Tech Nuter

Another aspect which got introduced being ‘IoT’ (Internet of Things), plays a major role in the transformation of India into a digital economy. Mobile development has gained momentum in the past few years and the trend has progressed from smartphones to IoT and wearable devices. IoT-based solutions are not just for urban India; they offer rural citizens access to services that were earlier out of reach.

CXO Today

In-demand IT roles have started to shift towards including positions focused on advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR), and the Internet of Things (IoT) along with exciting positions within cybersecurity, cloud computing and network technology. Through these observations we have identified the following as some of the key job roles companies require as they transform their businesses and processes for the future:

The Times of India

From artificial intelligence (AI) to internet of things (IoT), the government hopes to harness a host of technologies, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs/drones), to change the way agriculture is practised. But the lack of a concrete plan that shows “how to go about it” means India, and also Karnataka, are still far from making any headway.

By LN Revathy

Link the supply chain in such a way that if there is a lacuna in the production line, there can be an instant alert and the issue addressed immediately,” he said. Asked if the linkage would be possible considering that the sector is highly fragmented and technology investments unaffordable for small and tiny garmenting units, he said “the units should get connected to Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and all production lines connected to Internet of Things.”

The Hindu Business Line

The State has extended seed funding of Rs 3 crore to 21 start-ups and expects to scale up the initiative going ahead, said Gaurav Gupta, Principal Secretary, IT & BT, Karnataka. He was speaking on the sidelines of a workshop on “Technology in Agriculture,” organised under the aegis of “Bengaluru Tech Summit” that emphasised on how new and emerging technologies such as the IOT, drones, smartphones, GIS among others are impacting the agriculture sector.

The Times of India

By Shilpa Phadnis

In the last one year alone, at least 20 development centres have sprung up in countries like Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria and Ireland. Last April, Infosys added its newest facility in Karlovac in Croatia. The centre will service clients in the Nordics, but the focus would be on consolidating consulting, IT and engineering skills in power generation, and design and development of large gas and steam turbines. (Iot)

The Times of India

By Balajee C R

Tamil Nadu governor Banwarilal Purohit inaugurated Foundation for Innovation & Research at Sastra: Technology Business Incubator (FIRST) for 3D Printing and Internet of Things (IoT) at Sastra University in Thanjavur on Wednesday. He also spoke about the importance and potential of technologies like 3D printing and IoT.

The New Indian Express

Speaking after dedicating to the nation Technology Business Incubator (TBI) in 3D printing and Internet of Things (IoT), established at a cost of `15 crore, in the SASTRA deemed university on Wednesday, Purohit said Science and Technology were beacons of economic prosperity and enabled harnessing of resources provided by nature to benefit mankind

Swrajya Mag

Along with the world, India too has planned for a 5G rollout by 2020. DoT secretary Aruna Sundararajan said that the industry, startups and academia need to work in tandem to ensure a successful rollout to support faster broadband, better support for Internet of Things (IoT) and mission critical services.

Business Standard

By Samreen Ahmad

The Centre of Excellence for IoT too has mentored around five to seven agri-based start-ups in the state making farming smarter and efficient. The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms and Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre are other government initiatives working towards green start-ups.

The Economic Times 

We know that IOT is undertaking the world by storm. This article talks further in details about how it is impacting our daily lives. The IOT will connect people to cities, patients to health services and will help in bringing real time consumer behaviour closer to companies. Where is my gift Consider a scenario. You are taking an app for the Shuttle from your Cyber City office

By Abhishek Sharma

The journal provides research information on theoretical aspects as well as applications of ideas in industries or companies on a large-scale. Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics and Internet of things (IoT) are some of the prominent areas on which articles are published. The journal is published every month and is made available online.

The Economic Times

It decoded the key reasons on how Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things & Machine Learning are becoming integral to every industry and business. The panel lists also presented case studies based on their experiences in their respective industry verticals, which was highly applauded by the audience.

CIO

By Vishal Chawla

India’s tech sector has been slowing down over the past few years as growth rates have come down from double digits to single. The slowing down of the sector has led to companies work extensively on innovation, using advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, IoT, machine learning, virtual reality, etc.

Tech Nuter

“Traditional three tier architectures are still at the mainstream of India enterprise infra market. We have seen professional services, and telcos as early adopters and innovators towards adoption of virtualization and using HCI approach for their DC strategy. New age workloads such as IoT, big data analytics, and AI are still at a nascent stage and requires significant efforts from vendors and OEM eco-system towards educating the end-users and its business outcomes.,” says Harshal Udatewar, Server Market Analyst, IDC India.

CXO Today

By Sohini Bagchi

30%40% of mid-level managers at CSS Corp are engaged in reskilling through this initiative, in niche digital technologies including AI, autonomics, augmented reality (AR), cloud, IoT, deep learning, and cognitive computing. The framework brings in greater personalization in employee learning, wherein employees can learn anytime, anywhere, and on any device through Virtual University, Massive open online course (MOOCs) and JAM (a collaborative tool).

ET CIO

The initiative was to acknowledge the efforts put by various state governments in the country and highlight their achievements in bringing the benefits of digital technologies to their citizens. The session covered topics ranging from mobility to cloud to automation and using Internet of Things to make cities smarter.

The Economic Times

India wants to take a lead position in adopting 5G technology and will prepare the road map for it by June, Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan said today. She called upon industry, academia and startups to do their bit to help India become a “frontrunner” in 5th-generation wireless system which enables higher speed mobile broadband, mission-critical services and massive Internet of Things (IoT) deployment.

UNI India

There are two big things that I’m doing right now. One is using the Internet of Things (IOT) to make a meaningful difference in the lives of people. One specific vertical area we’ve identified is agriculture,” said the Hotmail founder.

BGR

Take the instance of video, which now accounts for over 50 percent of all mobile traffic – a figure that is expected to increase to over 75 percent by the end of 2023 and the rise of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) will place new demands on networks in the future. 5G networks will additionally also be optimized for Internet of Things (IoT), which is expected to play a major part in the coming days as the country moves towards a more digital society.

CIO

By Apurva Venkat

India will have a national policy on Artificial Intelligence soon, the initiative being spearheaded by National Institution for Transforming India, NITI Aayog.  The policy will outline the areas of research, adoption, and ways of gaining profits out of the technology.

Tech Nuter

Participants in the study indicated that C-level management does not fully understand the risk related to IoT devices used by third party vendors and only 17 percent of respondents say their organizations’ board of directors have a high engagement and understanding of cyber risks relating to vendors or third parties.

BW Disrupt

By  Regina Mihindukulasuriya

A second key area of investment was in operational improvement; technologies which offer the potential to enhance operations in the oil and gas industry. Startups in this category offer Internet of Things (IoT), analytics, and reserve replacement and enhancement capabilities. Startups working with conventional energy too received attention from the industry’s behemoths; these companies develop products that use hydrocarbon generated energy

The Financial Express

One of the biggest trends in the coming times will be IoT (internet of things) and digital centralisation. IoT has entered the next stage of business promising value instead of potential, convergence/integration and ever more IoT-enabled projects instead of pilot projects. Now, the focus is moving from what IoT can do to what it does, how exactly it fits into business goals and how it generates value.

The Morung Express

The more the devices that are connected to the internet the easier will be life because all facilities will be just a button push away. But experience shows that all good things come with a price tag. Even in the case of IoT, the dangers are many and they have to be guarded against. It is believed that if one thing can prevent the Internet of things from transforming the way we live and work, it will be a breakdown in security.

The Hans India

The improved understanding of how the brain works could lead to exciting medical discoveries that can improve the overall health of the humankind. All in all, the IoT and ubiquitous computing will get a serious shot in the arm as the Smart Dust technologies start to evolve to the next level.

ET CIO

Hybrid cloud architecture: Around 80% of Indian organisations surveyed recently consider cloud to be a key enabler of driving business priorities, a means of simplifying today’s complex infrastructure management practices. Organisations also expressed interest in moving Internet of Things (IoT), application development/testing/deployment, big data/analytics and other related workloads to hybrid cloud by 2020.

Orissa Diary

CRIS organized a day long conference with invigorating technical sessions on the theme of Ártificial Intelligence for innovations in Customer Experience and Service Delivery’. Indian Railways plays a key role in the Indian growth story. The challenge is to improve revenues and enhance customer experience while improving efficiency and reliability of operations.

Business World

Internet of Things or IoT aims to connect interrelated computing, mechanical and digital machines to a common platform. The devices will connect to each other as well as to the humans and will collect information about their environments by sensors. The number of such devices could touch 20 billion by 2020 as per Gartner. As per International Telecommunication Union number of humans using internet is 3.2 billion.

Business World

The Royal Academy of Engineering has issued a report warning that health technology and medical devices could be vulnerable to cyber attack. Evgeny Chereshnev, CEO at Biolink. Tech, said: “When it comes to the Internet of Things (IoT), the risks are there. Almost all types of devices when hacked can turn out to be lethal to users.

The Financial Express

Higher use of automation and data exchange in manufacturing will enhance efficiency, improve profitability, increase innovation, and allow smart management of safety, performance and environmental impact. Factories of the future will encompass cyber-physical systems, advanced analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing, and cloud computing, among others. This is most true in the energy sector.

The Times of India

In a ‘zero screen’ world, all we need is a voice-enabled hardware that connects to a marketplace and a payment portal. So, this is how it will work: All we do is activate a hardware interface and everything is done by the power of our voice, complex AI algorithms and Internet of Things (IoT).

CIOL

By Soma Tah   After Japan and US, this is the third innovation centre of Panasonic globally. We have the capability to produce transformative solutions and develop differentiated platform that incubates Indian startups, innovation ecosystem and create new business opportunities in the space of Internet of Things (IoT).

CXO Today

There was a time when cyber attacks were limited to the financial and technology firms alone. With the expansion of technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), advanced analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT) in almost every business, cyber attacks have also spread their wings. So, if 2017, WannaCry and Petya ransomware were talk of the town, in 2018, Meltdown and Spectre were exposed as perhaps the biggest cyberthreats of all.

Silicon India

The worldwide spending on Internet of Things (IoT) security will reach $1.5 billion in 2018 -a 28 percent increase from the 2017 spending of $1.2 billion, according to a Gartner forecast on Wednesday.

The Hindu Business Line

By Amrita Nair Ghaswalla

As supply chains become increasingly complex, agility and responsiveness are key differentiators that can influence customer retention, and overall profits. The company uses small refrigeration units that it can deliver directly to the stores, and the devices include sensors that leverage internet of things (IoT) technology.

Scroll

The “internet of things” is growing exponentially, and has introduced billions of sensors into our lives, generating unprecedented volumes of data. Blockchain will deliver sensed data we can trust. This technology is still under development, but with lives at stake when autonomous vehicles hit the road in increasing numbers, we must ensure that the liable party is held to account when things go wrong.

Analytics India Mag

By Srishti Deoras

2017 would certainly be remembered as a year that brought data at the focus point with internet of things, big data and analytics being the hero. Its appointment of top data mining experts including Pulok Ghosh of IIM Bangalore only proves their seriousness in these technologies. They have been appointed to essentially analyse the huge flow of data and help the government arrive at the right policy decisions.

Pc Mag

Tech-hungry consumers keep their eyes peeled for major device announcements. Also watching are distributed denial of service (DDoS) attackers who have made the Internet of Things (IoT) their weapon of choice. These nefarious actors exploit millions of vulnerable IoT devices to create sophisticated malware-based DDoS botnets which they then use to initiate devastating attacks.

Analytics India Mag

The financial allocation under the Atal Innovation Mission will be used to fund the programme on a nationwide scale and projects will be granted on the challenge mode. “It has just been announced. NITI Aayog has been working on the subject for a while and will be coming out with a roadmap shortly,” a senior government official had said. (IoT)

The Times of India

Hrishikesh Nair, CEO of IT parks, said specialised zones for different technologies will help create an environment friendly for product companies even while supporting the service companies. “The government of Kerala wants the state to play a prominent role in future technologies and has set up centres of excellence for emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, IoT, blockchain, and mobility.

Live Mint

By Varun Sood

Determining how India’s information technology (IT) industry is making itself future-proof just got more tedious. Industry body Nasscom will not come out with a broader definition for “digital”, the fuzzy umbrella term which each company uses to classify revenue generated from areas generally classified as social, mobile, analytics, cloud computing and Internet of Things, as it believes it is not practical to have a standard definition.

ET CIO

Bangalore: Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming the pharmaceutical industry at a rapid pace. IoT has the potential to enhance almost all the processes of the pharmaceutical industry ranging from clinical trials, drug disclosure, manufacturing, and supply chain to remote patient monitoring, according to GlobalData, a data and analytics company.

Business Standard

It is essential to overcome the challenges in cross-border investigations and mergers while confronting different legal systems, diverse evidence collection mechanisms and so on, he added. Speaking at the event, Competition Commission of India Chairperson D.K. Sikri said the issues related to big data, artificial intelligence, internet of things and blockchain, among others, can pose a number of competition challenges.

The Economic Times

The worldwide spending on Internet of Things (IoT) security will reach $1.5 billion in 2018 — a 28 percent increase from the 2017 spending of $1.2 billion, according to a Gartner forecast on Wednesday.

QRIUS

By Sravya Vemuri

A smart factory, armed with data exchange in manufacturing and the Internet of Things (IoT) is the future and experts are calling it revolution Industry 4.0. Reports peg the smart factory industry to touch US$ 209 billion by 2025, and all major economies are likely to accept it.

CXO Today

The Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced data analytics are all powered and supported by cloud computing, allowing businesses to create endless possibilities in transforming the way we engage with our customers and deliver products and services.

The Economic Times

In a rapidly evolving tech landscape, there are more technologies out there that will change the face of cybersecurity than we have time to learn about. Here is a list of seven important technologies that will change our virtual security forever. (IoT)

Trak

If it is that easy, can you also develop chatbots at your end? In this world where the Internet of things has made impossible seem simple, saying no to anything is no more an option. So, it’s not surprising that with some coding skills, a working internet connection and some logic building capability you can develop a basic chatbot for yourself. Any language like Python or JavaScript along with the help of Tensor flow can be employed for this purpose.

The Indian Express

India’s aspiration to take a leading role in 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) will ride on its ability to build core networks for new-age technologies and an enabling industry ecosystem, DoT Secretary Aruna Sundararajan has said. Terming the next-generation technologies like IoT critical, Sundararajan said the government’s endeavour is to provide an ‘enabling’ policy for growth of the industry and not to impose a ‘heavy regulatory framework’.

Electronics For You

Founded by Sameer Patnaik, Srikant Gupta and Pruthviraj Subudhi, Machstatz Business Solutions provides an end-to-end platform in the industrial IoT field. Their platform can be used to configure smart sensors using Wi-Fi and Lora-based technologies. It can also be used to configure existing production floor machines through drag-and-drop method. The platform is compatible with legacy control systems, sensors and other data sources like ERP and MES.

The Telegraph

A business will be able to comply only by embracing emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, deep learning, Blockchain, sensors and Internet of Things. These technologies will be common in the future workplace, which will have humans and machines coordinating with each other, exchanging information and working synergistically towards a common goal.

Udaipur Kiran

The objective of the military is to protect the nation’s sovereignty by securing its borders and keeping its people safe. With the advent of the Internet of Things, Artificial intelligence is greatly advancing the sector of military intelligence. Military might is now measured by its intelligence and robots, and less by its weapons.

Fortune India

Business leaders constantly think about how they can transform their companies to become more lean, agile and innovative. Today, business is driven by customers who are the new focal point. Customers demand better experiences and innovative products. A business will be able to comply only by embracing emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, deep learning, Blockchain, sensors and Internet of Things.

Analytics Insight

Lately, the Internet of Things keeps on taking all the attention in the world of innovation. The amount of IoT gadgets is quickly multiplying, with projections to reach just about 30 billion by 2020, the majority of them “functioning” with the cloud. In IoT community, sophisticated gadgets utilize the cloud for transmitting and imparting information.

Udaipur Kiran

Since the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show, a multitude of companies has already begun unveiling cloud-based solutions for IoT. Why? Companies that make these IoT devices or smart devices realize early on that they cannot store all the machine intelligence and data in the device itself; this is where cloud computing and cloud storage comes into the picture.

The Economic Times

By Malini Goyal

The Internet of Things (IoT) solution would be made possible for the first time in India by Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd (TPDDL), a joint venture of the Delhi government and Tata Power, which is set to install smart meters and also launch a mobile app for Android (to start with). In the first phase, 2.5 lakh smart meters would be installed in north and north-west Delhi. By 2025,16 lakh smart meters would be operational.

The Hans India

Easy switching between cloud providers with minimal upfront or operational expenses is the biggest benefit of using cutting-edge, top-end data center design. With the rise of an internet of things (IoT) and edge computing, a cloud is going to drive a major growth factor. The implementation in discrete cloud facility has become crucial for enterprises across all sectors.

Analytics Insight

By Udit Agarwal

The manufacturing industry is moving towards industry 4.0, in which automation of various processes is carried out using various techniques of AI. Internet of Things (IoT) generates a huge volume of data which can be analyzed to improve manufacturing processes. Also, the automobile industry is investing heavily in self-driving cars which are powered by AI.

The Indian Express

In chronological terms, the first industrial revolution took place in late 18th century with the advent of steam engines. Then, in late 19th century, it was time for the second industrial revolution with the introduction of assembly lines and mass-production techniques. The third industrial revolution pertains to introduction of electronics and ICT in manufacturing in the 1970s.

The Financial Express

We are committed to collaborations and investments in India to build skills that provide world-class job readiness. We consider India as the preferred destination in applied research and emerging technologies like data science, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT).

The Telegraph

Digital business, or offerings such as analytics, cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT) and mobility, is poised to beat the traditional services and account for more than 50 per cent of the Indian IT sector’s revenue within the next seven years. The trend is already visible. Speaking to analysts at a conference call after its third quarter results, Pravin Rao, chief operating officer, Infosys pointed out client spending was more visible in digital, cloud and IoT at the expense of traditional IT areas.

The Economic Times

India’s aspiration to take a leading role in 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) will ride on its ability to build core networks for new-age technologies and an enabling industry ecosystem, DoT Secretary Aruna Sundararajan said today.

Geospatial World

The geospatial industry should become nimble to absorbing new technologies and methods, and the future is in the realm of IoT, deep machine learning, robotics, and artificial intelligence. Integration of COTS and open source solutions in a seamless manner as a part of Geo ICT along with cyber physical systems will ensure enhanced security. After missing the bus in smart cities, geospatial should form the backbone for the next level ‘smart habitat’ concept.

The India Saga

To further complicate the traditional cyber-crime challenges to policing, new technologies like Internet of Things, Virtual Currencies, Advanced Malware, Artificial Intelligence, etc. have taken the challenges to a new level. Coping with such rapid changing technologies by Police has become a huge task for effective Policing.

Wire 19

By Priya

Talking about the IoT opportunity in India, Dr Neena Pahuja Director General, ERNET, India, said “There are almost 127 devices globally connected to the Internet. We are expecting an economic impact of 11 trillion by 2025.” The 2nd IoT India Expo 2018 was co-organized by the NASSCOM Center of Excellence – Internet of Things (CoE-IoT), the ITPO (India Trade Promotion Organization) and The Exhibitions India Group.

Times Now

Digitally connected health devices such as pacemakers and MRI scanners in an Internet of Things (IoT) era can be fatal as hackers can exploit such devices and harm patients, the Royal Academy of Engineering has warned. In two new reports published by the Royal Academy of Engineering and the PETRAS Internet of Things research hub late on Wednesday, security experts said that cyber attacks on connected health devices are of increasing concern as they could have severe consequences on patient safety.

The Economic Times

By Kritika Suneja

The ministry has sought views of all stakeholders on the draft policy. Prabhu also asked industries to come forward to respond on the changes which would come up on account of Industrial Revolution 4.0. It refers to the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies such as Internet of Things, robotics, artificial intelligence and cloud computing, among others.

Financial Chronicle

How 100 smart cities and digital India initiatives could offer opportunities for AI? Over a period of time, the vision of 100 smart cities will get realised on usages, deployment, and improving the citizens’ quality of life. With respect to newer technology like IoT (internet of things), there is an evolution in our requirement. Under ‘digital India’ campaign, the government is committed to using technology in improving the lives of people by raising productivity, connectivity and logistics.

Business Standard

Newdata from Juniper Research has found that global business spend on cybersecurity solutions will grow by 33 per cent over the next four years, reaching $134 billion annually by 2022. Juniper’s new research, Cybersecurity: Mitigation Strategies for Financial Services, Operators, Enterprise & IoT 2018-2022, found that nearly 70 per cent of 2022 spend would originate from medium-sized businesses, as cybercriminals target “low-hanging fruit”.

The Indian Express

Off-the-shelf smart devices such as baby monitors and home security cameras, can be easily hacked by criminals, say scientists who found disturbing vulnerabilities of devices and networks used in smart homes and Internet of Things (IoT). The researchers disassembled and reverse engineered many common devices and quickly uncovered serious security issues.

CXO Today

“Analysts predict that by 2019, $75 billion will be spent worldwide on information technology (IT) related to remote delivery of healthcare through video conferencing, mobile, e-mail etc,” mentioned the report. 3D-printing, blockchain technology and Internet of Things (IoT) were among the other technologies that could improve the healthcare industry, as assessed by the report.

Wire 19

By Virendra Soni

Malware attacks increased from 7.87 billion in 2016 to 9.32 billion in 2017, while ransomware attacks decreased from 638 million to 184 million, according to SonicWall Cyber Threat Report. SonicWall, the cybersecurity solutions provider, revealed the findings, intelligence, analysis, and research about annual threats from SonicWall Capture Labs in the report.

PC Mag

The Internet of Things (IoT) may be one of the hottest tech buzzwords in the last couple of years but it’s also a mess. It’s chaotic. Devices are insecure; they don’t talk to each other, and they don’t use consistent protocols. And the vast majority are unmanageable, with weak security to boot. As an IT professional, chances are you don’t want them on, or for that matter, anywhere near your network.

Business World

The Internet has revolutionized the world as we know it. Smart manufacturing is the shift that is leading the whole world towards a new dawn and is pushing organisations to explore advanced manufacturing through advanced technologies.

The Economic Times

“The problem with current IoT device security is that both customers and vendors mistakenly think that if you place the device inside your network, and separate it from the wider internet with the help of a router, you will solve most security problems or at least significantly decrease the severity of existing issues.

ET CIO

With an increasing pool of potential use cases growing bigger each day, oil and gas companies are implementing Internet of Things (IoT) in all components of the value chain. More specifically energy firms are looking to connect previously separate assets together, which is referred to as the Industrial IoT, to enable collaboration between machine, device and worker.

CXO Today

According to the report, connected devices (Internet of Things) will further drive payments digitization – in India and globally – with around 30 billion connected devices anticipated globally by 2025. At the same time, cyberattacks cost India an estimated $4 billion annually, and could rise to $20 billion by 2025, with the digitization of payments presenting new challenges for cybersecurity, the report mentioned.

Newstrack

By Sakshi Chaturvedi

Blockchain has the potential and can be implemented across diverse sectors such as banking, education, and health. For instance, we keep our savings, assets and cash with banks because they are trustworthy and secure. However, their data is centralised, making them quite prone to cyber criminals that can bring the entire banking system to a halt. Now consider a person working abroad who wants to send a remittance to his family back home but has to encounter multiple clearances before his family receives it. With blockchain technology, the concept of crypto currency comes into picture, thus resulting in an open-access registry of monetary flows which makes the intermediation of financial institutions unnecessary and even costs less.

Tech Observer While the influence of technology has permeated every industry and sector conceivable, whether it’s Banking, Manufacturing or Healthcare, the role technology is playing in shaping the real estate & construction industry is of transformational nature. Of particular interest is the role new-gen technologies like Blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics are playing in shaping the industry. And among them Blockchain related technologies seems to be most talked about and most misconstrued as well. Industry pundits, across the globe, seem to reckon that Blockchain could have a large and lasting impact on the way real estate gets done, but it requires big changes, not just minor tweaks.

ET Rise

By J. Vignesh

The odds were stacked against Rohit Kumar Pandey, cofounder of artificial intelligence-based healthcare startup Sigtuple. Pandey and his cofounders were up against tough questions like legal requirements, privacy issues, data management and data annotations. All of this for acquiring medical data.

Deccan Chronicle

Utilities can increase their efficiency by using more artificial intelligence (AI) technology, such as software to predict demand swings in the power grid or to control home appliances, consultancy Roland Berger said.

European utilities could achieve efficiency gains of up to a fifth over the next five years using such technology, it said, adding that less than a quarter of firms had a strategy to do this. Power firms across Europe, which previously depended on coal or gas-fired power plants, are having to adapt to the expanding use of renewable power sources and facing a profit squeeze as wholesale electricity prices have fallen.

Analytics India

By Richa Bhatia

AI startups are taking the industry by storm – there is no dearth of early stage, vertical AI startups that have put artificial intelligence and deep learning as the core of their value proposition. But how can venture capitalists and tech savvy investors who may have only a baseline understanding of this emerging technology make good business decisions?

CXO Today

The cyber security landscape is getting increasingly complex. According to SonicWall‘s 2018 Cyber Threat Report, malware attacks totalled more than 9.3 billion in 2017, a year-over-year increase of more than 18 percent. And while ransomware attacks dropped from 638 million to 184 million between 2016 and 2017, ransomware variants increased by more than 101 percent. A key observation is that Ransomware against IoT and mobile devices is expected to increase in 2018 with more people using smartphone and connected devices.

Business World

India’s ambitious vision to build 100 citizen-friendly and sustainable cities, popularly known as “Smart Cities” is easily among the most talked about opportunities in India Inc. recently. In PM Modi’s words, “Cities in the past were built on riverbanks. They are now built along highways. But in the future, they will be built based on the availability of optical fiber networks and next-generation infrastructure”. Riding on the positive impact of the large-scale implementation of initiatives such as GST, NREGA, and Aadhaar, there is a renewed sense of optimism regarding the ongoing urban renewal mission.

The Pioneer

By Ravinder Pal Singh

New-age technologies like the Internet of Things are redefining the way businesses across the globe generate and consume data. Successful businesses thrive on the ability to convert data into insights. In fact, their capacity to continuously analyse data and deploy insights to improve customer experience or to drive new operational efficiencies has now become a core business process to deliver competitive advantage. (DELL)

Live Mint

Infosys Ltd says that Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies “are already being broadly deployed, producing real results, and impacting business strategy” in at least 73% of companies across the globe. Along with other Indian IT companies, Infosys fancies itself a leader in AI.

Financial Express

We live in an age of dramatic change. Urbanisation and industrialisation are growing at a phenomenal pace. By 2030, India’s urban population, for example, will reach 600 million people. That’s nearly twice the size of United States. Concurrently, climate change and its resultant impact are occurring faster. Over the next 40 years, as historic urban migration leads to 150 per cent more energy being consumed, the world needs to cut carbon dioxide emissions by half to contain the adverse impact of these changes. This means we need to rapidly move to a world at least three times more energy efficient.

Deccan Chronicle

By Anand Parthasarthy

Household electrical appliances have been the lifesavers of urban families for decades. But it is only in recent weeks that they have ‘smartened’ up, becoming, simpler and more efficient – thanks to what is being called Internet of Things technology — that is making them Internet driven. The corollary is — they can almost always be controlled from a smart phone. Starting this week, we look at some smart lifesavers that have been launched in India recently.

IT News Online

The market is expected to witness high growth due to high penetration of internet of things (IoT) in agriculture industry and increasing number of IoT device installations in agriculture. The decreasing price of sensors and increasing adoption of cattle facial recognition are facilitating the market growth.

Geospatial World

By Aditya Chaturvedi

Cloud technology is an information technology paradigm that allows ubiquitous access to data and other configurable services over the internet to the users. Cloud is the future of IT evolution and it allows the users to access their data whenever they want and reduces the need for cumbersome data storage.

Business Standard

Smart contracts based on blockchain technology can effectively prevent delay in payments for delivered goods and make it impossible to unilaterally alter original contracts, a local think tank said on Sunday.

Live Mint

By Shweta Sharan

According to a recent report brought out by Google and KPMG, the online education in India will possibly grow from its current $247 million and reach $1.96 billion by 2021. Tracxn tells us that in 2012 alone, there were 2,400 ed-tech start-ups in India and more than 200 new ones coming up every year since then.

The Times of India

Today cyber space occupies a crucial position in national security system. It is an interactive domain made up of digital networks that is used to store, analyse, modify and communicate information. Our dependence on cyber space has immensely increased in all fields -economic, military, diplomatic, social interactions, transportation, banking transactions, education and science & technology. While the cyber space provides a number of facilities, it also brings with it a host of problems for security of communications, data and infrastructure in all the spheres.

Business Standard

Three factors have combined to bring Artificial Intelligence (AI) into widespread application across the global economy — availability of massively parallel computational resources; development of better algorithms to coordinate the activity of computers engaged in AI; and the availability of big data associated with the internet.

The Economic Times

By Saumya Bhattacharya

Is human resources (HR) in trouble? Will technology replace people in HR? Will artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and automation change how it functions — from hiring to managing people? At a time when a Tesla Roadster is hurtling through space, it is difficult to predict the effect of technology. But there are indications that workplace will fast-forward to a future where HR will cease to be what it is.

Financial Express

The recent revolution in digital technology has touched every sphere and facet of lives, and education sector has not been spared. Unlike any other sector, the link between digital technology and education is unique and complimentary. On one hand, digital technology has become the enabler by redefining the very basics of the sector and altering the rules of the game. On the other hand, today’s young minds will decide the future direction of digital technology as they are going to be the innovators of tomorrow. So, equipping our students is key to success in the field. Currently, more than 40 crore Indians use the internet and this number will get doubled in the next four years.

Live Mint

By Arvind Gupta

No discussion in the technology world today is complete without artificial intelligence (AI), data economy and blockchain, among others. Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led India is on course to lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution and provide innovative solutions for a better quality of life. Modi recently spoke at the World Government Summit in Dubai, launched an AI centre in Mumbai and addressed the global information technology (IT) industry at the NASSCOM-WCIT (World Congress on Information Technology), where his central theme was around digital technology emerging as a great enabler to pave the way for efficient service delivery, governance, and improved access to financial inclusion, education, justice, and healthcare.

Live Mint

The regulatory challenges posed by AI fall in three broad categories: market foreclosure and related exclusionary practices; new forms of collusion; and new strategies to implement price discrimination. Additionally, AI will accentuate concerns about technological sovereignty and wealth inequality. While these concerns may seem underwhelming in comparison to the dystopian future shown in Hollywood movies, they are more realistic and have an immediate relevance for public policy.

ET Tech

By J Vignesh

Deep learning is a method of artificial intelligence which is used to help machines do something that is natural to humans- think and take decisions logically. Deep Learning methodologies can potentially help a self-driving car figure out traffic signs or maybe identify defects in a product manufacturing line.

People Matters

By Anushree Sharma

The term “digital” has meant many things, so much so that today it sounds like a “passé” term. When people refer to “Digital 2.0”, they are talking about Augmented Humanity. Shakun Khanna, Senior Director – HCM Strategy and Transformation, Asia Pacific highlighted what this new wave of digital will mean to HR while addressing HR leaders in a CHRO Prime Series Roundtable on “Transformation in the age of digital imperatives.” This article will outline key insights from his session.

Analytics India

By Arindam Paul

Ever since 2016, Artificial Intelligence has been something of a hot topic of conversation among entrepreneurs and the reputed business magnates of the world. In fact, in 2017, the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) was ranked No. 7 on Gartner.com, showing how popular and widespread it had become in just a year.

IT News Online

The global internet of things (IoT) fleet management market size is expected to touch USD 16.86 billion by 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc., exhibiting a CAGR of 20.8% during the forecast period. Introduction of vehicular internet connectivity has triggered the rate of adoption for IoT fleet management. IoT fleet management includes various solutions such as vehicle tracking & monitoring, fleet analytics, fuel management, predictive maintenance, remote diagnostics, and driver performance tracking & monitoring. These solutions enable fleet operators to not only increase their operational efficiency but also assist them in reducing expenses.

Tech Observer

By M Kalam

Like any sector, the growing adotpion of technology is fostering a change in the travel and tourism industry regarding how companies interact with customers. Consequently, travel companies are adopting various technologies to improve operational efficiencies and meet customers’ expectations. “Travel still revolves around meaningful human interactions. However, to be successful, companies need to create a balance between the technological innovations and the human element.

People Matters

With rising Automation, the work dynamics are going to transform completely. How are companies preparing to manage this intrusion?

Business Standard

Cutting-edge technologies like cloud-computing, block-chain, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science would bring in massive changes and also provide new job opportunities to young people

Financial Express

Even as the government aims to increase the manufacturing sector’s contribution to 25% of GDP by 2025 from the existing 17%, the progress in the last two years has belied expectation

BW CIO World

The “Artificial Intelligence Market by Offering (Hardware, Software, Services), Technology (Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Context-Aware Computing, Computer Vision), End-User Industry, and Geography – Global Forecast to 2025” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.

The Economic Times

By Ayan Pramanik British internet technologist and futurist Ben Hammersley says it is important for politicians and policymakers to focus on real problems of the society than telling technology companies to create a blockchain platform or AI research lab. The futurist tells ET’s Ayan Pramanik that fewer people engage in right conversations over use of data and the practices in India are normal.

UNI News

Telecom Minister Mr Manoj Sinha on Wednesday said India was moving towards its flagship Digital India Mission by adopting new technologies. Terming 5G as one of the most important, emerging areas, he said the government has taken steps to set up a test bed for this technology and was also exploring avenues to collaborate with other nations to refine and adopt 5G.

Geospatial World

By- Shilpy Chakravarty

Having right things at the right place and right time is important and Internet of Things (IoT) plays a big role in ensuring the whole process runs smoothly. When we generally talk about IoT, it is generally tagged to electronics, wearables or making lifestyle more personalized and smarter. But there is much more to this technology. One sector where IoT has made a major impact is logistics.

The Economic Times

Cybersecurity, AI top technologies for healthcare firms: Report Cyber security, Big Data analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are among the top technologies employed by healthcare and life sciences firms across the world, a report by global software major Infosys said on Monday

ET CIO

Organizations are increasingly adopting hybrid cloud strategy to improve the way they run their business and deliver new services to customers.

ET Telecom

There’s a dirty little secret about artificial intelligence: It’s powered by hundreds of thousands of real people

Business World

India already has the ecosystem in place. With bright startups, world class professionals, sizeable workforce, state-of-the-art R&D labs, growing smartphone penetration, India has the potential to lead the world in making cities smarter.

Gadgets Now

Big Data analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are among the top technologies employed by healthcare and life sciences firms across the world, a report by global software major Infosys said on Monday.

Indian Express

Scientists are developing a novel platform for artificial intelligence (AI) that can teach computers to learn from experience like humans do. “Cognitive learning is all about teaching computers to learn without having to explicitly programme them.

Financial Express

Experts in the recruiting field agree that AI can help streamline the connection between employers and job-seekers.

Mint

How do companies ensure that their digital journeys remain productive as well as secure, given that most security technologies in the market today are designed for yesterday’s perimeter-based, closed and static environments?

CXO Today

With the fast-paced technological developments, IoT has become a transformative technological tool for the enterprises. As per the industry statistics, 170 billion were spent last year on the IoT initiatives and manufacturing, retail and medical sector have been the leading initiators. At the same time, enterprise security that is becoming even more crucial as the security vulnerabilities in the world of IoT is likely to double up in the year 2018.

Financial Express

By Sudhir Choudhary

Ransomware, which is the fastest growing cybercrime, is expected to increasingly target mobile systems, with Android ransomware kits already beginning to appear on marketplaces.

ET Tech

“ Last year, we saw banks and other partners do a lot of pilots and experiments in areas like Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and the Internet of Things. However, most of these experiments are now complete and we will be seeing these technologies being adopted in larger production-ready projects” Pradhan said.

Mint

By R Shashank Reddy

The controversies surrounding autonomous weapons must not obscure the fact that AI has a number of non-lethal uses for militaries across the world

Business World

As our life converges with Internet for everything that we do it is not very far away that our lives will revolve around artificial intelligence going forward

Business Standard

By Anjuli Bhargava

It may be early days yet, but if the technology and product prove as good as they claim, the benefits for patients will be felt for a long time to come

Zee Business

5G service: The Department of Telecom has started harmonising spectrum in 3,500 megahertz band and 26 Gigahertz band along with E and V band,  said Telecom secretary Aruna Sundararajan

Business World

This budget has provided a major boost to “Digital India” in its attempt to make ‘innovation culture’ in India mainstream and has created a unique window to generate entrepreneurial opportunities for its vast young population

Business Standard

Organisations are responding to the advent of digital in a world that is experiencing change at an exponential speed

CIO

New technologies generate new buzzwords. Cloud, fabric, bitcoin, blockchain, containers, microservices, and so on. Artificial intelligence (AI) as a technology and term has been around for decades, but only recently seems buzzworthy. Unfortunately, some vendors are associating the buzzword with their products without having any real AI.

Business Standard

The complex reality of today’s telecommunications systems will only accelerate further with the introduction of 5G, IoT and ongoing industry digitalization. Machine intelligence, using machine learning and other AI technologies, is vital to handling this complexity with more efficiency.