December 4, 2018

News for the IET

IoT ROLLING INDIA TOWARDS PREVENTIVE HEALTH 4.0edit

BioSpectrum (Scanned clip attached in mail)

The Indian Healthcare market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 23 per cent to $280 billion by 2020 from $100 billion in 2015. This is mostly a result of changing disease patterns, rise in lifestyle diseases, ageing population, increase in disposal income, rising awareness and access to health insurance.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Robotics is revolutionising your shopping experience: Everything you need to knowedit

Qrius

The fulfilment process in a warehouse can constitute up to 25% of supply chain costs. To keep costs down, some retailers have adopted advanced technologies such as AI and robotics to ensure they build a supply chain to manage current requirements, as well as to cope with future growth.

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How digital transformation technology is driving manufacturing industryedit

Deccan Chronicle

Digital technology is shaping businesses and reducing conventional ways of structuring and conducting them. In a nutshell, digital transformations are happening in leaps and bounds and as far as the packaging industry is concerned, it has run on set business models until recently. With digitisation has come efficiency in conducting businesses.

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Cyborg: Manufacturing the man-machineedit

The Economic Times

Mechanisation in manufacturing is directly proportional to job complexity. That apart, hazardous tasks — exposing humans to chemicals or physical dangers — are more likely to be done by robots than humans.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Niti Aayog explores Feebate model to promote electric vehiclesedit

CNBC TV 18

In a bid to make electric vehicles (EV) more attractive, the government think-tank Niti Aayog is exploring a Feebate(Fee and rebate) model. Based on the ‘polluter pays’ principle the concept works by levying a fee or penalty on polluting vehicles and offering a rebate or a reward on the lesser polluting ones.

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Great News For India’s Electric Vision, Country To Get 6,500 EV Charging Stations In The Nextedit

India Times

As the Indian automobile industry moves towards the electric vehicle (EV) culture, EV Motors India Pvt Ltd has initiated its drive to bring electric charging stations to the country. The company plans to bring as many as 6500 charging stations in partnership with DLF, Delta Electronics India and ABB India over a course of 5 years. The aim, however, has been started by setting up the the first EV charging outlet in Gurugram.

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Can Delhi Have 25% E-Vehicles By 2023? Kejriwal Govt’s Latest Plan to Curb Pollutionedit

News 18

A target to ensure that a quarter of new vehicle registrations in Delhi be electric and with tenders for electric buses be floated this month, the Delhi government is trying to move towards what it believes is the future of transportation – zero emission vehicles. The Delhi government has long argued that the future of public transport in Delhi was “zero emission” buses and not CNG or other forms.

 

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Industry News: Education

AI is all set to make education easieredit

Digital Learning

Education must incorporate technological advances in the digital domain – primarily AI – to revamp a student’s learning experience so it is personalized, targeted and effective.

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Is online learning making education easier?edit

India Today

Instead of focusing on pros and cons, the conversation we should be having today is about leveraging online education to make our education systems more conductive to learning.

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India to achieve key Paris climate goals 10 years before deadlineedit

ET EnergyWorld

India is likely to achieve its two Paris Agreement goals 10 years before the 2030 deadline, according to US-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). IEEFA made this estimate ahead of India’s 2nd Biennial update report, which would be released by the Indian government today at COP24 Katowice, Poland.

Green Energy
Solar power tariffs drop lower in UP auctionedit

ET EnergyWorld

A generous commissioning deadline for solar projects provided by the Uttar Pradesh government in its latest auction has resulted in surprisingly low winning tariffs. The offer of 550 MW of projects by the UP New and Renewable Energy Development Agency on Monday attracted bids between Rs 3.04 and Rs 3.08 per unit. NTPC, the lowest bidder, quoted Rs 3.04 per unit to win 85 MW.

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