April 11, 2018

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News for other PEI

Robotic exoskeleton can help correct spinal deformitiesedit

Business Standard  

The RoSE is the first device to measure and modulate the position or forces in all six degrees-of-freedom in specific regions of the torso,” Agrawal said. The study, published in the journal IEEE Transactions of Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, may lead to exciting advances both in characterising and treating spine deformities, he said.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Telecom Sector Hopes Upcoming Policy Will Provide Breatheredit

News18

“Creating an enabling environment for technologies considered science fiction, just a few years ago AI, AR, IoT, Smart city, smart homes, 5G so on and so forth. It will focus on simplifying the regulatory frameworks to aid in quality connectivity-for-all and easing the turf for ease of doing business, make way for foreign investments and strengthen the existing infrastructure.” Mathews added.

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India can lead the next industrial revolution if it plays its cards rightedit

The Print

The world is on the brink of a new, all-encompassing revolution moving at exponential speed. We are witnessing the emergence of innovative technological trends such as artificial intelligence, the internet of things, robotics, 3D printing, nanotechnology, and others with applications as diverse as the technologies themselves.

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How Technology Is Building The Future Workplaceedit

CXO Today

Even our vending machines and coffee dispensers are powered by IoT (Internet-of-Things). Sensors on these devices communicate to our centralized server whenever the vending machine needs to be restocked or the coffee dispenser has run out of coffee beans

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Demystifying the Power of Artificial Intelligence, IoT & Blockchainedit

Analytics Insight

 By Anjali UJ

Inexpensive sensors, reliable networks, and intelligent analytics have flourished Internet of Things (IoT). BCG survey foresees an incremental spending on IoT in years where a major part of spending will be accounted by manufacturing and logistics focussed on areas such as predictive maintenance, fleet management, and self-optimization.

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Centre to monitor climate change effects on public health comes up in Puneedit

Business Standard

The Centre will deploy smart technologies like IoT, Big Data analytics and robotics for a1cademics and field research on health and would be part of the Smart Campus Cloud Network, of TERRE Policy Centre.

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Automation Testing Market Worth 19.27 Billion USD by 2023edit

PR Newswire

The continuous spread of digital transformation across various verticals, and the growing convergence of different technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and analytics, have created an impact in the region and led to an increase in the IT budget as compared to the previous year.

Automation

Industry News: Future of Mobility

Is electric mobility the best solution?edit

Auto X 

Last year I was in Tokyo for the world premiere of the new generation Nissan Leaf. The Leaf is the undisputed champion of electric mobility when it comes to global EV market share, and Nissan had put on the most elaborate press event I have ever witnessed for an electric car. But it wasn’t just Nissan who were all praises for electric mobility. Last year, at every major auto show from Tokyo to New York, electric mobility was being shoved down our throats incessantly.

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Electric vehicles become new trend in fighting pollution in Andhraedit

Business Standard 

In ongoing three-day long ‘Happy Cities Summit 2018’, electric vehicles are the new trend in fighting pollution. The centre of attraction at the summit in Andhra Pradesh’s Amaravati is now electric cars and scooters. During the Summit, Tata Motors put to display its latest electric car Tigor EVC which has all features of a regular car like air conditioning, power steering, four power windows, remote central locking, etc.

Electric Vehicles

Industry News: Education

Right training tech helps cos become talent incubatorsedit

The Times of India

Skill and talent development are mission-critical priorities for organisations. In India, the government has invested heavily in initiatives such as the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). The private sector, too, has channelised time and money into boosting employee productivity. However, Indian entities are still at a nascent stage of building learning ecosystems, adopting learning technology infrastructure and building accountability for learning.

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Jharkhand government to give jobs to one lakh youths through skill developmentedit

Free Press Journal

By training the youths and giving employment to them, there will be qualitative changes in their lifestyle and it will bring prosperity to Jharkhand, he said. Das directed senior officials of the Jharkhand Skill Development Mission Society (JSDMS) at a meeting here yesterday to set up the skill development centres in the backward districts and start the curriculum at the earliest

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The good, the bad and the iffy — for the renewable industryedit

The Hindu Business Line

By M Ramesh

Thus, 2018-19 can be flagged as a brisk year for the Indian renewable energy sector and what happens could tell upon whether or not the country would meet its target of 100 GW of solar and 60 GW of wind by 2022. Incidentally, the government has calculated that meeting the target calls for funding of $83 billion. If banks baulk at lending to wind and solar projects (as some reports suggest), it could be an issue.

Renewable Energy
How India can end energy poverty by 2040edit

The Financial Express

What would be the energy scenario in India in, say, 25 years from now? This is an important political enquiry as the path we choose would have a pivotal role in determining the country’s economic growth, social development and environmental sustainability. But, before gazing into the crystal ball, let’s analyse emerging trends in the sector.

Renewable Energy
Climate change could help harness power using off-shore wind energy: IIT-B researchersedit

The Times of India

By Yogita Rao

Researchers at IIT-Bombay have suggested that global warming could be good news after all, for generating power using off-shore wind energy (from the sea bed). Debunking fears that the changing climate could have an adverse impact on power generation from offshore wind, researchers have concluded that Indian government should aggressively install their plants.

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5,000MW solar park to come up in Dholeraedit

The Times of India

By Kapil Dave

The state government on Tuesday accorded its in-principle approval to the project, which will come up on 11,000 hectares of land along the Gulf of Khambhat in the Dholera Special Investment Region (DSIR). “Gujarat is once again leading the way with the implementation of India’s, and probably the world’s, largest solar park of 5,000MW in DSIR,” chief minister Vijay Rupani said.

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