June 28, 2019

News for the IET

5G world will need new cybersecurity approachedit

Deccan Herald (Print)

The discussion was conducted by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and moderated by S Raghotham, Assistant Editor, Deccan Herald. “You probably will have no cybersecurity, unless you slow down and force a lot of debate to happen about it.

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Masterclass on Design Thinking and Systematic Innovationedit

SME Channels (Print)

The Institution of Engineering and Technology India has signed a memorandum of understanding with KPMG and Innomantra to develop and conduct master classes on Design Thinking and Systematic Innovation for academia and technology leaders. The content and frameworks of the sessions has been created by KPMG and Innomantra; the IET using its world class framework endorses this programme and will co-certify it with KPMG and Innomantra.

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News for other PEI

This AIenabled robotic arm can pack boxes quicklyedit

News D 

Researchers formed a team to deal with multiple aspects of the robot packing problem in an integrated way through hardware, 3D perception and robust motion, according to the study presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

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Disaster preparedness programme held at IEIedit

State Times 

State Disaster Management Authority, in collaboration with State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and the Institution of Engineers, India (IEI), J&K State Centre, conducted one day sensitisation programme on Disaster Preparedness at Auditorium of IEI at Sonwarbagh Srinagar.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

The future of Artificial Intelligenceedit

BW CIO World 

The emergence of Artificial Intelligence has been a prediction for decades by our ancestors. It was earlier associated with robots only but now, with the advancements in technology, AI is not only associated with robots but even with services of industries such as entertainment, healthcare, education and more. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Powering Business Transformation With Cloud: An MSME Perspectiveedit

Bloomberg Quint 

Chitale Dairy monitors animal health and habits using Internet of Things sensors and keeps a tab on their daily milk yield with the help of a highspeed, highavailability network. The dairy helps farmers keep their precious livestock healthy and productive with the help of cloudpowered big data analytics, automated todo lists, and ITenabled breeding management.

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Manufacturing sector faced most cyber threats in Jan-Maredit

The Hindu Business Line 

The manufacturing sector faced most of the cyber security threats detected by Quick Heal’s enterprise arm, Seqrite, between January and March 2019. The sector faced 27.56 per cent of the total cyber security threats. According to Seqrite, the other industries that faced high threat from attacks include professional services (22.59 per cent) and education (14.64 per cent).

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Indian Army develops talking hands for communicationedit

Deccan Chronicle 

Lt Thakur said the project was portable and user calibrated, and the smartphone app makes it user friendly. The flexible codes and hardware would enable the glove for further development. He added that it took two months to develop the project. Apart from talking hands, other projects such as fabrication of GoKart using electric drive, a hybrid bike, and internet of things (IoT) colour based product sorting machine drew the appreciation of senior officials at the ceremony.

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How Artificial Intelligence can play critical role in clearing itedit

The Financial Express 

With the human dependence on space technology increasing at a great speed, the traffic to space has become as congested as traffic on the roads than ever before. Whenever a junk is created in space, it becomes a high speed projectile (whatever may be the size due to high speeds involved) with a destructive capability.

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Fiberisation to make India a digital leader tomorrow: Swiss business tycoonedit

The Economic Times 

By Muntazir Abbas

5G is an interesting initiative. Increase in consumption of data due to IoT, mobiles etc., people will need more data available. To produce more data faster needs a strong backbone is needed that can be built on fibre. And yes, 5G will allow connecting the last mile regions with highquality communication lines.

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Computer scientists predict lightning and thunder with the help of artificial intelligenceedit

Express Computer 

Together with Germanys National Meteorological Service, the Deutscher Wetterdienst, computer science professor Jens Dittrich and his doctoral student Christian Schn from Saarland University are now working on a system that is supposed to predict local thunderstorms more precisely than before. It is based on satellite images and artificial intelligence. In order to investigate this approach in more detail, the researchers will receive 270,000 euros from the Federal Ministry of Transport.

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Budget 2019: Key things technology companies expect from Finance Ministeredit

The Financial Express

Union Budget 2019 India: The Information Technology (IT) industry is currently going through a transition phase, as numerous new technologies in the form of artificial intelligence, cognitive computing, data science, machine learning, big data, data analytics, robotics, Internet of Things, blockchain etc are changing the rules of game for incumbent IT players.

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Blockchain is expected to be as impactful as Internetedit

Express Computer 

By Moumita Deb Choudhury

This makes it a unique, feature rich, and enterprise ready private blockchain core. Combining FusionCore with sensors, IoT and machine learning, Empirical Data today helps organisations grow their business, enhance their customer experience and bring the best services and innovative products to the market.

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As per various reports, cybercriminals target the BFSI sector the most.edit

Money Control 

The BFSI segment in India has seen growing instances of cyberattacks in recent months. Whats more, not only has the number of attacks increased, but its very nature has become harder to detect and prevent.

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Are bots boring Indians prefer human interaction, personalised experienceedit

Business Standard 

While Indian consumers are impressed with the potential for automation at smart stores, the study said that 1824 years old Gen Z are less convinced that technological innovations will improve their lives.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Need to focus on gridconnected storage policy for investment in battery technology: Expertsedit

Business Standard 

The experts and industry players were on the same page for India taking lead over other countries in setting up storage manufacturing base in the country unlike solar modules wherein over 65 per cent of manufacturing is being done in China and other nations as per industry estimates. (E mobility)

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Go Green Mantraedit

The Times of India 

Indian auto sector is reeling under the debate about full transformation to electric vehicles. Most cos feel it’s too premature to shift gears and that they need more time to stabilise after the BS-VI changeover. World over though, the share of EV sales of the biggest auto markets is still less than 5%. Countries like China, US, UK, Germany and S Korea, many of them early EV converts, are still predominantly petrol/diesel markets

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Delhi Government Announces Pilot Project for Using Electric Vehicles for Delivering Online Ordersedit

News 18 

The Delhi government has announced its first electric vehicles (EVs) freight pilot under which up to 1,000 such vehicles are aimed to be deployed in the city over the next 12 months for delivering online orders. Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot made an announcement in this regard on the occasion of inauguration of Urban Mobility Lab workshop to promote innovation in clean and sustainable mobility in Delhi.

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725 Kilometers On A Single Charge Heres The Lightyear Oneedit

Drive Spark 

All the cars in the world combined, drive about 9.5 trillion kilometers per year and most of them are combustion cars. Even though the world is aiming for battery electric vehicles to change that, the team at Lightyear has been gunning for a purely solarrun vehicle since more than half a decade now. he added.

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How has the logistics and transport industry changed over the years with technologyedit

Deccan Chronicle 

Transport and logistics industry is the one of the leading segments investing heavily in IoT. To make transportation and logistics industry a more effective and efficient system, IoT has made it all possible from effective road safety issues to monitoring of the system in fleet management.

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How an e-motor racing team is plugging into AI for that extra surgeedit

The Hindu Business Line 

Professional services firm Genpact has embedded artificial intelligence (AI) into the race series to help turn data into a competitive edge for Envision Virgin Racing’s drivers. AI assesses massive amounts of data to unearth patterns which analyse systems, test numerous possibilities and recommend a course of action. Genpact’s data scientists have uncovered competitive insights from alternative data that enhance the team’s race strategy.

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Industry News: Future of Work

Unlike a human recruiter, we can control the robots behaviour in detailedit

CNBC TV18 

When the Future of Work series was conceived, the intent was to handpick individuals whose work is futuristic or who are experts in future gazing what the evolution of work could look like. I also hoped I could interview a robot someday and came pretty close. Meet Sweden based Furhat, the social robot that can serve customers, provide companionship, train employees or teach a language. (Future of Work)

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Industry News: Education

Deadline to submit comments on draft NEP to be extended: HRDedit

The Economic Times 

Public inputs have been sought on four broad categories school education, higher education, additional key focus areas and transforming education. To another query on implementation of 25 per cent reservation to economically weaker section (EWS) in private schools, the Minister said this provision has been in place since 2009 but was implemented seriously from 2014 onwards.

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Is Education 4.0 the future of learningedit

India Today 

Industry 4.0 is defined by Connected Cyberphysical systems, powered by IoT and fueled by data, create a fully interconnected society. In such a hyper connected disruptive world, Education has no option but to adapt to these changes in Industry which are brought by disruptive technologies Hello! Education 4.0.

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