April 24, 2019

News for the IET

IoT Solutions have to be Rightly Priced in Cost sensitive Indian Marketedit

Electronics For U All The Internet Of Things

Aeris Communications India Pvt. Ltd. is a leading platform company, providing end-end portfolio of IoT platform and services for Industry 4.0, Smart Cities, Smart Healthcare, Logistics and BFSI. In an interaction with EFY bureau, Dr Rishi Mohan Bhatnagar, President, Aeris and Chairman IET IoT Panel, India, shares his views about the role of government in promoting IoT deployment in India, future of IoT and much more

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IET Achievements Awards for exceptional engineers and technicians: Nominations openedit

APN News Times Tech  Business Fortnight

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has opened nominations globally for its prestigious Achievement Awards 2019.The IET Achievement Awards exist to recognize individuals from all over the world who have made exceptional contributions to the advancement of engineering, technology and science in any sector.

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News for other PEI

IEEE Computer Society Announces Launch of New Websiteedit

PR Newswire

Known for its world-class conferences, publications, educational programs, and technology resources, the IEEE Computer Society announced today the launch of its newly redesigned website at www.computer.org. The robust responsive design and enhanced features provide improved functionality, enabling streamlined access to the IEEE Computer Society’s valued peer-reviewed content, technology information, and resources for industry and academia.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Top Artificial Intelligence Investments in March 2019edit

Analytics Insight

By Kamalika Some

Venture investments in artificial intelligence companies continue to grow, credit to a supportive ecosystem which facilitates an easy access to the venture capitalist interest. March 2019 was no different when we talk of investments done in AI companies. Most of the investments made in March 2019 went into the Seed round and the Series A funding.

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The dark side of IoTedit

Deccan Chronicle

Going deeper, you’ll realize IoT is a much broader subject. The concept defines the communication between objects that interact with internal as well as the external environment. It is widely known that more things connected to the internet today than people and the number is likely to grow to over 20 billion by 2020.

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Risk management programmes must address IT threats associated with digital businessedit

The Financial Express

In 2019, organisational risks are turning into significant operational surprises, and the frequency will only increase as digital business requirements grow. There is no longer room for siloed risk management programmes. Instead, security leaders must focus on building integrated risk management programs. (cyber security)

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Promise of AI transforming everything overblown Heres what scientists sayedit

Business Standard

By Mark Buchanan

Researchers have learned much the same for biology and medicine. Big data, as one group puts it, needs big theory too Artificial intelligence is going to boost human productivity in a thousand ways, transforming everything from transportation to health care to agriculture. Some enthusiastic computer scientists even think we will find a master algorithm that will fix our politics and make lives longer, happier and more productive.

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Opinion | A reality distortion field that still reignsedit

Live Mint

There are multiple initiatives around the world that are combining AI with visual, audio and language data to create resolute tools which will help combat misinformation, especially a few specific complex aspects of it, such as “deepfake videos”—altered video clips that also leverage AI. So long as truth is still valued by society at large, the authenticity of what’s on our screens needn’t be a lost cause.

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Indias Microcontroller Trendsedit

EET India

By Partha

Both, consumer IoT and industrial IoT has emerged as the third biggest market in India. In this segment a lot of startups have launched IoT based electronic systems for a range of applications which were previously unthought of, such as agriculture, smart cities and other such areas.

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In The Wake of JustDial Data Breach, These Cyber security Best Practices Can Keep Your Organisations Data Safeedit

Analytics India Mag

By Harshajit Sarmah

The world has witnessed several high profile cyber attacks in the past couple of years, and while many companies across the globe have learnt from the downfalls of the victim companies, there are companies that are lagging in implementing cyber security frameworks in their organisations. (cyber security)

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If Your Password is 12345 or Any Other from This List, You Need to Change Right Nowedit

News 18

Cyber Security Centre study quoted by The Independent. The study has found that using easily guessed passwords across multiple accounts is a major gap in the online security habits of British people.

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If you want to save your job from robots, make a career in these fields, not science and techedit

The Financial Express

By Eram Tafsir

With India moving towards greater automation, too much focus on STEM education and protecting vulnerable sectors may not help much to protect our jobs from robots, said Brookings Institute in a report recently. Too much focus on STEM has the inherent risk of over saturation of few sectors over the others, hampering overall economic development, said the report.

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Data Analytics: A New Era of Enhanced Customer Experiencesedit

Express Computer

They are deploying the processes of data analytics in combination with advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning (ML) and Robotics to produce ground breaking outcomes both, in terms of effectiveness and overall value to consumers.

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AI is taking jobs & humans are missing the big pictureedit

The Print

By Mark Buchanan

Most tech companies are focusing on replacing people with AI with an eye on short term profits instead of using it to create new tasks for humans for long term growth. Quite a few researchers now applying AI think machines will continue to depend on human intelligence for a very long time.

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5 Devices To Up Your Hardware Cyber security Gameedit

Analytics India Mag

By Anirudh VK

Cyber security is generally seen as an area where software is of utmost importance, which has led to a rise in the number of accessible security software out in the wild. However, a few hardware additions can make the digital experience a whole lot safer, adding another dimension to cyber security.

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Power Of Decodingedit

Mail Today

By Smitha Verma

Data is the new oil. Hundreds of companies are now investing in setting up Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data labs to mine this data. And with data science being a field which has the potential to offer a landmine of job opportunities at different levels, it would be a good idea to start looking at it as a career avenue.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Shared mobility, choosing right vehicle segment can ensure success of electric vehicles in India: Olaedit

Business Standard

Commercial and public transport systems have more compelling economics of using electric vehicles (EVs) over private cars, given the low operating costs of these environment friendly vehicles, a report by Ola Mobility Institute (OMI) Tuesday said.

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Rise In EVs Leading To More Than 70% Demand Surge Of Lithium YoY, Says A New Reportedit

India Times

By Sathak Dogra

Also read: Major Indian Businesses Are Pledging To Bring Electric Vehicles Into Their Fleet To Fight Climate Change Lithiums mining does cause problems to the nearby regions, contaminating the nearby water bodies and leaving the landscape marred by discarded salt. However, it is not the troublesome component in the modern day batteries as the mineral is found in abundance and in theory, can even be generated from seawater in the near future.

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Niti Seeks Ministry Help for EV Charging Infra at Fuel Pumpsedit

The Economic Times

By Sanjeev Choudhary

Government think tank Niti Aayog has asked the oil ministry to help set up electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure at 1,000 fuel stations across the country, but industry executives said any such move will require redesigning of stations and a viable business model.

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Future of EV in Indiaedit

CNBC TV18

Pollution and noise-free electric vehicles are said to be the future of the automobile industry. Why does Mahindra electric, despite being in the business for a decade, has only sold 14000 electric vehicles up till now? In this episode of Tech@Work we dive deeper into the EV market with Mahindra electric CEO

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Hydrogen: towards cleaner and sustainable transportedit

Deccan Herald

This amount is in the same range as that of the subsidy corpus allocated for EVs for five years. Allocating a budgetary amount for HCNG infrastructure for the next five years would help in transitioning to a cleaner, hydrogen-based economy. Road tax waivers and government subsidies for installing fueling stations could also help bring about a notable transition to hydrogen-fueled vehicles.

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Industry News: Future of Work

5 Things To Know Before You Start Your Data Science Careeredit

Analytics India Mag 

As we know that change is the only constant. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are evolving in an exponential way and are not constant. We cannot compare the present scenario with a few years back. It is very important to keep on the track of learning with the growing technology to be in the rat race.

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The unemployment-unemployability gulf and how it is being bridgededit

The Hindu Business Line 

According to the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), over 60 per cent of the 8 lakh-plus engineers graduating every year remain unemployed. On the other hand, 39 per cent employers encounter challenges in attracting quality talent. To fulfil the needs of companies and to tide over the unemployment crisis, engineering colleges and technology institutes have begun engaging with the companies on a real-time basis.

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We need to invest in understanding, leveraging the new technologies’edit

The Hindu Business Line

By TE Raja Simhan

They are bringing about a huge transformation among businesses and the society alike. While AI has a positive impact on businesses, it is also seen as a threat to jobs. S Gopalakrishnan, co-founder, Infosys, and chairman, Axilor Ventures, spoke to BusinessLine about the impact of AI on jobs and building a career around the technology.

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The growing need for cyber security insurance in BFSI sectoredit

Money Control

Sushant Sarin, EVP & Head, Commercial Lines & Reinsurance, Tata AIG General Insurance, talks about how the BFSI sector is adopting cyber security insurance.New regulations, emphasis on data protection and increasing cyber attacks are driving banks and financial institutions to seriously look at cyber security insurance as the plan B when an attack strikes.

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Skill gap in cyber security hobbles IT industryedit

The Hindu Business Line

By Varun Aggarwal

Cyber attacks on Wipro, Infosys and Capgemini have brought to the fore the challenge of filling the skills gap in the cyber security space in India, even as demand continues to outweigh supply. This in turn has led to a sharp increase in the pay package of such professionals, who end up earning two to 10x the average salary of an IT engineer.

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Robotic automation can help cos increase HR efficiencyedit

The Times of India

 By Anurag Malik

In most cases, this means repetitive tasks involving loads of paperwork, time consuming processes and potentially a lot of inefficiencies. This is where robotics process automation (RPA) kicks in automating repetitive, rule based processes and dramatically reducing human involvement in these tasks. Thereby, freeing up time to focus on more value added tasks to support the organisations growth.

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Reskilling will lead to productive IT work forcesedit

The Economic Times

The increased need for driving competitive advantage in the digital era has IT leaders pushing the reskilling of employees, who must adapt themselves with new tools as well as business processes that support and drive business strategy. (cyber security)

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Industry News: Education

AICTE mandates to set up Incubation Centres in technical institutesedit

The Indian Wire 

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has regulated all the technical institutes including engineering colleges and universities to organise an incubation centre in the campus. The initiative has been taken to boost up the startup culture and help young entrepreneurs to prepractice their mind on the fresh ideas.

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Higher education system in India grim, needs more investment, reforms: NITI Aayogedit

The Indian Express 

Four per cent of GDP has been spent by India on overall education while China is spending around 565 billion dollars, out of which 145 billion dollars is spent on higher education, NITI Aayog official V K Saraswat said

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Use science, technology to change lives of peopleedit

SME Times 

He called upon institutions such as the IIIT Sri City to strive to become centers of excellence with global standards by offering a holistic and quality higher education to students. The Vice President while expressing concern over poor global ranking of Indian Higher Educational Institutions, stressed the need to completely revamp the higher education system.

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With autonomy, Mumbai colleges dial R for reformedit

Mumbai Mirror

By Rahi Gaikwad

The college is set to roll out add-on certificate courses such as bio-informatics, communicative English, basic and advanced computer skills, fundamentals of financial markets, basics in fitness training, cyber security and clinical data management. In addition, its entrepreneurship cell plans to start lecture series and internships aimed at fostering startups.

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With sustainability an issue, is MOOC meeting expectations?edit

The Hindu Business Line 

Five years back, the domestic market witnessed the entry of several global companies such as Coursera, edX, Udacity and Khan Academy amongst several others to impart free, quality online education with no application process or costs.

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Incubators mandatory for technical institutesedit

DNA

In an attempt to boost start-up culture and help young entrepreneurs, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has made it compulsory for all technical institutes — including engineering colleges and universities — to set up incubation centres. The move is part of a slew of new norms suggested by the apex body to be implemented from the new academic session.

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