July 2, 2019

News for the IET

Freshers Induction Program 2019edit

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Mr.M.Sakthivel, Final Year B.Tech. CSE appreciated the efforts of faculty of SRMIST in widening his knowledge about computer science. Mr. Jaiakaash, ECE, expressed that he was able to do many projects with the help of faculty and professional bodies like IET, IEEE, etc. Ms.R.Swarna, the Final year Mechanical student, valued the activities of the department in moulding her as a mechanical engineer.

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Getting spectrum prices rightedit

The Financial Express

There Is Much Excitement in the air about the wondrous new technology, 5G, which holds promise of being the technology of all access technologies. The new government has firmly put it in its 100-day action plan, which is most encouraging. It is heard that the government is planning a big bang spectrum auction involving as many as eight bands and as much as 8 600MHz,the largest such auction in India.

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Leading technology companies and three telecom carriers will showcase 5G+IoT Scenariosedit

IT News Online 

Recently, the preparation of the IoTF 2019 has entered the final rush stage. Experts and executives from Huawei, China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, State Grid, Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi, Amazon, Microsoft, Nanwei Group, Guangpu, tuya.com, Unisound, Xminnov, kuaishangTong, Taiwan Microip, and IEEE will attend activities and conferences.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

We need to create a healthcare ecosystem with human interface: Ravi Kant Sharmaedit

The Economic Times 

We use technology to provide personalized consumer experience, to meet ever increasing customer demands and to make perfect business decisions. Broadly, we are using technology into three parts. Firstly, to provide the best, and unique personalized consumer experience. Secondly, to increase the efficiency of the organization by changing the processes and systems of data insights on what we get..

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Technology can help be disaster readyedit

The New Indian Express 

Artificial intelligence, sensor technologies, robotics hold promise in making disaster response system more efficient and various state disaster response forces (SDRFs) are required to be made more professional to better manage and combat disasters, a senior government official said Sunday.

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India, Japan to collaborate on outer space and cyber security projectsedit

The Economic Times 

India and Japan have decided to collaborate on cybersecurity and outer space as part of their growing security partnership in the IndoPacific region, a development that comes in the backdrop of increasing violation of social media platforms by extremists and Indias successful AntiSatellite Weapons (ASAT) test.

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Centre plans to broadband for all under Digital India 2.0edit

DNA 

Also, we have to explore how 5G and new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence can be leveraged under Digital India, mainly in the rural areas, he said. Digital India has been one of the important and ambitious programmes of the government to take inclusive growth across all hooks and corners of the country.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tech Developed To Help Crops Cope With Climate Changeedit

Sentinel Assam 

In the study, researchers at BGU and the University of California developed a method to identify metabolic pathways which are chemical reactions in the cell, allowing it to grow and multiply, Xinhua news agency reported.

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AI, IoT fuel new chip designs, and India is at the centre of itedit

The Times of India 

Put all of that together, and what we have is a picture of something dramatically new happening in chip design, and India, alongside the US, being at the centre of it. That new is an effort to integrate new digital technologies such as AI, machine learning, and internet-of things (IoT) with silicon. The more tightly software and hardware features are integrated, the better the applications run.

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75% of all databases will be deployed in cloud by 2022: Gartneredit

Money Control 

We also believe this begins with systems for data management solutions for analytics (DMSA) use cases such as data warehousing, data lakes and other use cases where data is used for analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Increasingly, operational systems are also moving to the cloud, especially with conversion to the SaaS application model.

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5G adoption will be slow across AsiaPacific: Moodysedit

The Economic Times 

We expect more advanced applications such as medical services, robotics, and smart home devices to be the main driving force for 5G demand. However, these applications are still developing in most countries and need more evolved device ecosystems and higher band spectrums to run efficiently, it said in a credit outlook report.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

To Develop Infrastructure For Electric Vehicle Users, Govt. Giving Incentives To Manufacturersedit

India Times

After multiple policies for bringing in electric vehicles to the country, Indian governments think tank Niti Aayog will now be working towards setting up the required infrastructure for the EVs. For the same, the ministry of heavy industries will soon be announced incentives for such infrastructure.

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New electric vehicles must make fake engine noise by law from todayedit

Yahoo News 

The rule, which came into force today, was introduced by the European Union and will apply when vehicles are travelling at less than 12mph (19kph) or are reversing. All new electric and hybrid vehicles with four wheels must now be fitted with the acoustic vehicle alert system (AVAS) which generates a sound similar to that made by a conventional engine.

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Kerala targets having 1 million EVs by 2022edit

Auto Car India 

Kerala, which is one of the major automobile markets in India and among the biggest buyers of fossil-fuelled vehicles, is undertaking a major shift in mobility practice. The state aims to have a million or 10 lakh electric vehicles (EVs) on its roads by 2022, which is just about three years from now.

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Battery Swapping For Electric Vehicles In India To Be Included Under FAME IIedit

Drive Spark 

The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has recommended some changes to be made to the FAME II scheme. These changes include incentivising battery swapping stations. FICCI has said that incentives can be given to battery swapping stations just as it is being given to EV charging stations under FAME II.

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Industry News: Future of Work

MSME sector: Job creation should be a cornerstone of all policy makingedit

CNBC TV18 

Implementing effective reskilling programmes: The government should augment the existing skill development programmes and incentivise existing enterprises to provide practical industry experience to candidates, thereby making them job ready and easily employable.

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Skills at risk: As automation increases, policies and employees must evolveedit

The Financial Express 

In particular, Chatbots and voicebots are taking over the voice based support jobs rapidly. Data entry jobs too are being taken over by the rapid growth of process automation software that can read all kinds of writing.

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Hiring Using HR Technology Increases ROI By 66%: TimesJobsedit

BW People 

The TimeJobs survey also asked about the technologies that would drive the HR function. The findings state that Data Analytics (42 percent) and Artificial Intelligence (36 percent) are the top two technologies which will impact HR processes most.

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Industry News: Education

The draft National Education Policy portends deep damageedit

The Telegraph 

Policy analysis calls for a careful separation of language from legislative intention. And that is exactly where the devil lies in the draft National Education Policy, 2019. Cloaked in a rhetorical smattering of high-sounding claims, the draft NEP reproduces all the structural reforms in higher education that erstwhile governments have tried to bring in and faced enormous amounts of criticism for.

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How Technology is Changing Traditional Education Patternsedit

Digital Learning Elets Online 

The Indian educational landscape is fastchanging with technology gripping the nation in an unprecedented fashion, writes Shekhar Bhattacharjee, founder, Great Place To Study.

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Demystifying the needs of higher education in Indiaedit

The Financial Express 

Public spending on education There is hardly any disagreement that a thriving education system is vital for the progress of a country and it should get priority while allocating funds.

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