November 17, 2017

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Wipro launches industry-specific solutions as extensions to SAP® Leonardoedit

The Hindu Business Line

  SAP Leonardo is a holistic digital innovation system that comprehensively integrates future-facing technologies and capabilities into SAP Cloud Platform. Wipro will leverage SAP Leonardo themes such as IoT, blockchain, machine learning, Big Data, insights and analytics to build solutions that will support insight-driven decision-making for customers.

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Vodafone launches end-to-end IoT Solutionedit

ET CIO

  To enable enterprises’ IoT adoption, Vodafone launches SuperIoT –comprising IoT solutions like Vehicle Tracking, Asset Tracking (Fixed and Mobile) and People Tracking (School Students and Employees).It is an industry-first solution that enables end-to-end management of device, application, connectivity, service platform, support and security.

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UN Urges to Tackle ‘Digital Divide’edit

News 18

  According to the Measuring the Information Society Report 2017, released by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), concurrent advances in the Internet of Things, big data analytics, cloud computing and artificial intelligence will enable tremendous innovations and fundamentally transform business, government and society, Xinhua reported on Wednesday.

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Two-day mega conclave on Innovation held in Mumbaiedit

United News of India The conference on IoT & Big Data brought together experts and global keynote speakers to showcase the growth of industrial automation in India with a special emphasis on the impact of Industry 4.0, AI/ Robotics, Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data across sectors -aviation, smart cities, agriculture, automation, business efficiency, education & learning, BFSI, regulation & governance, product innovation, mobility & telecom.

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Transforming internet usage with 5Gedit

Live Mint

  Innovative services for IoT: The new capabilities of 5G will span several dimensions that will include tremendous flexibility, lower energy needs, greater bandwidth, better security and reliability as well as lower device costs. These, in turn, will yield innovative internet of things (IoT) services for automobile and other industries.

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The European Tour joins forces with Tata Communications to usher in a new digital era for golfedit

Equity Bulls

  To give its core fan base new golf experiences and to attract new younger fans to the sport, the partnership will enable European Tour to test in action with Tata Communications technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), big data analytics, virtual and augmented reality (VR, AR) and live 360°video to create a more ‘connected’ tournament experience.

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Rajasthan Government Beckons Coders And Innovators To Develop Scalable Tech Solutions For The Stateedit

Inc42

  The main tech themes on which solutions can be built are AI, AR/VR, Blockchain, bioinformatics, and IoT. The participants will also get a chance to build tech solutions for Rajasthan’s government first initiatives such as Bhamashah and e-Mitra as well as applications to promote state tourism.

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Let’s be ahead of the game, say women technologists at GHCI 17edit

IB Times

  Geetha further said, “The world today is mainly technology-driven, especially with the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, Big Data. If technology has to appeal to a much larger audience, you have to have women in your team because then you’re doing better from a business perspective while also catering to your market.”

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Karnataka bets big on Artificial Intelligence, Big Dataedit

The Hindu At a time when technologies like Artificial Intelligence are becoming the new world order, Karnataka is betting big to prepare itself for these new drivers of employment. Drones that monitor crop health, medical devices for early detection of cancer and apps that help visually impaired read and identify objects were some of the AI–based innovations on display at the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2017.

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IoT: A new golden age for India’s citiesedit

ET CIO

  They key here is introducing and integrating technology into this workforce. While a majority of the employable youth are familiar with 21st century technology and the Internet of Things (IoT) as a concept, they still need encouragement and investment to imbibe new skills that can enable them to unlock the massive potential of IoT.

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IFC aims to be a long-term partner to ventures it backs: Pravan Malhotraedit

Live Mint

  The digital revolution is blurring the lines between the physical and digital spheres. Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and big data are creating new market segments and new business models while improving productivity and efficiency.

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How Zicom is using IoT, AI to bolster securityedit

Live Mint

  Till even a couple of years ago, the financial services conglomerate India Infoline Ltd (IIFL) would rely on standalone closed circuit TVs (CCTVs) and security guards to protect their branches that offered loans against gold ornaments.

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How Blue Star CIO used IoT to link 600 remote sites pan India to improve customer servicesedit

ET CIO

  IoT (Internet of Things) technology Hence the idea was to leverage IoT technology to connect all the installed units at customers’ sites over communication networks and collect the controllers’ data and monitor it from a central location to predict and provide customer services in a proactive way.

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Designing tomorrow’s seats, todayedit

The Financial Express

  The company says that car seats of the future will have unique functionalities—seats would have sleep, work, relax and lounge modes, with massage options added. They would have cooling, heating, controls, lights, storage and safety devices attached to them. Seats would also be equipped with features such as traytables and have individualisation functions with IoT.

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Cognizant voluntary attrition rising; here is what Global Delivery President, Debashis Chatterjee saidedit

The Financial Express

  Absolutely. We are retraining a lot of people with respect to digital skills. It is a combination where we have to hire from the market and retrain the existing workforce. Some of the skills we have been focusing on retraining are data science, design thinking, cyber security, internet of things, AI, and automation.

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B’luru to have Centre of Excellence for AI, Data Scienceedit

The New Indian Express The government is investing H40 crore on developing the CoE, which would be used for skilling and building a knowledge repository in the subject areas concerned. Setting up in co-ordination with Nasscom as its program and implementation partner, the CoE will function for the time being from the premises of Nasscom’s Centre of Excellence for (Internet of Things) in the city.

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All should benefit from ICT revolution: UN agencyedit

UNI India

  According to the UN agency’s 2017 Measuring the Information Society report, harnessing the benefits of advances in the ‘Internet of Things’, big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, countries will need to create conditions and infrastructures that allow these next-generation networks and services. At the same time, the substantial digital divides between countries and regions will also need to be addressed.

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122nd Canton Fair Promotes Intelligent Manufacturingedit

PR Newswire

  Zhang believes that applying IM can be a problem-solving approach to overcome the challenges of overcapacity, high cost, low profit and lack of quality control faced by traditional manufacturing companies. He described the process of introducing intelligent solutions in four phases: industry solutions, intelligence-driven manufacturing, core platform and open Internet of Things (IoT).

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TCS, Rolls-Royce extend alliance to explore IoT opportunitiesedit

Millennium Post

  As part of this agreement, TCS will provide IoT digital platform capability, allowing data to be captured, shared and analysed more quickly across Rolls-Royce so that new products and services can be developed at pace, TCS said.

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Lay thrust on Research & innovationedit

The Hans India

  The two-day summit helped in getting a glimpse of how innovation should be incorporated into discussions under the national agenda. Experts believe that innovation can solve India’s challenges in Health, Housing, Education and Energy through lenses of IoT, Data Sciences, AI, Robotics, Block chain and other disruptive technologies.

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How 5G will be a game-changer at every leveledit

The Hindu Business Line

  The coming wave of 5G network deployments will be a major boon for Internet of Things in the connected world, even before individuals begin to harness the power of the networks. “5G is not just ultra high speed, but it offers the advantage of massive number of connections in the world of IoT.

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Big data for SMEsedit

Business Standard

  Data-driven decisions are better than heuristic ones or gut feeling, no doubt. The process of data analytics facilitates companies to understand their business and customers better. Today, we live in a world where customers seamlessly interlope between physical and virtual spaces. This enables them to analyse data, which has become an important tool to develop and expand competitive advantage.

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Industry News: Education

Odisha inks deal for tech varsity campusedit

The Telegraph

  The Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), a deemed university from Mumbai, on Thursday signed a MOU with the Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) to set up a campus in Odisha. The institute will impart skills training to unemployed youths of the state who will be later on engaged in the various downstream of petrochemical industries.

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MoU to support skill development of healthcare professionalsedit

Millennium Post

  The state government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Kingdom’s Health Education England to support skill development of healthcare professionals in Bengal and the UK. This comes at a time when Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is visiting England and Scotland to woo investors and intensify the long cherished bonding between the two countries.

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Mahatma Gandhi University turns to futuristic coursesedit

Deccan Chronicle

  The Internet of things (IoT) is the emerging area of study which connects the network of physical devices, vehicles, home appliances, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity which enable these objects to connect and exchange data.

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With demand rising, solar prices may fall below the current record loW of$2.44, says ISA director generaledit

The Indian Express

  We are already coming out with flexible solar panels now. You can wrap them around a train coach or put them on a wall. Semi-flexible panels are in the market. The next stage is 3-D printing of solar panels which is still at the development stage. It is a matter of just a few years. Once 3-D printing is made possible, the costs of production will come down further, bringing down the prices of solar electricity.

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Renewable sources lag in energy production, total electricity generated by green sources in country less than 7%edit

DNA

  “Renewable energy in terms of electricity generated constitutes for 6-7% of the total electricity generated in the country. Even if renewable energy were to achieve its 2022 target of 175 GW by 2022 and at the current electricity demand growth of 5%, coal would still continue to fulfil over 75% of the electricity generation requirement in the country,” added the report.

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