October 11, 2018

News for the IET

International Accreditation from IETedit

The Hindu 

Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (SIMATS) Chennai, secured the IET’s (The Institution of Engineering and Technology) International accreditation for four of its engineering courses. An IET accreditation is an internationally recognised benchmark, awarded to high quality programmes that provide an ideal preparation for aspiring professional engineers

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IoT Congress 2018 kick-starts in Bengaluruedit

Deccan Herald 

By NV Vijaykumar

The third edition of India’s largest con clave on IoT, the IoT India Congress 2018 in partnership with Exhibitions India Group, began on Tuesday in Bengaluru. Besides the participation of startup companies, the two day event also witnessed Indi an and foreign software and hardware companies exhibiting their latest technologies. Inaugurating theevent, Raj

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India-Israel Innovation Centre Launched At IoT India Congress In Bengaluruedit

Analytics India Mag 

By Prajakata Hebbar

With an aim to give a boost to the entrepreneurs in the technology sector, Ramanan Ramanathan, mission director at Atal Innovation Mission, Moshe Porat, founder and CEO at Mesh Labs, and Varad Krishna, founding partner of IIIC, launched country’s first India-Israel Innovation Centre (IIIC) in Bengaluru on Wednesday. The announcement was a part of a two-day event called IoT India Congress. Speaking at the launch, Dana Kush, Consulate General of Israel to South India told the audience, “We are proud to witness the launch of IIIC, which reinstates that the formula of ‘India + Israel= Innovation’ works. Our role as diplomats is to find the best possible ways to connect India to the ...IoT India congress 2018

India-Israel Innovation Center launched in Bengaluruedit

EIN News The Economic Times

The third edition of IoT India Congress that concluded on Wednesday witnessed the launch of India’s first India-Israel Innovation Centre (IIIC), an entrepreneurial tech hub in Bengaluru. The IIIC, launched by Ramanan Ramanathan, Mission Director, Atal Innovation Mission, Government of India, will help teams and individuals to grow their technologies and businesses, and …

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IoT India Congress 2018 kickstarts in Bengaluruedit

Digianalysys 

The third edition of India’s largest conclave on IoT, the IoT India Congress 2018 in partnership with Exhibitions India Group, started at the NIMHANS Convention Centre in Bengaluru from 09th till 10th October 2018.

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3rd Edition of IoT India Congress 2018 Started in Bengaluruedit

Digital Learning 

This edition of IoT India Congress will focus on six tracks  Healthcare, Manufacturing, Digital Communications, Standards, Media and Smart Cities. Technologies and approaches that have the potential to transform business including AI, Blockchain and Cyber Security will form an integral part of discussion across all tracks. Some of the key highlights of the event will be: Workshops: Spanning latest conversations in IoT, the sessions will explore success stories and business models. An exclusive session for academia will discuss their apprehensions and challenges in evolving an IoT centered curriculum and guidance to overcome these obstacles

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SIMATS attains IET international accreditationedit

The Hans India Trinity Mirror 

SIMATS, Chennai, se cured the IET’s international Accreditation for four of its engineering courses. IET accreditation is an internationally recognised benchmark, awarded to high quality programmes that provide an ideal preparation for aspiring professional engineers. The IET is one of the world’s leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community and IET accreditation, licensed by the Engineering Council, covers a broad spectrum of Engineering and Technology subjects.

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News for other PEI

Author KC Agrawal Enlightens Readers In “India In Chaos, Only Judiciary Can Save”edit

Republic World

Renowned author K. C. Agrawal’s forthcoming book, “India in Chaos, Only Judiciary Can Save” lay hands on the challenges and issues India confronts today and demonstrates why the judiciary is key in bringing an accountable system of governance. The author is an electrical engineer and senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA and has had more than 33 years of experience in different capacities in academics, PSUs, and multinationals.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

How Great Learning can help you take the big leapedit

The Economic Times

The participants of the PGP  BABI program come from across industries like BFSI, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Technology, Consulting, Automotives and more. Management from “traditional” industries is quickly realizing that with the proliferation of IoT, analytics is going to be critical for organizations to survive and thrive in the years to come.

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Global Blockchain Market to Hit $19.9 Billion by 2023: HTF Market Intelligence Reportedit

Wire 19 

This development has since breathed new life into old companies such as IBM, which is investing in enterprise systems backed by cloud infrastructure. It has aided in the company’s transition to cloud services and building custom Blockchains for customers. With regard to the Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain is once again providing solutions to longstanding issues surrounding security and efficiency. Professor of Management at the University of North Carolina Nir Kshetri claims that blockchain-enabled IoT deployment could improve overall system health and integrity by allowing devices to register and validate themselves against the network.

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Draft National Electronics Policy2018 Releasededit

The Economic Times 

The policy aims to also push the startup ecosystem in emerging technology areas such as 5G, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and their applications in areas such as defence, agriculture, health, smart cities and automation. Being export-led, it is also targeting to develop core competencies in all the sub-sectors of electronics, including electronic components and semiconductors, telecommunication equipment, medical electronics, defence electronics, automotive electronics, in dustrial electronics, strategic electronics, etc., and fablesschip design.

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Closing the IT security gapedit

The Financial Express 

As Businesses Struggle to combat increasingly sophisticated cyber security attacks, the severity of which is exacerbated by vanishing IT perimeters in today’s mobile and IoT era, coupled with an acute shortage of skilled security professionals, IT security teams need both a new approach and powerful new tools to protect data and other high-value assets. Increasingly, they are looking to Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a key weapon to win the battle against stealthy threats inside their IT infrastructures, according to a new global research study conducted by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Test run of Uttarakhand’s first electric bus beginsedit

News18

Vehicular pollution is one of the key contributors to the overall increasing air pollution and countries worldwide are fighting this menace. While India had its own share of fight with pollution by implementing the odd-even rule in the capital city of Delhi, it’s actually the European cities who are working hard and taking immediate steps to reduce air pollution.

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Electric two-wheelers: Road to a new mobility is dotted with speedbreakersedit

Business Standard

By Ajay Modi

India, the world’s biggest two-wheeler market by volume, must convert to the electric variant of these vehicles. After all, two-wheelers are said to account for 62 per cent of the petrol consumption in the country. One of the proponents of this change is R C Bhargava, chairman of the country’s largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki.

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Transport Of Tomorrowedit

Business World 

Rapid integration of AI into basic microchip almost everything we use will have a large autonomous content. Ubiquitous connectivity, soon with 5G technology which allows much higher bandwidth and speed, Internet of Things (IoT) followed by the Internet of Industrial Things (IoIT) will become a part of our day to day lives seamlessly. Autonomous mobility is the next extension of this. In an earlier article, I had talked about how disintermediation will be overtaken by reintermediation where huge databases using blockchains will guide us as in our day to day living from work, leisure, health, education, security, finance, communication, travel, and transportation.

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Industry News: Education

Skill courses a solution to unemployment problemedit

The Hindu

Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday said there is so much emphasis on marks at the 10+2 level and getting into good universities that students are not told about or given the option to pursue skill-based courses.

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Is a consolidation wave set to sweep India’s renewable energy industry?edit

VC Circle

Is a consolidation wave set to sweep India’s renewable energy industry? The cards are in the country’s solar and wind energy industries, with bigger companies.

Natural gas here to stay beyond energy transition, says Big Oiledit

The Economic Times

Top oil firms including Royal Dutch Shell, BP and Total are adapting with growing urgency to the need to develop cleaner energy sources, investing more and more in solar and wind power, electric vehicle technology and even forestation

 

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India’s renewable energy capacity to reach 140 GW by 2023: CRISILedit

ET Energy World 

Continued government thrust, expected drop in levelised cost of energy, and economical tariffs compared with conventional sources are expected to benefit the renewable energy juggernaut,” the report said. It added that government’s global commitment to reduce carbon emissions and availability of foreign funding at attractive rates would also support the growth of the renewable energy sector. According to CRISIL, the installed capacity of renewable energy sector has witnessed a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 18.5 per cent between 2013-14 and 2017-18.

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