May 11, 2018

News for the IET

PSB Academy aims to be hotbed for STEM talent with new multi-million-dollar campusedit

Menafn Asia One  Biz Wire Express

PSB’s STEM Campus was officially launched by Assistant Secretary-General for the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), Patrick Tay, with long-time institutional partners from the Labour Movement and universities from the UK and Australia in attendance, together with industry representatives like VX Sports, The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Pearson Education and more.

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IET India IoT Panel joins hands with Exhibitions India Group for the 3rd edition of IoT India Congressedit

New Delhi Times 

IoT India Congress is India’s Platform of Platforms for the Internet of Things conceptualized by IET India IoT Panel, a think tank constituted by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) India. The 3rd edition of IoT India Congress will be hosted in collaboration with India’s leading trade promotion organization Exhibitions India Group during October 9-10, 2018 in Bengaluru.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

The Digitised Farm Of The Very Near Futureedit

Business World  

By Krishna Kumar 

The world will have nearly 0.75 billion hectares of farms (of the 1.5 billion hectares) that will be intelligently inter-connected by the end of the next decade. Artificial learning and Machine Learning programmes will add a new dimension to farmlands with enablers like IoT devices, drones, satellite monitoring and weather-based analytics, which will allow these farms to form a professional network to share data, interpret and derive learnings.

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Skills Required for Data Analyticsedit

News Patrolling 

Also, incremental volume from M2M (Machine to Machine) data through AI and IoT technologies is adding to the growth. The term Big Data has come into vogue due to the shift of analyzing structured relational databases to working with huge amount of unstructured database generated from a variety of sources. There was a need to create tools to analyze and interpret such unstructured datasets

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IoT for better sanitationedit

The Hindu 

The internet of things (IoT) would soon play a key role in improving sanitation, as the government would use the network to keep a check on overflowing and open manholes. The IoT is a network that comprises devices, each with an on-and-off switch, connected to one another by means of Internet.

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Top Competencies Employees Should Have To Robot-Proof Their Jobsedit

Analytics India Mag  

By Smita Sinha

Robots do not have emotions and have no sentimental affection for us. Emotional intelligence plays an important role in an organisation. A person who is highly emotionally intelligent rank high on empathy, listening and self-awareness and also excel at interpersonal interaction. It also allows us to create a relationship with colleagues, customers, provides insights into people’s motive and allows us to predict responses.

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First Indian chip for AI applications developed in Hyderabadedit

Telangana Today 

By B Krishna Mohan

The chip can find use across sectors like healthcare, robotics, defence and space, automotives, surveillance and others. The high performance computing requirements are on the rise due to increased use of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision processing, robotics, Internet of Things, self-driving cars, industrial automation and other segments.

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42 percent of IT Professionals Ignore Critical Security Flawsedit

BW CIO World 

Not only are organizations broadening their online presence, the applications that make-up an online presence are becoming vastly more complicated, with components that speak to mobile devices, other applications, laptops and desktops, and even IoT. These complex connections massively increase the playing field that hackers, good and bad, can use to find and exploit vulnerabilities.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Electric Vehicles To Carry Green License Plates Soonedit

Over Drive 

Adding to this development, minister for road transport and highways, Nitin Gadkari said that exemption from permits will be a game changer as the restricted permit regime is a major concern. E-rickshaw growth is attributable to the permit exemption and there is scope to extend the exemption to the e-buses, e-taxis, e-autos and e-bikes.

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Industry News: Education

When Learning Will Be A Lifelong Necessityedit

Business World 

Yes, there have been a few that have taken advantage of the system and spoilt the path for change and innovation but it’s time to look past that and move the fault line and make tectonic changes and bold ones. The sign boards are changing from words like management, MBA and engineering to the internet of things, virtual reality, big data, analytics, robotics, cloud computing and many more that now define the careers of tomorrow.

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NITI Aayog to scale up scheme for student innovatorsedit

Live Mint  

By Gireesh Chandra Prasad

Our goal is to drive extensive forward and backward linkages within the stakeholders in India, to create a paradigm shift in the student mindset and prepare them to become young innovators and entrepreneurs,” said an official statement from NITI Ayog. The think tank on Thursday awarded 30 teams chosen from schools across the country for the top functional ideas received under the scheme in the areas of clean energy, water resources, waste management, healthcare, smart mobility and agri-tech.

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MeitY launches internship scheme for Tech studentsedit

The Hindu Business Line 

In an effort to enhance skills of the youngsters, the Ministry of Electronics and Information technology (MeitY) on Wednesday launched the ‘Digital India Internship Scheme’ which will offer ₹10,000 per month as stipend to interns.

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Engg seats down by 1.67 lakh, sharpest dip in five yearsedit

The Indian Express 

By Ritika Chopra

AT 14.9 lakh seats, the total engineering intake in the country has witnessed the sharpest fall in five years, according to data released by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) this week. The total number of B.Tech and M.Tech seats this year, across all AICTE-approved institutes, has dropped by 1.67 lakh, which is almost double the dip witnessed in 2017-18.

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Creating a stronger skill ecosystemedit

The Times of India 

The skill development issue in India is pertinent both at the demand and supply level. From the supply side, the issue is primarily related to employability of the workforce due to varying reasons ranging from poor education, lack of training facilities, inadequate skilling, and poor perception of vocational skilling vis-à-vis formal education, among others.

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We’re doing well on green energyedit

The Asian Age 

Yes, it is. But the fact is that we are beginning to move the needle on it. There are two ways. One is offshore financing. There is a very large green bond developing in the world. That is the money which is being raised to be invested in green energy. The money that is abroad can be invested in our renewable projects. This money can be invested in our energy efficient projects.

Renewable Energy
NTPC auction yields solar tariff of Rs 2.73/unit, good responseedit

Business Standard 

Auctions conducted here for solar power projects of 750 MW at Ananthapuram Solar Park in Andhra Pradesh have resulted in tariffs as low as Rs 2.72-73 per unit, state run generator NTPC said on Thursday. Auctions in May last year yielded a record low solar tariff of Rs 2.44 per unit. NTPC sources said the auctions were not for the company but had been conducted by it as part of the Solar Mission programme being implemented by the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.

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Indias clean energy capacity touches 70 GW: MNREedit

India Today 

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy today said India’s installed clean energy capacity has already touched 70 GW and 38 GW is under implementation as per the data compiled till March 31. The 70 GW installed renewable energy capacity in the country is double of the capacity four year back, a Ministry of New and Renewable Energy statement said.

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Despite the surge in renewables, emission levels almost unchangededit

The Hindu Business Line 

By M Ramesh 

“While significant progress has been made in deploying renewables, particularly wind and solar, the deployment of low carbon-energy has not kept up with energy demand growth,” says Lee. The rise in energy-related emissions only shows that the increase in renewable energy capacity additions is not good enough. Clean energy met 10 per cent of global energy demand in 2015

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