakash Javadekaredit

Telangana Today Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar said that if India invests enough in research, it can be the world leader in renewable energy. “If we invest in research in renewable energy we can be world leaders,” he said, adding that China had taken a lead in the field and “are 10 years ahead of us and the biggest suppliers of renewable panels and machines”.

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Renewable energy needs hand-holdingedit

The Hindu Business Line

By Kameswara Rao The opportunities in the area of renewable energy at present should be a source of delight. India’s ambitious programmes — to connect the world’s largest un-electrified rural population, fully eliminate shortages, and shift to clean energy — constitute a big opportunity for local manufacturing.

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