November 8, 2019

News for the IET

Jaguar Land Rover printed electronics powers next generation in car personalisationedit

Automotive world

Jaguar Land Rover has successfully trialled LESA technology on an overhead control panel prototype, achieving a weight reduction of 60% and minimising the part size from 50mm to 3.5mm. The research was awarded an Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Innovation Award with judges praising it as the future of electronics in the car.

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News for other PEI

The Institution of Engineersedit

The Times of India

The Institution of Engineers (India) awarded NEEPCO Ltd. the “IEI Centenary Industry Excellence Award” on November 5, 2019 at a glittering function at Hotel Le Meridien, New Delhi. The award was received by VK Singh, CMD, NEEPCO Ltd. from Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways and MSMEs. VK Singh was accompanied by NEEPCO Directors Shiva Shunmuganathan and Anil Kumar.

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Best Papers Announced At IEEE International Conference On Computer Visionedit

Analytics India Mag

IEEE International Conference On Computer Vision (ICCV) is a noted event which consists of conferences, workshops, and tutorials. Held in Seoul, South Korea from Oct 27, 2019 Nov 3, 2019, this conference is one of the top conferences on emerging technologies conducted every two years. This year, the conference witnessed more than 4,000 papers, from which the committee accepted only 1,075 papers.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Vision Artificial Intelligence Can Help Minimize Angst, For Companies And Customers, In The Relocation/Moving Industryedit

Forbes

Much of the focus on deep learning systems for vision has been in three areas: autonomous vehicles, facial recognition, and robotics. However, as with the many other areas of artificial intelligence (AI), vision will have a far wider impact on society than in those three areas.

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The Revolutionary Journey of The Internet of Thingsedit

BW Smart Cities

The Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved with the progression of Internet in the past two decades. For starters, IoT is essentially the inter network of physical things such as sensors, devices, vehicles, buildings, and other objects which are embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity that enable these objects to pick data, assemble and exchange the data.

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Technology How Entrepreneurs Are Connecting the World With IoTedit

Daily Hunt

Some have dubbed the Internet of Things, or IoT, the Intelligence of Things, and even the Internet of Everything. Whatever they call it, there is no doubt that IoT has been steadily emerging and shaping our future. Put simply, IoT eliminates the need for human interaction with other humans or computers to transfer data.

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Is India cyber security readyedit

The Hindu Business Line

Towards end-October, social media was agog with reports of a cyber attack at Kudankulam Nuclear Power plant. The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL), on October 29, denied such a development and said both the reactors were running without ‘any operational or safety concerns’.

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India, Sweden to collaborate on clean technologiesedit

Telangana Today

As a part of the programmme, eight Swedish companies have showcased their clean, innovative and futuristic technologies, which ranged from nanotechnologies; internet of things (IoT); active dynamic filters; LED light tower; pot washing machines; sustainable sanitation solutions, superefficient aerators, material recovery from End of Life Tyres (ELT).

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Human Brain: Source Of Inspiration For Artificial Intelligence Solutionsedit

BW CIO World

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fast gaining ground as the next big disruptor in the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry. Over the last year, content creators across the globe have actively begun to adopt AI tools in order to enhance efficiencies, unlock revenue opportunities and deliver interactive viewing experiences.

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How Is Artificial Intelligence Revolutionizing Small Businessesedit

Entrepreneur

Artificial intelligence (AI) was invented to support humans. With time, it has developed into a technology that delivers results. Although expensive initially, AI has now become affordable for small businesses as well. According to a survey of CEOs from small and medium-sized businesses, 29.5% of CEOs have spoken in favour of AI technology and its various benefits on businesses.

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How AI has changed the way we eat, drive and talkedit

The Economic Times

Artificial intelligence is already answering queries with personal assistants like Alexa and Siri, thanks to the advancement in machine learning and data analytics. AI-enabled systems have the capability to receive and analyse information and adapt to it as they make decisions. The technology is now widely adopted by companies such as Google, IBM and Apple. (Amazon)

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Encryption has made the use of data safe. Will quantum supremacy alter thatedit

The Economic Times

By truncating computing time from 10,000 years to a little under four minutes, quantum computers pose an existential threat to industry standards in cryptography that were hitherto thought to be infallible in real world conditions. Cybersecurity experts have reason to be worried.

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Cyber security emerging threats and defenseedit

Express Computer

Recently though, since the past few months, there has been a complete and comprehensive drift of the ways how bad guys have been spearheading cyber security attacks. Newer frontiers like OT/IoT spaces we have already been exploited and the coming times have already shown glimpse of how deadlier they would be.

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Cellular IoT Device Shipments Approach 350 Million Annually By 2025edit

Communications Today

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, IoT Cellular Device Sales will undergo a transition with 5G, the dominant air interface, in 2025, as published by Strategy Analytics IoT Strategies service. Strong growth from projects in China has continued to provide a healthy impetus to the IoT device market.

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AI can now make creative and exploratory decisionsedit

The Economic Times

When engineers use artificial intelligence (AI), they have traditionally applied it to a problem within a defined set of rules rather than having it generally follow human strategies to create something new.

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AI can Help Improve Citizen Services Locally’edit

The Economic Times

By Ayan Pramanik

India continues to lag in use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve citizen services and many government initiatives such as Ayushman Bharat Mission would open up a sea of opportunities for artificial intelligence-based services in the country, said Anil Valluri, President, NetApp India and SAARC.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

NTPC Working on Charging Infrastructure for Electric Cars in Indiaedit

The Quint

State owned National Thermal Power Corporation Limited NTPC on Wednesday said it is working on electric vehicle charging infrastructure as it believes that ultimately mobility through EVs will help. Mohit Bhargava, Executive Director, NTPC said electric vehicle is a good concept but the larger issue is related to the battery.

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In battle to curb pollution, Delhi awaits EV policyedit

The Economic Times

While the government said it is working on details of the drafts, the manufacturers of electric vehicles said the policy could have played an important role in controlling pollution in the long termI.

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How India can effectively crack the electric mobility codeedit

The Hindu Business Line

The introduction of FAME II (Faster Adoption and Manufacture of Hybrid and Electric Vehicle) and proposed deadlines mandating faster adoption has created a sense of urgency. The conversations and interest in electric vehicles (EVs) are not new. For more than a decade, several companies have been conducting intensive R&D in this space.

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Delhi CM flags off 100 new buses, promises 3,000 moreedit

The Tribune

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal flagged off on Thursday 100 standard floor buses equipped with hydraulic lifts, CCTV cameras and panic button under the cluster scheme. He said in the next 6-7 months, 3,000 buses, including 1,000 electric buses, will be added to the public transport fleet in the national capital.

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Assam Capital Gets Electric Buses For the First Timeedit

News 18

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal launched 15 electric buses, purchased under the FAMEI scheme, that will play from PanbazarKamakhya Temple in Guwahati.

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100 divyang-friendly buses flagged offedit

The Pioneer

Out of the targeted 1,000 buses, the Government has flagged off 229 buses. Further, a total of 3,000 lower floor buses, 1,000 electric buses is expected to hit the roads of Delhi by mid 2020. “Delhi is being recognised all over the world for quality education, health, we are also trying to strengthen our transportation system.

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Industry News: Future of Work

AI may triple employment of people with disabilitiesedit

The Economic Times

The Internet of Things (IoT) where physical things are directed to do a certain thing based on a set of observed operating parameters relative to a desired set of operating parameters is now being extended to people, known as the Internet of Behaviour (IoB), the firm said.

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Industry News: Education

New National Education Policy will be India centric: HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyaledit

India Today

The National Education Policy (NEP) covers elementary to college education and the first was promulgated in 1968 by the government of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi and the second by then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1986.

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2030: Will India recover its lost education momentumedit

Education World

Against the backdrop of leaders in all walks of life inexplicably unable to absorb the self evident proposition that rigorous education and human capital development is the essential precondition of national progress, on the 20th anniversary of EducationWorld we do some crystal ball gazing to forecast the shape, form and efficacy of Indian education circa 2030

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