October 17, 2017

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Using IoT to safeguard our endangered environmentedit

The Hindu

The fledgling IoT or Internet of Things technology, is coming to the aid of the endangered environment. It will help alert authorities when there is an illegal cutting of trees. Hitachi India and Institute of Wood Science and Technology have joined hands to implement the Smart Forest initiative.

EnvironmentIoT
IoT with make healthcare more accurate, consistent and affordable: Chris Sullivanedit

ET Healthworld

By Shahid Akhter

IoT is really going to make a major difference in healthcare. It is going to make healthcare safer, it is going to make the quality of care more accurate, more consistent, and it also has an ability to make healthcare less expensive as well.

HealthcareIoT
Is Artificial Intelligence The Future Of ERP Software Optimization?edit

CXO Today

The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) is taking the world by storm. It has made possible what was usually restricted to the domain of scientific fiction.

Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence use rising in bankingedit

Telengana Today

In the recent decade, technology has disrupted industry one too many times. Personal computing, internet and mobile telephony paved the way for social media which got people chatting with one another on an unprecedented scale. A closely watching banking industry took its business to a favourite habitat of the millennials, namely the messaging space and ushered in conversational commerce.

Artificial Intelligence
Delving Into The ABC Of Cyber Securityedit

CXO Today

The web has become very elastic today, and we are facing challenges from technologies such as bring your own device or IoT etc. As the nation is moving towards being digital, more devices are added every day and more systems are brought online,” said, Aseem Ahmed, Sr. product manager, Cloud SecurityAsia Pacific, Akamai Technologies.

Cyber Security

Industry News: Education

It’s raining core sector jobs at IITsedit

The Economic Times

By Prachi Verma

Offers are aplenty this placement season for students at the nation’s top engineering colleges who aspire to work in core sectors. Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in Mumbai, Guwahati, Roorkee and Kharagpur have seen as much as a 25% increase in pre-placement offers (PPOs) from companies that deal in core engineering sectors, such as manufacturing, infrastructure, petroleum and mining, placement officials at these IITs said.

Engineering

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Punjab govt fixes industrial power tariff at Rs5 per unit for 5 yearsedit

Mint

By Utpal Bhaskar

Amarinder Singh-led Punjab government announces industrial power tariff at Rs5 per unit to boost industrialisation and revive economic activity in the state

Industrial Power
TN generates 800-1,200 MW solar power: CMedit

Business Standard

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami on Monday said the state was generating around 800-1,200 MW solar power as against its installed capacity of 1,786.48 MW.

Solar Energy
Wind Tariffs At Record Low: Fruitful Up-Gradation Or Helpless Desperation?edit

Business World

By Naina Sood

In the state run Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) auctions, conducted this month for 1000 MW of wind power installations, the tariff came down to as low as Rs 2.64 per unit, down by 24 per cent from previous low of Rs 3.46. The winning bidders included ReNew Power, Orange Power, Inox Wind, Sembcorp Green Infra and Adani Power.

Renewable Energy
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