October 31, 2017

Industry News: Information and Communications

Wireless connectivity silently creating medical problems: Expertedit

Money Life We are increasingly exposed to an invisible web of radiation all around us through the wireless devices we love so much. With the advent of cloud computing and the Internet of Things set to launch more than a trillion smart devices, the radiation is only going to get worse,” he warned.

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The IoT warsedit

Live Mint If the Internet of Things or IoT is to be useful, then IoT devices need to have the ability to communicate with each other over long distances. When this long-range communication variable is thrown into the equation, the only way is for firms to limit the battery-constrained radio communication to short distances and then switch over to the capabilities of cellular providers, on whose network they can piggy-back to send data over long distances.

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Telecom towers affect our health? Busting this mythedit

Live Mint New technologies like 5G (fifth generation), IoT (internet of things) and M2M (machine to machine) are around the corner and will require continuous and seamless network support. Given that infrastructure is a key element to connectivity and its consequent benefits to the economy, the government is working closely with the industry to resolve most issues.

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Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann on competition, new AI features, monetization & moreedit

ET Tech “There are other people also using it, but the goal is not to make friends with them or talk with them,” says Ben Silbermann, the company’s CEO and co-founder. “It’s really just to get ideas for your life.” The online visual discovery service launched in 2010. Still privately held, Pinterest is valued at more than $12 billion based on its latest funding round. It has 200 million monthly users.

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Personalisation and automation – are they two sides of the same coin?edit

Hospitality Biz India For example, Room automation system allows a guest to operate lighting, air-conditioning or blinds from an IoT enabled console. Using the console, the guest can easily control the intensity and brightness of light, set room temperature, etc. as per his preference.

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KTR requests Centre to hold India Telecom Summit 2018 in Hydedit

The Economic Times

By PTI

The state’s Department of Information Technology, Electronics & Communications (ITE&C) has introduced a progressive and business-friendly IT Policy in 2016 followed by nine sub-sector policies, for promotion of electronics promotion, IoT, data centres, among others Rao said in a letter addressed to Sinha.

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India-UK Future Tech Month to promote innovation tiesedit

The Economic Times The move aims to inspire new partnerships, strengthen technical collaboration and land business deals, in areas as diverse as data analytics, Internet of Things, ICT services, advanced manufacturing, electric vehicles, automotive, healthcare, life sciences, food and drink and creative industries.

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How Utilities Use IoT For Asset Management Efficiencyedit

Business World From an operations management perspective, asset data must be integrated into systems and applications in a way that allows operators to deal with a single version of the truth. So how can utilities conquer these challenges? Part of the answer lies with the Internet of Things (IoT) and the smart tools, harvested data and connected technologies of which it’s composed.

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How Internet Of Things Is Transforming The Indian Job Marketedit

Inc42

By Lovleen Bhatia Internet of Things, or IoT as it is popularly known, has gone on to become one of the hottest buzzwords in the tech industry for 2017. For anything to become a buzzword, three things should be in place — applications, jobs and global recognition. IoT over the last few months has clearly met these criteria. There are uncountable number of IoT applications floating around in the world.

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Get ready for the next stop: 5G!edit

Deccan Chronicle The stimulus for all this is Internet of Things (IoT) -buzzword for a collection of devices or ‘things’ connecting to your smart phone wirelessly. From your air purifier to your home lighting to your car music, everything is ‘connected’ these days, and can be centrally controlled by your smart phone. With more and more devices expected to go wireless in the months to come, your smartphone has to gear up and ensure that these connections are fast, more efficient.

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Frost & Sullivan World Café at Medica Health IT Forum 2017edit

PR Newswire Connectivity is Redefining the Way Healthcare is Delivered With the advent of Internet of Things (IoT), mHealth apps, health wearables, in-home self-monitoring tools and social networking capabilities, connected health has the potential to radically transform healthcare delivery; consumers today can be more engaged and empowered than ever before.

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Open Source India 2017 Breaks Past Recordsedit

Business Wire A few topics, which solicited special interest from the audience, included a panel discussion on “Open Source vs Enterprise Open Source. Is this a key reason for the success of Open Source?”, “Accelerating the path to Digital with Cloud Data Strategy”, “Open Source A Blessing or a Curse?”, “Intelligent Cloud and AI – The Next Big Leap”, “IoT Considerations Decisive Open Source Policy”.

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Banking and investment services CIOs are the most focused on digitalization: studyedit

ET CIO The combination of application programming interfaces (APIs) at four percent and omnichannel/multichannel at 3% are not especially high, but they are not present at all in the all-industries top 10. Legacy modernization is a top 10 item for the banking industry, but not present in the all-industries list. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a top-10 item for all industries (6%), but is not present for banking and investment services.

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AI, not blockchain, tops banking CIOs’ minds: Gartneredit

Gadgets Now Banking and investment services CIOs also place a relatively high priority on the globalisation of their businesses (7%), a priority which does not make the top 10 at all for the all-industries average. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a top-10 item for all industries (6%) but is not present for banking and investment services.

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After turbulence and dented financial health, stability in sight for telecom industry: ICRAedit

ET Telecom Data is likely to be the mainstay for the industry, and the industry would need to continue investing in content, and new technologies to stay ahead of the curve. Technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) offer significant scale potential, and developing these is expected to keep the capex and spectrum requirements high,” he concluded.

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Industry News: Education

Startup Perspective of Gujaratedit

Digital Learning BBT supports enterprises, technology providers, and startup products in the domains of consumer devices-electronics, industrial automation, sensor networking, healthcare, IoT, electronics R&D, electronics product realisation, security, surveillance, education & annual system maintenance businesses.

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Skill India holds knowledge sharing workshop for Africansedit

Millennium Post Taking strong partnership between India and Africa to new heights, Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and World Bank are organising a five day ‘Knowledge Sharing Workshop’ for African delegation from six African countries namely Rwanda, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Senegal, Tanzania, and Ghana

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SANKALP’ and ‘STRIVE’ to boost Skill India Missionedit

The Tribune Skills Acquisition and Knowledge Awareness for Livelihood Promotion (SANKALP) and Skills Strengthening for Industrial Value Enhancement (STRIVE) are set to boost the Skill India Mission in the country. SANKALP is Rs 4,455-crore centrally sponsored project, including Rs 3,300crore support from World Bank whereas STRIVE is a Rs 2,200-crore Central project, with half of the project outlay as World Bank assistance.

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Solar powered appliances for rural Indiaedit

Deccan Chronicle With the advent of modern technology and affordable Internet, home appliances such as televisions, fridges, oven and others have introduced next generation of conveniences in our lives. In fact, it is unimaginable for us to live without our ‘smart’ gadgets and appliances for a single day However, for those in rural areas, smart gadgets are still out of reach for the masses

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Power Minister Chairs curtain raiser ceremony for Global renewable energy investors meet and expo re invest 2017 and founding ceremony of ISAedit

The Week Union Minister of State (IC) for Power and new and renewable Energy (NRE) Shri R. K. Singh chaired a Curtain Raiser ceremony, held here today to inform that the 2nd edition of the Global Renewable energy (RE) Investors meet and Expo (RE-INVEST 2017) will be held from 7th to 9th December 2017 at the India Expo centre Greater Nodia and National capital region of Delhi.

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More green energy should power India: Modiedit

ET Energy World Bengaluru, Green energy like solar power would power India as 175 gigawatt (GW) of electricity is expected to be generated from renewable sources, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Sunday. “By 2022, when India will be celebrating 75 years of independence, 175 GW of renewable energy will be generated.

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K’taka Overrules Order to Reduce Discom Tariffedit

The Economic Times

By Kaavya.Chandrasekaran This put into jeopardy 599 MW of wind projects where signed PPAs were merely awaiting the KERC’s approval — as per KERC’s order, these would have to be renegotiated at the new tariff. Of these, 270.5 MW had been commissioned before March 31 this year and were already supplying power to Bangalore Electricity Supply Co (Bescom) and Hubli Electricity Supply Co (Hescom).

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First wind energy auction rules soonedit

Business Standard To ensure bidding for wind power projects does not face resistance in the states, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is acting fast on guidelines in this regard. By sections 62 and 63 of the Electricity Act, states cannot call for bids of power projects if the Centre has not set a guideline.

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Closed bids not reverse auction way to go for wind power: Siemens Gamesa India CMDedit

ET Energy World

By IANS The wind power tariff touched a new level of Rs 2.64 per unit in the reverse auction conducted early this month by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) for putting up 1,000 MW capacity. In normal auction, a product is sold to the highest bidder. In a reverse auction the sellers compete for business quoting their prices openly. The rates will gradually go down as sellers reduce their rates to get business.

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