October 22, 2018

News for the IET

Top Accreditation From IET Accorded To Simatsedit

The New Indian Express 

Saveetha Institute of Medical & Technical Sciences (SIMATS), Chennai, secured 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.

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News for other PEI

51st AGM of IEI Jammu heldedit

State Times 

51st Annual General Meeting of The Institution of Engineers (India), Jammu Local Centre was held at its Institutional Complex here on Saturday. The meeting was presided over by Ravi Chanyal, FIE, Chairman of Jammu Local Centre. A large number of corporate members from all disciplines of engineering attended the AGM. Vijay Kr. Sharma, Honourary Secretary, while welcoming the members, presented the Annual Report for the year 2017-2018 and highlighted the activities of the Jammu Local Centre.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

India among top 15 in artificial intelligence research: surveyedit

Sme futures 

By Parul

According to a survey by Finnish AI-based solutions specialists Zyfra, India is one of the most advanced countries in the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT)

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How connected devices are changing the manufacturing industryedit

Geospatial World 

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity enabling these objects to collect and exchange data, according to Forbes.

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Water woes: Tech comes to Chennai’s rescueedit

The Times of India 

By Sindhu Hariharan

The city’s residents remain at the mercy of the water lorries, and a few technology startups consider this a ripe time to look at better use of water, recycling the limited resource, and augment groundwater by re charging techniques. WE GoT Utility Solutions, whose IoT device helps track water usage and encourage savings, has seen a sudden influx of interest from resident welfare associations of apartments and manufacturing facilities who wish to leverage technology to save water and reduce dependency on external sources.

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Industrial IoT Intelligence Aims to Save Lives by Preventing Disastersedit

Pc Mag 

This is just one example in a long list of disasters because, in the energy sector, plants and similar facilities can explode catastrophically. That’s long been a fact of life. However, vendors pioneering Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) infrastructure are looking to help prevent accidents such as these through automation

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Fourth time aroundedit

Business Standard 

4thIR is an umbrella term that includes everything from the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence to 3D printing and blockchain, and from specialty materials to autonomous vehicles and 5G communications technology. In essence, it brings together digital technology and the physical world to create a new range of products and services. As should be immediately clear, India is not a frontrunner in most of these areas.

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Do you want a smart home? Here’s how you can get oneedit

Live Mint 

By Abhijit Ahaskar

Devices under Rs 50,000 : A basic one with the option to control lights, switches, play music and secure the household with a smart camera can cost less than Rs 50,000. Users can control these IoT devices with their smartphone or smart speakers, such as Amazon’s Echo Plus (starts at Rs 11,999) and Google Home (Rs 8,999).

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Driven by Dataedit

The Economic Times 

By Rahul Sachitanand

Technology experts such as Prashant Pradhan, vice-president and CTO (Asia Pacific) of IBM, argues that the physical location of data is irrelevant. Your data can be ac cessed from a server in Bengaluru or Boston just as easily. In fact, having a mirror of your data in India may actually increase the cost of operation and compliance. (IoT)

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A Lifetime Of Learningedit

Business World 

By Ishan Gupta

The dynamics of the global business landscape are changing drastically with every new development. Emergent technologies are constantly breaking through the hype to become a firm and fundamental staple of business operations. Data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, the Internet of Things – these are but a few technologies which have become so integral today that it is hard to imagine a world without them.

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Facing up to the AI challengeedit

The Hindu Business Line 

Autonomous vehicles combine AI, Big Data, IoT and cloud, and hu­man­like chatbots provide a superior online experience based on the seamless combination of both AI and AR to augment reality. While a few Indian IT companies are progressing remarkably to­ wards meeting the amplified needs in a very short time, given the scale, this challenge will require a multi­ pronged approach through a coali­tion of competitors.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

E car sales plunge, but e-bike volumes surgeedit

Business Standard 

Despite the massive government push towards electric mobility, e-car sales plunged 40 per cent to a low of 1,200 units in FY18 over FY17, while e-two-wheeler sales zoomed 138 per cent to 54,800 unit during the same period, says an industry report.

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Industry News: Education

City college offers training in internet of things to budding entrepreneursedit

The Times of India 

The Research and Development Cell of the Nehru Group of Institutions will conduct a six-week technology-based entrepreneurship development programme on the internet of things (IoT) from November 12 to December 22. The event, sponsored by the National and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board under the department of science and technology, will focus both on technological and entrepreneurial areas.

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Shift to clean energy may save 11 million life years in India: studyedit

MINT 

India could save an estimated 11 million life years annually by replacing coal-fired powerplants with clean, renewable energy, according to a Harvard study. The 2.7 billion people who live in India and China—more than a third of the world’s population—regularly breath some of the dirtiest air on the planet, said researchers from the Harvard University in the US. Air pollution is one of the largest contributors to death in both countries, ranked 4th in China and 5th in India, and harmful emissions from coal-fire powerplants are a major contributing factor, they said. In the study, published in the journal Environment International, researchers wanted to know how replacing coal-fired powerplants in China and India with clean, renewable energy could ...Clean EnergyRenewable Energy

Indian Renewable Energy Summaryedit

Energy Sector 

Due to its favourable location in the solar belt, India is one of the best recipients of solar energy with relatively abundant availability. As of August 2018, installed solar power capacity in the country crossed 25 GW. World’s largest solar park named ‘Shakti Sthala’ was launched in Karnataka in March 2018 with an investment of Rs 16,500 crore (US$ 2.55 billion).

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NTPC looks at innovative ways to increase renewable energy penetrationedit

Business Standard 

By Shreya Jai

NTPC, the country’s largest thermal power producer, is looking at innovative ways to increase renewable energy penetration in the national grid. The 50 Gw power producer will set up solar plants at all its units. The capacity of each solar unit would be close to 200-500 Mw and the total target will be 10 Gw. These plants would be constructed near and around the existing thermal unit, preferably near the switchyard for efficient evacuation.

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Why hydropower needs a pushedit

Business Standard 

Hydropower has clear economic, social and systemic advantages. Fuelled by water, it is clean and renewable compared to fossil fuels. It is among the cheapest sources of energy. It can be operated for base loads as well as peak loads.

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Boost to energy securityedit

Millennium Post 

By KR Sudhaman

With falling prices of solar, it is possible to create “One World, One Sun, One Grid”. China is the largest manufacturer of solar photovoltaic modules, besides having the world’s largest solar generating capacity. India proposes 100 Gw of solar power generation and has an ambitious plan to harness all sources of available energy -solar, wind, hydro, coal, oil, gas, nuclear and biofuels.

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