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Cloud-Based IoT Monitoring Of Pillbox Usageedit
Electronics For You Low medication adherence is detrimental to all major healthcare parties—from patients to healthcare providers to insurance companies—eventually adding millions of dollars to the healthcare deficit. Patients who fail to adhere to a strict medication regiment remain ill longer, become frequent users of the emergency room, and often return to the hospital for issues that could have been prevented by maintaining medication protocols. (IEEE)
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India’s 5G, IoT ambitions to ride on core networks, enabling ecosystem: Telecom Secyedit
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’.
5G TechnologyIoTIIoT Solutionsedit
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.
IIoTStart-upsHumans and machines will collaborate in workplace of the futureedit
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.
Artificial IntelligenceInternet of ThingsMachine LearningAmazing Advances in Asia’s Military AI and Robotsedit
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.
Artificial IntelligenceInternet of ThingsIndustry News: Future of Mobility
Startup develops electric car that can be 3D-printed for a cost of Rs 5 lakhedit
An Italian startup XEV in collaboration with Polymaker, a developer of 3-D printing material has developed a car which can be 3-D printed and is ready to be mass produced. The car which costs just USD 7,500 (Rs 4.87 lakh) is named LSEV. According to the creators of the car, it took just three days to build it.
Electric VehiclesLithium-Ion batteries have reduced diesel generators to emergency backup: Atul Arya, Panasonic Indiaedit
By Ankush Kumar
Japanese multinational electronics giant Panasonic Corporation is bullish about its India energy storage business. Lithium-ion batteries have made it possible to completely remove Diesel Generators or minimize their need to an extent where DG sets only work as emergency backup, Atul Arya, Head-Energy Systems, Panasonic India tells Ankush Kumar in an exclusive interview.
battery technologyElectric VehiclesNeed plan to redeploy displaced auto workers post EV switch: Par panel to govtedit
The government should make ‘concerted efforts’ in planning a road-map to redeploy the employees in the conventional automobile sector who would be displaced with the changeover to electric mobility, a Parliamentary panel has said. In its report tabled in Parliament today, the Standing Committee on Industry observed that the economic ramification of switching to pure electric vehicle technology “has to be given priority by the Government, as any laxity in proper planning and implementation could affect millions of jobs in the auto sector”.
Electric VehiclesLack of awareness on subsidy hits sale of electric vehiclesedit
By Ajay Moses
Three years after the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises launched Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles (FAME) — a scheme to subsidise the sale of Electric Vehicles (EV) — Telangana finds itself at the 10th position in the sale of EV vehicles. Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, meanwhile, stand at fifth and sixth positions respectively.
Electric VehiclesJudicious mix of propulsion tech ideal for greener motoring in Indiaedit
By Mayank Dhingra
With rising pollution levels and rapidly depleting air quality contributing 14 percent to overall global emissions, the global automotive industry is doing its bit to drive away from conventional propulsion means and take to newer technologies. While vehicle electrification has the potential to emerge as a solution for a sustainable tomorrow, it, however, cannot be bracketed as the one-size-fits-all solution.
Electric VehiclesE-vehicles one step closeredit
By Rohit P.S
Telangana is warming up to electric vehicles even before a policy is put in place to make commute in the State eco-friendly. Bringing e-vehicles one step closer to roads, the Road Transport Authority (RTA) has accorded permits to dealers for temporary registrations in the State. An e-cart and e-rickshaw-maker opened a sales showroom recently in Kukatpally and Uppal, respectively. Before these vehicles can be put on the road, the process of registration begins with temporary registration.
Electric VehiclesIndustry News: Education
IITians should aspire to achieve best for society, says President Kovindedit
During the occasion, he also inaugurated the Institute of Chemical Technology-Indian Oil Corporation (ICTIOC) Bhubaneswar campus and also laid the foundation stone for the Skill Development Institute of Oil PSUs at IIT Bhubaneswar campus. The President said this demonstrates the commitment of the Central government to the development of Odisha.
Higher EducationSkill DevelopmentIEW Shows The Way Ahead for IoT and Startupsedit
The new normal.’ Key industry stalwarts who participated in the panel discussion included Rahul Tongia, scholar, researcher and a fellow at Brookings India; Satish Jamadagni, VP, NPE, Reliance Jio; Neelesh Mantri, GM – innovations, SB Energy (SoftBank Group); Amith Singhee, senior technical manager, IBM Research; Snigdha Singh, executive director technology division, Morgan Stanley; and Martin Woolley, technical programme manager for the EMEA region, Bluetooth SIG. (IOT)
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Kerala: School rooftops soon to turn solar plantsedit
By R Ayyapan
The eight networked solar projects include installing plants in various buildings under six districts panchayats: Kozhikode (44 buildings), Kannur (29 buildings), Malappuram (11 buildings), Kasargod (3 buildings), Kollam (4 buildings), Kottayam (one building). The other two networks are four buildings under the Central government and local bodies in the southern zone, and two buildings under Attingal municiplality.
Renewable EnergySolar EnergyIt should worry India that China wants to be the undisputed renewable growth leaderedit
The Print The inauguration of the International Solar Alliance, a partnership of 121 countries, is intended to harness solar energy for the burgeoning energy demand of developing countries. As an India-led treaty-based organisation, the alliance is as much about access to clean energy as it is about India’s bid for moral and economic leadership in the emerging renewable energy market.
Renewable EnergySolar EnergyIndia To Meet Solar Capacity Addition Target Of 10,000 Mwedit
The Economic Times By Kaavya Chandrasekaran India is set to meet its target of adding 10,000 MW of solar capacity in 2017-18, almost twice that of the increase in 2016-17. The country had added 5,526 MW of solar capacity in the last fiscal, which was itself a record at the time. “Our cumulative capacity was 19,584 MW in end-February, and we will be crossing 22,000 MW by March 31,” said Anand Kumar, secretary in the ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE).
Renewable EnergySolar EnergyAre Renewables Still The Live Wire?edit
By Anurit Kanti
The government has persevered to build and strengthen India’s renewable energy sector in the last four years, and its achievements are reflected in the way the share of renewables in India’s total energy capacity has risen to almost 19 per cent by 2017-end,” says Mahesh Makhija, Director – Business Development & Commercial (Renewables), CLP India.
Renewable Energy