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IoT India Congress 2019 to focus on Mainstreaming Internet of Thingsedit
The fourth edition of the IoT India Congress is set to take place from 22 to 23 August 2019 at Hotel LaLiT Ashok, Bengaluru. Organized by the Internet of Things (IoT) Panel of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the Congress will focus on the rapidly expanding applications of IoT technology and will discuss the Mainstreaming of the Internet of Things across 10 sectors Manufacturing, Smart Cities, Digital Communications, Healthcare, Standards & Regulatory, Agricultural, Retail, Energy, Skills and Defence.
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How You Move And Use Your Smartphone Can Reflect Your Overall Personalityedit
In a paper published by the IEEE Computer Society, the researchers explain how this works. The accelerometers can show how fast a smartphone user walks, and how often they pick up the device during the night. By correlating this physical activity to personality traits, team can extrapolate a vague idea of what kind of person you are.
IEEEAI to track sportspersons performanceedit
The research titled Attentive SpatioTemporal Representation Learning for Diving Classification by Gagan Kanojia, Sudhakar Kumawat and Prof Shanmuganathan Raman was part of 2019 edition of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops.
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The role of Artificial Intelligenceedit
The general problem of simulating intelligence has been broken into subproblems. Artificial Intelligence is the simulation of the human process by machines. These processes include the learning, reasoning and selfcorrection. We need Artificial Intelligence because the work that we need to do is increasing daytoday. So, its a good idea to automate the routine work.
Artificial IntelligenceThe Present Landscape of Cybersecurityedit
The cybersecurity scenario is developing more complex constantly, with the coming years showing more difficulties than ever for organizations attempting to keep over their IT security. Cyber attacks develop increasingly determined and complex constantly, so it pays to keep over whats to come in rising cybersecurity threats.
CyberSecurityThe AI In Insurance Report: How forward thinking insurers are using AI to slash costs and boost customer satisfaction as disruption loomsedit
The most valuable area in which insurers can innovate is the use of artificial intelligence (AI): Its estimated that AI can drive cost savings of $390 billion across insurers front, middle, and back offices by 2030, according to a report by Autonomous NEXT seen by Business Insider Intelligence. The front office is the most lucrative area to target for AIdriven cost savings, with $168 billion up for grabs by 2030.
AIBFSISupply chain to email, mobile and the cloud, no environment is immune to cyber attacksedit
With 50% increase in attacks from 2018, Check Points Cyber Attack Trends: 2019 MidYear Report also reveals banking malware has evolved to become a very common mobile threat. Global cybersecurity solutions provider Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, released its Cyber Attack Trends: 2019 MidYear Report, revealing that no environment is immune to cyberattacks. (Cybersecurity)
cloudCyber threatRobotic process automation is the beginning, expect further disruption in technology and servicesedit
White collar automation has been happening for a very long time. Robotics is a cool name for efficient software that has led to the creation of a new stream called Robotics Process Automation (RPA). RPA eliminates mundane and tedious tasks freeing workers to focus on higher value work.
RPAIndia cyber security breaches lead to reputation and financial losses for industrial organisation: Surveyedit
The survey polled strategic decision makers from Indian industrial companies on types of cybersecurity threats, their approach to dealing with them, and their organisations respective preparedness as they adopt Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) enabled technologies.
CyberSecurityIndustrial Internet of ThingsEthics in artificial intelligence: Indias approachedit
Its parching hot outside; you are returning home from a long day at work and want a quick siesta. You are approaching home and are in a twokilometre radius, and through your smart phone app, you set up and adjust your AC temperature, preference of lights, curtains etc an interconnected world, enabled by technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
AIEthicsIoTRobots that can see, learn and griplike humansedit
Robots until recently have been limited to precise, preprogrammed and repetitive heavy duty jobs like automotive manufacturing Now, more agile robots are speeding up the takeover of jobs once done only by humans (Artificial Intelligence)
AIIndustrial automationrobotsWe are in throes of Industrial Revolution 4.0: Narendra Jadhavedit
With automation linked with digital technology predicted to take over millions of jobs, including 69 per cent in India and 77 per cent in China in the next 15 years, according to a 2016 study by Oxford Universitys Martin School and Citi, new kinds of jobs will be created. For that you need new skills
AutomationIndustrial Revolution 4.0skillsUnsupervised Learning: The Next Wave in AI Revolutionedit
Throughout the last decade, machine learning has gained exceptional ground in areas as varied as image recognition, selfdriving vehicles and playing complex games like Go. These victories have been generally acknowledged via preparing deep neural systems with one of two learning paradigms which are supervised learning and reinforcement learning.
AISelf DrivingRobots that can see, learn and grip like humansedit
The number of jobs lost to automation is difficult to calculate, in part because one lost position often creates several others in new industries. But almost 40% of US workers are in fields retail and food service, for example that will lose jobs to automation by 2030, according to a McKinsey report published on 11 July.
RoboticsOvercoming Security Challenges With An Integrated Approachedit
If this is not enough, the rising mobility of the workforce, adoption of cloud and the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) is resulting in heterogeneity of enterprise environments. This means information today is more dispersed, and much more difficult to manage and secure. This is aggravated by the fact that the volume of digital information being generated is also exploding
Cloud TechnologyIoTSecurityworkforceMachine learning, AI are narrowing down variations in research outcomesedit
In particular, they have been working on humanities subjects such as psychology, sociology, economics, finance, management and anthropology in such a way that their projects can be included in natural sciences. (Artificial Intelligence)
AIMachine LearningDigital technologies to reshape labour markets, industries and credit impacts: Moodysedit
Digitisation, which entails the adoption of advanced technologies such as big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, internet of things and advanced robotics, is aimed at enhancing information processing and the quality of decision making while further automating routine tasks.
AIBig DataCloud ComputingDigitisationIoTMachine LearningRoboticsAim to create Indian patents in 5G: Prasadedit
Speaking at the curtain raiser event of the Indian Mobile Congress (IMC) 2019, he stressed that 5G, along with Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), must lead to transformation. My vision and ambition is not just specific to roll out of 5G services but also creation of Indian IP and patents in 5G technology, he said
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Indian engineers help design autonomous cars for the worldedit
Making cars autonomous is all the rage in the engineering world today. And a number of companies in India are involved in helping global automotive majors transform their cars. Two kinds of work dominate here, given the talent the country has.
Autonomous CarsEngineersGovt proposes scrapping of vehicles older than 15 yearsedit
The Ministry has issued a draft notification for amendments to the CMVR (Central Motor Vehicles Rules) for providing a boost to the Electric Vehicles, ensuring divyang friendly features in buses, and providing an enabling mechanism for scrapping of vehicles older than 15 years, Road Transport and Highways Ministry said in a statement.
Electric VehicleFuture of MobilityAs India moves to emobility, plan for battery waste disposal: Ministeredit
The Minister said: Just like IT boom came with the problem of ewaste, similarly, with the gradual shift to emobility, India must also think in terms of battery waste disposal.
e-mobilityEV BatteryIndia has game plan for electric vehicles: Amitabh Kantedit
India has put in place a game plan for electric vehicles (EV) and its components like batteries to ensure clean cities, reduce imports and utilise solar power, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said. He said domestic battery manufacturing for electric vehicles provides a “massive market opportunity”, and also quickens the transition to such environment-friendly transport, which is vital for the country to help combat pollution, congestion, strengthen energy security and create jobs.
Electric VehiclesHow this EV startup is transforming the business of lastmile connectivityedit
The startups working is similar to that of ridesharing services, except that all vehicles are owned by the company and its mobile app is not the only way to book a ride (EV)
Electric Vehicleslast mile connectivityHousing societies to give land for evehicle charging stationsedit
The state department of cooperation has asked housing societies to provide land to set up charging stations for electric vehicles. At a meeting last week, officials from the central government thinktank, Niti Aayog, urged the state government to promote the use of electric vehicles in Maharashtra.
EV Charging InfrastructureElectric vehicles are the need of the hour: UP Transport ministeredit
Uttar Pradesh Transport Minister Swatantra Dev Singh said that electric vehicles are the need of the hour as it is environment friendly and helps in fossil fuel conservation. Addressing a session on Electric Mobility during the second Ground Breaking ceremony here on Sunday, he said the BJP government is giving many incentives for manufacturing of electric vehicles.
Electric VehiclesElectric vehicle makers welcome duty reductionedit
The auto industry on Saturday welcomed the reduction in GST on electric vehicles (EVs) and chargers, saying it will help in creating an ecosystem that will encourage faster mass adoption of ecofriendly mobility
Electric VehiclesGSTBoost to Electric Mobilityedit
According to NITI Aayog’s estimation, if India reaches an EV sales penetration of 30% of private cars, 70% of commercial vehicles, 40% of buses and 80% of twoand three-wheelers by 2030, the country can save 846 million tonnes of net carbon dioxide emissions and can also save 474 million tonnes of oil equivalent.
electric mobilityAutonomous cars involve intense application of data, AIedit
George Kurian, CEO of data management company NetApp, says the most profound application of data and artificial intelligence (AI) to bring automated decision making is in autonomous cars. It is here, he says, where you see the most progression of machine learning capabilities, of sensor technology, of lidar technology (lidar uses light to measure range and depth, and is often more effective than radar that uses sound).
AIAutonomous CarsA driverless vision may be reality soonedit
This happens by collecting data about various aspects of the driver and the vehicle. IBM’s Connected Vehicle software platform, which works on the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, needs an Internet-of-Things (IoT) device installed on a vehicle to gather data on driving behaviour, driving style which also indicates road conditions, vehicle components performance, etc.
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Auto Industry Must Mobilise Youth for Future Ready Workforce: Union Ministeredit
Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister Mahendra Nath Pandey said the automotive industry contributes 7.5 per cent to the countrys GDP which will boost the Indian economy.
Automotive Sectorfuture ready workforceWith advanced analytics HR can become more proactive than reactive: summitedit
Several leaders from the corporate world gathered on Saturday for a summit near here and discussed how with advanced analytics there is an opportunity for the field of HR to be more proactive than being just reactive. (Artificial Intelligence)
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Striving to improve quality of engineering education in India, says AICTE chairmanedit
For the next two years, no new engineering or pharmacy college will be added, All India Council for Technical Education chairman Anil D. Sahasrabudhe said here on Sunday.
aicteengineering educationHow AI Is Transforming Educationedit
Like any developing technology, there has always remained an atmosphere of intrigue encircling the idea of Artificial Intelligence (AI), as well as its applicability in various industries. The discovery of AI has been discussed over the years. Some see this technology as the beginning step towards a life where human professions are no longer needed
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