August 1, 2019

News for the IET

An Introduction to Tensorflow programming in pythonedit

Open Source For You

This article will acquaint readers with the basic environment of TensorFlow, its computational library, and with dataflow graphs, which will help them with its advanced applications. (IET UK)

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News for other PEI

IEEE Publishes Global Standard to Guide the Robotic and Intelligent Automation Transition to Industry 4.0 With Over 140 Defined Product Featuresedit

Business Wire

IEEE, the worlds largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, and the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) today announced the availability of IEEE 2755.12019 Guide for Taxonomy for Intelligent Process Automation Product Features and Functionality, designed to help large businesses select the most impactful products as they transition to an automated environment.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Smart Cities and the loT: A Relationship to Build the Futureedit

Open Source For You

The IoT is already playing a great role in cost-effective power generation, distribution and transmission. Companies like Google, Uber, Renault, Ford and Volvo are developing autonomous vehicles. Driverless cars are a key component of connected smart cities.

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How IoT is powering your smart home for a smart lifeedit

Infotech Lead

Happy and healthy days are here again thanks to Internet of Things (IoT). Come smart home, you will find a virtual doctor around monitoring your health status 247, but without intruding into your personal life.

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How IoRT Delivers Ease & Robotic Amenity To Domestic And Professional Arenaedit

Analytics Insight

By Smriti Srivastava

Amid the buzz of AI, RPA, Big Data, and Intelligent Automation, what could be the possible advents of the combination of IoT with Robotics Well, interesting the combination, IoRT (Internet of Robotics Things) possesses the power of reshaping the future of robotics while disrupting the existing scenario.

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How big data can boost agricultural growthedit

Down To Earth

By Amit Kumar Mungarwal

Data mining is the computing process of discovering patterns in large data sets involving methods at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning statistics and database system. Precision agricultures main objective is to ensure profitability, efficiency, and sustainability using the big data gathered to guide both immediate and future decision making

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Eightyfive percent of enterprises already in phase of IoT adoption: Microsoft reportedit

Wire 19

Microsoft IoT Signals report Eighty five per cent of enterprise decision makers said that they are in the phase of IoT adoption, according to the new IoT Signals research by Microsoft. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the hottest technologies today that is growing rapidly in the commercial arena.

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Department of Posts must leverage technology to strengthen Digital India: Prasadedit

UNI India

Union Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday asked Department of Posts to leverage technology to strengthen Digital India by adopting artificial intelligence, IoT and cloud computing for citizen centric services.

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97% adopters have security concerns when implementing IoT: Microsoft reportedit

Money Control

The report indicates that IoT adoption is growing rapidly, and respondents believe 30 percent of their companys revenue two years from now will be due to IoT. Yet, the industry faces a significant IoT skills gap, as well as complexity and security challenges that may compromise business benefits to IoT if not addressed.

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6 Challenges In Using Open Source Cybersecurity Toolsedit

Analytics India Mag

By Harshajit Sarmah

When it comes to cybersecurity, tools and infrastructure matter a lot in order to battle notorious threats. Companies across the world have of late understood the importance of having strong cybersecurity and are trying every possible tool or software to make it better.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Meet EV deadline or pay up for pollution, Centre may tell auto manufacturersedit

Live Mint

By Sheya Nandi and Utpal Bhaskar

As part of the strategy to encourage private sector investment in the strategically important sector, the government is also looking at a raft of tax incentives for manufacturers and a suitable basic customs duty safeguard from 2021-2030 for making advanced chemistry cells and battery in India.

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Green move: Charging e-vehicles now cheaper in Delhiedit

The Times of India

By Ritam Haldar

With an eye on pollution-free transportation, Delhi Electricity Regularity Commission (DERC) has reduced the rates for charging stations of e-rickshaws and other electric vehicles. Low-tension e-vehicle users (those who charge at home) will pay Rs 4.5 per kW instead of Rs 5.5, while high-tension users (at public charging stations) will pay Rs 4 instead of Rs 5 per kW.

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Govt softens stance on time frame for transition to electric vehiclesedit

Business Standard

The Ministry of Heavy Industries, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, the power ministry, and the NITI Aayog tasked with the policymaking and implementation of the governments emobility plan have extended an olive branch to the beleaguered automobile industry by agreeing to a softer, pragmatic, phasewise approach. Under the revised plan, highly polluted urban cities will be targeted first.

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EESL to lease electric vehicles to cab aggregators Ola, Meruedit

MINT

State-owned Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL), responsible for replacing vehicles with new-energy cars, is seeking to lease electric vehicles (EVs) to cab companies amid delays integrating them into government fleets. EESL has made offers to lease EVs to Ola Cabs and Meru Cabs, and plans to reach out as well to Uber Technologies Inc., according to managing director Saurabh Kumar.

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Customers are not fully prepared for electric and autonomous vehicles: Studyedit

The Economic Times

Despite the auto manufacturers and technology companies spending billions on self-driving technology and electric vehicles, customers are not yet fully prepared to accept these new mobility solutions, reveals a study.

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2025 deadline for electric twowheelers is an opportunity, not a restrictionedit

The Financial Express

NITI Aayogs recent proposal on banning internal combustion engines for twowheelers below 150cc by 2023 got several manufacturers in a tizzy. We got in touch with Rahul Sharma, Founder, Revolt Intellicorp to find out about how he thinks that it is in fact a great opportunity for Indias transition into electric mobility.

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Industry News: Future of Work

Reinventing jobs for the future: Robert Walters APAC MDedit

People Matters

Toby Fowlston, the Managing Director of Robert Walters in APAC, delves deep into how the key for economies and societies will be to keep learning, investing in future skills and innovating, and embracing change. (Future of Jobs)

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No, artificial intelligence wont start a robocalypse or solve humanitys fundamental problemsedit

Scroll

Though some of the worlds most prominent and successful thinkers regularly forecast that AI will either solve all our problems or destroy us or our society, and the press frequently reports on how AI will threaten jobs and raise inequality, theres actually very little evidence to support these ideas. Whats more, this could actually end up turning people against AI research, bringing significant progress in the technology to a halt

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Emerging tech could reshape future of work with humanmachine partnerships: Dell Technologies reportedit

The Economic Times

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Extended Reality (XR) and Internet of Things (IoT) continue to underpin the wave of continuous innovation and disruption of traditional business models, said the Dell Technologies, which recently launched the Future of Work report in partnership with the independent futures research group, Institute for the Future (IFTF), to explore how emerging technologies will reshape the work environment over the next decade with the rise of human machine partnerships.

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64 per cent directors worried about AI impactedit

The Asian Age

By Ritwik Mukherjee

The survey revealed that nearly twothirds are slightly worried about losing their jobs.70 per cent said they would feel positive about the potential to hand over some of their activities to AI. 70 per cent said they would feel positive about the potential to hand over some of their activities to AI.

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Industry News: Education

The National Education Policy 2019: An Alarming Attempt To Redefine Indiaedit

Business World

By Ramit Singh Chimni

In January 2015, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) initiated the process of developing the National Education Policy for our country. This effort culminated into the 484 page draft National Education Policy 2019 (NEP) which was made public on 31st May 2019

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