January 18, 2018

News for the IET

Tax on hardware should be reduced from 18% to 5% to boost IoT: Aerisedit

ET Telecom

As far as IoT deployments are concerned devices form a key input. To bring down capital investments, we need to seriously look at lowering tax on hardware from 18 to 5 percent. This will give a flip to IoT projects in the country.

Dr. Rishi Bhatnagar: Chairman of IET India IoT panelIoT

Industry News: Information and Communications

Here’s how enterprise communication will change in 2018edit

ET Telecom

With most data moving to the cloud, there has been an explosion in communication sector that promises increased productivity and enhanced customer experience.

Enterprise CommunicationIoT
AI, AR, ML, VoLTE To Boom In 2018: Deloitteedit

CXO Today

As enterprises in India embrace technology to bring transparency and efficiency in business operations, data assumes center stage in decision-making, setting the stage for tools such as advanced analytics and machine learning to usher value-chain efficiencies, a Deloitte India spokesperson said.

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Artificial Intelligence To Drive 4.5% Rise In Global IT Spending In 2018edit

Bloomberg Quint

Global spending on information technology is expected to rise 4.5 percent from last year as businesses increasingly adapt newer technologies such as artificial intelligence, internet of things and blockchain.

Artificial Intelligence
How ‘Internet of Things’ can boost India’s smart city missionedit

Business Standard

The Internet of Things (IoT) has created a worldwide network of smart, connected devices that enhance our lives, economies, and businesses. And this network is rapidly growing.

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Building a data-driven organization with IoT and AIedit

CIO

IoT and AI will bring large and diverse data sets that will result in new challenges. Here’s how organizations can leverage these technologies to become data driven.

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Industry News: Education

Boost for education: Why freeing online education is a big step forwardedit

Financial Express

Getting a higher GER, of course, cannot simply be achieved by freeing up universities—it requires a considerable step up in the levels of school education.

Education

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Why Modi government doesn’t look serious about 100GW of solar power by 2022edit

 

Daily O

While we in India must feel proud having achieved a solar power capacity of over 15GW so far – and justifiably so – it would be useful to keep the goal of 100GW by 2022 too in sight.

Solar Energy
With solar boom, 5.6GW RE added in 9 monthsedit

The Hindu Business Line

The solar power sector continues to drive the addition of renewable energy capacity in the country. Also, rooftop solar capacity is in the verge of crossing the 1GW mark during this fiscal. In the first nine months of this fiscal, the renewable energy sector added 5,603MW of new capacity, of which 85 per cent came from solar. The clean energy sector had added 4,341MW of new capacity in the same period previous fiscal.

Solar Energy
70 per cent safeguard duty on solar will put Rs 12,000 crore projects at riskedit

ET EnergyWorld

India auctioned around 4,000 Mw of solar projects last year (2017) which are currently under implementation now. Orders for modules are typically placed with a lead time of one year. Around 3,000 Mw of capacities would be yet to tie up their module requirements, assuming 1,000 Mw of excess inventory to be in transit.

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