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Trai’s 5G auction guidelines fall shortedit
We are at the threshold of the new 5G era with almost unbelievable benefits of bandwidth and a new digital society. Much will, of course, depend on the adequate availability of appropriate spectrum. The eagerly-awaited regulatory recommendations for spectrum auction, including the all-important 5G spectrum, have just been announced.
T V Ramachandran: Hon. fellow of the IET (London)Smart Cities Still Offer More Hope Than Realityedit
I’ve written previously about the challenges smart city projects have faced in moving past the hype attached to them. For instance, a report from the Institution of Engineering and Technology revealed that the public was not yet sold on the benefits of smart city technologies. The report said that there was a surprisingly low level of interest in the kind of technologies that we ordinarily associate with smart cities. For instance, just 8 percent of respondents believed being able to order a driverless vehicle via your phone was useful.
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Microsoft developing next version of its smart glassesedit
From the temporal differences in pulse events across the sensors, this prototype derives the wearer’s pulse transit time on a beat to-beat basis. A person’s pulse transit time the time delay following each heartbeat as the pressure wave travels between two arterial sites provides an indirect measure of blood pressure, according to a report in IEEE Spectrum.
IEEETripura to have separate directorate for technical educationedit
Nath said that technical education would be separated from higher education while speaking at the second M L Dasgupta Memorial Lecture and Seminar on ‘Good Governance in Technical Education’ organized by the Institution of Engineers (India), Tripura State Centre.
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IoT, ML and AI are the key technology drivers that can help achieve India’s dream of becoming fully digital.”edit
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.
AIIoTEmerging tech lies at the core of our cloud offerings: SAP Labs’ Mahesh Nayakedit
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.
Emerging TechnologyDefence Ministry to rope in industry to leverage Artificial Intelligenceedit
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.
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HOT TREND IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE — DEEP LEARNINGedit
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.
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After India’s first solar charging station, Magenta Power sets up country’s first EV charging corridoredit
Magenta Power has set up a new electric vehicle charging corridor, which is a network of several, charging stations at Mumbai-Pune Expressway, Lonavala. The company plans to extend this corridor to Bangalore and Mysore.
EV ChargingCost of electric vehicles should be brought down: Energy Alternatives India co-founder Narasimhan Santhanamedit
In the first phase of India’s electric vehicle (EV) revolution, scooters, autorickshaws (three-wheeler) and intra-city buses must be made electric, Narasimhan Santhanam, cofounder and director of Ener
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AICTE: Facilitating Technical Education to Promote Developmentedit
The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is revising curriculum, reforming norms, emphasising on skill-based education and supporting the innovations by students to improve the higher education system in India and bring it at par with global standards, said Dr Manpreet Singh Manna, Director (PMSSS & SWAYAM), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), MHRD, Government of India in an interview with Gopi Krishna Arora and Akash Tomer of Elets News Network (ENN).
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Solar irrigation pumps can help India reach 38% of its green energy targetedit
A robust national solar irrigation programme could successfully contribute to the country reaching its goal of 100 Gw of installed solar power capacity by 2022
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India to add 58,000 Mw solar power capacity in next four years: CRISILedit
CRISIL also said the 25 per cent safeguard duty imposed by the government on imports of solar modules from China and Malaysia would jack up capital costs for developers by 15-20 per cent
Solar EnergyAge Of Solar: After Swachh Bharat, India Needs A Swachh Energy Campaignedit
In the fight against the rising global temperatures and change in climate patterns, countries must inculcate both short-term and long-term solutions. Investing in nuclear energy, elaborate research and development, and gradual exit from coal-fuelled industries are ideal options for the long-term. However, to get things going in the short term, investments in renewables are warranted.
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