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Industry News: Information and Communications
How can smart cities become smart & healthy cities?edit
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.
Smart CitiesThe rise of AI and robotics and what it means for MSMEsedit
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.
Artificial IntelligenceArtificial Intelligence ushers in new era of innovation in enterprise securityedit
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.
Artificial IntelligenceEnterprise SecurityOpinion | Dangers of IoT sensors for smart citiesedit
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.
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How Can India Rid Itself of Petrol Cars By 2030?edit
The Indian government has made several proclamations over the last year about converting the nation’s vehicles to all-electric by 2030. What does this mean? Simply, that all cars on the road should be electric by 2030. At the very least, all cars produced and sold on the market should be electric.
e-vehiclesVolvo Group and Eicher Motors Developing Electric Vehicles For Public Transportationedit
Eicher Motors as already commenced operations of its Skyline Pro Electric buses in Kolkata and thus joined the league of zero-emission vehicle manufacturers.
Electric VehiclesOpinion | An entire ecosystem needed for EVs in Indiaedit
India’s automotive industry is in a growth stage—automobile production and sales in India will both have higher growth rates over the next decade than in most other auto hubs. However, with each additional combustion-engine-based vehicle we manufacture and use, we will be adding carbon dioxide and other pollutants, using additional fuel, and putting excessive load on our already saturated city infrastructure and traffic.
Electric VehiclesIndustry News: Education
IIT to mentor engineering colleges to improve quality of engineering educationedit
Indian Institute of Technology, IIT will mentor at least five engineering colleges located in its vicinity, to improve the quality and standard of engineering education in the country. The decision was taken at the 52nd Meeting of the Council of IITs, which was held in New Delhi today under the chairmanship of Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar.
engineering educationE-learning to transform educationedit
A large-scale change needs to take place in the educational sector to make both the content and method of our institutional learning vocational and market-oriented. Such a sector-wide change, at a cost that could make learning available to increasingly larger sections of the masses, could be engendered only by the rise of E-learning, accompanied by developments in information and communications technology.
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West Bengal to promote solar power, other renewable energy sourcesedit
On the National Renewable Energy Day, Banerjee made a reference to ‘Aloshree’, a scheme taken up by her government to fit solar panels in all government offices and educational institutions.
Renewable EnergyIndia to add 58,000 MW solar power capacity in next four years – CRISILedit
Economic Times reported that India is likely to set up additional solar power generation capacity in a range between 56,000 Megawatt (Mw) and 58,000 Mw over the next four years through 2023 as compared to 20,000 Mw solar capacity addition in the past four years since 2014.
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