Business Today

The commerce and industry ministry is setting up two more task forces to plan the use of big data and artificial intelligence in government processes and chalk out the country’s response to the changing trade dynamics.

The Economic Times

Shahid Akhter, editor, ET HealthWorld spoke to Prashant Akhawat, COO, Telerad Tech, Bangalore to know more about impact of artificial intelligence in teleradiology.

Mint

A look at how Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, Internet of Things, 3-D printing and mixed reality—a combination of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality—are transforming businesses.

Mint

Digital technologies are hastening the evolution of the insurance sector. Insurance in the foreseeable future will be evaluated, bought and consumed in real time. These were some of the topics discussed at the recent Digital Insurance round table, conducted by Mint along with SAP.

Gadgets Now

The meetings discussed the need to work collectively to better manage technology challenges like data privacy and security issues, especially in the context of next-generation technologies i e artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, big data in priority sectors that have huge social impact including healthcare, fin-tech and social inclusion

Tech Story

We are surrounded by tech connected to the internet 24/7. Be it our phones, laptops, or smart speakers. This is called the internet of things. The internet of things is constantly evolving and before we know it, it will penetrate every home appliance, vehicle, or gadget we use, from fridges to cars. AI will be incorporated into these things. They will make the product suited exactly to your needs. But, how does this help e-commerce or businesses?

Telangana Today

It’s a known fact that blue-collar jobs are at the brink of being vanished because of disruptive technology. The corollary to this theory is that robots wouldn’t be able to surpass intellectual power of a white collar employee.

Analytics Insight

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technologies have been in vogue since the 2000’s, the last few years have seen meaningful growth, driven predominantly by the manufacturing, financial services and healthcare industries.

Financial Express

With growing economies, emerging talent and connected population, APAC is potentially a key region to drive the growth of Artificial Intelligence

Business World

Global demand for AI talent has doubled in the past three years, and hiring in India alone is expected to see a 60 percent rise by the end of this year. There has been an increase of 186 percent in the number of job seekers looking for work opportunities in the robotics sector in India between May 2015 and May 2018.

Geospatial World

If we produce something capable of passing the Turing test – something capable of mimicking human responses under certain conditions to such a degree that it can be declared true artificial intelligence – what does that mean? What is sentience? Is it empathy? Is empathy created or innate? If we create an artificial intelligence capable of displaying empathy, does that mean empathy is engineered, or have we managed to create true intelligence in a computer brain?

Asian Age

From Silicon Valley to Wall Street, there’s increasing demand for highly-skilled workers in Artificial Intelligence and machine learning. But there’s a limited pool of talent, and viable candidates who smell the desperation are putting a high price on their skills.

TechStory

Healthcare has always been a difficult industry to tap into. Every day, new devices and procedures are launched but are not adapted readily because patients may be at risks. Yet, in the past one decade, a major player has entered the healthcare industry – artificial intelligence.

ET HealthWorld

The most important thing what we see here is through AI algorithms the entire report which is generated will have specific details and primarily it will increase the efficiency and productivity of a radiologist where he can validate the output that is generated and in case he needs to add and sign the report.

MoneyControl 

Thinking of just “digitising” existing business processes, and not overhauling them, would only give incremental benefit, but that won’t differentiate them from competitors.

The Economic Times

We all have heard at least one description of what blockchain is, and perhaps that description had something to do with money or cryptocurrency. But, blockchain technology has broader applications than cryptocurrencies. In the future, blockchain technology could be a part of many everyday business-to-business transactions, including those powered by enterprise applications.

CIOL

The technology that not only supports cryptocurrencies but is also apt for businesses, Blockchain has gathered a lot of traction very recently. Eliminating the intermediate authorities, Blockchain has gained prominence in various sectors including financial services, banking, insurance, retail, cloud, and IoT. This helps in streamlining the businesses and governance and non-profit activity. When it comes to the future of Blockchain, it is likely said that it is the Future.

BW Smart Cities

Smart cities have emerged as a potential job creator in the past few months. Many new-age profiles are likely to witness potential growth especially in the areas of ICT (Information Communication Technology), Data Management & Analytics and e-Governance.

Business Today

Intelligent automation (IA) is the fastest growing technology with the greatest power for disruption. Faced with enormous IA opportunities, what is in store for enterprises going through the IA journey?

Analytics India Magazine

Artificial Intelligence has begun to make its mark in the fields of science, including physics, to solve some of the greatest problems that are otherwise difficult, time-consuming, or even impossible for humans. This article lists some of the application areas in physics where artificial intelligence has been largely explored.

Money Control

The society now needs to “reconfigure’ itself to understand and adjust in the technology driven era, he told PTI, adding India is ten years behind the impact as compared to developed nations.

Tech Observer

The potential privacy implications which come with the advent of IoT are too alarming to ignore, warns UK-based leading data and analytics company GlobalData

CXO Today

IoT (Internet of Things) is not just a buzzword in the field of technology today, it is already underway as we get to see its practical implementation in the corporate world.  IoT is a network of embedded electronic devices equipped with software that communicate with each other in real time via the internet. It consists of a connected ecosystem that transmits information about the physical environment beyond the limits of traditional devices like desktop, tablets and mobiles.

Mint

The healthcare field is ripe for transformation by Artificial Intelligence (AI). One specific area is precision healthcare, ushering in a level of tailored treatment never before seen.

Analytics India

The global retail industry is buzzing with excitement, thanks to software powerhouses and digital market players focusing their resources on developing various retail applications including supply chain and logistics, product optimisation, in-store navigation, payment and pricing analytics, inventory and CRM.

Times of India

Purpose limitation is one of the bedrock principles of a data protection architecture. This is a principle which has been strongly recommended by the experts government has consulted in its attempt to have a frame of reference when it writes a data protection law.

Financial Express

The Indian telecom sector has witnessed a paradigm shift—crossing the billion-user mark and rolling out new technologies along with other leading markets. Just four years ago, it faced multiple challenges—falling revenues and increasing debt were wreaking havoc. The new government initiated many steps, and with BharatNet, EoDB, GST, easier M&A rules and the draft National Digital Communications Policy 2018, the government remained forward-looking.

CIOL

Digital transformation or business automation is all about making your business future ready, however, challenges are there. In which legacy infra and cost are one of the major challenges. Though solutions are available enabling decade old hardware to communicate with the new hardware and software, the fear comes as cost.

Indian Express

With an aim to prepare its officers for the impending adoption of big data analytics and its relevance in the telecommunications sector, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is planning to send them to China for a training course on the influence of big data in November, where the officials will be trained on several parts of the application of big data.

ET Telecom

Manufacturers today face unprecedented pressure, with rising operational and market challenges. They must manage evermore complex global supply chains and new logistics models, embrace new ways of working, and cope with the constant threat of cyber attacks. At the same time, customers are demanding more customized products and yet customer loyalty is more difficult to maintain as competition intensifies.

CXO Today

Big data and business analytics revenues will total $166 billion globally this year, an increase of 11.7% over 2017, according to a new update to the Worldwide Semiannual Big Data and Analytics Spending Guide from International Data Corporation (IDC). The forecasts worldwide revenues for big data and business analytics (BDA) solutions will reach $260 billion in 2022 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.9% over the 2017-2022 forecast period.

ET CIO

Emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), play a critical role in enabling companies to be ubiquitous, always available, and connected to business ecosystems to survive in the near future.

Financial Express

India’s digital sector has been projected to reach $1 trillion and create 75 million jobs by 2025, which will lead to an inclusive, empowering and transformative impact.

Business Standard

The rate at which deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is increasing, it will be widely available to the masses in the next 10 years, says a new Gartner report. Movements and trends like Cloud computing, the “maker” community and open source will eventually propel AI into everyone’s hands, said the report titled “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2018” on Tuesday.

People Matters

To avoid ambiguity while choosing a relevant tech solution for the talent challenge HR is trying to solve, being able to differentiate between automation and AI is imperative. The clarity helps HR in leveraging AI & Automation for superior performance.

Business World

Some of the healthcare solutions that can make smart cites truly healthy and smart are telehealth, mHealth apps, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Hospital Management Information system (HMIS) and IoT based healthcare technologies. However, the need of the hour is to deliver these sophisticated solutions through an integrated platform that can connect all stakeholders in the care continuum including citizens, doctors, pharmacies, diagnostic labs and municipal authorities.

The Economic Times

The debate around Artificial intelligence (popularly called AI) has begun with extreme and not so extreme views about how it will impact jobs and particularly jobs in the MSME sector. The fact of the matter is that technology is ubiquitous, kind of a hygiene in every sector and every job, it’s just that with the rise of computing power, server capacity and massive connectivity, the AI promise has become more certain and can’t be ignored any further.

ET CIO

Every day at enterprises large and small, artificial intelligence (AI) is charting new frontiers and outperforming the Turing test (which gauges a machine’s ability to mimic human intelligence). AI is augmenting the workplace not only in what we do but in how we interact via wearables and the Internet of Things (IoT). This gives a new meaning to enterprise security where basic elements like authentication and authorization continue to be the key but need to evolve.

Mint

It turns out that while firms that are involved in the smart cities programme stand to make more money as they roll out new sensors, each with an Internet of Things (IoT)-based connection to their own application, as well as to other related smart cities applications, the weakest link in smart cities installations may also actually lie at this sensor level.

BW Smart Cities

The Internet of Things (IoT), a key driver of smart cities is championing the unison of machines/things, people, volumes of data and processes worldwide in order to build cities that are efficient, economically viable and people friendly. WebNMS IoT, a division of Zoho Corporation is one such integrated IoT platform with multiple capabilities that cover energy management, remote site monitoring and vehicle tracking.

Tech Circle

SAP Labs’ Bengaluru centre hosts the company’s research on the Internet of Things and has the ownership for its Asset Intelligence Network, a cloud-based collaborative asset management platform. In a conversation with TechCircle, Mahesh Nayak, chief operating officer of SAP Labs India, speaks about how the company has evolved its business in the age of artificial intelligence, IoT and machine learning for large enterprises.

The Hindu Business Line

The Defence Ministry will soon come up with a detailed roadmap on working closely with the industry on leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) — latest technology that emphasises on creation of intelligent machines that work and react like humans — in Armed Forces, said Ajay Kumar, Secretary, Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence.

Analytics Insight

Deep learning might be an overhyped term in Artificial Intelligence (AI) among the modern technologies today, but there is a good possibility that it will drive the business processes of tomorrow. For newbies entering the workforce—or strategizing to position their careers in the long term—this will be an appropriate time to understand its implications effectively.

PC Magazine 

In fact, it’s those all-in-one devices—the ones that can both print and scan—that have suddenly evolved into true Internet of Things (IoT) devices, quietly running amidst the background noise of your network with absolutely no security. As of now, that’s a problem.

The Edition Time 

The Internet of Things (IoT) in Healthcare market report begins with the synopsis of chain arrangement of Internet of Things (IoT) in Healthcare industry, interpret the evolution of industry, current position, Internet of Things (IoT) in Healthcare size and categorization of this industry on account of both Internet of Things (IoT) in Healthcare market top contributors, and essential places, facilities and product forms, program and thus forth.

The Economic Times 

Consulting and implementation service providers have retooled their service offerings over the past several years to support customers on their digital transformation journey. Security is a key factor in the uptake of that transformation process for regulated data, critical operations and intellectual property protection spanning public cloud, SaaS and the use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

The Financial Express 

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one technology that nobody can seem to get enough of! Such is AI’s incredible potential that it won’t be surprising if future business battles for market supremacy get played out as virtual ‘AI wars’ between companies. Consider this: Forrester predicts that businesses that use AI, Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT) to uncover new business insights will steal $1.2 trillion per annum from their less informed peers by 2020.

Business Today  

By Gautam Das

While Industry 3.0 simply was about the automation of isolated machines, Industry 4.0 is about the integration of advanced automation, cloud computing, sensors, 3D printing, computer powered processes, intelligent algorithms, and Internet of things (IoT). Most greenfield factories in India are adopting these technologies in some form.

Deccan Chronicle 

It’s an interesting conversation with customers when you discuss IoT potential and implementing the same for their businesses. Most of the teams are unaware of how to leverage IoT for their respective businesses. Jagat Pal Singh, CTO, Cybage says that is why it is a great topic to explore some of the potentials that IoT projects bring, along with some pitfalls to watch out

The Financial Express  

Forrester predicts that businesses that use AI, Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT) to uncover new business insights will steal $1.2 trillion per annum from their less informed peers by 2020. This business shift starts with simple things such as moving customer service from reactive to preventive. Then, it starts to transform businesses. So why aren’t more businesses taking action?

BW Smart Cities 

By Manish Arora

There are myriad functions like birth and death records, land registration, medical records, payments etc. which can use Blockchain as a technology. IoT is critical in the sensing layer for all Command and Control centres. Ultimately, we have to realize that technology, no matter of which kind, is not an end in itself. It is only one of the means to the end. The end is of course ease of living for citizens. Cities, more than ever before, have an opportunity to leverage technology towards this goal.

Geospatial World 

Traditional PC-centric corporate network designs are being severely tested in an era of Internet of Things (IoT) and ubiquitous internet connectivity. Much of the conventional wisdom associated with designing local area networks (LANs) do not adequately account for the realities of today, as networks now support myriad devices, including unified communications endpoints, security cameras, access control units, and mobile devices.

Analytics Insight 

Data has always been a crucial resource giving the insights to drive transformation and innovation. Over the course of time, data collection methods have improved tremendously allowing more complex and larger quantity of data to be captured. The Internet of things (IoT) turned out to be another evolution in the data world encouraging transformative opportunities for business.

Geospatial World 

By Anastasia Stefanuk

There are many reasons why every upcoming programmer should consider becoming an internet of things developer. First, with the advent and inclusion of IoT technology in the retail industry, the portfolio items embracing this technology have immensely expanded resulting in massive demand for these professionals.

Share Tech News 

The report firstly introduced the IoT Platforms market basics: definitions, classifications, applications and industry chain overview; industry policies and plans; product specifications; manufacturing processes; cost structures and so on.

Analytics Insight

By Shwetha Mayekar

Data is the basis for finding reality. If you don’t have the right information, you are bound to make bad decisions. Machines are now generating more information than humans. Regular data extraction methods are not enough anymore; We have IoT – the Internet of Things, extracting information every second. If we see evolution as a trial-and-error process, the ability to have more information makes us much more efficient while making critical decisions.

SME Times 

He said that the digital era is evolving into an intelligence era. Dwelling on the extent of skill availability in companies for digital transformation, he said that there was substantial skill gap in all the skill domains in the digital space. This was true especially for digital mega trends such as IoT, Artificial Intelligence and big Data Analytics.

Business World 

“These backyard-based labs, serving the world’s leading business houses, will offer the Indians cost-effective innovations and solutions, on the next-door delivery basis. Indian corporations need the support of a robust infrastructure -airports, railway network, and roads -to adopt Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain and Internet of Things (IoT),” he emphasized.

Deccan Chronicle 

He further said that Oracle has an annual R&D (research and development) spend of USD 6 billion and integrates modern technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, internet of things and so on in all its enterprise applications.

Live Mint 

By Nandita Mathur

All sectors today are using software in some form or the other and often developing it in-house, so the importance of software is only going to increase. I think what is interesting to think about is where software-enabled technologies are going to go. For instance, blockchain does not exist without software, Internet of Things is software, quantum computing is software, virtual reality is software—in fact, emerging technology is all software and the question is where is that going to take our society and what are the economic implications of that?

SME Times 

Continuing to have a strong desire to seek more challenging roles, he founded GCR in Singapore with an objective to focus on futuristic technology like IoT, positioning it as a business transformation tool. His experience helped him to identify the challenges of the IT business, and he decided to formulate a new business model for his new venture.

Tech Circle 

By Anirban Goshal

“AI and analytics and IoT can also be used in healthcare. Systems such as IBM Watson are already being used and there is a particular hospital which is offering shirts that have sensors so that the doctor can always track patient data,” he said. The senior government official also spoke about blockchain and said that the government, with policy think-tank Niti Aayog in tow, has been thinking of implementing the technology in sectors such as health and education.

EET India 

By Sufia Tippu

The 5th-generation wireless system enables higher speed mobile broadband, mission-critical services and a massive Internet of Things (IoT) deployment. This high-speed and low latency service will help Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India plan, which seeks to broaden Internet access, and the Smart Cities initiative, the report said. “If we want smart cities, clearly we need smart infrastructure for it,” Sundararajan said, adding some early stage projects may start rolling out as early as 2020.

ET CIO 

Investments though need to improve, looking at all FinTech private investment from 2016 to 2017, only 26% was in insurance despite being just as large as the remaining financial services sectors. Looking just at InsurTech, the blockchain-specific portion of investment ranked sixth behind more popular (and perhaps tangible) areas like Big Data, IoT, AI and robotics.

The Economic Times 

The spotlight will focus on the varied domains of 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI), to Smart Cities and Startups in the technology space. Besides these, the expo will have the participation from allied industry sectors that include automotive and consumer electronics, and will showcase innovative products, services and technologies that are shaping the digital world today.

The Times of India 

The project is focused towards the advancement of the global healthcare system. Success of the project will help rural patients get medical advice from a doctor stationed abroad. The patient can virtually project himself through holoprojection that uses AI and computer vision and the doctors can diagnose and prescribe medicines

CXO Today 

Advancements in technology are rapidly changing the way we live, essentially with precision and the value added convenience, comfort and peace of mind. Home automation with washing machines, dishwashers, refrigerators has existed for quite some time. Since then, we have come a long way. In fact, over the final decades of the last century, and the recent ones of this century, technology has leapfrogged. It has shed its utilitarian garb and has taken on an almost mystical aura.

Deccan Chronicle 

Connected devices, or IoT (Internet of Things) devices, are the next generation of electrical appliances, electronic equipment, and gadgets that also have network connectivity apart from their day-to-day function.

CXO Today 

With the increasing use of cloud computing and storage, widespread acceptance of Internet of Things, as well as the growing number of systems, remote users, and big data sets within organizations, today’s business environment and security risks have evolved enormously and require a shift in our cyber security mindset and practices.

Financial Chronicle 

The workspace is changing drastically and very soon there will be just two types of people – employable in the augmented workplace and unemployable, a senior official at tech giant Oracle said. Besides, he said, there is a dichotomy emerging in today’s workplace — automation is taking up the repetitive jobs, which in turn means fewer jobs, while companies are struggling to get key talent for specialised jobs.

Qrius 

By Alejandro Tauber

In addition, they’re reaching out to parties inside and outside of government to help determine the best way to solve this messy problem. So far, they’ve gotten interested responses from universities and the National Institute for Public Health. They’re also calling for startups working on IoT devices to pitch solutions.

Business World 

The IoT is the reason we can raise our home thermostat via a mobile app, wear a smart watch that tracks our health and suggests lifestyle changes, or (unbelievably) watch a car drive by without a driver. Features like proactive reporting of data from objects back to the manufacturer enables more effective customer service and support, whether through self-service, remote diagnosis, or field service enablement

The Financial Express 

Permutation and combination of emerging technologies—such as cloud computing, Big Data analytics, Machine Learning, AI and IoT – have made us more productive and able to communicate more effectively. Another emerging aspect of AI, is the ability to interact with a machine using speech and natural language processing.

Telangana Today 

By Siddhartha Rao

With Internet of Things (IoT) gaining popularity, home automation is slowly becoming a commonplace. Aiding this is the fact that tech giants like Google, Amazon and Apple are coming up with devices to ease the task of controlling a smart home. However, the expense involved in automating a home is high and addressing this problem is Hyderabad-based IoT firm Wozart Technologies.

Business Today 

Imagine a sensor inside an offshore drilling rig. This sensor monitors the integrity of the gas turbine as well as regulates the pressure of the oil well 8,000 feet below the ocean surface. It constantly detects, transmits and checks for damage. This sensor generates data that might not have been available a few years ago, but today provides critical information to the offshore industry.

Analytics Insights (Blog) 

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the toast of every tech-powered business enterprise. Business establishments are taking AI to integrate a multitude of transformative opportunities to leverage the value chain. However business friendly it may sound, the path to adopting AI has not been a smooth ride. As per the latest reports from Deloitte’s 2017 State of Cognitive survey, only 6% of business enterprises are having a smooth ride with AI. This leaves a staggering 94% that face challenges in implementing an AI solution to its enterprise. Here are the top challenges that enterprises face while implementing an AI solution to its business process.

Financial Express 

Don’t you just love how Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant answer all of your questions? Isn’t it interesting when you receive prompt responses on some website’s chat box no matter what the time is? Yes, marketers know this interests you and this is why AI holds fascinating possibilities in the future for marketing. Using AI, brands are studying user needs, behaviours and predicting their future actions. Some of the key areas where companies have been leveraging AI globally include:

Money Control 

By M Saraswathy

Using technology like IoT, the device stores all the information that is fed into it. Users can digitally label their food with expiration dates. So, whenever a product is nearing its expiry date, alerts will be displayed on the refrigerator screen. Even specifications like gluten-free diet or sugar-free diet can be entered into the system. Based on the information fed into the system, the IoT technology prompts messages on the refrigerator screen.

The Print 

And we are just at the beginning of the ‘internet of things’ revolution, where we are going to have sensors in everything. Your automobile will have sensors, your washing machine will have sensors, your Fitbit will have sensors and so on. The expectation is that we are going to have up to 50 billion sensors around the world, and that those sensors combined with the new 5G technology will allow you to have lot of intelligence.

ET CIO  

By Salvi Mittal

Jayantha Prabhu, CIO – Essar Group & Head Business India & SAARC – AGC Networks believes that cyber security solutions must rely on data processing instead of deploying physical appliances in a real production environment and given the imminent risk, it is crucial that manufacturers plan and allocate sufficient budgets and resources to close this gap. In an interview with ETCIO.COM, Jayantha Prabhu gives his views on the implications of the IT security in the manufacturing industry.

Analytics India Mag 

Sharma is quick to add that Internet of Things (IoT) and AI have been making a lot of news lately. “Internet-enabled and connected devices are expected to become ubiquitous in smart homes and smart kitchens. Well, it doesn’t get any smarter than this”, says Sharma.

ET Telecom 

“..for most operators, this should come via a ‘massive’ uptake of connectivity, plus revenues from advanced services spanning both consumers and business customers.” Enterprises have different requirements from consumers, as 5G communications traffic is expected from Internet of Things (IoT) sensors in industrial robots, roads, and vehicles and can leverage the technology’s reliability and low latency.

The Financial Express  

By BV Mahalakshmi

Epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease patients using brain implants could be vulnerable to similar attacks. “Imagine what a terrorist could do with access to a politician’s mind or the repercussions if someone could alter how you act and think. These are scenarios that are unlikely to remain purely in the realm of science fiction for much longer,” says Heena Rathore, US-based data scientist, who works on wireless medical device security.

People Matters 

Jaspreet Bakshi, Director & Regional Head, HR People Services India, RBS, says that three critical technologies: AI, Blockchain, and IoT can come together to form a world without boundaries. While the adoption of AI is relatively higher than the other two, there is no denying the fact that we have just scratched the surface when it comes to all three of them. It is imperative to create an ecosystem that not only helps us understand these technologies better but also change the context of what these tools can do and how they can achieve goals.

Business Standard 

We are now living in the ocean of data; the volume of data is increasing with the ever-expanding domain of the Internet of Things. Big data is going to be replaced by bigger one. So it is important to ensure integrity of the data, as it is going to be increasingly difficult to keep track of the safety of this huge data-mine.

Business Standard 

The tedious system of letter of credit and trade financing is being impacted by the use of blockchain based solutions. Using blockchain can reduce issuance time for a letter of credit from 20 days to a few hours. Real time tracking of inventory using IoT based solutions helps companies raise working capital faster and at cheaper rates. IBM and Maersk are developing a solution for track and manage documents for the millions of containers that are shipped globally.

Bangalore Mirror 

The nightmare scenario for computer security – artificial intelligence programs that can learn how to evade even the best defences – may already have arrived. That warning from security researchers is driven home by a team from IBM, who have used the artificial intelligence technique known as machine learning to build hacking programs that could slip past top-tier defensive measures.

The Week 

GCR collaborates/partners with worldwide cloud-based IoT and complimenting SaaS-enabled solution providers and enables channel partners providing IoT solutions and cloud services. Solution Partners can showcase their wide range of solutions, services, and applications on GCR’s online ‘Partners Platform’ to fortify and accelerate their business growth and keep pace with the development of the Internet of Things and Cloud Computing era.

The Hindu Business Line

The government knows so much about us — right down to our fingerprint and biometric data — that it is frightening. In June, in Bengaluru, an indebted businessman shot and killed his wife leaving her lying in their home before escaping with his three children, two of whom he had also injured during his rampage. The parents of the woman, on a routine visit to the victim’s home later, reported the shocking matter to the police. Within a few hours, the fugitive was caught, miles away — and the children were rescued.

BW Education 

By Mayank Srivastav 

Over the last two decades, EdTech, or educational technology, solutions have improved the efficiency, efficacy, and quality of disseminating as well as acquiring education. While the change we witnessed may seem overwhelming, the fact is that we have only scratched the surface and the future will see far greater deployment of EdTech solutions as artificial intelligence techniques in general and machine learning as well as deep learning solutions, in particular, shall analyze user behavior to make educational solutions a lot more personalized and effective.

Money Control 

By Beena Parmar

From opening a bank account or buying an insurance policy to fighting cancer or even buying a pair of shoes, we are increasingly being helped or influenced by artificial intelligence (AI). In Mumbai, designers Falguni and Shane Peacock used AI to create their latest collection. In Bengaluru, a startup is using AI to improve detection of breast cancer and is making treatment cheaper. At the Tata Motors plant in Pune, a robot is skilled enough to do 30 different tasks — that’s AI again.

Business Standard

By Kiran Rathee 

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has amended the licences of telecom operators and internet service providers to incorporate net neutrality rules, which means that no service provider can now restrict or discriminate in the treatment of content by blocking, slowing down or granting preferential speeds in providing internet access.

Financial Express  

Wearables can not only track your health and fitness, but can also play a crucial role in deciding your health and life insurance premium. Similarly, telematics can not only provide real-time navigation and vehicle tracking, but can also help lower your car insurance premium if you drive carefully and drive during off-peak hours. And even Internet of Things (IoT) devices and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can give early signals in fraud detection cases.

Financial Express 

The goal behind developing a smart city is to improve the lives of its citizens and smart healthcare plays a significant role in achieving this objective. As per a report from Transparency Market Research, the global smart healthcare product market is expected to reach $57.85 billion by 2023.

CIOL 

By Ashok Pandey 

By 2030, urban areas will be home to 40 per cent of India’s population and will contribute 75 per cent of India’s GDP. In order to sustain this unprecedented urbanization, careful planning of physical, economic and social infrastructure is paramount. Thus, our vision of 100 Smart Cities isn’t a good to have but a must to have solution.

Telangana Today

BIoT is also known as ‘Blockchain Internet of Things’. It is a forthcoming programme with specific goals to create open standards for blockchain hardware security. BIoT is a combination of blockchain and Internet of Things technologies. This combination can build trust between parties and devices as it’s a transparent technology where all stakeholders can view the information.

Tech Circle 

By Sweta Sharma

“Cyber actors actively search for and compromise vulnerable Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use as proxies or intermediaries for Internet requests to route malicious traffic for cyber-attacks and computer network exploitation,” said FBI in the statement. Vulnerable IoT devices include wireless radios links, time clocks, audio/video streaming devices, Raspberry Pis, and digital video recorders.

Money Control 

By Manuchanda Dey

We remain optimistic on the Persistent’s growth potential and margin improvement as it has strengthened its digital capabilities and migrated from pure effort-based business to a value-based one (IP driven). It is focusing on key service areas data, digital and IoT (Internet of Things) for its targeted verticals: financial services, healthcare and industrials (IoT only) which has a huge growth potential.

Business Standard 

According to state IT Principal Secretary Gaurav Gupta, the disruptive technologies were making enterprises to invest in digital transformation of their operations to sustain their business and compete in a global market. “Spending is shifting from IT services to line of business, with associated technologies like big data, artificial intelligence, robotics, cloud and Internet of Things,” added Gupta.

Money Control 

By Tasmayee Laha Roy

From opening a bank account or buying an insurance policy to fighting cancer or even buying a pair of shoes, we are increasingly being helped or influenced by artificial intelligence (AI). In Mumbai, designers Falguni and Shane Peacock used AI to create their latest collection. In Bengaluru, a startup is using AI to improve detection of breast cancer and also make treatment cheaper

CIOL 

By Soma Tah

The emerging technologies including augmented reality, the Internet of Things, and AI-powered virtual assistants—offer the potential to transform the customer experience while reducing cost. Data is playing a significant role through this transformation starting from providing insights about consumer behaviour through analytics, to helping businesses to tailor the user experience.

CIOL 

By Ashok Pandey

By exploiting this new connectivity between people, processes, and things, organizations can radically improve efficiency and quality of service. It also becomes key to business innovation and to entirely new approaches to product and service development. With Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things, you can reinvent your business models, the way you operate and the services you provide to your B2B and B2C customers.

The Economic Times 

By Kalyan Parbat

Last year, telcos had bemoaned Trai’s call for a multi-stakeholder watchdog for enforcing net neutrality, and termed its approach as unnecessarily bureaucratic, especially since the DoT, in its capacity as licensor, they felt was well positioned to investigate any flouting of licence conditions. Services relating to internet of things or `IoT’ will not be outside the ambit of net neutrality rules, barring those categorised as critical specialised services, DoT said.

QRIUS 

They could change the shape of demand for food, through alternative proteins and personalized nutrition, for example; promote linkages along the food value chain, through mobile service delivery, big data, the Internet of Things and blockchain-enabled traceability; and create effective production systems, through water sensors, gene-editing and other scientific advances that make agriculture more precise and high-yielding.

PC Mag 

By Ben Dickson

Facial-recognition technology is not new, but it has progressed immensely in the past few years, mainly because of advances in artificial intelligence. Naturally, this has drawn the interest of Silicon Valley, advertising agencies, hardware manufacturers, and the government. But not everyone is thrilled.

Business Today 

Internet of Things is everywhere. From bootstrap start-ups to unicorns, everyone is leveraging the concept. One more addition to this could be Tracr, a blockchain-based platform built by UK-based diamond mining and trading company De Beers, where diamonds, small or big, will be tracked from the mining stage till the product reaches a retail store.

The Pioneer 

For almost a decade now, the spread of technology, as well as the deep penetration of the Internet of Things has caused major upheavals not only for the country’s economy but for society and the way people are being connected and how they access information and knowledge relevant or important to them.

CXO Today 

IOT enabled sensors become the crux of a smart city. Aggregation of heterogeneous IOT networks becomes necessary to enable a socially aware integrated command and control centre. Big data analytics is used to get the right information from the cities digital Infrastructure and from the cities social data.

BW CIO 

The Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women (IGDTUW) announced the launch of the ‘Cisco thingQbator’ makerspace to drive innovation in the areas of Internet of Things (IoT) and other emerging digital technologies. The thingQbator program is a part of Cisco’s CSR commitment, with the objective of building digital skills, creating local solutions to local problems and facilitating student entrepreneurship.

The Hans India 

Businesses need to adopt new technologies to reinvent their products and services to stay competitive. The trending technologies as of now are Cloud, IOT (Internet of Things), Big Data, Robotics & Artificial Intelligence (AI). Merely adopting such epochal technologies is not enough. The workforce need to be made adept at using them.

Tech Observer

By Sanjay Singh

Smart manufacturing, which is the automation of the manufacturing sector, includes the convergence of operational technology (OT) such as SCADA, industrial control systems and connected devices with information technology (IT). The process employs computer controls, advanced analytics such as artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of things (IoT) and, fixed and wireless connectivity.

The Economic Times 

Wipro Lighting unveiled its Internet of Lighting (IoL) TM solutions for Smart & Connected indoor & outdoor lighting at the Light Show today. The IoLTM solution will usher in a new revolution in office, institutions and outdoor lighting sectors. Emergence of IoT and Big Data have made smart and connected digital lighting solutions a reality. These solutions bring in both intelligence and functionality into lighting systems.

News18 

The new IoT (Internet of Things) system for landslides, that is being put in place, is custom developed for Himalayan geology, said Maneesha Sudheer, Director, Center for Wireless Networks and Applications, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. Sudheer, Awho spearheads landslide research at the university, said the system consists of over 200 sensors which can measure geophysical and hydrological parameters like rainfall, pore pressure and seismic activity.

The Times of India 

The Telecom Secretary launched ‘Cisco thing Qbator’ makerspace to drive innovation in the areas of Internet of Things (IoT) and other emerging digital technologies. Sundararajan said that McKinsey in a study has said that India could add full one-third more GDP to the current level of USD 2.5 trillion if the country increases participation of women workforce by 10 per cent in the entire labour force. “They (McKinsey) said that India more than a

Money Control 

By Vishwanath Pilla

The adoption of artificial intelligence in healthcare is slowly on rise. At a basic level, chatbots help patients to book an appointment with a specialist doctors. Further, AI can also advise doctors on treatment plans, remind patients about their medicines, track their physical activity and monitor vital body parameters using internet of things.

Afternoon 

Leading stock exchange BSE yesterday announced the launch of ‘Ask Motabhai’, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based ‘chatbot’, to provide on-demand data and information from its website. The chatbot has been built in partnership with Microsoft and Shephertz, the BSE said in a statement. The move is aimed at making it convenient and faster for investors, especially small and retail, to get stock and market information.

The Economic Times 

“In absence of even the standards that are yet to be finalised by the WRC 2019 and the still-evolving device ecosystem, the authority has decided to take a conservative view of the possible revenue resulting out of 5G and IoT,” Trai said, adding that the evolution of 5G and its related ecosystem will take a few years.

People Matters 

Whether it is Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Virtual Reality, or mobile technology is sweeping through all aspect of our lives. Hence, it should come as no surprise that technology is impacting the way organizations acquire and manage talent. HR leaders around the world are under constant pressure to innovate. For this to happen, they need to understand the impact of new and emerging technology on HR, and then make the right HR tech decisions for their business.

People Matters 

Starting off the discussion, Sunil Sood threw light on the changes shaping the productivity paradigms in the telecom industry. “We are on the cusp of an industrial revolution which is technology based-new technologies lie AI, digitalization, virtual reality, IoT. And they will impact every industry. Therefore we have to change dramatically.”

Business Standard  

By Kiran Rathee

Signalling a quantum leap in mobile technology, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Wednesday gave its recommendations for the auction of eight bands, including the fifth generation (5G) ultra high speed telephony. 5G auction, a first for India, is expected to be a catalyst for internet of things (IoT) innovations that would speed up machine learning and artificial intelligence. Airwaves worth around Rs 5.06 trillion will be on offer for telecom operators in the next round of auction.

The Times of India 

Internet of Things (IoT) based realtime landslide warning system has been installed in Sikkim, the first of its kind in the Himalayan region by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (AVV) University, a AVV director said here on Wednesday. The system has been installed under the aegis of the Ministry of Earth Sciences at a cost of Rs 5 crore, director of the Centre of Wireless Networks and Application of the institute, Maneesha Sudheer said.

My Digital Fc 

We are creating a repository of outstanding case studies of digital transformation in IT, BPM and CASE (connected, autonomous, shared mobility and electric-EVs). All together there are some 150 select case studies, each narrating the story of India’s capability in deep technologies: analytics, artificial intelligence, data sciences, robotics and Internet of Things. All these case studies will be made available on a portal by the end of September,’’ said Viswanathan.

Live Mint 

By Navadha Pandey

The government is currently in the process of finalizing a road map for the roll-out of 5G services, the next-generation technology for wireless communications, which is expected to improve data speed and propel Internet of Things. Ireland, Czech Republic, the UK and South Korea have conducted 5G auctions already.

PR Newswire 

The key factors driving the growth of this market include increasing adoption of big data, wearable devices, and IoT in healthcare; advantages of cloud usage (such as improved storage, flexibility, and scalability of data); implementation of healthcare reforms such as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; and the dynamic nature of health benefit plan design.

Money Control 

For instance, faster claim settlement can be offered using the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence. In motor insurance, for instance, claims can be settled by asking the customer to fill details about the accident using a chatbot/voicebot, upload photographs of the damaged vehicle and of the essential documents to verify the claim. By doing this, the claim amount could be directly credited to the customer’s account.

The Tribune 

By Pukhraj Singh 

Much of data acts like code now and viceversa — a little known concept of computer science called homoiconicity. This demarcation is rapidly disappearing in domains like Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. Stripping sensitive personal data from such functionalities is going to get very challenging. The internet is like a cluster of tectonic plates that are barely held together having its millions of layers of abstraction which toss your data around.

ET Telecom

By Danish Khan

The company, which has hired a new head of engineering for IoT, is currently building plug-and-play platforms that can be used by its enterprise customers. It is looking for startups to develop devices and solutions using its platform. “We would want developers to develop on my platform, and sell them in the market,” Mehta said.

Money Control 

Imagine this. From opening a bank account or buying an insurance policy to fighting cancer or even buying a pair of shoes, we are increasingly being helped or influenced by artificial intelligence (AI). In Mumbai, designers Falguni and Shane Peacock used AI to design their latest collection. In Bengaluru, a startup is using AI to improve detection of breast cancer and also make its treatment cheaper.

Business World  

By Sameer Dhanrajani

We are on the definitive cusp of the fourth Industrial Revolution. Industry 4.0, defined by breakthroughs in emerging technologies such as Robotics, AI, Internet of Things, 3D Printing, Autonomous Vehicles and Quantum Computing – will yet again create a massive shift. It is increasingly common news that a manufacturing major is introducing robots on the production line.

DNA  

By Kumar Shankar Roy

In motor insurance, insurers can track driving habits via telematics and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. IoT and Artificial Intelligence can also help tremendously in fraud detection. A 10-member committee including IRDAI officials and industry executives from LIC, New India Assurance, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance, Max Bupa and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance were part of the working group.

The Indian Express  

By Sharmila Nair

The new Personal Data Protection Bill 2018 reflects the lopsided nature of the government’s interests for Digital India. The recommendations of the Justice Srikrishna Committee stated that a new data protection law would need to balance innovation and privacy due to various technological advancements including use of Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

PR Newswire 

The growth of the mobile AI market can be attributed to the increasing demand for AI-capable processors for use in mobile devices, rise in cognitive computing, and growing number of AI applications. Moreover, dedicated low-cost AI chips for camera and vision applications in mobile devices and rising demand for edge computing in IoT are creating huge growth opportunities for players in the market.

India Today 

The FLASH engine is built on top of genisights’s platform. geniSIGHTS enables organizations to build big data analytics projects much faster with its innovative foreSee(4C) approach. Connect to any data source (including BigData, Cloud, IoT etc) Compute analytical insights from simple metrics to predictive analytics Customize/define/restrict/control the insights specific to the user’s

Share Tech News 

With the sudden rise in demand for real-time decision making and increased data from applications such as IoT has flourished the demand for AIaaS market. Amazon is one of the leading players in artificial intelligence as a service market which provides in-house AI expertise; it also provides open source software the Deep Scalable Sparse Tensor Network Engine (DSSTNE) which drives customer recommendation capabilities

Business World 

We are on the definitive cusp of the fourth Industrial Revolution. Industry 4.0, defined by breakthroughs in emerging technologies such as Robotics, AI, Internet of Things, 3D Printing, Autonomous Vehicles and Quantum Computing – will yet again create a massive shift. It is increasingly common news that a manufacturing major is introducing robots on the production line.

The Economic Times  

By Kritika Suneja

On data localisation, the draft says only personal data or community data collected by “internet of things” devices in “public space” will need to be stored in India. Other data, which have no personal or community implications, can be stored anywhere. However, the draft suggests a two-year sunset period before making data localisation mandatory. The policy is aimed at “creating a level playing field for foreign and domestic players in the Indian market”.

Media Nama 

The internet is like a cluster of tectonic plates that are barely held together – each having its millions of layers of abstraction which toss your data around. With the onset of the IoT and the cloud, every layer is now network-enabled. Geer has a beautiful take on the complexity of this evolving organism, only comparable to that of mother nature,

ET CIO

This phase in digital evolution is aligned closely with the emergence of the individual-centered economy, in which companies coordinated entire areas of digitized business processes to better integrate customer experiences. We have moved from the first wave of digitization from analog to digital, to a more evolved phase where we see the play of emerging technologies such as IoT etc and their impact on business