August 28, 2019

News for the IET

Heres how this Karnataka engineers chatbot named Sakhi is a companion for senior citizens with Alzheimersedit

Edex Live

By Rashmi Patil

And for this, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) selected Likitha to participate in the IET South Asia Present around the World competition (regional level), which she won. Narrating the story behind developing Sakhi, Likitha, who works with Texas Instruments as a Analogue Design Engineer and spends her weekends at IISc doing research, says, When I was discussing with Dr Sriram Ganapathy from LEAP Laboratory about the memory loss that senior citizens suffer from, we got the idea to develop a chatbot.

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News for other PEI

Innovation: Scientists devise better way to harness power of solar panelsedit

The Economic Times

In the study published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, the researchers developed an algorithm that increases the efficiency of the solar photovoltaic (PV) system and reduces the volume of power currently being wasted due to a lack of effective controls.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Indias 5G fantasy: The future looks decidedly dimedit

Downtoearth Org 

A global 5G network will unify mobile communication and connect people and devices to everything through the Internet of Things. Given that 3G and 4G patent holders have controlled the use of mobile technologies in the smartphone industry, those who own the intellectual property (IP), primarily the SEPs or the standard essential patents, will become the market leaders in a technology that will reshape the future.

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How 5G can boost the safety of your internet devices by tailoring security updates and improving encryptionedit

Business Insider

But inevitably, with the promise of so much more data and billions of new internetconnected devices, comes the threat of hackers and others looking to profit from stolen information, and so with that the heightened challenge of improving cybersecurity.

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The Integration of AI and Blockchain for Industry 4.0edit

Analytics India Mag 

Over the past few years of existence, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence have been shaping their paths with a slight overlap in their own. There is a clear link between both technologies in the form of data. But, the future of banks and insurance companies, according to a report, is largely ordained to shift from the association between the blockchain and distributed AI.

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Government looks to develop electronics component manufacturing base in India: MeiTY secyedit

The Economic Times

On this occasion, Niti Ayog CEO Amitabh Kant said it is not possible to become a manufacturing nation without adopting modern technologies like artificial intelligence or without adopting machine learning.

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Could Big Data And AI Help Have Helped In Predicting & Battling The Amazon Wildfireedit

Analytics India Mag

While people are questioning why the government couldnt forecast the wildfire, even after knowing that it happens every single year, there are people who are thinking whether big data and artificial intelligence could be a helping hand in predicting and fighting wildfires.

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Attention cybersecurity leaders: Heres a 3 point system to fix your skillgapedit

The Economic Times

Attention cybersecurity leaders: Heres a 3 point system to fix your skillgap In a freewheeling conversation with ETCIO, Siddharth Vishwanath, Leader Cyber Security, PwC India, talks about how the traditional approach protect, detec, respond has failed to keep the enterprises secured from rising cyberattacks and how skill gap in cybersecurity domain is making it worse.

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Artificial Intelligence in Digital Marketingedit

Your Story

Artificial Intelligence, the prime matter in various scifi films in various languages, has already started taking over the world of Digital Marketing. Does that leave the Marketers without a job Of Course not

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Auto companies ride job losses to slow electric vehicle pushedit

DNA 

While the automakers were fighting against electric vehicles, which was given a major push in the Union Budget, the continued fall in automotive sales during June and July helped them in putting their case with more strength.

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Can power napping solve electric car charging challengeedit

The Economic Times 

The small study in the wealthy Stuttgart suburb of OstfildernRuit though has helped alleviate the concerns of some grid operators that too many electric vehicles (EVs) charging at peak times could cause network crashes.

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Chennai gets its first electric public transport bus: More than 500 to follow across TNedit

The Financial Express 

Built by Hinduja Group flagship firm Ashok Leyland, the rollout of the bus comes against the backdrop of the state government signed a memorandum of understanding with the London based C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group in March 2018.

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Industry at bottom of cycle, says Bhargavaedit

The Hindu 

While Mr. Bhargava said the company was committed to transitioning to electric vehicles (EVs), availability of small and affordable EVs for individual customers was “not likely in the next few years. He pitched for CNG vehicles, hybrid cars and the increasing use of biofuels to achieve the objective of reducing oil consumption and pollution.

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Lost on the way: Why Bengaluru’s e-bus project remains a non-starteredit

The Times of India 

The delay was caused primarily due to former transport minister DC Thammanna’s insistence that buses be purchased and not leased. BMTC lost the Centre’s Rs 75-crore subsidy as the deadline for phase 1 of FAME India (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles in India) scheme by the department of heavy industry, expired on March 31, 2019.

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Industry News: Future of Work

How technology can fasttrack HR evolutionedit

The Telegraph 

Since mainstream education doesnt serve the purpose, it becomes the duty of the Human Resource Management to take this forward and enroll their newly hired employees for skill based training sessions and workshops. This ensures that employees are ready to further their respective roles as they have been provided with robust training in their respective field

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Indias skill development programme goes globaledit

Zee Biz 

Indias flagship skill development programme goes global as three young interns fly to the Japanese city of Nagoya tonight for a threeyear programme. TITP is a 35 years internship programme for providing skill training in different fields including agriculture, fishery, construction, food manufacturing, textiles, machinery and metals, care workers (Nursing), etc. Image source: NSDC website

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Skill minister makes strong case for India as next skilling hubedit

SME Times 

Making a strong case for India as the next skilling hub, Pandey said, Currently, 10 million Indian youth enter the workforce every year. Upskilling and increasing industry interface to provide access to multiple skilling opportunities in a short time frame is critical. India has adopted accelerated modular competency based programs of 200600 hours duration aimed at enhancing the employability of youth coming out of these programs.

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Brands training India in cyber security, data literacy, teacher developmentedit

The Asian Age

However, several established conglomerates in the respective fields have taken it upon themselves to impart essential skills and training and these important disciplines. Here’s taking a quick look at some of the well established enterprises that are also venturing into imparting training & development in the field of education, data analytics, cybersecurity, and more.

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