January 16, 2018

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Wipro launches Internet of Lighting to power indoor & outdoor lightingsedit

India City Blog

 

With the emergence of IoT and Big Data, Smart and Connected digital lighting based solutions are the way forward as they will bring in intelligence & functionality into lighting systems, enhance user experience and deliver desired outcomes for customers. Wipro Lighting’s alliances with International Technology companies will usher a new revolution in work-lives.

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Why 2018 Will be Year of Blockchain?edit

BW CIO World

 

Arising convergence of Blockchain with other emerging technologies, i.e., Big Data, AI, IoT and cloud is what is seemingly breaking the silos, enabling real disruption and transformation. Today, we can find plenty of use cases of AI-Cloud-Data-Blockchain in autonomous vehicles, digital rights, e-governance, precision medicine and other areas. Industries across sectors are trying to build various use cases of Blockchain, with many PoCs planned for roll-out in 2018.

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Vodafone, Idea Cellular may start their operations as one entity from April: Reportedit

Giz Bot

 

Sustained investment by the combined entity will accelerate the pan-India expansion of wireless broadband services using 4G/4G+/5G technologies, support the introduction of digital content and ‘Internet of Things'(IoT) services as well as expand financial inclusion through mobile money services for the benefit of Indian consumers, businesses, and society as a whole.

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The Fantastic Fiveedit

Fortune India

 

By Ashish Gupta

The trouble with multiple connected devices is that the quantum of data produced is so vast that it becomes difficult to process it. Issues such as high latency—the time taken for sending the data from one device to another—would reduce the effectiveness of IoT. But a dramatically faster 5G network, with its inherently low latency, would not be beset with this problem.

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Telecom operators are not properly prepared for cyber-attacks: A10 Networksedit

ET Telecom Vulnerabilities in Internet of Things (IoT) devices and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems will lead to physical – not just digital – damage of some type in 2018. Hopefully the scale of damage will limit casualties to controller components. Unlike stuxnet and flame targets, IoT and SCADA devices are leveraging common open-source frameworks that are easy to fingerprint and hard to patch after installation, making them prime targets.

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New Printable Thin Films Could Help Power Internet of Thingsedit

News18

 

Scientists, including one of Indian origin, have designed printable, organic thin films for “neuromorphic” computers inspired by the human brain, which will help power Internet of Things. Internet of Things (IoT) need components and chips that can handle huge quantities of data. In 2020, there will already be 50 billion industrial internet sensors in place all around us.

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KTR-led Telangana delegation meets top investors in Seouledit

The Hans India An agreement was signed between Govt of Telangana and MOIBA (Korea Mobile Internet Business Association) to collaborate in the AVCGI, AI, VR, AR, IoT and Electronics manufacturing sectors. The delegation met Choi Dong Jin, Executive Director, and representatives from MOIBA – an association of about 500 Mobile Internet companies based in South Korea

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Global RF Test Equipment Market 2017-2023: Increasing Deployment of IoT Technology-Based Devices for Various Applicationsedit

IT News Online The major factors driving the growth of the RF test equipment market include the growing adoption of wireless networking in in-building communication systems, rising focus on developing 5G network-based devices, and increasing deployment of IoT technology-based devices for various applications such as telecommunications, automotive, aerospace & defense, and consumer electronics.

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Global Engineering Software Market, 2025 – Introduction of IoT / Wide Spread of Factory Automation / Emergence of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems / Oil & Gas Explorationedit

IT News online Engineering Software market operates in a highly-competitive marketplace. As leading companies in this market continues to broaden its addressable market, by expanding its current product portfolio, diversifying its client base, and developing new applications and markets, all the prominent players faces an increasing level of competition, both from start-ups as well the leading global technology and industrial companies in the world. (IoT)

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From IKEA India to MG Motor, this startup’s workforce management solution finds many takersedit

The Economic Times

 

By Chhavi Tyagi

The platform also offers integrations with major CRM, ERPs, Payment Solutions, IoT devices, Smart Home Appliances, Cloud Telephony, etc. “The platform can essentially integrate with any applications, devices and tools to ensure the companies have a full 360-degree view of their field originations and can operate at the highest level of efficiency and productivity,” says Balaji.

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Financial Institutions Employ Effective Management of Big Data and Analytics to Meet the Demands of Businessedit

PR Newswire “A growing number of financial institutions are seeing the light: big data expenditures in this sector accounted for 19 percent, or $9.2 billion, of the $48.4 billion global BDA market in 2016, addressing issues and opportunities including security and privacy; data governance and blockchain; risk management and regulatory compliance; AI; and IoT.”

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CES 2018 brought disruptive technologies closer to our livesedit

ET Telecom

  Artificial Intelligence (AI) being showcased at the CES 2018 exhibition was seen to be entering new areas like farming and sea rescue. The Internet of Things (IoT), Virtual Reality (AR) and Augmented Reality (AR), Robotics, 5G technology, smart cities and digital health brought hundreds of large and small companies here, vying with one another in offering their wares.

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Amazon Echo devices now offer more than 12000 skills to Indian usersedit

Digit These new skills bring the total number of skills available for Indian customers to more than 12,000. The Alexa service is always getting smarter, be it features and skills, or Internet of things natural language understanding and accuracy. Because Alexa’s brains are in the AWS cloud, she continually learns and adds more functionality, every hour, every day.

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A mirror that advises on skincare, gives beauty tipsedit

The Times of India

 

By Pankaj Doval The advent of internet-of things (IoT), which means the inclusion of sensors in almost everything that is used at home, is already adding shades of intelligence to devices. And connectivity between them, especially enabled by voice, means that you can control them by giving voice commands using Amazon’s Alexa, or Google’s Assistant, or Microsoft’s Cortana or now Samsung’s Bixby.

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Industry News: Education

Vikas Bharti to connect 10,000 youths with Skill Developmentedit

The Pioneer

 

Vikas Bharti, Bishunpur celebrated its 35th foundation day on Sunday with a pledge to connect 10,000 youths with skill development programmes in the State. A farmer’s fair was organised at Sato village on the occasion, while Secretary of Ramkrishna Mission Ashram, Ranchi, Bhaweshanand Ji Maharaj chaired the main programme.

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Union Skill Development Minister stresses on youth employability through technical collaborations in Odishaedit

E Gov

 

Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Dharmendra Pradhan has urged global companies of repute in refining and petrochemicals technologies to collaborate with premier technical institutes of Odisha. This will not only provide special training to youths of the State but also increase their employability.

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Focus on education, skill development in NDMC budgetedit

The Hindu

 

By Soumya Pillai

The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) presented its budget for 2018-19, laying focus on education and skill development, especially for girls. The council announced the formation of an Under-10 football team for female students. While presenting the budget at the NDMC Convention Centre, chairperson Naresh Kumar said the council has proposed to form football teams at Navyug School, Sarojini Nagar; NP Co-Ed Senior Secondary School, Lodhi Road; and NP Bengali Girls Senior Secondary School, Gole Market; to inculcate a culture of sports among girls.

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Esri, UberMedia announce partnership to provide retailers with location specific dataedit

Geospatial World As mobile commerce and the Internet of Things (IoT) continue to mature, the ability to make sense of seemingly unconnected data sources about stores, inventory, shopper traffic patterns, digital offer success rates, and even social media interactions will require a new level of context that only location can provide.

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Safeguarding solar poweredit

Business Standard The proposal by the Directorate General of Safeguards to impose a 70 per cent safeguard duty on solar cells and panels from China, Taiwan and Malaysia partly exemplifies the limitations of the “Make in India” policy in fulfilling challenging targets.

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Renewable generation costs continue to fall: IRENAedit

ET Energy World

  For new projects commissioned in 2017, electricity costs from renewable power generation have continued to fall significantly compared to the fossil fuels, according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). It estimates onshore wind is now routinely commissioned for $4 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh). The current cost spectrum for fossil fuel power generation ranges from $5-17 cents per kWh.

Renewable Energy
Renewable energy ambition needs more moneyedit

Live Mint

 

By Kanika Chawla

New and innovative means are needed to build new markets for visionary targets. In addition to large renewable energy projects, policies to spur greater development in the solar rooftop and electric mobility sectors have become increasingly important. In the 2018 budget announcement, the government must focus on ways to use public money most effectively.

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Maharashtra transmission company to purchase 1000 MW solar power in 2018edit

ET Energy World Maharashtra transmission company to purchase 1000 MW solar power in 2018 In a move to boost solar energy production in Maharashtra, Mahavitaran, the power transmission company of the state government, is planning to purchase 1000 MW solar power this year.

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IFC Set to Invest Rs 2,800 crore in MP Solar Parkedit

The Economic Times

 

By Sachin Dave

The investment will be in the form of debt in three companies –– Mahindra Renewables, Acme and Actis –– that are setting up units in the solar park, a person close to IFC told ET. The 750-megawatt park already has commitments from Mahindra Renewables, Acme and Actis. “This investment by IFC will be in the form of debt in the three companies that are setting up the units, each of 250 MW,” a person in the know said.

Solar Power
Govt tweaks sourcing clause for solar panelsedit

Business Standard

 

By Shreya Jai

Till last year, 10 per cent capacity in each tender issued by the Centre for solar power projects was kept aside for domestic content sourcing. This was 50 per cent earlier and was brought down after the first appeal made by the US in the WTO in 2014. Major PSUs such as NTPC and Coal India have committed to build solar power generation capacity from domestic content.

Solar Energy
Domestic solar panels to get only EPC, subsidy-backed projectsedit

Business Standard

 

By Shreya Jai

As India faces heat at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for giving preference to domestic solar manufacturers in its renewable energy programme, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has made changes to the content sourcing policy. This comes at a time when the domestic solar manufacturing industry has sought safeguards and anti-dumping duty on import of solar panels from China and Malaysia.

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Are Lithium-ion batteries too pricey for India’s renewable market?edit

Down To Earth

 

The high costs are largely due to the high capital expenditure associated with manufacturing of lithium-ion battery,” said Dash. “Coupled with the high cost of debt in India, which is around 12 per cent, it is going to be more expensive initially.” Li-ion battery manufacturing is still nascent in the country and the conversation continues to be in terms of dollars per unit.

Renewable Energy
70 per cent Safeguard Duty will significantly damage the solar industryedit

ET Energy World This recommendation comes in the wake of the pending Anti Dumping Investigation and, if adopted, may end up protecting a handful of domestic solar manufacturers. Also, the costs for such protection are going to be very high and may significantly impact India’s Solar Mission, which was launched in 2010 and which has an ambitious target of achieving 100 GW solar capacity.

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