BISINFOTECH AUGUST 2018

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AUGUST 2018

Gospel Of Industrial Tech

CLOUDING INDIA...

CREATING OPPORTUNITIES

WITH Bhupinder Singh CEO | Messe Muenchen India

INDIAN A&D

THE NEW BATTLEFIELD TRENDING SoC WITH

Sambit Sengupta

Associate Director – Field Applications, Avnet India

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Design better touchscreens with simulation.

Visualization of electrode arrays in a capacitive touchscreen sensor and the log of the electric field norm when a finger touches the screen.

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SHAILENDRA KALRA

SAMBIT SENGUPTA

Country Head Livingston India Pvt Ltd

Associate Director Field Applications | Avnet India

ICTUPDATE

AEROSPACE &

DEFENCE

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34 52 Uniper, Publicis.Sapient Partners to Imbibe Digital Transformation across Businesses

BEL, Saab Associates for Radar Marketing The Powerful Agni-V Gets Induction Clearance, Bolsters India’s Military Prowess

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SANDEEP KAPOOR

Country Head Mktg | India & Regional Head Aerospace Defense Mktg- EMEAI Keysight Technologies

TEST & MEASUREMENT- UPDATES

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T&M

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The Monsoon INDIAN A&D

There are more than three million parts in a plane that requires hundreds of vendors to complete. While competition may be perceived as negative in most sectors, it is positive sign for the Indian Aerospace & Defence industry. Global aerospace manufacturing industry is reckon to worth more than $2o billion(Bn) by a. Aerospace manufacturing comprises the production of general aircraft which is mostly for business use and space vehicles, usually satellites, for both military and commercial use.

Simultaneously, the defense industry to be more prodigious which is expected to be worth more than $700Bn by the year 2026. Defense manufacturing depends on the nation’s need for military weapons and systems designed to operate on land, sea, and in the air in order to defend themselves.

THE NEW BATTLEFIELD!

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Shivkumar Ganesan CEO and co-founder, Exotel

Purshottam Purswani

Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Atos India, elaborated

Amod Phadke

Direct - Sales & Marketing, GCR

INDIAN A&D THE NEW BATTLEFIELD!

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The word which discovered India in its digital tenure is ‘digitalization’. Relative to analysing the atmospheric physics to predict cloud for this monsoon, likewise, Cloud Computing was already heavy and dark to deluge the whole indigenous IT ecosystem. With changing Cloud mindset and an increased Cloud adoption among organizations, the Cloud computing market in India has grown beyond measure. To be precise, Public Cloud in India alone logged US$1.8Bn in 2017. Where surveys made much headlines talking about the cloud market and its growing services adoption of cloud among Indian businesses, this piece assiduously takes a step-ahead with aligning the numero unos to rediscover the Indian cloud market. The journey of this story began in July amidst the black clouds where rain was not only pivotal as it extended us to the cascade of pioneer companies from different domain and their mastery in extending myriad cloud services which has efflux the Indian cloud business.

Expecting More Cloud for India?

Settling down to incept the starting note of notion on technologies which are making cloud a big-wig was something of foremost interest, to which Purshottam Purswani, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Atos India, elaborated, in the past few years India has seen increasing adoption of Cloud computing by both enterprises and Government, and it is expected to witness more growth in the future. Digital India is a campaign launched by the Government of India to ensure that the Government services are made available to the citizens electronically by improved online infrastructure and by increasing Internet connectivity or by making the country digitally empowered in the field of technology. Technologies such as Mobility, Big Data Analytics, the Internet of Things and most importantly Cloud Technologies are the fundamental backbone of these digital initiatives. At the same time Indian companies are increasingly focussing on the Cloud primarily due to a need for faster innovation, business agility, reduced goto-market time and scalability for their offerings.

Purswani also emphasized italicizing on

public cloud, saying, the India Public Cloud services revenue is projected to grow 37.5 percent in 2018 to total US$2.5 billion, up from US$1.8 billion in 2017, according to Gartner, Inc. The highest growth will be driven by infrastructure as a service (IaaS) which was projected to grow at 49.2% in 2017, followed by 33% in software as a service (SaaS) and 32.1% in platform as a service (PaaS).

On the other hand, to get further inputs on the technology-front, we asked Amod Phadke, Direct - Sales & Marketing, GCR on his thoughts.

Where he promptly says, Wearables, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Everything IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communication are the technologies we can expect to swell in the coming time. However, IoT and AI/ ML stand a promising chance to gain growth in the coming months. Due to the cloud delivery model, more and more vendors will be able to deliver these solutions with low entry barriers.

Therefore, we should experience an upward shift in people experiencing these newer solutions.

Again, both solutions depend on data, so we can also experience data analytics gaining a bigger ground in complete cloud gamut. Based on the cloud technology, we at GCR, provide vertical focused, SaaS connected, IoT solutions which can help professionals in transforming their businesses, the digital way.

Veteran, Shivkumar Ganesan, CEO and cofounder, Exotel also did put his thoughts stating, since the emergence of cloud, it has been widely accepted by numerous companies. Almost every organisation has adopted cloud technology and working wonders using cloud. Mostly Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, IoT and Blockchain have been the major pick of the industry however we have also seen organisations taking strong steps to improve communication. Hence, besides the above mentioned Cloud telephony has also become got adopted by all sizes of organisations.

It has become commonplace now because more and more rapidly growing businesses have started to realise the advantages of it.

Bringing efficiency to customer communication by automating wherever possible and creating customised solutions using easily programmable APIs has been the biggest selling point of cloud telephony.

THE MONSOON CLOUD IN INDIA

LEDUPDATES

TELECOMUPDATES

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A $20.50 Bn Market Estimated for Micro LED by 2025-Report Osram Nurture IR LEDs, Now For Security Cameras SunLED Introduces the World’s Smallest RGB SMD LED

60 Karnataka Will Lag Behind Due to the Absence of Comprehensive Mobile Tower PolicySolutions

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EDITOR

MANAS NANDI manas@bisinfotech.com

CONSULTANT EDITOR

NILOY BANERJEE niloy@bisinfotech.com

SUB EDITOR

JYOTI GAZMER editorial@bisinfotech.com

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SANDEEP KUMAR

WEB DEVELOPMENT MANAGER JITENDER KUMAR

WEB PRODUCTION BALVINDER SINGH

SUBSCRIPTIONS SANTOSH KUMAR

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR THE SHINE BEYOND THE CLOUDS! In last two years, the public cloud services market in India has seen tremendous growth–creating a market of USD 1.8 billion in 2017, from USD 1.3 billion in 2016. By 2020, this is expected to touch USD 4.1 billion. India is now only second to China as the largest and fastest-growing cloud services market in APAC region. Reaching GDP growth rate of 7.7% in Q4 FY18, and rapidly rising internet penetration, India is poised for booming expansion in this sector.

All global majors like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Alibaba have all rolled out there data centers in the country. India’s local players are not far behind–NxtGen is pushing AI development through its DevCloud; ESDS is leading the race for smart city hosting managed services, and CntrlS is putting India on the global map as Asia’s largest tier 4 data center.

Although India is still dealing with inconsistencies in high-speed internet connectivity, power supply, bandwidth, and optical fibre connections, interest in the cloud is being driven by the increasing need for business innovation and agility, the ability to scale fast in a competitive market, and the government’s thrust towards Digital India.

September this year in Bengaluru, Messe Muenchen India will be organizing the biggest ever edition of Market leading trade fairs catering to electronics industry, electronica India and productronica India which they claim has grown by more than 20% from its past Bengaluru edition two years back.

Keeping in tune with the industry, Bis infotech is committed to keep the highest editorial standards and bring you the most relevant information on this booming Industry.

More updates and research inside.

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SEMICONDUCTOR

SoC

Sambit Sengupta Associate Director – Field Applications, Avnet India

Trend of System-Level Integration in Designing SoC will Continue in the Future The electronic devices today are architected through a SoC design paradigm. The success of system-on-chip (SoC) hinges upon a well-concerted integrated approach from multiple disciplines, such as device, design, and application. Further explaining the quiddity of SoC designs in modern electronics, Sambit Sengupta, Associate Director – Field Applications, Avnet India demystifies the schematics of SoC design complexities in literary legibility and also shares the copes, advancements and challenges. Edited Nub.

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Is rapid development of standards and pressure on power consumption and minimizing area remains a bottleneck for modern SoC designs?

The emergence of battery-operated System-on-Chip (SoC) in recent years increased the efforts to reduce the power consumption.

Early works identified the need of minimizing the power consumption at the initial hardware/ software codesign process. In today’s era, there is a crucial need for efficient power consumption simulation and estimation tools.

The increased complexity of modern SoC applications limits the capabilities of such

simulation tools to predict the exact measured power consumption.

We at Avnet focus on a modular approach to deliver innovation in developing modern SoC. Over the years, we have developed a robust offering of System-on-Modules (SoM) devices that are based on the leading programmable System-on-Chip (SoC) processors. Avnet has developed various SoM modules inhouse as well as partner its embedded design house.

Whether your technology requirement is on ARM or on X86 architecture or MPU or requires FPGA architecture, we have solutions for every segment. An online product selection guide (https://www.avnet.com/wps/portal/us/solutions/technologies/ boards-and-modules/system-on-module/ ) further helps customer to focus on their application development. SoC such as zync/ultrascale, i.mx, intel multi core devices design benefits from this approach.

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Is verifying complete system in a SoC design still a major challenge?

The electronic devices today are architected through a SoC design paradigm. The success of system-on--chip (SoC) hinges upon a well-concerted integrated approach from multiple disciplines, such as device, design, and application.

There are several challenges that one may face while integrating components on the chip. Firstly, there is a huge gap between what can be theoretically designed and what can be practically implemented. New requirements on performance, power consumption, and rapid design cycles necessitate that one revisits the fundamental design principles. For instance, one of the persistent challenges is how to deploy in concert an ever increasing number of transistors with acceptable power consumption.

Another challenge is that in order to meet the increasingly demanding requirements in multimedia applications, SoC must provide functional flexibility as well as processing capability. For new applications in Industrial IoT, rapid prototyping or in data crunching environments, verifying the complete system

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What will mitigate the complex system design and timing closure problems of complex SoC designs?

SoC design cycle requires detailed verification and it will be helpful if designers work on timing closures from very early in the design. For example, in any Xilinx SoC design- the customer has access to the world class EDA tool, Vivado – which is provided by Xilinx. The inbuilt simulation tool helps in sorting problems very early in the design cycle.

Here the old adage ‘prevention is better than cure’ is of paramount importance. At Avnet, we have a large team of technical experts/ field application engineers (FAEs) who can help in independent verification and validation of customer design on request. In some cases an independent verification and validation paid service may also help to accelerate the project.

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How complicated is SoC architecture in network design?

As SoCs continue to evolve to have more and more programmable elements and processors on them, the opportunity to tune the processors, interconnect and other blocks to match the intended application and gain advantages of performance and energy consumption is one that many designers are still not aware of.The other challenge is around IP integration that has become pivotal in determining whether design teams of advanced system on chips (SoCs) meet their time to market and performance goals. The rapid growth in the number of available intellectual property (IP) blocks has both enabled and paralleled the increase in the size and complexity of SoCs. One of the most difficult challenges in SoC network design is determining how to make sure the hardware and software work together at the SoC level. Hardware verification has advanced to the point where the verification of individual functional blocks in a design can be achieved with reasonable confidence using constrained code coverage, assertion coverage, and functional coverage.

Challenges remain in making sure the blocks work correctly when placed

in the context of the SoC. Whether in telecommunications or consumer electronics, network design using SoC requires lot of planning by designers.

Engineers need to have modular design approach while doing network design, and always under time to market pressure. Avnet provides access to many IPs which can be integrated with existing SoC designs and hence resolve the time to market pressure. The plug and play IP are usually targeted to the choice of SoC and can be procured off the shelf.

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What disciplines SoC designers adapt to minimize the risk of design error?

SoC designers need to be strong in verification and validation techniques.

There are wide level of EDA tools or tools from SoC vendors available to help today’s engineers while doing SoC design. However deep understanding of timing issues, embedded design flow and strong verification and validation techniques stand in good stead for SoC designers.

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Design verification has always a highly expensive and timeconsuming component of electronic system development? How Systemon-Chip (SoC) architectures morphed verification?

The main challenge for SoC design today is that increased functionality is packed in each of the new chip available.

Shrinking die size and better power management is enabling designers to have more advanced SoC, however this comes with challenges of better techniques of verification. At every level - whether module, chip or system leveldesigners need to use tools to validate the design. Latest SoC architectures help in various ways by giving better tools and more predictive analysis for designers.

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How difficult is matching Security protocol in modern SoC designs?

SoCs or the systems developing them are prone to a wide range of security attacks. Security has become a critical consideration in the design cycle of every embedded SoC or system. The level of security in a SoC design is widely debated based on the critical nature of the applications and the

associated cost-benefit risks tradeoffs.

Some of the modern SoC always comes with various security inbuilt. Designers now have options to add on security by using secure elements. Avnet helps designers to learn more about the latest technologies to secure SoC by conducting regular workshops at customer sites.

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What is the future of SoC designs?

The trend of system-level integration in designing SoC will continue in the future and this will have a strong influence on the designer’s environment. Increasing technology capabilities will enable new qualities of system integration.

The demand for advanced mobile applications and distributed intelligent sensor arrays will lead to an integration of RF components (to be realized in CMOS) into SoCs. SoC designs will have expanded roles to play in Artificial intelligence and robotics. In many new designs of sub components of smart city design and Industry 4.0, we see the start of SoC design. In critical telecom designs as well as complex RADAR designs, SoC are readily used.

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Are Indian companies capitalizing on the global demand for SoC design expertise?

Developing solutions that generate more sales has long been the mantra of India's software sector. Global semiconductor companies and OEM manufacturers are beginning to outsource the development of even complex, 'bleeding-edge' technologies such as SoC to several Indian startups and established companies with design expertise. Indian companies are positioning themselves to benefit from the shift to mobile devices, multimedia, networking and broadband applications, all of which are driving demand for system-chip technology.

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How strong is your SoC design team in India?

Avnet India is a technology solutions provider supporting its customers in their SoC design. Whether it is a design of RADAR or satellite, or a complex 5G RAN design or consumer electronics, we have deep trained professionals who can guide you in SoC designs.

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is challenging but it helps to have a concerted approach to design.

SEMICONDUCTOR

MCUs

NOTION

MICRO-CONTROLLERS ARE SLOWLY TAKING CONTROL Sandeep Kapoor

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Country Head Marketing, India & Regional Head Aerospace Defense Marketing- EMEAI Keysight technologies

Applications such as Internet of Things (IoT) have significantly expanded from consumer-based applications like healthcare, smart home and wearables, to industrial applications such as industrial automation and the smart city.

And, all these applications use Microcontrollers (MCUs) widely. According to market research, the handheld device market is expected to further grow, with billions of devices connected to the internet in the near future. This market represents a huge opportunity for device manufacturers.

Other than MCUs, most of these devices consist of PMIC, RFIC, sensors and small batteries, which sense motions from humans and other things and communicate with cloud.

Handheld devices are typically used without power lines. In many use cases, the battery is seldom re-charged or replaced. To minimize current consumption, MCUs, along with other system components, must typically maintain active mode for brief periods of time, mostly operating in a sleep mode. Sleep current greatly affects the standby power of the device. It is not negligible and impacts the overall power consumption particularly for handheld devices that stay in sleep mode frequently. The current profile in sleep mode enables the designer to validate whether the device is in an unexpected state and consuming more power due to bugs in the software or hardware.

Current profile analysis provides the designer with the current value and timing of each transition or segment in detail, and helps the designer to validate if the entire system is operated and managed as expected.

In addition, the total current in the active state is the operating current consumption, which impacts the power consumption. An accurate current profile enables designers to analyze each segment in detail and quantitatively determine the optimum balance between performance and current consumption, which has been difficult by measuring the averaged current. Inrush currents and spikes occur when the device changes mode, for example, from sleep to active mode.

It can cause a voltage drop of supply voltage or a degradation of battery capacity. Concurrent analyses of current and voltage waveforms on supply voltage and subsystems can provide indications of problem causes for troubleshooting.

It also helps designers optimize the timing control and component selections, and validate designer modifications perform as expected.

Achieving an optimal balance between performance and power consumption to maximize battery life; reduce the circuit design cycles of complicated, multifunctional products to meet time-to-market goals; and maintain a competitive advantage is the need of the hour. Preventing product defects to avoid costly recalls is critical. Handheld devices are typically shipped in high volumes. It is therefore vital to prevent any defects from occurring in advance, because any quality issues that result in measures, such as a product recall, can be extremely costly.

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Having said that, for handheld and mobile applications, measuring the power profile of low power devices, like Microcontrollers, is key.

Visualizing the transient current waveform, quickly analyzing transient current response to applied voltage pulse and efficiently performing reliability tests are key tests among the number of tests performed by validation Engineers to test MCUs. Power profile analysis of MCUs (microcontrollers) is an important parameter that needs to be characterized efficiently, especially, when more MCUs are leveraged in a battery powered environment.

Power hungry microcontrollers will eventually lose, paving the way for more energy efficient ones. And, with technologies like IoT being part of every other handheld system, energy consumption behavior of microcontrollers will play a big role in overall system performance. State-of-the-art power and current analyzers are a must have in engineering labs these days for the aforementioned reasons.

Investment in these type of solutions can go a long way in getting the needed first mover advantage.

In addition, signal integrity and power integrity issues are becoming more common due to the compact circuit design with closer components or traces, as well as lower DC supply voltages and tolerances. Potential issues for EMI or EMC should be detected at early stages of the design phase to avoid costly re-test and delayed time-tomarket. All these design and test challenges can be minimized with the right test solutions. Modern Device Current Waveform Analyzers can greatly accelerate the process of creating a current profile based on the precise dynamic current waveform, and dramatically improve debug efficiency.

Simultaneous monitoring of voltage and current is possible in these current waveform analyzers.

Also, these analyzers can help understand how the voltage changes with variations in current, and validate, debug and troubleshoot the circuit modifications quantitatively and efficiently thus speeding up validation and debug time.

Electronic instrumentation vendors offer a wide range of test solutions to address many of these consumer electronics test challenges. This is possible with continuous innovation and investment in developing new technologies and participation in industry-standard bodies.

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NOTION

T&M

VANTAGE

Shailendra Kalra Country Head | Livingston India Pvt Ltd

We are Not Only Offering Rental and Lease Services for T&M Products but also End to End Management of our Customers Assets The T&M industry is today enticing. Changing business models based on Digital Connected Platforms and vigorous adoption of new technologies has determined current demands. Collaring more than two decades of prudence in different verticals of the Testing Industry; Shailendra Kalra, Country Head, Livingston India Pvt Ltd talks to BIS Infotech’s Consultant Editor, Niloy Banerjee expediting on the emanating landscapes of Indian T&M industry and Microlease prowess to churn the Indian market. Edited Nub.

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Connected, synchronized, miniaturization, 5G-ready technologies are dominating the current consumer and Industrial demand.

Testing, in parallel, is also showing nobility in its technologies. In this scenario, How Microlease is mapping the market?

New investments in Next Generation Technologies both on the R&D side as well as the deployment testing. Not only investments in acquiring the right technologies for our customers but also changing business models based on Digital Connected platforms to suit the landscape. More SW based and Modular testing techniques being adopted with innovative and flexible business models to be able to address the changing testing needs. We are well connected with global R&D organizations who are forerunner in 5G Technologies. We are continuously observing the new demands from customers and updating our global inventory worldwide.

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As a company, how strong is your Indian presence and how you’re revving-up to tap the potential customers?

With offices in Bangalore and Gurgaon and delivery capabilities to every part of the country, I feel we have been able to establish the capability to serve all our customers and prospects. Also, with the opening of the Test Center of Excellence in Bangalore, we are trying to address the testing needs to SME’s and Start-ups. With a strong team of 30 people in India backed up by Global SME’s and world’s largest T&M equipment pool, we are well positioned to cater to the growing testing requirements. As a company, we stand committed to the Indian market and all necessary

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What are your key offerings and how big is your inventory and R&D strength?

We are offering not only Rental and Lease services for the T&M products but also end to end management of our customers assets. With a strong SW platform suitable equally for R&D companies as well as any other organisation that owns and maintains its own Test assets, we offer a variety of services that help our customers acquire, manage and dispose their assets and maximize the return on their investments. Apart from this, we have opened our Test Center of Excellence in Bangalore which is a ready lab available for any organisation in the Digital, RF Semiconductor domain for testing their products.

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Reliability, efficiency and precision drive the testing industry. How Microlease makes sure to shelf the right testing equipment and determines to cater the best-class products to its customers?

With strong partnerships with the leading OEMs in the T&M space, we are continuously investing into the upcoming technologies and equipment that can cater to the evolving testing needs. Our Product strategy and management teams ensure that the equipment being offered to the market is in line with the trends across various technologies, be it, RF technologies, Digital Technologies, Power or

Industrial. The internal processes and systems that are followed with in the company ensure that the equipment is always calibrated and complete with all accessories for the testing requirements of the customers. The average age of the inventory that we hold in generally less than 48 months which itself indicates that we are always engaged in refreshing the equipment and technologies that we bring to the market.

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Which companies products & respective technologies gets the major traction from Indian customers & which sectors are the major buyers?

In India, we have been catering to two major sectors, namely, Telecommunication and RF & Semiconductor. In the telecommunication segment we see a lot of demand for testing equipment both in the Wireless as well as Optical domain given the fact that 4G networks are being rolled out to cater to the ever-growing demand for data. The key OEMs whose equipment we see more in demand are Viavi, EXFO, Spirent, PCTEL, NARDA, R&S and Keysight.

Major buyers in this segment are the Network Equipment manufacturers and their Services partners In the RF and Semicon domain which also includes the Digital Communication interfaces, we see a lot of demand for Oscilloscopes, Spectrum and Signal Analysers, Signal Generators, Network Analysers, BERT Scope etc. The ley equipment manufacturers in this domain for which we get a lot of demand are Keysight,

Tektronix and R&S. Major buyers in this segment are the multinational semiconductor companies and companies involved in the R&D for the next generation technologies related to 5G, IOT, Automotive Electronics apart from some of the big Engineering Service Providers like Wipro.

Other segments which are demonstrating the need for test equipment are Electronics Manufacturing especially handset manufacturing sector, Energy companies and companies involved in Automotive Electronics.

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Can you share an anecdote on your unique business model of Rent and Lease Testing Equipment which seems to me 'One of its Kind' for Indian market?

The concept of rentals is not new.

Rental options are available for high end automobiles, fashion and outfits, infrastructure machinery and tools.

Traditionally in the technology industry, R&D engineers and organisations have owned the equipment that they needed for testing. The rate at which the technology was changing was much slower. However, in the last decade or so, the technological changes have been enormous and the life cycle of products has become shorter. On the other hand, the need to have a faster go to market has been ever increasing.

This has led the organisations to rethink how they operate and adopt business models that can meet these requirements whilst protecting their investments. With the concept of the rental services in T&M equipment, we

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investments are lined up to cater to the unique demand of this market.

T&M

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have demonstrated a business model that not only helps customers acquire the right technology at the right time at the right place but also maximize the use of their available budget and be protected from obsolescence. Apart from this other factors that result in an increase in costs and are generally hidden but contribute to the total cost of ownership like downtime whilst the equipment breaks down and is in repair, calibration and maintenance of the equipment, costs associated with management and disposal get addressed through this model wherein the customer pays only for the time that they actually use the equipment.

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India as you see is vigorously contributing to become technologically ample in the coming few years. The Test and Measurement Industry in India is also at its nascent stage. What challenges does Microlease perceive to stand a potent ground in future via the Indian Market Scenario?

Well, it is very subjective question.

For India to become forerunner of the technologies, country and industry to improve the innovation culture right from the school & colleges/ university levels. It can somehow be achieved with culture of real meaning of the internships and off course to promote innovations. For T&M Industry, I see tough price competition, import of low quality products from China and high rate of GST rate` 18% are few challenges.

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It’s highly commendable that, Microlease has been in the T&M business for over 30 years catering to all the major names in the industry. Has there been any competition pressure on Microlease? How does Microlease stand out from its competition in the market?

Yes! of course, there has been competition and it continues to be there. Competition for us comes in all shapes and forms. The biggest competition that we face is the buying mindset of the companies which they have developed over the last few decades. In the business of

technology, the R&D cycles have been reasonably long and hence customers traditionally have been owning test equipment for long periods. However, this is changing now due to faster technological developments and higher obsolescence rates and of course rising cost pressures.

Apart from this, we have and continue to face competition from both local as well as International companies engaged in the same business.

Competition, I personally feel, is healthy and promotes innovation. After all, it can sometimes get really boring also being the only player in the market place and can lead to complacency, which is the last thing we would want.

Our ability to cater to a large segment of customers through its Global presence and a huge inventory is one of the key differentiators for us. Also, this business has been evolving and growing over the last 3 decades and that shows how agile and dynamic we are in adopting to the customer and market needs and that continues to be our strength as we move along.

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Current scenario of T&M market in India and how is Microlease collaring to tap the major chunk?

India is emerging as the forerunner in the next era of tech innovations. The Indian ESDM sectors have witnessed the growth in recent years along with shift in focus from pure play systems or product designs to include area such as product development, original design manufacturing and so on. The high product quality, safety and environmental standards for manufacturing, maintenance and use of equipment. The government initiatives Make in India, Smart Cities, Defense Manufacturing are pushing new requirements for TM business.

We have witnessed requirements coming from Semiconductor Hardware Testing (digital interconnects like HDMI, MIPI, USB, Ethernet), Automotive Electronics, Electronics (Automotive Sensors Integration, Vehicle Networking and Communications) Manufacturing and General-Purpose Electronics.

We have also observed regional Test Houses for EMI/EMC coming up

in south and north and it is really a positive sign for local manufacturing.

Telecom industry has been going through a phase of consolidation and tariff wars but continues to remain an attractive segment with a lot of potential especially in the wake of upcoming technologies like 5g-IOT.

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Any key new developments of the company in the last fiscal year which you would like to share it with our readers?

Over the last 2 years we have gone through two major Acquisitions and that has made is bigger and better in terms of our ability to cater to the evergrowing needs of our customers. Last year we were acquired by Electrorent which has made us number 1 T&M Rental company globally with an inventory strength of over 108000 test equipment over 8000 product lines and the financial strength and capability to invest further into upcoming technologies.

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According to Microlease which key trends you reckon will shape the Indian and at large the global T&M market in coming years?

The technology is evolving every day. The next generation of the communication 5G will impact every business and day to day life. With the advent of the technology, other industries will change the curve.

With more fast and connected world, Internet of Things, MM Waves Technology and next generation of automobile will surely change the world where we live in. The fusion of the sensors, fast speed internet, machine to machine communication will lead to more data driven society. All new technologies will bring additional challenges and opportunities to T&M Industry to come up with new cuttingedge products before the final roll outs.

This will ultimately lead a scenario for T&M organization working hand in hand with Technology Company to solve the future challenges and developing their own platforms solutions. n

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Microlease Test Centre of Excellence – Application Focused Solutions

Just after few months of announcing its first Test Centre of Excellence –Test Lab facility in Bangalore - the vigorous snowballing supplier of high-end test and measurement equipment has lately disseminated its services expansion plans.

Under this latest expansion plans, Microlease aims catering to emerging technologies and provide applicationfocused solutions to small & medium sized enterprises & tech start-ups.

Microlease Test Lab facility offers complete testing solutions for 5G, Internet of Things, Hi-Speed Memory Design, Digital Interfaces (DDR, HDMI, USB, Ethernet and MIPI Testing).

Vikram Khurana, GM Sales-Microlease while explaining complete application focused offerings, noted, ‘’We are getting an encouraging response from the industry and customers are seeking complete package solutions that enable them to do testing. Faster time to market being a key challenge, customers prefer complete test solutions-hardware and software along with test fixtures and other accessories for specific applications requirement. With Independent Application Advisors, we are assisting customers with more appropriate test equipment and solutions to address the test challenges and assist in the measurement of the right parameters.’’ ‘’The Test & Measurement Market is

driven by technical applications and Microlease Test Centre is focussing on providing application-oriented solutions apart from standalone test instrument.

This is another step in the direction of helping our customers with their testing needs with our extensive inventory and global expertise’’ said Shailendra Kalra, Country Head- Microlease while explaining the objective of the test lab services.

At the Microlease Test Center of Excellence, customers can test Digital Interfaces such as DDR1&2&3&4; Ethernet 10/100/1G Compliance; HDMI Source Testing & HDMI Cable Testing and MIPI Testing. The Test

Centre is equipped with state-of-the-art, calibrated, hardware and software test solutions that support a broad range of applications including radio and microwave, wireless, IoT, 5G, digital interfaces, automotive electronics, aerospace and defence etc. In addition to the facility itself, Microlease provides a variety of value-added services, such as on-going training and support and consultation for the implementation of custom testing solutions.

The company also offers an ‘intellectual property secure’ test environment for users by guaranteeing a ‘no data holding’ policy.

Spirent uses NI software defined radio products to develop a solution that can help accelerate commercialization of 5G New Radio.

Spirent Communications and National Instruments (NI) have collaborated to develop test systems for 5G New Radio (NR) devices. The partnership between the two, Spirent and NI, will allow 5G chipset and device manufacturers to validate the performance of 5G NR smartphones and IoT devices in

the lab without requiring access to expensive and complex 5G base stations (gNodeBs).

The announcement comes inclining with the recent 5G standards body, 3GPP, officially approving the first round of 5G specifications in June 2018.

This important step to be followed by the specification of new architectural options and additional capabilities as the standard is expanded over the coming months and years. Consequently, device

test solutions must be flexible to quickly adapt to these changes and to allow future upgrades while avoiding costly hardware changes as the standards evolve.

To that end, Spirent Communications has adopted NI’s flexible software defined radio (SDR) products in the development of its 5G performance solution. Spirent’s solution will employ NI’s USRP (Universal Software Radio Peripheral) devices and mmWave Transceiver System and will

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Spirent Communications and NI Join Forces on 5G Performance Test Solution

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include 5G NR test scenarios for mobile location, video, data, audio, and calling performance. Key architectural details of the solution include the use of LabVIEW FPGA to emulate layer 1 through layer 3 of the 5G NR protocol stack.

"Building on the strength of NI’s early success in 5G research and prototyping, combined with the modularity of its platform, accelerates initial interoperability and means our customers can feel confident that the platform can adapt to the evolving standards," said Rob VanBrunt, general

manager of Spirent’s Connected Devices business unit. "5G test engineers already recognize NI’s off-the-shelf platform as the industry’s most flexible and powerful hardware available. Integrating their advanced signal processing capabilities into our 8100 platform enables an attractive upgrade path for our existing customers.

The new 5G performance test solution will include support for both sub-6 GHz and millimeter-wave radio bands and will integrate seamlessly into Spirent’s existing network emulation platform. The

system will also feature up to 2 GHz of bandwidth.

“The marriage of our high-performance platform and Spirent’s best-in-class test methodology for measuring the mobile user experience is exciting for the industry,” said James Kimery, director of wireless research at NI. “Being able to assess the accuracy of cellular location in 5G environments and measuring the performance of video and data delivery are critical needs as 5G devices come on line starting in 2019.”

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Rohde & Schwarz and MediaTek Collaborate on mmWave OTA Measurement Technologies Rohde & Schwarz, teamed up with MediaTek for a strategic collaboration MediaTek to accelerate the development of mmWave OTA measurement technologies.

MediaTek, as one of the leading mobile platform provider, has placed major investments in 5G and is among the key global brands readying solutions for the launch for the upcoming 5G commercial rollout. To successfully launch 5G, several key technology developments need to be accelerated, some of which are massive MIMO antenna arrays, algorithm design, and Over-the-Air (OTA) testing. Alexander Pabst, Vice President Systems & Projects at Rohde & Schwarz, commented, “We are pleased to cooperate with MediaTek for OTA development to ensure 5G product testing requirements. Rohde & Schwarz is committed to accompany the evolution path from 4G to 5G with innovative test and measurement solutions.”

In 5G mmWave communication systems, there are some challenges to be solved to ensure seamless user experiences. For example, high path loss and shadowing effects could significantly decrease signal strength. To improve signals, MediaTek is working on chipset development that includes beamforming antenna array design technology.

To ensure quality and the characteristics of each beam, it is important to have a testing environment to measure multiple beam streams precisely and a reliable

and speedy chamber is required. In this joint cooperation, MediaTek leverages Rohde & Schwarz OTA solution to improve measurement technology.

Rohde & Schwarz provides a complete 5G mmWave OTA turnkey solution based on the R&S ATS series to perform the testing.

The R&S ATS Series includes • a rack-sized shielded RF test chamber on castors, • suitable mounts for test objects and sensors, • wideband measurement antenna, which covers the whole frequency range.

Using the associated test and measurement equipment and the antenna measurement software, radiation patterns of 5G antenna arrays can be measured extremely precisely in just a few minutes.

A positioning laser supports precise orientation of test objects. All this makes the R&S ATS series antenna test system the ideal test environment for fast and accurate repeatable measurements. The R&S SMW200A and R&S FSW43 provide up to 40 GHz operating frequency and 2 GHz modulation/demodulation bandwidth. The R&S ZVA40 vector network analyzer supports up to four independence signal sources for the four-port configuration allowing parallel signal output.

Further, the R&S ZVA series is an ideal choice for demanding measurements tasks in the lab and in production.

Together, these advanced instruments ensure the ideal test platform for fast and accurate repeatable measurements, from R&D through to deployment.

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Human Centric Lightings is Still a Growing Phenomenon in India Rakesh Zutshi, President, ELCOMA and Managing Director, Halonix Technologies Pvt. Ltd LEDs are used in technology all around us. But recently, Human Centric Lighting has been a buzzword in the LED industry especially given the benefit that it actually adds to the well-being of the user. In an exclusive conversation with Jyoti Gazmer-Sub-Editor of BIS Infotech, Rakesh Zutshi, President, Electric Lamp and Component Manufacturers’ Association of India (ELCOMA) and Managing Director, Halonix Technologies Pvt. Ltd deciphers the many benefits of HCL and its vast growth potential in the Indian market. Edited Nub.

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India offers innumerable opportunities for growth of HCL over the next few decades. Already modern lighting concepts have gained considerable significance in India with the growing demand for technologically advanced LED lighting solutions.

The government’s ambitious Make in India initiative has also been instrumental in driving the growth of LED technologies in India. Currently Smart Lighting and HCL are among the growing trends in the lighting market in India.

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Why Human Centric Lighting and Environmental Lighting are often compared apples and oranges?

Both these lighting technologies are incomparable to each other. Energy efficient LED lights have gained significance as environment friendly lighting since they do not contain any toxic elements. On the other hand, Human Centric Lightings is still a growing phenomenon in India and it focuses on healthy light and the effect of light on performance and wellbeing.

Human Centric Lighting is aimed at enhancing vision, willbeing and performance by applying an in-depth knowledge of science, customers’ and users’ needs. LED-based humancentric lighting is controllable and tunable across a spectrum of correlated color temperatures to evoke particular human biological responses.

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How India is looking forward to adapt to the HCL (Human Centric Lighting) in sectors like Health and Hospitality, Office, Education, Residential, Industrial & Other?

Human Centric Lighting (HCL) is all set to make deep inroads into the Indian market with their growing acceptance in the sectors like Health, Hospitality, Office, Education, Residential, Industrial etc. That the LED-based human centric lighting is controllable and evokes particular human biological response and behavior, HCL is being used in schools to keep the students calm and alert during the school hours. In Commercial workplaces as well HCL has gained considerable significance since it makes the office environment feel more natural and comfortable which helps in improving the productivity of the employees.

On the back of healthcare revolution driven by more thoughtful lighting infrastructure, HCL has already started showing its substantial potential in some of the major hospitals in India.

These healthcare facilities are using HCL to add cooler CCTs in staff areas to keep employees alert during shift. Simultaneously they are using warmer CCTs in the rooms of the patients to keep them comfortable as they rest and recover. Some of the schools are using HCL to keep the students calm as well as alert depending on the time of day. From classrooms to office buildings to sports arenas as well as in the residential and industrial segments there is a vast potential for human centric lighting in India.

The wide opportunities and the challenges that lie ahead for the HCL market to propel as a standalone industry?

Currently HCL is in the nascent stage in India however opportunities galore for it since India is a huge market. That the people are not yet fully aware of the benefits of Human Centric Lighting is one of the major challenges faced by the lighting manufacturers. However, the future for such advanced lighting is bright in India At ELCOMA , we remain committed to create conducive environment for the development of every new technology.

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A $20.50 Bn Market Estimated for Micro LED by 2025-Report The Micro LED Market is estimated to grow from USD 0.60 Billion in 2019 to USD 20.50 Billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 80.1% between 2019 and 2025.

Micro-LED is an emerging display and lighting technology with the potential to disrupt the traditional LCD display and LED lighting markets. Micro-LED technology is being developed to offer high brightness at low power.

According a release by SBWire, MicroLED market for NTE devices will grow at highest CAGR during forecast period.

Considering the current manufacturing capabilities, prototype development, and the involvement of leading players, micro-LED-based smart watches and NTE devices may enter the commercial phase in 2019. The micro-LED market for NTE devices is expected to grow at the highest CAGR between 2019 and 2025.

The luminosity (brightness) and resolution of micro-LED technology would be the key driving force for the adoption of the technology in NTE devices. AR devices require high resolution and brightness to match the real-world visibility. The fast response time of micro-LED displays is also suited for AR applications. Micro-LED display-based VR solutions can be implemented for diverse end uses, such as entertainment, gaming, training, and research.

Increasing demand for brighter and more power-efficient display panels for smart watches, mobile devices, and NTE (AR/ VR) devices is a major factor for the growth of the market. The rising interest of electronic giants—Apple, Samsung, and Sony—and interest shown by input/ component suppliers in the supply chain also contribute to the market growth.

Rising demand for OLED displays and the lack of established supply chain for micro-LED, along with distributed patent portfolios, are the major restraints for the growth of the micro-LED market.

It is further reported that, APAC will dominate the micro-LED market during forecast period.

APAC is expected to dominate the micro-LED display market during the forecast period with the presence of leading brand product manufacturers,

LED foundries, and display panel manufacturers in the region. Samsung, LG, Sony, Sharp, Panasonic, and several others will account for major demand for micro-LED display panels by 2025.

The report profiles the key players in the market. Major companies operating in this market are Apple, Sony, Samsung, X-Celeprint, Epistar, GLO AB, VerLASE Technologies, JBD and Aledia among others.

Few of the key innovators in the micro-LED market reported are Mikro Mesa Technology, VueReal Uniqarta, ALLOS Semiconductors, Plessey Semiconductors, PlayNitride, and Ostendo Technologies.

Some of the prominent research institutes undertaking research in the micro-LED market are Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) (Taiwan), Changchun Institute (China), III-V Lab (France), CEA Leti (France), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong), and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Germany).

Some of the input suppliers developing related materials and components inmicro-LED market include Jasper Display (Taiwan), Crystalwise Technology (Taiwan), Unimicron (Taiwan), Luminit (US), Macroblock (Taiwan), and Max Technologies (Taiwan).

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Osram Nurture IR LEDs, Now For Security Cameras Osram infrared chip’s narrow beam eliminates the need for secondary optics, the company says, as it continues to drive LEDs beyond general illumination.

Osram lately added another chip to its infrared line - dubbed SFH 4718A joins the company’s Oslon Black portfolio of infrared (IR) LEDs The new SFH 4718A joins the company’s Oslon Black portfolio of infrared (IR) LEDs, with a beam angle of ±25°, more tapered than the ±45° and ±75° that were already part of the stable.

The push of Osram towards LED use into non-illumination applications continues as this time narrowing the beam angle for optimization in security cameras Osram’s Opto Semiconductors (OS) group said the narrower beam eliminates the need for secondary optics in mediumcapture range security uses, such as in parking garages.

“This makes the overall system more compact and costeffective,” Osram OS said.

The new chip emits a wavelength of 850 nm, part of the infrared spectrum of invisible light.

Osram has been steadily building up its offerings of IR LEDs – which it calls IREDs – as it pushes LED lighting beyond its established role as an illumination source.

A year ago, it added an 850-nm chip geared for use in virtual reality and augmented reality headsets.

The new SFH 4718A IR LED (top) optimizes security cameras in medium-capture environments such as parking garages, Osram said. The company offers IR LEDs at three different wavelengths — 810, 850, and 940 nm — each tailored for different applications.Osram firmly believes that LEDs in both the visible and invisible spectra will be in great demand amid the world’s insatiable drive to digitize seemingly everything.

That’s why the company is in the midst of a €1 billion LED chip factory expansion in Kulim, Malaysia, envisioning LEDs for

applications spanning automobiles, fitness watches, drones, phones, laptops, and much more.

Meanwhile, IR LEDs are also featuring in a couple of trials of Li-Fi systems by Germany’s Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, in which infrared waves transmit data in two-way, Wi-Fi-like transmissions, using light rather than Wi-Fi’s radio spectrum. Fraunhofer has experimented with infrared Li-Fi at a BMW plant, and is hopeful that its infrared Li-Fi will catch on for outdoor communications in partnership with Japanese telecommunications company Sangikyo.

Li-Fi in other instances also embeds data in visible light.

The non-illumination use of LED chips is part of a broader trend among lighting companies in which they are treating the lighting infrastructure as an information technology network aimed at gathering, analyzing, and monetizing data. The transformation has not been an easy one, as evidenced by recent financial revisions and results from major players such as Osram and Signify (formerly Philips).

SunLED announces the world’s smallest RGB which is set to revolutionize the optoelectronic industry.

Designing a full color SMD in an 0202 package size and measuring at 0.65mm x 0.65mm x 0.2mm, this package thoroughly manages to maintain a consistent intensity in each color to meet any design specification.

To provide a next generation RGB solution for a discrete SMD in the smallest possible size, SunLED has brought the future into today with the Super Thin 0202 RGB SMD LED: XZBGRBBRMER158W. This LED will allow engineers and designers to reduce the footprint size dedicated during design phases while providing the wide

array of colors necessary to increase product functionality.

The 0.2mm package height allows for low ceiling designs coupled with a wide viewing angle of 140° to generate a uniform light pattern.

With a forward current of 5mA, the XZBGRBBRMER158W operates with high efficiency to provide engineers a cost efficient solution to RGB designs. This brand new package will be leading the future of backlighting and indication in handheld devices, consumer electronics, wearable technology, medical equipment, and security devices.

Product Features • World's smallest RGB SMD in an 0.65mm x 0.65mm package

• Full color illumination for flexible designs • Cost efficient and high intensity • Low current: 5mA operation • Wide Viewing Angle: 140° • Moisture Sensitivity Level (MSL): 3 Product Applications • Icon and text backlighting • Consumer electronics • Instrumentation • Wearable electronics • Medical and healthcare • Audio and video • Mobile devices and handheld products • White goods • Safety and security • Home automation

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The Monsoon Shivkumar Ganesan CEO and co-founder, Exotel

Purshottam Purswani

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Atos India

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Director - Sales & Marketing, GCR

Cloud in India The word which discovered India in its digital tenure is ‘digitalization’. Relative to analysing the atmospheric physics to predict cloud for this monsoon, likewise, Cloud Computing was already heavy and dark to deluge the whole indigenous IT ecosystem. With changing Cloud mindset and an increased Cloud adoption among organizations, the Cloud computing market in India has grown beyond measure. To be precise, Public Cloud in India alone logged US$1.8Bn in 2017. Where surveys made much headlines talking about the cloud market and its growing services adoption of cloud among Indian businesses, this piece assiduously takes a step-ahead with aligning the numero unos to rediscover the Indian cloud market. The journey of this story began in July amidst the black clouds where rain was not only pivotal as it extended us to the cascade of pioneer companies from different domain and their mastery in extending myriad cloud services which has efflux the Indian cloud business.

Expecting More Cloud for India?

Settling down to incept the starting note of notion on technologies which are making cloud a big-wig was something of foremost interest, to which Purshottam Purswani, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Atos India, elaborated, in the past few years India has seen increasing adoption of Cloud computing by both enterprises and Government, and it is expected to witness more growth in the future. Digital India is a campaign launched by the Government of India to ensure that the Government services are made available to the citizens electronically by improved online infrastructure and by increasing Internet connectivity or by making the country digitally empowered in the field of technology. Technologies such as Mobility, Big Data Analytics, the Internet of Things and most importantly Cloud Technologies are the fundamental backbone of these digital initiatives. At the same time Indian companies are increasingly focussing on the Cloud primarily due to a need for faster innovation, business agility, reduced goto-market time and scalability for their offerings.

Purswani also emphasized italicizing on

public cloud, saying, the India Public Cloud services revenue is projected to grow 37.5 percent in 2018 to total US$2.5 billion, up from US$1.8 billion in 2017, according to Gartner, Inc. The highest growth will be driven by infrastructure as a service (IaaS) which was projected to grow at 49.2% in 2017, followed by 33% in software as a service (SaaS) and 32.1% in platform as a service (PaaS).

On the other hand, to get further inputs on the technology-front, we asked Amod Phadke, Director - Sales & Marketing, GCR on his thoughts.

Where he promptly says, Wearables, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Everything IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communication are the technologies we can expect to swell in the coming time. However, IoT and AI/ ML stand a promising chance to gain growth in the coming months. Due to the cloud delivery model, more and more vendors will be able to deliver these solutions with low entry barriers.

Therefore, we should experience an upward shift in people experiencing these newer solutions.

Again, both solutions depend on data, so we can also experience data analytics gaining a bigger ground in complete cloud gamut. Based on the cloud technology, we at GCR, provide vertical focused, SaaS connected, IoT solutions which can help professionals in transforming their businesses, the digital way.

Veteran, Shivkumar Ganesan, CEO and cofounder, Exotel also did put his thoughts stating, since the emergence of cloud, it has been widely accepted by numerous companies. Almost every organisation has adopted cloud technology and working wonders using cloud. Mostly Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, IoT and Blockchain have been the major pick of the industry however we have also seen organisations taking strong steps to improve communication. Hence, besides the above mentioned Cloud telephony has also become got adopted by all sizes of organisations.

It has become commonplace now because more and more rapidly growing businesses have started to realise the advantages of it.

Bringing efficiency to customer communication by automating wherever possible and creating customised solutions using easily programmable APIs has been the biggest selling point of cloud telephony.

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Cloud Adoption – The Logjam

Mostly Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, IoT and Blockchain have been the major pick of the industry however we have also seen organisations taking strong steps to improve communication.

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Shivkumar Ganesan

Despite its rapid growth, there are many challenges to Cloud adoption in India. With this lead-in statement, Purswani referred the below: • Connectivity – Lack of high speed internet connectivity at a reasonable cost is one of the primary obstacles for Cloud adoption • Security – concerns around the data security and privacy also hinders Cloud-based services adoption • Cost assessment – Opex-based business models of Cloud services makes assessment of cost difficult leading frequently to procurement, contracting and budgetary issues during scaling of projects The quality of bandwidth and the availability of Internet across geographies poses a challenge for the adoption of cloud, prompted Phadke.

Further stating on the lacuna of the internet, Phadke said, although India has seen newer telecom players providing low-cost internet services. However, the availability of Internet across the regions at a similar pace or speed is still an issue. IoT security also adds up as one of the major glitches that India faces in cloud adoption, the issue with security and IoT is that it drastically increases the attack surface, which means that exist a huge number of devices, operating systems, protocols and endpoints.

Therefore, there are a lot more pathways present in the network because of which they face the inbuilt security challenges.

Ganeshan added, in India many the sectors have adopted cloud for their organisational growth, however Software Deployment, Implementation & rollout to multiple offices have come up as the challenges in cloud adoption by Indian organisations. Besides this security has also been a concern to the enterprises. Reliability is one of the largest challenges of AI, ML or cloud telephony as keeping in mind the fact that we cannot completely bank on the internet and telephony infrastructure of our country.

IT-as-a-Service – The Wildfire

Today, India is second only to China as the largest and fastest-growing cloud services market in Asia Pacific. Having said that,IT-as-a-Service is ramping up in the Indian IT ecosystem.

Citing on this new trend, Phadke said, ITaaS will grow as companies might not want to spend on new purchases but still to keep IT department functional, they would shift their focus from spending on resources to consuming resources.

Another critical factor that drives this initiative is the availability of quality resources for new age technologies like IoT, Data Analytics, AI and ML. GCR’s premium e-commerce partners platform

delivers IoT solutions helping businesses to understand their customers/markets by providing intelligent inputs and feedback, enabling them to monitor and manage their resources for optimum returns.

However, there are external factors which can slow down the decision-making process of clients wherein companies have no choice but to invent themselves. They need to remain relevant to their organizations business requirements as well.

Ganeshan said, India is in the midst of its biggest digital transformation exercise, and the cloud is playing the role of a principal catalyst by being the foundation for a majority of digital transformation projects. Companies are transforming their IT staffs to work faster, smarter, and in ways that truly benefit the business. If we talk about Cloud telephony, today, businesses interact with their customers mostly outside a traditional call center. This includes conversations with delivery personnel, drivers, vendors, service providers, etc. This entire activation is held by the growing strength of IT services. According to Gratner’s forecasts India Public Cloud revenue will grow 37.5 percent in 2018. A combination of legacy systems, cloud computing, and internal and external operations have been a major bricks to make IT As A Service.

Whereas, Purshwani cited, We are living in the age of Software-as-a-Service module, so it has tremendous opportunities not only in India, but outside of India as well. The IT-as-a-Service model, enables companies to treat and run IT as a business, and therefore optimize and scale depending on the business requirement.

The entire IT landscape is going through rapid changes and disruptions. This digital transformation fuelled by new digital technologies like Cloud computing, IoT, AI and Data Analytics requires new skills and a constant upgrade of the workforce. To combat this, it makes sense for companies to focus on the core business and let the IT experts take care of the latest innovations in the IT, thereby becoming the consumers of IT. Therefore, companies are increasingly looking at Cloud-first strategies and are adopting cloud services at all levels. In such scenarios ITaaS has become a very viable operational model for relatively large sized companies that need support 24/7 365 days a year and monitoring of Enterprise IT. Purshwani clarified, we are increasingly seeing Enterprise IT becoming complex and heterogeneous day-by-day and many enterprises will likely in the future run hybrid Cloud environments, such as a mix of Private Cloud, Public Cloud, and on-premise applications. We will see

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Conversing further on the subject, Phadke, said, Enterprises usually prefer hybrid cloud technology for complete delivery of IT services for their organizations. Enterprises also prefer cloud technology which can easily approach with a Multi-Cloud strategy to avoid dependency on a single vendor.

A Cloud-first program is present in nearly every organization. The power which Cloud brings in, has challenged a lot of enterprises to move from on-premise to the Cloud, which apparently helps them to become scalable and agile based on their customer needs asserted Purswani.

On the heels, Phadke, said, IoE and high-speed internet availability would drive more quality services and solutions being delivered through the cloud till the last mile. This would also mean a larger number of organisations/homes adopting IOT solutions, therefore, increasing data and internet consumption.

Emphasizing on Cisco report, Ganeshan said, India will add, on average, 5 million Internet users and 8.3 million networked devices every month. IoE has truly gone mobile, forever altering customer expectations and experiences. At 70 million, India already has the largest number of WhatsApp users in the world. Internet of Everything today mainly is approached from the perspective of connected devices, their sensing capabilities, and communication possibilities. AI, ML and cloud telephony are built on two internet hence IoE is going to be widely adopted by Indian enterprises.

Impact of Internet-of-Everything (IoE) and High-Speed Internet in 2018

How Security Concern Gave Rise to Cloud Security – The Unheard

Drafting an elaborative notion, Purswani said, The Internet-of-Everything (IoE), built around the global interconnection of people, process, context and things, is already starting to happen. This comprehensive penetration of high-speed internet to the last mile will have a high impact in the fields of Cloud, Mobility and Analytics. Cloud computing is the foundation technology for IoE. The combination of IoE and Cloud will drive the nextgeneration of innovative solutions in the market.

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been a major trend shaping the future of markets such as health, transport and the home. Wearable sensors that measure one’s activity and heart rate are impacting on Healthcare. For transportation, connected and autonomous cars are beginning to emerge. In the home, there are a growing number of connected objects that allow us to automate the watering of our plants, the opening of window shutters and control our central heating systems.

The growth of IoT devices will mean an increased demand on the computing resources, which will be required to connect these devices and collect and analyse data from them. The potential of IoE cannot be fulfilled without the integration of the Cloud.

The Cloud will help to: • Rollout IoT solutions faster to the market • Manage large amount of data generated • Scale business applications and infrastructure as needed • Easily integrate business applications Thus, Cloud will be an integral and important foundation for IoT and IoE solutions.

Referring to a Global survey, Phadke observed, cloud security market is ready to swell upto12.73 billion USD by 2022. As India aims towards a higher growth path for cloud adoption and allied services, Cloud security even though is in the nascent stage would experience equivalent growth. Out of 12.73 billion, we should surely witness a bigger pie being consumed by Cloud security providers in India.

Analysing on the critical importance of security, reliability and resilience of data and infrastructure, Purswani said, the massive potential promised by Cloud developments is matched by a proportionate rise in the potential threats as well. As we come to rely more than ever before on this new connectivity.

Analysts estimate that 60% of enterprises will be victims of major breaches by the year 2020. In the digital world, enterprises will need a seamless security strategy. We can think of the below four areas that underpin security in the worlds of Cloud and IoE: 1. Securing sensors and their operations, 2. E nsuring the confidentiality and integrity of data in transit, 3. Securing stored data on Clouds, and 4. Securing access to information via identity and access management solution.

Enterprises are going to need help to tackle these critical issues and there will be opportunities for solution providers across all the phases, right from the initial consultancy and analysis, through to the implementation and ongoing management of the cybersecurity services.

Cloud Technology – What’s the Temperament?

Cloud computing is the foundation technology for IoE. The combination of IoE and Cloud will drive the nextgeneration of innovative solutions in the market. In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been a major trend shaping the future of markets such as health, transport and the home.

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more and more Enterprises adopting ITaaS as an operational model. However, companies will have to a draw a proper roadmap to move towards such a partner and service oriented operational model.

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Cloud – The New Job destination for Young India

ITaaS will grow as companies might not want to spend on new purchases but still to keep IT department functional, they would shift their focus from spending on resources to consuming resources.

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Poised with an elated response, Purswani said, the increasing focus on IT and digital transformation will result in an increase in demand for these professionals across all verticals including e-commerce, financial services, manufacturing, logistics and healthcare. However, there are frequent changes and disruptions in the digital technologies space which is having a significant influence on the future skill demands for professionals.

The speed of technological change means that the workforce has to keep itself abreast with the new developments and reskilling themselves to stay relevant to the changing business needs.

There will be a lot of opportunities for young India to work in the areas below: • Cloud – Roles from Cloud application developers, Cloud support engineers, Dev-Ops engineers to Cloud solution architects will be in demand.

• Advanced Analytics – There is a growing demand for strong data analytics skills along with managing the data for enterprises. There are job opportunities for Data Scientists, Data Architects, and Data Managers.

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics – With increasing focus on AI, the demand for professionals with skills in Machine Learning and Deep Learning along with Robotic Process Automation will be high.

• IoT – There will be opportunities to work across the entire IoT value chain, right from Sensors and Edge Gateways to the IoT platforms and IoT Service Management.

Whereas, Phadke mulls, with growing cloud adoption, there is an evident increase in Cloud service providers, Cloud allied services and Cloud-based solutions. Growth in these segments would increase the requirement for skilled manpower. To start planning for tomorrows requirements, we need to begin with skill development programs or advisory boards for the education sector. This must be done in order to bridge the gap between industry demands and education curriculum. We are hopeful to witness a win-win situation for both, the industry and young India. Our Partners Platform is an e-commerce platform has come up with the mission to provide the IT MSPs (Managed Service Providers) a chance to work with GCR; the company provides a virtual platform for the MSPs to embark on their business conveniently, further curbing the unemployment issues being faced by young Indians.

Key Market Players Defining New

Dimensions on Cloud in the Indian Market

GCR have been delivering Cloud-based services and IOT solutions for all industry verticals. Our solutions aim at providing digital transformation by automating mundane tasks or creating an intelligent operating environment with the help of advanced technologies like IoT, AI and ML with the support of the cloud-based delivery model. This helps to lower the entry barrier for many organisations who wish to start their journey in IoT or Cloud-based applications for business automation and enterprise resource planning.

Atos is a pioneer Digital Services provider in Europe & the 5th largest in the World. As a world leader in Business Technologies, Atos is the trusted partner for the digital transformation for its customers. We are helping numerous customers across various verticals like Financial Services, Manufacturing, Logistics and Utilities in their digital transformation journeys. Some of the solutions that are being used across the Indian market include: Atos Digital Mobility Platform – Helps customers connect all relevant stakeholders across their enterprise including customers, partners and employees in a digital manner via its Enterprise Mobility Platform on the Cloud.

Atos IoT and Industry 4.0 Solutions – We are consistently ranked as either ‘the leader’, ‘leader’ or ‘major player’ in the IoT and Analytics with advances each year. Atos’ focus on IoT-as-a-Service and Service Management (availability, reduced complexity, maintainability & interoperability) is far ahead of the market. We are experts in business and data transformation and enabling our customers journeys from idea to MVPs/PoCs to the enterprise scale. Atos IoT solutions are being used by various customers in Manufacturing, Logistics and Utilities.

Data Analytics – Atos’ analytics solution encompasses analytics and cognitive applications and it is also our solutions to help our customers manage the data derived from various data sources such as IoT. Exotel is the largest cloud telephony platforms in Southeast Asia. We facilitate 4 million calls a day now, which is 3 times the number of calls the company did in the first year. Exotel has touched the lives of 85 million people in India. From cab aggregators to e commerce to manufacturing and many more. Exotel is impacting the growth graph of businesses in the Indian. The current ecosystem is seeing an increase in the emergence of new age technology companies in various areas. The understanding of cloud telephony has gone up and enterprises are seeing a lot of value add in the use of this technology.

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This year, once again the twin trade fairs will draw over 500 exhibitors representing over 700 companies from 27 countries, which makes it the biggest ever

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With over 700 Companies from 27 Countries, electronica India and productronica India to be the Biggest Ever Edition till Date The twin trade fairs ep-India has been empowering the Indian electronics ecosystem for years now. Dedicated to nurture the ESDM value chain –ep-India 2018 is all set to be the bigger ‘gateway to the Indian electronics industry’ for the international companies who are willing to enter this huge market. Sharing more interesting facts, key attractions and their strategies on ep – India 2018, Bhupinder Singh, CEO, Messe Muenchen India, in an exclusive interview with Manas Nandi, Editor of BIS Infotech draws a precanvas of this year’s show. Edited Nub. How is electronica India and productronica India – 2018 staging this time?

Every year, electronica India and productronica India bring together global leaders of the electronic eco-system on the single largest platform in the region. This year, once again the twin trade fairs will draw over 500 exhibitors representing over 700 companies from 27 countries, which makes it the biggest ever edition till date.

The twin trade fairs represents entire ESDM value chain and are expected to be attended by more than 25000 trade visitors.

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What are your key focus and expectations from electronica India and productronica India – 2018?

The automotive industry in India is one of the largest in the world, we are now world’s second largest mobile producer and the demand for electronics in various segments viz. LEDs, security equipment etc. is growing, which leads to high demand for innovative technology for manufacturing.

Our aim is to facilitate the manufacturing eco-system with the best of the technology from across the world and continue to remain the ‘gateway to the Indian electronics industry’ for the international companies who are willing to enter this huge market.

Trade fairs like electronica India and productronica India are a platform to connect the buyers with the sellers and we are happy to bring participation from 27 countries this year.

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Now, Indian states have their own policies to attract ESDM investments.

How electronica India and productronica India – 2018 aims to boast it further?

Aligned with the Government of India’s vision to transform India into a global electronics manufacturing hub, the trade fairs will bring the best of technology solutions from across the world for the manufacturers of consumer electronics, automotive electronics, telecommunication, IT, defence and aerospace among many other industry segments.

The forthcoming edition will also feature power packed conferences focusing on developing the manufacturing eco-system for few of the upcoming segments viz. mobile manufacturing, automotive electronics and PCB industry.

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Concurrently, MMI is also conducting th e IPCA Expo . Wh at c an be expected from this major event which focuses on the heart of Indian electronics business?

We are very much delighted with our cooperation with IPCA and ELCINA for promoting PCB industry in India.

This partnership combined both: Messe Muenchen India’s expertise in bringing the world’s leading electronic components and production technology suppliers to electronica India and productronica India and IPCA and ELCINA’s strength to deliver high standard support for worldclass manufacturing solutions for the PCB industry. This collaboration will facilitate the Indian PCB manufacturing companies to source the best

manufacturing technologies from across the world

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Also, can you share an anecdote on other concurrent events and summits organized by MMI during electronica India and productronica India – 2018? nAlongside exhibition we are organizing exciting supporting program to capture latest trends and innovations in the electronics Industry n3rd edition of the India PCB Tech conference focusing on the ‘Importance of a robust supply chain and value addition to strengthen the PCB Sector in India’ organized by ELCINA and supported by IPCA n3rd edition of the Advantage India summit focusing on ‘Mobile manufacturing in India’ n3rd edition of the CEO forum focusing on the ‘Vision for quadrupling to a US$ 400 billion electronics industry’ organized by ELCINA n2nd edition of the e-Automotive conference focusing on automotive electronics jointly organized by UBS Forums and Messe Muenchen India

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There are more than three million parts in a plane that requires hundreds of vendors to complete. While competition may be perceived as negative in most sectors, it is positive sign for the Indian Aerospace & Defence industry. Global aerospace manufacturing industry is reckon to worth more than $2o billion(Bn) by a. Aerospace manufacturing comprises the production of general aircraft which is mostly for business use and space vehicles, usually satellites, for both military and commercial use.

Simultaneously, the defense industry to be more prodigious which is expected to be worth more than $700Bn by the year 2026. Defense manufacturing depends on the nation’s need for military weapons and systems designed to operate on land, sea, and in the air in order to defend themselves.

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Indian A&D Worth India’s Aerospace manufacturing stands at $250 million, compared to the $100 billion global market. However, the outlook for the Aerospace and Defence Industry in India is positive and expected to reach $70 billion by 2029, according to a joint report by IESA, Nasscom and Roland Berger. The government-backed expansion of domestic industries, particularly in Defence and Aerospace in order to increase self-reliance, support the steady growth and will attract more FDI. Several foreign companies have already entered strategic partnerships with India companies and many others and eyeing the billion dollar opportunities in the Indian Aerospace & Defence Industry.

Indian A&D Sector Respires New Laws and Strategic Partnerships In an attempt to improve the quality of weapons and to promote domestic production, India is changing its laws to open Defence equipment manufacturing to the private sector. For the past 70 years, the country had only allowed government-owned enterprises to make weapons. This marks a milestone for Aerospace and Defence manufacturers and will attract plenty of foreign investment. The Indian Defence ministry released a strategic partnership policy to promote partnerships between Indian Private Sector companies and foreign companies, wherein the foreign partners would bring in advanced technology and

manufacture in India. Currently, India buys almost 70% of its weapons from overseas, which leaves plenty of room for growth for the domestic production. The policy is aimed to minimize dependence on imports and infuse self-sufficiency in Defence manufacturing. Single-engine fighter aircraft, light armored helicopters, submarines, main battle tanks and armored fighting vehicles are the categories initially opened for bidding by such strategic partnerships.

Defense Electronics Market – The New Lingo Within the defense sector, Defence electronics have emerged as a key market. As per estimates from India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) president M. N. Vidyashankar today, of the $42.2 billion Defence budget, Defence electronics was allocated about $6.25 billion. The Aerospace and Defence electronics market in India is projected to be around $72 billion by the next decade. IESA, along with the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) have put together draft recommendations on a “Defence Electronics Policy“ they hope the government will implement in a timely manner in order to enhance the development of the sector. The release of the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) in 2016 has already bought major shift that has impacted the overall supply chain dynamics. Many private sector companies have since ventured into the Defence sector and actively seeking foreign partnerships.

Some Recent Strategic Partnerships Include: • Reliance Defence entered into a JV agreement with the France based Daher Aerospace for Aerospace equipment manufacturing in India. The facility will be the first ‘Make in India’ Defence project set at the Dhirubhai Ambani Aerospace Park in Nagpur.

• Tata Group signed an agreement with American Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin to jointly manufacture the combat-proven F-16 fighter jets in India.

• Wipro Infrastructure Engineering (WIN) entered an alliance with Israel’s largest Aerospace and Defence firm

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to manufacture composite aerostructure parts and assemblies in India.

One specific location for India’s future Defence industry is already on the rise. A very likely hub seems to be Hyderabad, capital of the state Telangana and home to India’s first private sector missile manufacturing facility. As several global giants have joined hand with Indian companies to set up manufacturing units, Industry leaders say that the city has become the centre for implementing the Make in India initiative. With the set-up of Kalyani Rafael Advanced Systems (KRAS), a joint venture between Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Limited and Kalyani Strategic Systems, Telangana Industry Minister KT Rama Rao believes KRAS will propel the Defence electronic manufacturing eco system in Hyderabad to the next level, noting that “Hyderabad has all the trappings to become the number one destination for Defence and Defence electronics”. Other states are also in line with states like Haryana and Tamil Nadu among others working on rolling out Aerospace and Defence policies.

What’s Driving Indian A&D Market • The MTS services segment is expected to gain traction in the India aerospace & defense market, owing to increasing need to cut the costs and outsource these services to the third-party players.

• L and security solutions are expected to witness substantial demand in the India aerospace & defense market, owing to the increasing need from the domestic/ homeland and border security.

• A ir application is expected to hold a majority share in the India aerospace & defense market, owing to the growing demand for efficient and environmentally friendly aircrafts.

• I nitiatives undertaken by the government to make India self-reliant in terms of defense requirements is expected to drive the India aerospace & defense market over the forecast timeline.

• Introduction of offset policy enabled the component manufacturers to enter the India aerospace & defense market.

• Initiatives undertaken by the government to make India self-reliant

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India & China Feeding Commercial Aerospace Demand The commercial aerospace market is expected to continue its decade-long trend of above-average growth rates.

This is driven by growth in passenger travel demand and accelerated equipment replacement cycle. Factors such as improving global economies, the emergence of low-cost carriers, and increasing demand for aircraft from the developing economies of China and India are further contributing to the aerospace industry’s growth.

Governments of China and India have framed various FDI policies for promoting domestic aerospace industry and are expected to increase commercial and defence aircraft manufacturing thus, fuelling aerospace coatings demand.

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in terms of defense requirements is expected to drive the India aerospace & defense market over the forecast timeline.

• Introduction of offset policy enabled the component manufacturers to enter the India aerospace & defense market.

• Factors such as hostile neighborhood and unrest in North-East India & Kashmir are driving the modernization agenda, thus propelling the India aerospace & defense market growth.

Potential & Scopes For Indian A&D • There are enormous potential and huge opportunities for collaboration and creation of joint ventures in the aerospace sector in India for establishing Maintenance Repair Overhaul (MRO) facilities for civil and military aircraft, overhaul and maintenance of aero engines and production of avionics, components and accessories both in the civil and military aviation sectors.

• The joint venture made the Rolls Royce one of the top aerospace companies in India which manufacture components like compressor shrouds and cones for our gas turbines.

• The aerospace sector is heavily dependent on the supply chain and with

increased players, more components can be manufactured within India.

• A equs Aerospace had launched the Aerospace Knowledge Center (AKC), with a vision to educate freshers and employees in the skills that precision aerospace manufacturing needs. It is a niche skill that holds high value and is not traditionally available in India.

• A nd, India has plans to augment the capacity with the launching of INSAT satellites and increase it to about 500 in 4-5 years to meet its growing needs.

India also has the largest constellation of earth observation satellites called Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellites with better than one meter resolution.

• T he Indian Defence ministry released a strategic partnership policy to promote partnerships between Indian Private Sector companies and foreign companies, wherein the foreign partners would bring in advanced technology and manufacture in India.

• T he Defense Procurement Policy (DPP2005) gave great benefits to Indian Defense industry.

Mapping Talent Pool While there is a dearth of skilled labour in the aerospace sector, those who have been trained on machinery in the

automobile industry can be re-skilled to fit the aerospace sector.

Companies have taken the initiative to train professionals in this respect.

Aequs Aerospace had launched the Aerospace Knowledge Center (AKC), with a vision to educate freshers and employees in the skills that precision aerospace manufacturing needs. It is a niche skill that holds high value and is not traditionally available in India.

Since the company has presence in France and US, they were able to bring highly-experienced instructors to teach about every aspect of aerospace manufacturing. They also provide counselling to students in colleges in Belagavi as it is among the most preferred fields in engineering.

The manufacturing sector especially is experiencing a revolution with profits soaring and several firms being represented globally. Strong PublicPrivate consolidation, admirable policies and right technologies are going hand-to-hand. This is the right time where one looking for India as the next country propelling A&D shall put in their footprints to the morale notching into a billion dollar opportunity.

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The Powerful Agni-V Gets Induction Clearance, Bolsters India’s Military Prowess India is all set to induce the first batch of its intercontinental ballistic missile system, Agni-V. Agni-V is known to aim targets across China within its range fostering India’s military prowess.

According to recent official sources, the missile system, with a strike range of 5,000 km and capable of carrying nuclear warhead, is being inducted into the elite Strategic Forces Command (SFC).

A series of user trials is being conducted before the country's most sophisticated weapon is handed over to the SFC, sources said.Defence experts said the missile is capable of bringing targets across China, including its prominent cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong, under its range.

Last month, Agni-V was successfully test-fired off the Odisha coast and the sources said a number of other preinduction tests are being planned in the next few weeks.

"It is a strategic asset which will act as a deterrent. We are at the fag end of the strategic project," said an official, who is part of the Agni-V programme.

He said it is the most advanced weapon

in its series as it has latest technologies for navigation and its capability of carrying nuclear warhead is much superior. The first batch of Agni-V will be handed over to the SFC "soon", the sources said, while declining to elaborate further on the closely-guarded defence project.

The missile is being inducted at a time when India's neighbourhood is witnessing evolving security threats.

Very few countries, including the US, China, Russia, France and North Korea,

have intercontinental ballistic missiles.

In its armoury, India currently has Agni1 with a 700-km range, Agni-2 with a 2,000-km range, Agni-3 and Agni-4 with a 2,500-km to more than 3,500-km range.

The government is also working on several key projects including integrating the BRAHMOS supersonic cruise missile on 40 Sukhoi combat aircraft.

The defence ministry is now expediting the process to integrate the BRAHMOS missile on 40 Sukhoi combat aircraft.

Aerospace major Airbus lately on-boarded Ashish Saraf as Head of the helicopter division of Airbus India.

Saraf incumbency was effective from July 1, 2018 and will takeover from Xavier Hay, who leaves India after six years to take over new responsibilities.

"Saraf joins Airbus Helicopters at a time when the company is competing on several military helicopter projects that would reinforce and enhance the local aerospace and defence industrial ecosystem," Airbus said in a statement.

"Airbus Helicopters is a market leader in the Indian civil and parapublic market with close to 100 helicopters in operation today, and it is helping to develop new market segments such as Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) and helitourism in the country."

As per the statement, since 2015, Saraf had been serving as Vice President - Industry Development, Strategic Partnerships and Offsets at Airbus India, focusing on 'Make in India' initiatives aimed at enhancing the company's industrial footprint.

Before joining Airbus, Saraf was the India Head of the Tata Sikorsky joint venture and led Sikorsky's industrialisation and strategic partnerships.

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BEL, Saab Associates for Radar Marketing Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), which has co-developed the L-Band 3D Air Surveillance RadarRAWL-03, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Saab, Sweden for jointly marketing the product.

"BEL has joined hands with Saab, Sweden and USA, to market the Long Range Air Surveillance Radar, a costeffective L Ban d three dimensional (3D) radar, for early detection and trac king of air and surface targets, thereby enabling engagement of fire control systems to neutralise the same," BEL said in a statement.

The RAWL-03 will be offered in both shipborne and land-based configurations.

The system is based on the state-ofthe-art GaN TR Module technology and incorporates the latest signal processing techniques.

Saab serves the global market with world-leading products, s ervices and solutions in military defence and civil security. BEL, India's leading Defence

electronics Company, is engaged in the design, manufacture and supply of stateof-the-art Radars.

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Tata Technologies, VDIA Recent MoU to Make Maharashtra the New A&D Export hub Tata Technologies latesly announces a strategic Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) with Vidarbha Defence Industries Association (VDIA).

The announcement came amidst “Made in Vidarbha – Aerospace and Defence” Summit held last week in Nagpur and was signed in the presence of the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Shri Devendra Fadnavis.

This new partnership between Tata technologies VDIA is said to will lead the setting up of a new state-of-the-art aerospace & defence Centre in Nagpur.

In alignment with the “Make in India” initiative, this centre is known to help establish Maharashtra as the preferred investment destination for aerospace & defence manufacturing, promote indigenous and modernized technological capabilities and develop skilled resources to support Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to be globally competitive in the aerospace & defence sector.

This will be done by setting up 'NIRMAN', a not-for-profit Common Facilitation Centre for aerospace & defence and ‘UDAN’, an initiative to create high-end skilling centres and provide competency-based education for engineering institutes & universities.

Talking on this association, Anand Bhade, President – AsiaPacific, Tata Technologies said, “Made in Vidarbha – Aerospace and Defence is a great initiative and we are proud to be associated with it. Tata Technologies’ unique offerings for aerospace and defence are perfectly aligned to VDIA’s vision

of creating a first-of-its-kind ecosystem to facilitate defenceintegrated development by supporting the Indian Aerospace and Defence industry to be globally competitive”.

Speaking on the occasion, Lt Gen (Retired) Mr. Ravindra Thodge, the chairman of VDIA said, “Our objective is to create an aerospace & defence manufacturing hub in the Nagpur and Vidarbha region. Tata Technologies is well positioned to provide the right impetus to this initiative by leveraging their domain expertise”.

The partnership between Tata Technologies & VDIA supported by the Government of Maharashtra, will promote the state as an aerospace & defence manufacturing and export hub.

M&A in Global A&D Reached $24.2Bn in First Half of 2018 The global value of merger and acquisition deals in the global aerospace and defense industry reached $24.2 billion during the first half of 2018, a figure that reflects a 30 percent rise over the same period last year.

PwC said the number of M&A transactions in the A&D sector dropped by 17 percent to 187 deals in the first half of this year, which remains 4 percent higher than the 10-year deal volume average per year.

The report noted that the sector’s average M&A deal size was $315 million in the first two quarters of 2018, representing a 50 percent increase over the first half of 2017.

PwC said that figure can be attributed to General Dynamics’ $9.7 billion acquisition of CSRA and the and the

agreement Boeing unveiled in May to buy aviation parts and services provider KLX for approximately $4.2 billion, including $1 billion in net debt.

“We believe the factors impacting

commercial aerospace and defense, as well as the industry’s liquidity position, bode well for continued strength in deal making,” said Bob Long, U.S. aerospace and defense deals leader at PwC.

Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (ATI) announces acquisition of Addaero Manufacturing (Addaero), a leading company in metal alloy-based additive manufacturing for the aerospace and defense industries, located in New Britain. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

“This strategic acquisition brings together ATI’s deep knowledge and experience in commercial aerospace and our industry-leading powder metal manufacturing capabilities, including our new aerospace-qualified Bakers Powder Operations, and Addaero’s technical expertise to produce aerospace quality parts using various additive manufacturing technologies,” said Rich Harshman, ATI’s Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.

“Addaero’s competencies are a natural extension of ATI’s metallic powder expertise and will expand our capabilities to provide comprehensive customer solutions ranging from the design of parts for additive manufacturing to the production of ready-to-install components. The

acquisition of Addaero is another building block in our strategy to enhance ATI’s full specialty materials capabilities to provide end customers with finished products,” Harshman continued.

“We are excited to have Rich Merlino and the entire Addaero team join ATI,” said John Sims, ATI’s Executive Vice President, High Performance Materials and Components Segment. “They bring an extraordinary amount of aerospace and defense industry knowledge and real-world additive manufacturing experience. The complementary nature of our two businesses will allow for a seamless integration; creating

a more capable end-to-end metallic powder component supplier to our key customers.”

“The Addaero team is excited to be a part of ATI. The combination of ATI and Addaero will increase the speed to market of new and innovative additively manufactured powder metal solutions for our aerospace and defense customers and beyond,” further commented Rich Merlino, President, Addaero Manufacturing.

Including this acquisition, ATI expects 2018 free cash flow generation in excess of $150 million, excluding contributions to the ATI Pension Plan.

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Mouser Chennai Edition - IoT Roadshow Brings a Jam Pack Discussion on Industry 4.0 and Smart manufacturing Mouser Electronics successfully concluded its Chennai edition of IoT roadshow. With a house packed more than 255+ delegates, the Chennai edition of Mouser IoT roadshow majorly focused on Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing.

Attendees experienced newest products, technologies and solutions impacting Internet of Things (IoT) development and participated in high-level discussions covering key design trends and manufacturer presentations supporting the electronics industry in India.

Citing on Mouser’ IoT roadshow success, Mark burr lonnon, Sr VP of Global Service, EMEA and APAC, Mouser Electronics, said, Exceptionally pleased to sponsor such an event. Mouser is all about bringing new technology to Engineers and this event was a great opportunity to enable our manufacturer partners to share their latest technology in the IoT Sector.

After concluding three successful road shows in Bangalore, Pune and Chennai – Mouser is now heading towards Hyderabad followed by Delhi focusing on disruptive technologies like AI, IoT

Security, 5g and wireless communication.

This riveting symposium also provided the foundation to design and development engineers, developers and startup community, field applications engineers, OEMs, EMS and technology experts in the ESDM sector to utilize IoT to its full extent.

Mouser IoT Roadshow is a stimulating event to not just learn about the latest IoT news and applications but understanding Mouser’s and its partners growing focus on sensors, microcontrollers,

industrial IoT, Smart power management, wireless communication robotics, smart manufacturing (industrial processors), and smart agriculture.

Register for the rest of the events to experience the newest products, technologies and solutions impacting Internet of Things (IoT) development and participate in high-level discussions covering key design trends and manufacturer presentations supporting the electronics industry in India.

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Extensive 1.0 Release of the KiCad Library is Now at Digi-Key Digi-Key Electronics lately announces they have tagged the open source, Digi-Key KiCad symbol and footprint library with a 1.0 status on their GitHub Repository.

Digi-Key Electronics noted that “version 1.0” is a major milestone for the library development, indicating that the library is "complete", has all major features, and is considered reliable enough for general release to engineers, designers, and customers.

Digi-Key collaborated with the KiCad user community to refine library management processes, the data included with the parts, and worked extensively to improve the quality of the symbols and footprints.

Each part is infused with Digi-Key descriptions, part numbers, and more data that allows for easy Bill of Materials resolution and uploading to the Digi-Key cart or BOM tool.

Citing on the new rollout, Randall Restle, VP, Applications Engineering, said, “After more than 140 GitHub commits and reviews of each part in the library, we are ready to announce the 1.0 release. This is not the end of development and we are working hard to add more parts to the library

and provide KiCad users with a useful set of symbols and footprints for their rapid prototyping needs. We are especially concentrating on difficult to make connectors and IoT modules.”

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Avnet Notched 2018 in High Tech Industry Category by Gartner Avnet announces that the company has been recognized by Gartner as a high-tech supply chain organization.

Avnet unique ability to deliver rapidly scalable, globally available and customized supply chain solutions made it rank in the top 10 of the 2018 Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 Results list in the High-Tech industry category.

"There has been a great deal of fanfare over the past several years about the 'democratization' of technology development and manufacturing, but one aspect of this potentially gamechanging trend that is infrequently discussed is the way in which it has elevated the strategic role supply chain and operations must now play to differentiate an organization's products and services," said Avnet senior vice president Lynn Torrel, who heads up the Velocity group. "Avnet is very proud to be recognized by Gartner for its high tech supply chain initiatives."

Each year, Gartner determines "the companies to include in the Supply Chain Top 25 study by starting with the combined Fortune Global 500 and Forbes Global 2000 lists" and compiles the Top 25 Supply Chain ranking, as well as ratings for vertical markets, including high tech, life sciences, industrial, retail,

automotive, and aerospace and defense.

Avnet's supply chain group, Velocity, manages large elements of the technology supply chain for many companies.

Velocity was recently named a semi-finalist for Gartner's 2018 High-Tech Manufacturing Supply Chainnovators award.

These awards recognize unconventional, innovative and highimpact supply chain initiatives in the healthcare, high-tech manufacturing and consumer/retail sectors.

Further info about Avnet's supply chain offerings: https://www. avnet.com/wps/portal/us/services.

The new collaboration between New Yorker Electronics and Novasom Industries to provide high-tech solutions for Automotive, Railway, Military, Medical and Power Electronics Industrial Sectors New Yorker Electronics has paired with Novasom Industries to sponsor a global network for supplying Single Board Computer (SBC) products. Novasom Industries products consist of a complete family of boards and HW/SW systems, developed after more than 10 years of engineering experience from a team of over 40 engineers to develop customer solutions.

Novasom Industries is a global engineering company that manufactures advanced technology solutions for products and processes in the fields of embedded electronics. The company’s highlights are in the design and production of Industrial Single Board Computer Lines, Embedded Systems and accessories in the automotive, railway, military, medical and power electronics industrial sectors.

New Yorker Electronics customers will

now have a trusted source for SBC solutions. According to New Yorker Electronics’ President Barry Slivka, “This relationship is beneficial for customers

because it means rather than putting resources into the R&D of these solutions - with uncertain timetables - customers can have a single board modified to exact specifications by Novasom Industries’ top engineers. In many cases, the solution already exists and can be as easy as plug and play remedy.”

Novasom products are designed in-house from start to finish. The company’s designs resolve specific problems across the board, such as how to manage a display or use low level peripherals, things that might seem simple but that can hide a multitude of unexpected pitfalls.

As a franchise distributor, New Yorker Electronics will supply the full line of Novasom Industries’ ARM-based Single Board Computers, Intel-based Single Board Computers, NovaPC Embedded Systems and custom and tailor-made products. Further, New Yorker Electronics will also be supplying the full line of Novasom Industries Development Kits and the Novaembed software development tool.

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Register Now - element14 Community Launches New Reality Series “Path to Programmable”

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element14 Community provides support on leading edge technology to its members with the launch of “Path to Programmable” element14.com has announced to launch a new reality series called “Path to Programmable” sponsored by Xilinx. element14 community members who would like the chance to participate in the series can sign up at https://www. element14.com/community/community/ design-challenges/pathtoprogrammable before August 24 2018.

The new series from element14.com is known to take five community members new to FPGA\SoCs and train them to better understand the technology, development tools and design flow process over the course of the twelve week programme.

FPGA\SoCs are key to delivering smart,

connected systems suitable for a wide variety of applications from Machine Learning and 5G Wireless to Cloud Computing and Industrial IoT and the programme aims to show how simple it can be to use FPGAs within a project.

The trainees will receive a mix of training and mentoring provided by experts from the element14 community and Newark element14, and the engineering team at Xilinx and Avnet, including element14 essentials courses on FPGAs and other proprietary training.

The five trainees will also be given a Minized development board -- a single-core Zynq 7Z007S development board designed for entry-level Zynq developers and be required to build a project of their choice using the skills they have acquired from the training.

Citing on the new initiative Dianne

Kibbey, Global Head of Community and Social Media for the element14 community said, “The element14 community provides a platform to execute unique educational programs and we are committed to supporting its members as they build projects, develop their skills and stay up to date with the latest technologies. This new program will provide our members with a great opportunity for professional development and help address some of the misconceptions around the complexity of programming with FPGAs\ SoCs." The element14 community was the first community specifically built for engineers and now has over half a million engineer, manufacturer, inventor, and innovator members.

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TI DLP Technology Showcases Micron-to-Sub-Millimeter Industrial Accuracy for 3D printers and Portable 3D Scanners New DLP Pico controllers from TI enable precision light control and high image quality in compact, mass-market applications Texas Instruments (TI) announced new DLP Pico controllers; predominantly targeting mass-market 3D scanners and 3D printers. The new TI DLP Pico controllers touts to sport advanced light control capabilities in smaller form factors.

Key Features And Benefits of DLPC347x Controllers • Bringing DLP Pico display technology to new applications: Industry-leading pico display expertise now includes high-speed, high-resolution precision light control previously only found in the industrial-grade DLP4500 to DLP9000 chipsets. The combination of these capabilities allows optical module manufacturers and developers to create smaller 3D printing and 3D scanning designs with higher precision.

• Size versatility: By pairing one of the new controllers with a DLP2010 (480p), DLP2010NIR (480p), DLP3010 (720p) or DLP4710 (1080p) DMD, which range in diagonal size from 0.2 to 0.47 inches, developers can create

customized solutions by combining the controllers and DMDs that best fit their applications. This capability allows for easy integration into a variety of lowpower 3D scanners and 3D printers.

• Optimized precision, speed and wavelength: Micron-level accuracy captures the fine details of a 3D-printed object and enables smooth, high-quality 3D-printed objects with pattern and pixel control across 405-nm ultraviolet (UV), visible and near-infrared (NIR) light up to 2,500 nm.

• Enables faster time to market: TI collaborates with an extensive ecosystem of optical engine manufacturers to give developers a path to production-ready optical engines, which can reduce design time and get products to market faster.

Developers can pair the new DLPC3470, DLPC3478 or DLPC3479 controller with one of four existing DLP Pico digital micromirror devices (DMDs) to design a variety of battery-powered and handheld designs. The high resolution and fast switching speed of the DMDs and new controllers enable 3D printing speeds five times faster than existing technologies.

With precision pattern control in a smaller form factor, developers can capture the fine details of an object with micron-level accuracy, which benefits applications like dental scanning, 3D modeling and 3D vision for robotics.

Availability and Pricing Preproduction samples of the DLPC3470, DLPC3478 and DLPC3479 controllers are available for request on TI.com. Production samples of the DLPC3470 and DLPC3478 controllers will be available in 3Q 2018, and the DLPC3479 controller will be available in 1Q 2019. The DLPC3470, DLPC3478 and DLPC3479 are priced at US$28.85, US$30.50 and US$30.50, respectively, in 1,000-unit quantities.

Chinese major chipmaker Tsinghua Unigroup has known to have inked an acquisition deal to acquire French smart chip components maker Linxens for about 2.2 billion euros (US$2.6 Bn).

The deal was in process for over a month which has now taken the public limelight.

Tsinghua’s acquisition of Linxens from private-equity group CVC is still pending regulatory clearance, three of the sources told Reuters, adding regulators in France, Germany and the company’s union need to approve the deal.

According to three sources, Tsinghua has already locked in a deal with four banks for a 1.5 billion euro (US$1.75 billion) bridge loan to fund the

transaction. Credit Suisse, a main lender in the loan, also advised the seller, the people said.

So far this year, China has spent $45.5 billion on European assets, more than double year-ago levels, while its investments in the United States has dropped 75 per cent to $1.9 billion, according to Thomson Reuters data.

The authorities are not expected to object, the sources said on condition of anonymity as the information is confidential.

Failure to get local regulatory approval has previously scuttled Tsinghua’s offshore investment plans, such as share purchases totalling $2.6 billion from three

Taiwanese chip makers – Powertech Technology Inc, ChipMOS Technologies Inc and Siliconware Precision Industries Co – that fell through in 2016 and 2017.

That followed a 2015 debacle when an informal $23 billion approach for US giant Micron Technology Inc was rejected by the Idaho-based chip maker amid national security concerns – a rationale that has increasingly been used to block Chinese deals in sensitive US industries.

Linxens, headquartered close to Paris, has 535 million euros in annual sales and employs 3,500 staff at nine production sites globally. It also has offices in China, Singapore and Thailand.

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Analog Devices Introduces Wideband Microwave Synthesizer With an Integrated Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO) Analog Device introduced new wideband synthesizer with an integrated voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) that delivers breakthrough performance and flexibility and is ideal for diverse market applications such as aerospace and defense, wireless infrastructure, microwave point-to-point links, electronic test and measurement, and satellite terminals.

ADI’s new ADF5610 wideband fractional-N synthesizer generates RF outputs from 55 MHz to 15 GHz and provides the industry’s lowest phase noise performance on a single chip.

When compared to alternative solutions that require multiple narrowband GaAs voltage controlled oscillators and phaselocked loops (PLLs), the ADF5610 offers 50% less power dissipation, smaller footprint and simpler architecture which translates into bill of materials cost savings and reduced time to market.

Developed on ADI's proprietary advanced SiGe BiCMOS process, the ADF5610 enables high modulation bandwidths and low BIT error rates.

The Key Features of the ADF5610 Wideband Synthesizer • RF bandwidth: 55 MHz to 15000 MHz • Maximum phase detector rate: 100 MHz • Industry leading Phase Noise • -115dBc/Hz Typical @ 100 kHz (7GHz) • 114dBc/Hz Typical @ 100 kHz (10GHz) • -110dBc/Hz Max @ 100 kHz (15GHz) • RFOUT Power: +5dBm • Figure of Merit, Int / Frac (FOM): −229 / -226 dBc/Hz • 24-bit step size, 3 Hz typical resolution • Exact frequency mode with 0 Hz frequency error • Fast frequency hopping • 48-lead, 7 mm × 7 mm LFCSP package: 49 mm2 The ADF5610 wideband fractional-N synthesizer is easy to design-in, and fully supported by the ADIsimPLL, Analog

Devices' comprehensive and easy-to-use PLL synthesizer design and simulation tool for assessing phase noise, lock time, jitter and other design considerations. The device is also customer programmable through the use of integrated SPI interface and control software.

The ADF5610 is specified over the -40°C to +85°C range. It operates from nominal 3.3-V analog and digital power supplies as well as 5-V charge-pump and VCO supplies, and feature 1.8-V logic-level compatibility. The synthesizer also contains hardware and software power down modes.

Elmos Launches BLDC Motor Driver for 48V Board Net

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3-fold Half-Bridge Driver IC E523.50 from Elmos for BLDC Applications Elmos introduces with the E523.50, a threefold 72V half-bridge driver for brushless DC (BLDC) motors.

Feasible are automotive applications with 12/24V- (Trucks) and 48V board net power supply as well as industrial applications with 24 to 60V power supplies.

The IC complies with AEC-Q100, Grade 0 (150°C) requirements.

The digital RUN pin and six digital inputs control the three half-bridge gate

drivers (three high side and three low side gate drivers).

The IC is configurable for six direct control inputs or three enable and three PWM (pulse width modulation) inputs.

In the latter case, the dead time is generated automatically and can be adjusted using an external resistor.

The component has an integrated DC/ DC step-down (buck) converter, which provides the drivers and other loads with a gate voltage of 11V/100mA. The internal 3.3V control unit is able to supply the microcontroller with up to 20mA. An external boost transistor can

be connected for higher loads.

Among the component characteristics are comprehensive diagnostics and protective features. Two error outputs show any over-current, low voltage and excessive temperature rise. The excellent heat transfer properties of the exposed-pad QFN housing make it possible to operate the IC close to its maximum permissible temperature of up to 170°C. Further info: sales@elmos.com mentioning 'E523.50' in the reference line.

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COMSOL Conference 2018 Bangalore Brings All-Industry Simulation Experts to Share How Multiphysics Transformed Their Work The pivotal event on simulation COMSOL Conference 2018 Bangalore which redefines the eminence of Multiphysics in today’s scenario is all set to kick-start on August 9-10.

COMSOL also announced this year’s keynote speakers for the COMSOL Conference 2018. The event, held in seven major cities, arrives in Bangalore on August 9-10 and features the following experts in multiphysics modeling and simulation apps: • Sitarameswara Sarma, Mahindra & Mahindra, automotive industry • Udayan Kanade, Noumenon Multiphysics, consultancy services • Santanu Sinha, Space Applications Centre, ISRO • Sridhar Alapati, ABB GISPL, power distribution industry • Girish Kokane, Endurance Technologies Ltd., automotive suppliers A quick look up on the keynote talks can be Found Here.

The event features many parallel sessions on structural mechanics, acoustics, electromagnetics, fluid flow, heat transfer, and chemical reactions.

Program highlights include:

• Presentations and keynotes on product design and research by the COMSOL community • 25+ minicourses and workshops on multiphysics simulation • Demo stations that offer one-on-one meetings with application engineers • Exhibit showcasing products and services available to users of the COMSOL Multiphysics software The global premier event will also be held in Boston - Oct 3-5, Lausanne - Oct 22-24, Shanghai - Nov 1-2, Taipei - Nov

9, Seoul - Nov 23, Tokyo - Dec 7.

The COMSOL Conference brings the simulation community together around the world to discuss and exchange best practices around the use of mathematical modeling and numerical simulation.

Also, One can attend to learn on how multiphysics modeling and simulation apps have transformed the automotive industry, power industry, consultancy services as well as the design optimization in academia.

Microchip Technology has introduced new two- and three-channel power monitoring devices that measure from 0V to 32V on a single chip, offering designers solutions that are easy to adopt and improve power measurement accuracy. The two-channel device is also the industry’s first with native 16-bit resolution, providing leading flexibility across a wide measurement range.

Managing and reducing power consumption is crucial in low voltage, high power applications such as FieldProgrammable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and embedded computing devices. These devices must first accurately measure power before they can manage it, but

precision power measurement solutions are often costly and require multiple ICs or power configurations to measure different rails hence, Microchip has crafted the new PAC1932/33 devices.

Microchip’s PAC1932/33 devices include precisely what is needed to measure power on a single Integrated Circuit (IC), integrating multiple channels in a single package for applications such as Point of Sale (POS) systems, ATMs and building automation. This reduces costs for system designers while also consolidating their Bill of Materials (BOMs), as the measurement of sub 1V to 20V voltage rails normally require separate components to measure each rail efficiently. The devices’ ability to

measure voltage rails under 1V to as high as 32V also relieves developers from having to reconfigure measurement resolution between low and high current load events.

As the industry’s only two-channel device with 16-bit power measurement, the PAC1932 can measure without host intervention for 17 minutes, relieving developers from adjusting voltage or current range to measure power and energy. The devices include two 16-bit Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) that can measure voltage and current simultaneously, enabling developers to extract a true power measurement. As a result, developers can better design systems to efficiently save power.

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STMicroelectronics’ New Precision MEMS Sensor Supports Accurate Positioning and Control for Cars The new ASM330LHH is 3-axis accelerometer and 3-axis gyroscope integrated on a single chip leverage ST-proprietary end-to-end MEMS process for best quality and customer supply-chain assurances STMicroelectronics introduces the automotive-grade ASM330LHH six-axis inertial sensor for super-high-resolution motion tracking in advanced vehicle navigation and telematics applications.

Serving demands for continuous, accurate vehicle location to support automated services, the ASM330LHH lets advanced dead-reckoning algorithms calculate precise position from sensor data if satellite signals are blocked. This often happens in urban canyons, tunnels, covered roadways, parking garages, or dense forests. Its advanced, low-noise, temperaturestable design enables dependable

telematics services such as e-tolling, tele-diagnostics, and e-Call assistance.

Precision inertial data in six axes also meets the needs of advanced automated-driving systems.

Magneti Marelli has selected the ASM330LHH for advanced telematics systems, to be fitted as original equipment by global automotive groups in upcoming vehicle ranges.

For the ASM330LHH, as with all its MEMS sensors, ST owns the entire

manufacturing process, from designing the sensors, through wafer fabrication, packaging, test, calibration, and supply.

Full end-to-end control enables ST to create high-performing sensors and assure customers of a robust and responsive supply chain, with rigorous end-of-line quality screening.

“ST is the largest supplier of MEMS sensors for automotive non-safety applications, such as navigation and telematics” , said Andrea Onetti, Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group Vice President, STMicroelectronics. “Our latest-generation inertial sensor, the automotive-grade ASM330LHH, enables precise positioning for safer, smarter driving.”

Engineering samples will be available for evaluation by Q3 2018, and volume production will begin the following quarter. Budgetary pricing starts at $5.00 for orders of 1000 pieces.

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Maxim PMICs Drive Optimized Power for Automotive ADAS Functions Power-management ICs from Maxim offer high performance, small size, efficiency, and protection needed by advanced auto subsystems Maxim Integrated has introduced a series of power-management ICS. With these new series of power-management ICs (PMICs) from Maxim Integrated Products, designers can optimize power for automotive advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) functions to achieve high performance, small size, efficiency, and electrical protection.

ADAS functions, many of which are now mandatory or will be soon, increase vehicle safety and enhance the driving experience. These features include smart braking for collision avoidance, GPS/navigation, adaptive cruise control, lane centering, lane-departure warning, and back-up/surround video. Although these functions receive considerable design attention, managing DC power in electrically harsh vehicle environments is a less-publicized yet critical challenge for ADAS system designers.

Maxim’s arrays of application-optimized

ICs regulate, manage, and protect DC power. These products solve critical problems for ADAS systems designers by offering a unique combination of package size, high operating efficiency, low quiescent current, integrated ASILB/D electrical protection, and reduced EMI. “Designers must meet demanding requirements along with difficult constraints, which standard catalog parts cannot do effectively,” said Warren Tsai, director of business management for the Automotive Business Unit at Maxim Integrated. “With this array of carefullytailored, application-specific ICs, Maxim is addressing the complex and unique needs of ADAS designers.”

The series of PMICs which Maxim has released include: MAX20019 Dual Synchronous StepDown Converter – Provides the industry’s smallest 3.2MHz dual step-down power supply in a 2mm × 3mm package size (compared to the closest competing solutions that offer single channel parts in either a 2mm x 2mm or 3mm x 3mm

package size) MAX20087 Quad Camera Power Protector – ASIL-B/D grade camera module protector IC includes an I2C interface to report on overvoltage/ undervoltage/fault conditions; monitors up to four 600mA coax channels and isolates faults from individual camera modules MAX20075 and MAX20076 Step-Down Converters – Offers the industry's lowest quiescent current with peak and valley mode options; provides a high peak efficiency of 91% for always-on applications compared to competing solutions, while featuring a 40-V loaddump tolerance MAX20014 Triple-Output Converter – Features one synchronous boost and two synchronous step-down converters for smaller, simpler, and lower cost designs (competing approaches require two ICs plus discrete components); features 2.2MHz switching frequency and spreadspectrum capability for reduced EMI and comes in a small 4mm x 4mm package size

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New Records for electronica India and productronica India The electronica India and productronica expand their exhibition space two months ahead of their opening day due to record participation numbers.

Market leading trade fairs catering to electronics industry, electronica India and productronica India benefit from the growing and optimistic electronics industry in India. This year in Bengaluru, Messe Muenchen India will be organizing the biggest ever edition of the show which has grown by more than 20% from its past Bengaluru edition two years back.IPCA Expo which focuses on the printed circuit board segment is also growing. The expo is co-organized by the Indian Printed Circuit Association (IPCA) and Messe Muenchen India and supported by the Electronic Industries Association of India (ELCINA). The twin trade fairs and IPCA Expo are fully booked and additional space is planned for the waitlist exhibitors.

Bhupinder Singh, CEO of Messe Muenchen India is delighted with these news: “Our trade fairs are the true reflection of the positive market sentiments and we are pleased to present the largest editions ever. Offering a combination of live products and technologies on display along with highlevel supporting programs will enable electronica India and productronica India to unlock the massive market opportunity for the electronics industry in India.”

Witness technologies that will shape the market The electronics industry is

undergoing an exciting phase due to revolutionary changes in technology, the launch of innovative products and the challenge of global competition. This has made it necessary for electronic product and component manufacturers to focus on continuous improvements to stay ahead in the evolving Indian market.

There is a larger need to stay connected closely to the market with rise in demand for electronics.

More than 470 companies representing 18 countries have confirmed their presence at the upcoming technology trade fairs taking place from September 26–28, 2018 at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC), Bengaluru. The trade fairs will cover technological trends such as automotive electronics, mobile manufacturing, technology for PCBs manufacturing and news in PCB technology at IPCA Expo.

In addition to the regular participants the trade fairs will bring numerous new companies this year compared to the last New Delhi edition: Littelfuse Far East Pte Ltd, Murata Manufacturing Company, Hanwha Precision Machinery (Samsung), Mahindra CIE Automotive, Mouser Electronics India, ROHM Semiconductor India and TTM Technologies to name a few.

Exciting supporting program to capture trends and innovations • 3rd edition of the India PCB Tech conference focusing on the ‘Importance of a robust supply chain and value

addition to strengthen the PCB Sector in India’ organized by ELCINA and supported by IPCA • 3rd edition of the Advantage India summit focusing on ‘Mobile manufacturing in India’ • 3rd edition of the CEO forum focusing on the ‘Vision for quadrupling to a US$ 400 billion electronics industry’ organized by ELCINA • 2nd edition of the e-Automotive conference focusing on automotive electronics jointly organized by UBS Forums and Messe Muenchen India Business-Matchmaking: Buyer-Seller forum The Buyer-Seller forum will take place this year again and bring together exhibitors and visitors in over 1,200 faceto-face meetings. The forum generated huge interest and reported strong participation in the past editions.

Singh concluded: “Our continuous objective is to serve the electronics industry with our trade fairs. I am confident that attendees will benefit from our knowledge-rich conferences and the vast spectrum of technologies on display.”

The upcoming edition of electronica India and productronica India will take place from September 26–28, 2018 at BIEC, Bengaluru.

More information is available online at www.electronica-india.com and www. productronicaindia.com

Renesas Electronics has announced two new PMBus compliant, fully digital DC/DC controllers that provide single output point-of-load (POL) conversions for FPGAs, DSPs, ASICs, network processors and general purpose system rails.

The ISL68300 with integrated MOSFET drivers and ISL68301 with PWM output simplify designing power supplies for data center, wired and wireless

communications, and factory automation equipment. The ISL68300 can drive discrete external MOSFETs directly, while the ISL68301 pairs with Renesas’ smart power stages or DrMOS power stages to create a complete voltage regulator solution. The ISL68300 and ISL68301 digital controllers feature a high-speed current share bus that parallels up to eight controllers in an 8-phase 240A+ current share configuration. Both

controllers implement Renesas’ digital ChargeMode control modulation, which responds to load transients in a single switching cycle, and provides an inherently stable control loop without requiring external compensation. This modulation architecture significantly reduces output capacitor requirements and minimizes Vout undershoot and overshoot.

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Vicor New Extended DCM in ChiP Package for Enhanced Output Voltage Regulation Models Vicor has massively extended its family of DC-DC converter modules (DCMs) with tighter output voltage regulation of ±1%.

Vicor has introduced 25 new products sporting unrivaled power densities of 1,032W/in3.

The new series from Vicor is said to allow engineers to drive loads requiring tighter regulation with minimal additional circuitry or downstream components. The DCM ChiP (Converter housed in Package) is a DC-DC converter module that operates from an unregulated, wide range input to generate an isolated, regulated DC output.

With its high frequency zero-voltage switching (ZVS) topology, the DCM converter consistently delivers high efficiency across its entire input voltage range.

New DCM ChiPs with enhanced output voltage regulation: Table1 – Items in green are new DCM ChiPs available in standard and enhanced VOUT regulation. Items in black have been previously announced.

Broad Range of Applications The new DCMs are used broadly across defense and industrial applications that require tighter output voltage regulation.

These applications include UAV, ground vehicle, radar, transportation and industrial controls. The DCM ChiPs are

available in M-grade, which can perform at temperatures as low as -55°C.

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Vishay Intertechnology Unveils New Series of Automotive Grade Power LEDs The AEC-Q101 qualified devices by Vishay Intertechnology feature luminous intensity to 1400, are offered in PLCC-2 and ultra-compact MiniLED Packages.

Vishay Intertechnology has unveiled two new series of surface-mount Automotive Grade power LEDs in PLCC-2 and ultracompact MiniLED packages. Utilizing the latest advanced AllnGaP technology in the smallest chip size available, the Vishay Semiconductors VLMx335xx and VLMx235xx series deliver high brightness and maximum drive current up to 50 mA for automotive, industrial, and consumer applications.

The AEC-Q101 qualified LEDs introduced by Vishay combine low thermal resistance down to 400 K/W with power dissipation of 130 mW, which in

turn enables their high drive current. The small 2.3 mm by 1.3 mm by 1.4 mm size of the VLMx235xx's MiniLED package and VLMx335xx's high luminous intensity to 1400 mcd make them ideal for automotive interior and exterior lighting; traffic signals and signs; and indicators and backlighting for audio and video equipment, LCD switches, and symbols for general use.

Offered in super red, red, amber, soft orange, and yellow, the LEDs feature a lead-frame embedded in a white thermoplast, with an inside reflector filled with a clear epoxy. The devices offer a ± 60° angle of half-intensity, forward voltage down to 1.8 V, and a luminous intensity ratio per packing unit of ≤ 1.6, and they are categorized, per packing unit, for luminous intensity and color.

RoHS-compliant, halogen-free, and Vishay Green, the LEDs are available in 8 mm tape, offer an ESD-withstand voltage up to 2 kV in accordance with JESD22-A114-B, and are compatible with preconditioning according to JEDEC Level 2a.

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ROHM Rolls-Out New CMOS Op-Amp, Delivers LeadingClass Low Noise The latest addition of ROHM, LMR1802G-LB is ideal for industrial applications that demand high-accuracy sensing, including sonar and optical sensors

Key Features 1. Easy to use despite low noise results in the industry’s best performing CMOS op-amps This latest product combines ROHM’s superior analog technology covering circuit design (new circuit at the differential input stage), layout (analog design cultivated over many years), and processes (optimized for low noise) to achieve ultra-low-noise. The input equivalent noise voltage density of 2.0nV/√Hz at 1kHz and 7.8nV/√Hz at 10Hz are approximately half that of products on the market, ensuring superior low-noise performance.

In addition, in the past when pursuing lower noise in opamps there were problems such as poor phase margin and capacitive load characteristics, as well as oscillation that

made circuit design difficult, but introducing a new circuit at the differential input stage allowed ROHM to achieve industrylow noise along with a class-leading phase margin of 68° and capacitive load tolerance of 500pF. This doubles the detection capability of sensor signals over conventional solutions, enabling accurate amplification of voltages on the order of µV, improving performance with sensors that demand higher precision.

2. Minimizes input offset voltage and input bias current In terms of op-amp configuration, the output voltage should be 0V when the input is 0V, but an offset voltage is often generated as an error. Also, if the sensor’s output impedance is high the sensor output voltage will be affected if the input bias current of the op-amp is large. Consequently, these two error factors must be made as small as possible to ensure optimal performance.

Application Examples • Distance measuring equipment utilizing sonar and optical sensors • Security systems, IR remote controls, night vision, and other sets equipped with IR sensors • Devices demanding high accuracy operation (i.e. HDD) • Equipment management systems including flow meters and gas detectors • Other industrial and consumer sets integrating sensors requiring high accuracy detection The LMR1802G-LB offers an input offset voltage of 450µV and input bias current of only 0.5pA (4x and 2x less than conventional products, respectively), providing high accuracy amplification.

Pricing: TBD Availability: June 2018 (Samples), October 2018 (OEM quantities)

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ROHM has recently announced the availability of a CMOS op-amp featuring the lowest noise in the industry optimized for industrial applications requiring high-accuracy sensing, such as accelerometers used in sonar systems and optical sensors that handle ultra-small signals.

In recent years, in addition to IoT devices, sensors are being adopted in a variety of applications from portables and vehicle systems to industrial equipment, to improve functionality and provide advanced control. Used to detect and convert various environmental and physical changes into signals, sensors demand high accuracy, but at the same time peripheral sensor circuitry is trending towards lower voltages to achieve greater power savings.

Op-amps are configured at the rear stage to amplify the analog sensor output, but because sensor signals are so weak it is necessary to implement noise countermeasures to ensure high-accuracy transmission. In response, ROHM developed a high noise tolerant op-amp for the automotive market utilizing a vertically integrated production system that leverages original analog design technologies and processes. ROHM has introduced an op-amp that delivers the industry’s best performance against external noise optimized for consumer devices and industrial equipment.

The LMR1802G-LB developed utilizing ROHM’s market-leading analog technology covering circuit design, processes, and layout, reduces input equivalent noise voltage density by half (2.9nV/√Hz at 1kHz, 7.8nV/√Hz at 10Hz) compared to conventional products, significantly improving the detection performance of sensor signals. In addition, best-in-class phase margin (68°) and capacitive load tolerance (500pF) provide excellent stability (difficult to oscillate, easy to handle). This enables accurate amplification of voltages in the order of µV, ensuring support for industrial and consumer applications requiring high-precision sensing.

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Neeraj Dotel MD | India & SAARC | SAP Concur

IT IS IMPERATIVE TO HAVE THE RIGHT TOOLS, POLICIES AND PROCEDURES IN PLACE Analysing the current business scenario, it is clear that the second-largest expense in any organization is the employee-initiated spend. But the good news is that, this could be avoided with the right tools. Joining in a candid conversation with Niloy Banerjee, BIS Infotech’s Consultant Editor, Neeraj Dotel, MD, India & SAARC, SAP Concur,talks about how SAP Concur helps organizations cut down on these frauds and expenses alongside giving out details about ‘Budget’ and other SAP offerings.

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How SAP Concur offers real-time visibility and insight into spend data?

Employee-initiated spend is today the second-largest expense in any organization. These are spending categories, ranging from entertainment, travel, consulting, mobile charges, home and office expenses etc.

To help companies, effectively manage resources and make better decisions, SAP Concur has developed, ‘Budget’, a new solution that makes budget data visible real-time and actionable. Budget synthesizes data from SAP Concur solutions including Expense, Invoice, Purchase Request and Travel Request, creating a comprehensive dashboard for spend – before and after it occurs. As a result, finance leaders, sales leaders, and project managers can see spending events unfold. Collectively, each employee making better decisions leads to better overall financials and strengthens the bottom line.

Budget empowers everyone to see what’s happening, anticipate risks around the corner, and take action – before it’s too late. It’s holistic and flexible, whether companies map budgets to employees or to projects. Employees can finally be held accountable to eliminate overspending while gaining autonomy to proactively adjust spend to seize unexpected opportunities. SAP Concur enables companies to streamline the travel, expense and invoice process leading to improved compliance and control over expenditure. Our integrated solutions compare upcoming, actual and previous spend data; analyse company cash flow & working capital and eliminate error incidents.

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How it integrates with SAP ERP to pull info from all payment types and suppliers?

SAP Concur and SAP’s integration has given visibility into spend and payments in both SAP ERP and SAP Concur software, as well as boost network security and data integrity.

It’s now easy to achieve transparency across both systems since data is automatically updated across

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How Concur Expense automatically creates an audit trail for every employee-initiated transaction. In addition, Concur Audit offers objective third-party auditors trained on company policies?

Concur Expense uses machine learning in conjunction with Office 365 to create expense report entries directly from an emailed receipt. With Concur Expense, there is no need to hang on to save paper expense receipts or invoices.

E-receipts capture electronic transaction data directly from airlines, hotels, and car-rental companies, so line item details are automatically uploaded into the expense report. Travelers can also take photos of receipts with their smartphone making expense tracking, reimbursement, and reporting much easier. We recognized that the tactical functions of a physical audit can be cumbersome, time-consuming and costly. To save time and increase efficiency, we created an Audit Service that provides support specifically around the expense report process.

The sole focus of our Audit Service is to understand a firm’s corporate travel and expense policy inside out. Travel and entertainment expense transactions are verified against the criteria that a company pre-define so that they can still

maintain the control. With pre-defined audit rules in place, you’re assured that your company’s personalized business rules are followed each and every time we audit.

Plus, our auditing experts give them the reporting information which helps companies make decisions, identify trends, and help enforce compliance.

Some of the other benefits of our Audit Services include: Visibility - Discover accurate T&E spend data that helps in identifying trends and make more informed financial decisions Control - Specify required fields for claims and use our audit team as a second pair of eyes to check for errors Compliance – Share T&E policy so we can identify non-compliant spend, request justification and keep the regulating authorities happy

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How do you see the travel and expense management software market growing in India? Major clients, you’re working with?

The Travel and expense industry is evolving in response to the growth of mobile technology. With an increase in business Travel across both domestic and international markets companies are realizing the need to modernize tools and programs for improved efficiency.

A study by GBTA foundation explores that direct booking behavior in employees is becoming increasingly popular, with nearly 40% of business travelers regularly contacting the suppliers directly.

A report by ResearchAndMarkets.com states that Global travel and expense management software market will grow at a CAGR of 7.66% during the period 2017-2021.

Some of the companies that are using SAP Concur Technologies solutions are Welspun, Marico, Dun, and Bradstreet (D&B) India, Cognizant, Agilent Technologies etc.

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How is SAP Concur revving up for the said “Digital Transformation”?

What challenges and scopes does it incur, perspective to India?

We at SAP Concur believe that digital transformation of an organization should be such that it is easy and intuitive to use and the people using it should be able to

reap its benefits. We provide CFOs with advanced solutions that automatically synchronize financial data of the entire spend process. The automation of these processes enhances the experience of business travel, reduces time, and increases transparency and visibility.

Post GST implementation, Indian companies have become very sensitive and are on the lookout to reduce investments and operational costs.

SAP Concur’s automated invoicing solutions have helped companies recover Input Tax, taking companies of all sizes and stages beyond automation to a completely connected spend management solution. We thus see a huge potential in the Indian market with the SAP Concur app integration, employees also enjoy more flexibility and effortlessly manage their business travel and expense while being location independent, through our exceptional end-user experience.

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Which sectors are of your major focus in India?

We work with manufacturing, financial services, and consulting services sector.

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Why businesses need the right tools, policies, and procedures to bring risks under control?

With business expansion it gets more difficult to watch out for every dollar and every person who has access to the corporate coffers. And with seemingly daily changes to the regulations that govern business keeping an eye on your spending and keeping up with policies and procedures can seem virtually impossible.

To avoid T&E frauds, the simplest answer lies with using the corporate card. When travellers charge expenses directly to the company, they’re not accidentally entering incorrect numbers into their expense reports and leading auditors astray. There’s little room for error, and the firms get far more detailed and accurate figures. So once again, you can focus on fraudulent behavior.

Shaping your T&E policy around corporate card usage simplifies matters for a company and makes things easier for your employees, as well. It also makes it possible to prevent and/or flag expenses that fall out of policy.

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both. With the direct system-to-system connectivity, implementation is easier and so is the maintenance. And to users, the experience feels seamless, as if they’re operating in one single system.

Here are some of the salient features: • Integration of the SAP Concur Expense report, user profiles, list data, invoices and cash advances with the SAP ERP system • Automated replication of employee and cost object master data • Automated transfer and posting of the expense report, cash advances and invoices into the SAP ERP Financials solution • Clear error tracking through a feedback channel for status and error messages • Root cause analysis of issues • Enhanced expense report and invoice status management in SAP Concur software with “fix the error and resend” capability

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With these types of policies in place— and a workforce that understands them—businesses can save money and separate well-intentioned employees who make mistakes from a few who look to outsmart the system.

Adopting a zero-tolerance policy and shining a light on fraudulent behaviour are the best things businesses can do to deter further fraud. And utilizing a thirdparty auditing lets you be the big brother without having to be the bad guy. With global business travel and varied spend on the rise, it is imperative to have the right tools, policies, and procedures in place.

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Any recent successful case study you want to underline?

Ericsson, a telecommunications giant, with a presence in 175 countries and offices in 108 countries, was using multiple expense management systems – from manual to Web-based. This was costly and inefficient for Ericsson to manage. The company lacked control and had no means to track travel spend.

Ericsson looked for an on-demand

global solution that would reduce costs and universally meet the needs of its employees. After a brief pilot, Ericsson implemented SAP Concur, a Web-based, on-demand service that streamlines and automates the expense process. As a global expense management solution, SAP Concur drives significant costs out of the expense process by automating the processes Ericsson uses to manage employee spend. In just the matter of a few months, Ericsson implemented SAP Concur in India, Sweden, Netherlands, and Germany.

Prior to using SAP Concur, Ericsson employees manually entered VAT, travel allowance, and currency rates into expense reports. With SAP Concur, VAT is automatically recorded and reported in both local and foreign VAT, travel allowance reimbursement rates are automatically presented, and currency rates are automatically captured. SAP Concur made it easy for Ericsson’s employees to complete their expense report quickly, with minimal effort.

With SAP Concur’s powerful reporting capabilities, Ericsson now has the

ability to monitor the suppliers that employees frequently book. With SAP Concur, management can quickly analyze employee spend data to optimize supplier negotiations, spend management and fraud reduction.

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How is spend management disrupting the service-based sector especially public sector?

Within the public sector, many spend management and travel solutions that were adopted by organizations decades ago are now outdated, making financial control difficult. Implementing a modern, easy-to-use spend management solution can increase adoption and visibility into spending to insure visibility into every aspect of spending. With valuable insights, organizations can prevent duplicate payments, flag unusual transactions, or lead more informed negotiations to take advantage of discounted supplier rates.

Automated compliance enforcement alerts allow public sector organizations to more easily adhere to government regulations - a process which is typically very time consuming.

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Epicor Appoints Two New Executive Leaders Epicor Software Corporation makes two new appointments to its executive leadership team.

Andy Coussins is appointed senior vice president and head of sales for the international region and Jason Taylor senior vice president and head of global support.

Coussins and Taylor assume their roles effective immediately and report directly to Epicor chief executive officer Steve Murphy.

Coussins joins Epicor from Hewlett Packard Enterprise where he was vice president for the Alliance Business in EMEA. He has extensive international sales experience and a strong reputation for building high performing teams that are instrumental in driving global growth. Coussins will be based out of the Bracknell, UK office.

Taylor joins Epicor from Oracle where he was vice president of customer success management and support service sales, responsible for over $2B in revenue for support renewal sales and services.

He has deep experience building global support operations and driving business to create new service offerings to generate revenue growth and customer success. Taylor will be based in the Bensalem, PA office.

“I’m committed to building a leadership team that fully represents our culture of growth, investment and customer centricity,” said Steve Murphy, chief executive officer for Epicor Software. “The appointments of Andy and Jason bring

Andy Coussins SVP, Head of Sales, International, Epicor

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substantial experience from industry leading, high-growth companies and demonstrate our commitment to supporting customers and partners worldwide.”

He explained, “With an enthusiastic and passionate leadership team in place we can continue our focus on making it easy for customers to stay current on modern technology, making it easy for them to move to the cloud when they decide the time is right, and making it easy for them to embrace all aspects of digital transformation. I’m excited about the team and what we will be able to accomplish together during the next phase in our growth strategy.”

Pegasystems has appointed Adriana Bokel Herde as the new chief people officer and senior vice president.

The incumbency has been done with immediate effect, wherein, Ms. Herde will be responsible for Pega’s global people strategy and operations, reporting to Alan Trefler, Pega’s founder and CEO. She will be based out of the company’s Cambridge, Mass. Headquarters, succeeding Jeff Yanagi, who will be retiring from Pega.

For more than 20 years, Ms. Bokel Herde has held leadership positions in fast growing companies. Her areas of expertise include business strategy, talent recruitment and development, diversity initiatives, change management, leadership development, operations, innovation, and employee experience.

Most recently, Ms. Bokel Herde was chief people officer and chief evangelist officer at PeopleDoc, an HR technology provider, where she was responsible for internal people strategy and customer

Adriana Bokel Herde Chief People Officer & Senior VP Pegasystems

advocacy. Prior to that, she was vice president of people services at Biogen.

Born in Brazil, Ms. Bokel Herde holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, a MA in Adult Educational Psychology from Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, and a Clinical Psychology degree from the Pontificia Universidade Catolica in Rio de Janeiro.

She is currently a member of the MIT Women Alumni Leadership team.

“With a proven track record of executing transformative HR strategies, Adriana will bring valuable experience to Pega as we continue to grow and innovate,” said Alan Trefler, founder and CEO, Pegasystems. “I am delighted to welcome Adriana to Pega to help ensure HR continues as an integral and strategic contributor to Pega’s success.”

“I also want to thank Jeff for his decade of service,” continued Trefler. “Under Jeff’s leadership, HR has evolved into a strategic function that supports the entire business, and I look forward to Adriana continuing to build on this success.”

“There is a tremendous opportunity for employee engagement, as well as finding new industry talent, to help support Pega’s growth objectives,” said Adriana Bokel Herde. “I look forward to strengthening and cultivating our employee community to evolve Pega’s culture and success.”

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Adriana Bokel Herde to Lead as Chief People Officer for Pegasystems

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CSS Corp Named “Leader” in NelsonHall’s NEAT for Cognitive IT Infrastructure Management Services CSS Corp recognized in servercentric services for its AI and analytics capability in IT automation through its indigenous cognitive automation platform, Contelli CSS Corp announces that it has been named as a “Leader” in NelsonHall’s NEAT for Cognitive IT Infrastructure Management Services, in the ServerCentric Services Capability market segment.

The report is known to evaluate 15 top vendors providing cognitive and intelligent automation services for global enterprises to manage the complexity of IT operations and business environments.

NelsonHall is a leading independent global analyst firm for the business and IT services industry.

NelsonHall’s NEAT for Cognitive IT Infrastructure Management Services report has recognized Contelli, CSS Corp’s indigenous cognitive automation platform for its adoption of AI and analytics in IT automation. Contelli

leverages the transformative potential of cognitive technologies to drive the customers’ service delivery operations, accelerating growth and predictability. It is a context-driven automation platform that can harmonize, orchestrate, and modernize IT infrastructure operations efficiently.

According to John Laherty, Senior Research Analyst from NelsonHall, said, “CSS Corp has a clear focus on driving digital transformation and end-user experience for its clients through Contelli.

It also continues to invest in greater machine learning capabilities for Contelli through its innovation labs.”

Speaking on the occasion, Manish Tandon, CEO, CSS Corp, said, “Being recognized by NelsonHall as a leader in cognitive services underpins our deep expertise in effectively managing cloud and IT operations environments

using automation technologies. Our cognitive approach for business and IT operations is largely focused on customers’ business-critical metrics and tightly aligned with the factors impacting business outcomes.”

“We continue to engineer value for our clients and remain fully aligned with them by ensuring superior readiness and responsiveness of their IT infrastructure” he added.

Sunil Mittal - EVP, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, said, “Driving cognitive-enabled customer experience is core to our business strategy. Our approach is to leverage our cognitive solutions to unlock value for our customers by offering definitive and distinct customer experiences rather than through labor arbitrage. This latest recognition by NelsonHall adds another jewel to our crown and propels us towards being a partner of choice for organizations globally.”

Further info: www.csscorp.com

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Newgen OmniFlow iBPS 4.0 Enables Manage Dynamic Processes and Exceptions Newgen Software released OmniFlowiBPS 4.0 - an enhanced version of its BPM Suite.

The new version touts to empower knowledge workers to work beyond boundaries of the workplace and manage structured and unstructured processes more effectively.

The platform now offers case management capabilities on mobile, facilitating improved user responsiveness and business performance. Further, it enables users to efficiently manage cases with auto-generation of case summary, notifications for each task, advanced calendaring and configuration capabilities.

“OmniFlowiBPS 4.0enables organizations to gain flexibility required to respond to real-time opportunities and unanticipated

situations. It meets the requirements of a digital business by empowering users to work anytime-anywhere,” said Diwakar Nigam, Chairman and Managing Director, Newgen Software.

Key features include: • Improved User Interface of the Form Builder- Enrich user experience with an intuitive user interface of iForms, the form builder. Create responsive forms by allowing users to group multiple controls and customize form elements.

• Better Information Security- Ensure system and data security with password protected rule set reports. Configure rules based on the assigned rights using if-else conditions and functions such as sum, average, and others.

• Language Support- The new version

supports Arabic and Spanish languages.

• Integration with Google Drive- Import document into a work item from Google Drive or export a document to Google Drive. Check-in/ check-out from Google Drive while maintaining document versioning.

• Web Service Enhancements- Allow users to execute multiple web services on a single workstep and configure REST based web services. Supports RESTful webservice integration based on RAML standard.

The platform’s advanced capabilities such as process orchestration, robotic process automation (RPA), mobile, social and others allow organizations to reengineer processes and go digital.

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Salesforce Announces the Next Generation of Service Cloud Einstein

Next generation Service Cloud Einstein: Create engaging service experiences with AI and guided processes Built on the world’s #1 CRM, Service Cloud Einstein Platform Services Include: • Einstein Bots for Service supercharges agent productivity by responding to customers immediately, automating routine service requests, gathering basic information from customers so agents don’t have to, and seamlessly

handing off customers to the right agent at the right time. And because it uses machine learning and natural language processing, Einstein Bots improve with every interaction.

• Lightning Flow for Service empowers companies to deliver guided service processes that take customers through self-service interactions and guide agent workflow (i.e. fulfilling requests, resolving issues). Lightning Flow removes the guesswork from customer interactions, and delivers connected service experiences with a complete view of the customer.

• Einstein Next Best Action leverages rules-based and predictive models to provide agents with intelligent, contextual recommendations and offers for customers. Einstein Next Best Actions are delivered at the moment of maximum impact—surfacing insights directly within the Service Cloud console that lead to faster case resolution, increased customer loyalty and upsell opportunities.

The combined power of these innovations transforms customer service.

For example, if a customer loses their credit card while on vacation and goes to the company website for help, an Einstein Bot initiates a chat session.

After gathering the initial details (e.g. who are you, what happened?), the bot seamlessly passes the chat thread to a human agent to expedite the card replacement process. A Lightning Flow workflow takes the agent and customer through a step-by-step process to resolve the problem.

Assessing the situation based on the conversation and customer history, Einstein Next Best Action suggests to the agent that she inform the customer that they qualify for free travel insurance.

The agent informs the customer about the insurance and closes the loop. The customer leaves the interaction fulfilled

and happy with the service experience, while the agent quickly proceeds to the next case.

Salesforce AppExchange and Partner Ecosystem Extend the Power of Service Cloud Einstein With Salesforce AppExchange companies can extend the power of Salesforce with more than 5,000 partner solutions, including Lightning apps, components, data, industry specific solutions and more. Because it is powered by the Salesforce Platform, partners can build Einstein Bots for Service training packages, as well as Lightning Flow for Service and Einstein Next Best Action strategies for the AppExchange that are customized for industries and specific use cases.

Companies looking to accelerate their success with tailored solutions built on the Salesforce Platform can work with key global system integration partners such as Appirio, Bluewolf and PwC. Additionally, with Salesforce's strategic partnership with IBM, joint customers can leverage the power of AI to make smarter decisions, faster than ever before.

“Artificial intelligence alone will not drive your business forward—AI must be connected to CRM data and guided processes so companies can create seamless experiences that put customers at the center,” said Bill Patterson, SVP and GM, Service Cloud, Salesforce. “Today is a big step forward in empowering our customers with an easy way to provide guided, intelligent service at scale."

Pricing and Availability 1. Einstein Bots for Service is generally available and included for customers with Service Cloud Unlimited Edition and customers with Live Agent licenses.

2. Lightning Flow for Service is now generally available and included with all Service Cloud editions including Essentials, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions.

3. Einstein Next Best Action is currently in pilot. Pricing information will be made available at general availability.

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Service Cloud Einstein combines CRM data, AI and guided processes, empowering service agents to deliver intelligent recommendations, instant service and seamless experiences to customers Salesforce announces the next-gen of Service Cloud Einstein. The new Salesforce touts to combine the world’s #1 CRM with guided processes and powerful artificial intelligence to transform the customer service experience.

Companies are known to now leverage Einstein Bots for Service to automate routine service requests and enable frictionless agent handoffs.

Lightning Flow for Service empowers businesses with tools to quickly design and automate customer engagement processes. And Einstein Next Best Action empowers agents by delivering intelligent recommendations and offers for customers.

The Rising Tide of Customer Expectations Today, 80 percent of customers say the experience a company provides is as important as its products, yet many customer service organizations are unable to rise to the challenge.

Too often data exists in silos across an organization, preventing service agents from having a complete view of the customer. In addition, business processes are not set up to deliver frictionless customer experiences.

For companies to truly compete on service, they must find scalable ways to quickly resolve routine queries, navigate complex processes, and leverage intelligence to deliver outstanding, connected customer service experiences.

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RAH Infotech Inks Cambium Networks to Provide Wireless Networking Solutions RAH Infotech announces a new agreement with Cambium Networks, a global provider of wireless networking solutions.

“Cambium Networks access network solutions are proven rigorous and reliable over the long term, reducing maintenance costs and delivering a low total cost of ownership. Their Networks make it possible for stakeholders such as service providers; enterprises; governmental and military agencies to name a few, to build powerful communications networks.

We are very excited to be teaming up with them and extend their world class solutions in Indian markets”, shared Ashis

Guha, CEO, RAH Infotech.

“We at Cambium Networks are fully committed to our partners because we know how vital they are to the successful delivery and deployment of our solutions to end customers.

RAH Infotech has a proven and time-tested record as being a leader in value-added network distribution in India. We are positive that this association will be a mutually beneficial and successful one,” said Ron Ryan, SVP Global Channel Management at Cambium Networks.

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Uniper, Publicis.Sapient Partners to Imbibe Digital Transformation across Businesses Uniper has appointed Publicis.Sapient to consistently accelerate its business transformation strategy equip clients with an industry-leading suite of digitally connected products and services.

Uniper, working with Publicis.Sapient has unveiled the B2B portal ‘Enerlytics’ as the platform through which its client-centric digital transformation will be realized.

The company will evolve its world-class energy and engineering services – with core competencies in plant operations, production support and asset and field services – through the provision of a portfolio of fully digitized operations services and applications aimed at driving growth and efficiency for its generation asset based clients.

Enerlytics will host existing and future applications to support Uniper’s portfolio of value-adding client services, including condition monitoring, performance management, risk management and maintenance planning.

Pete Davies, Head of Software Engineering & Data Science at Uniper, said, “Enerlytics brings to the market a newly developed digital business strategy that will disrupt our business chain so that it meets the requirements of today’s modern world.

Supporting all aspects of the value chain, such as condition monitoring, performance management, risk management and maintenance planning, this platform will be critical in providing the most efficient service.”

Uniper will use the Enerlytics digital platform to enhance its engineering expertise with data insights and provide clients with a 360-degree view of their plant operational performance through an executive dashboard.

The new platform will combine custom-built analytics and realtime reporting and personalised software tools. The portal is already being used by selected Uniper clients.

The Uniper and Publicis.Sapient partnership will work towards agile empowerment and innovative business solutions.

From UX and front-end development to market and product strategy, the partnership will optimise Uniper’s delivery of

strategic business transformation so that it is integrated with the connected services world.

Adam Spalek, Director of Business Consulting at Publicis.

Sapient, said, “The energy and utilities sector is rapidly developing due to technological advancements, and we encourage all our clients to rethink and evolve their business models in order to keep pace with such change. As a leader in the development and delivery of digital business transformation through radical customer focus and insight, Publicis. Sapient is proud to help Uniper to advance its business offering, and we are excited to see the company thrive as it adapts to today’s digital-first business world.”

Uniper client using Enerlytics said, “This new platform has been integral to our business model. With operations spanning across the globe, using Enerlytics enabled us to track operations easily and ensure we were maximising the energy opportunities available for a broader global audience. The energy industry needs to transform and platforms such as Enerlytics will help us as we move to invest in alternative and effective ways of generating power.”

GDPR enacts stringent protection and processes for handling particular types of PII medical information. In general, an organization may collect and process personal medical information only if it is necessary for patient treatment and diagnosis, and with the explicit consent of the patient.

Rajesh Maurya Regional Vice President India & SAARC | Fortinet

The GDPR is changing more than data compliance—it’s changing the way businesses operate—affecting how and when they interact with the data of EU residents. One industry that will be held to higher standards is healthcare.

The healthcare industry can expect a variety of new challenges when it comes to gathering and protecting the personal data of European Union residents. The new legislation aims to build upon common and current personal information protection, working to ensure that data is protected across all processing activities and endpoints.

How Can Healthcare Organizations Comply with the GDPR? In a latest exchange of notion with Jyoti Gazmer, Sub Editor of BIS Infotech; the security veteran, Rajesh Maurya, Regional Vice President, India & SAARC, Fortinet enumerates the impact of GDPR in the healthcare Industry. Edited Nub.

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• D ata Portability: The right to retrieve and reuse personal data, for own purposes, across different services.

GDPR also introduces a new obligation on organizations to notify relevant authorities of any personal data breach likely to result in a risk to “the rights and freedoms of individuals”.

Where that risk is deemed ‘high’, notification must also be extended to the affected data subjects. Notifications must be made ‘without undue delay’ and where feasible, within 72 hours of the event discovery. Note, one way to ensure that a breach would not likely result in a risk to EU resident data owners is to encrypt all collected personal data. If this strategy is pursued, organizations need to consider their ability to support large amounts of encrypted traffic in transit and at rest.

The GDPR acts as a means of protecting personal data for EU residents across the globe. This means that any business or organization that processes or stores the data of EU residents are subject to GDPR rules and regulations—regardless of whether the healthcare facility physically operates in European Union countries.

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A Closer Look at the General Data Protection Regulation The GDPR is a fundamental shift in the protection of an individual’s data and privacy. Prior to this legislation, personal data was widely viewed as the property of the businesses who collected and stored the information.

In May, however, any personal data of European Union residents will be seen as the individual’s property, and the GDPR provides rights regarding the access and usage of their data by organizations. At its core, the GDPR defines the rights of the individual as they relate to data protection. These rights can be broadly summarized as follows: • Informed Consent: The right to be clearly informed why the data is needed and how it will be used. Consent must be explicitly granted and can be withdrawn at any time.

• Access: The right to access, free of charge, all data collected, and to obtain confirmation of how it is being processed.

• C orrection: The right to correct data if inaccurate.

• E rasure and the Right To Be Forgotten (RTBF): The right to request erasure of one’s data.

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How Can Healthcare Organizations Comply with the GDPR?

In order for healthcare organizations to comply with the GDPR, there are a number of requirements, some healthcare specific, that must be adhered to. All “personal data,” defined as “any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person,” has to be gathered in accordance with Article 5 of the GDPR, meaning data must be: • Collected for specified, legitimate and explicit purposes and not processed in a way which is incompatible with them.

• Processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner.

• Processed to ensure appropriate security of data.

• Adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which it is processed.

• Accurate and kept up to date.

• Kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed.

• Controlled by a controller who is responsible for the data and able to demonstrate compliance.

As mentioned earlier, healthcare organizations have a unique set of higher standards to adhere to. Specifically, certain personal data—known as genetic data, data concerning health and biometric data—can’t be processed unless it falls into certain categories. Before we dive into what those categories are, we should define the three types of healthcare-related personal data subject to the specific regulation.

Genetic data: personal data relating to the inherited or acquired genetic characteristics of a natural person that give unique information about the physiology or health of that natural person and that result, in particular, from an analysis of a biological sample from the natural person in question.

Data that concerns health: personal data related to the physical or mental health of a natural person, including the provision of health care services, which reveal information about his or her health status.

Biometric data: personal data resulting from specific technical processing relating to the physical, physiological or behavioral characteristics of a natural person, which allow or confirm the unique identification of that natural person, such as facial images or dactyloscopic data.

While the GDPR prohibits the unnecessary collection of personal data by healthcare organizations, there are several exceptions that allow for its collection. In order for healthcare organizations to collect specific personal data, the collection has to fall into one or more of the following categories: 1. Data has been given with explicit consent from the owner 2. Processing data is necessary to the “vital interests” of the patient/provider 3. Processing is needed for the purposes of preventative or occupational medicine 4. Data is necessary for the good of the public health What are the Penalties for NonCompliance?

Failure to comply with the GDPR can mean serious fines for healthcare organizations. Fines are calculated based on a number of factors but can range up to the greater of €20 million ($24.8 million) or four percent of global annual turnover. The word “greater” here is important. If compliance failure or a data breach is discovered and penalized, the higher-generating sum at the time of the fine will be used. This means that if four percent of global income for the healthcare organization was higher than 20 million Euros, the fine would be the amount equal to four percent of global income.

How Can Healthcare Facilities Brace for the GDPR? If your healthcare facility finds itself having to meet GDPR requirements, there are several actions you should be taking to help ensure that you’re compliant: First, you should audit your facility to determine the personal data that needs to be reorganized for compliance. Make sure you include

insight into what data is collected, how its collected and the purpose for collecting the data.

Second, ascertain how the data is being processed, stored, transferred and shared inside/outside your facility.

Organize and consolidate any possible information silos to ensure that the necessary information isn’t being lost in badly implemented processes or technologies.

Once you’ve audited information protected under the GDPR, you should invest in educating and training staff on the revised data life cycle requirements; updating the procedures for gathering, using, storing and destroying personal information. In addition, data security and privacy teams need to be prepared should any information be audited or requested by an EU resident.

Next, you should review your cybersecurity capabilities. Determine if your organization is capable of detecting and reporting data breaches within the required 72-hour window.

Breach detection is very difficult, even for the largest enterprises. In fact, the majority of data breaches is detected by third parties – usually by customers or law enforcement. If it can’t, you should update your cybersecurity capabilities to help protect your organization against breaches across the attack space.

Finally, you should commit your organization to rigorous risk-based cybersecurity program characterized by continuously assessing your GDPR relevant data life cycle and the organization’s overall security posture.

While compliance does not necessarily mean secure, given the heavy fines associated with the GDPR, consistently checking for weaknesses within your organization ensures a strong foundation for response should an EU citizen request his or her information, submit a complaint or, worst-case scenario, if sensitive data has been breached.

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Embracing IoT in Retail “In the next century, planet earth will don an electronic skin. It will use the Internet as a scaffold to support and transmit its sensations.”

Neil Gross, 1999

“connected devices” and “smart devices”), buildings and other items—embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity that enable these objects to collect and exchange data.

Disruption Drivers and Impact Associated Together with other disruptors, IoT will fundamentally reshape the industry in coming years and the impact would be relatively significant.

IoT Building Blocks IoT comes to life when its multiple building blocks simultaneously operate and communicate with each other.

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Everyday physical objects are becoming uniquely identifiable and embedded with the ability to connect to other devices or networks.

The Internet of Things (IoT) in true essence is the internetworking of physical devices, vehicles (also referred as

Retail Industry going IoT way?

IoT is driving innovation and new opportunities by bringing every object, consumer and activity into the digital realm. At the same time, leading businesses are making similar changes within their enterprises by digitizing every employee, process, product and service.

The IoT will be particularly disruptive to the retail industry.

• Improvising and refining the customer experience to next level The IoT presents an opportunity for retailers to develop a vastly improved ecosystem that connects physical and digital worlds, allowing bidirectional, real-time interaction with consumers both inside and outside the store • Optimizing supply chain operations Connected devices and products provide retailers with the opportunity to help optimize operations in the face of a more complex supply chain, increasingly important digital channels, and a more demanding customer. RFID technologies, for example, can improve the precision of inventory tracking.

• Introducing new channels and revenue streams We’re already seeing examples of incremental revenues retailers can help achieve by expanding into new channels or creating new, high-margin product categories for the emerging “connected home.” Household appliances, home security and comfort products, even health and wellness products are all becoming part of the IoT ecosystem. Retailers in home improvement or consumer electronics sectors not only can drive more sales of these connected devices;

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Some retailers are taking further advantage of the wide array of connected products by becoming an integration “platform.” The concept behind these platforms is to make it easier for customers to make all of their in-home devices talk to one another.

IoT challenges for retailers and the future journey The biggest challenge with the IoT is the rapid evolution of the scope and variety of technologies which can be used in the connected ecosystems. In retail specifically, the biggest and immediate challenge for companies to overcome is managing, analysing and acting on the reams of data pouring in from all connected devices.

The time to unleash IoT is now. It is the first step to transform your store for 21st century retail. It addresses one of your most pressing challenges – how to provide a personal, seamless and

differentiated experience for customers who do not think in terms of channel?

Retailers that take the lead in this space stand to gain an important advantage in an already competitive environment.

Early adopters will be positioned to quickly deliver IoT enabled capabilities that can increase revenue, reduce costs and drive a differentiated brand experience.

Our own thinking on this continues to evolve and we expect to witness additional perspectives further. One thing is however clear – to truly build value from IoT investments, retailers need to be expansive in their thinking, consider innovative applications and

use supporting technologies such as augmented intelligence.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Chand is a part of the IT Engineering (Integrations) team at Lowe’s. He has an extensive experience of leading and managing large scale integration development and maintenance projects, and believes that people are the greatest assets in an organisation. He leads by empowering his team, and believes that the determination and dedication of our people will help us serve our business even better and generate long-term value for our customers.

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Draft of the Karnataka Government on installation of new “Telecommunication Infrastructure Towers Regulations, 2015” still pending for notification Tower and Infrastructure Providers Association (TAIPA) highlighted that draft policy of Karnataka named as “Telecommunication Infrastructure Towers Regulations, 2015” is pending for notification since 2016.

The draft tower policy pending for notification for more than 2 years imposes issues such as restriction on the location of towers such as restriction on the location of mobile tower installation, requirements of multiple documents and NOCs, non-availability of Government land & buildings, exorbitant high fees ranging from 50,000 to 10,000 rupees, lacks provision for the deployment of in-building solutions and Cell on Wheels etc.

This enormous delay will impede addressing the growing data demands and roll out of futuristic technologies such as 5G, Internet of Things, Virtual Reality and Artificial intelligence etc.

While on the other hand, the Centre Government have been sedulous on the development of a robust telecom infrastructure which is evident by the notification of the Right of Way rules, 2016. The policy has to enable features such as no restriction on the location of telecom towers, single window clearance mechanism, defined time-period for approvals, an appointment of Nodal officers, nominal administrative fees and deemed approval etc. extensively supporting the Digital India mission.

The draft Karnataka tower policy is not aligned with the Right of Way rules, 2016 issued by centre government.

While highlighting the issue, Tilak Raj Dua, Director General, TAIPA said, “The state of Karnataka should align its draft policy with the Right of Way rules issued in November 2016 by the Department of Telecommunication to ensure deployment of critical telecom tower infrastructure. Issues such as call drops, network outage and connectivity gaps

etc. are being faced by the users’ due to the absence of comprehensive mobile tower installation policy. We hope the new government will certainly address these issues and facilitate robust telecom infrastructure in the state.”

The industry has also highlighted through a number of representations and submissions to respective authorities for notifying a comprehensive tower policy which addresses the provisioning of seamless telecom infrastructure rollout aligned with the RoW rules, 2016.

The visionary programmes of the government such as Digital India and Smart cities are severely impacted due to the absence of uniform comprehensive tower policy aligned with RoW rules dated November 2016 issued by central government.

It is worth highlighting that other Indian states such as Kerala, Jharkhand, Haryana, Odisha, Rajasthan and Assam have aligned their tower policies with the central government guidelines.

Further, Dua added “The development of robust telecom infrastructure is the bedrock for state to leapfrog towards Smart and Digital Karnataka. This is because all the transformational reforms such as Digital India, e-governance, Smart Cities and cashless economy etc. depends upon the connectivity provided by telecom infrastructure. Hence, we are sure that State authorities would align their state policy with RoW policy dated November 2016 which will eventually help to realise the dream of Digital India.”

Today, Karnataka has more than 29000 mobile towers mounted with more than 1 lakh 22 thousand BTSs serving 64 million wireless telecommunication subscribers.

In the near future, Karnataka state needs to double the number of towers and BTS count in order to connect the unconnected, to ensure seamless network connectivity and rollouts future technologies such as 5G, Internet of Things, Virtual Reality and Artificial intelligence etc.

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Recently, Reliance Industries’ acquisition of US telecom software firm Radisys highlighted the necessity and revenue opportunities for carriers in nextgen services such as Internet of Things (IoT), a market which is sought to be worth well over $9 billion by 2020 in India.

The telcos are keeping in mind that data tariffs have dropped 90% while voice tariff by about 60% in the past couple of years, resulting in gross revenue falling 8% on-year to Rs 2.6 lakh crore in 2017, and are thus shifting focus from core telecom services to emerging technologies and have begun tapping areas such as IoT and Machine-toMachine (M2M) more aggressively said a report by ET. Rohan Dhamija, Head, India and the Middle East for consultancy firm Analysys Mason, said “Telcos will need to go beyond their comfort zone of offering services beyond connectivity which only forms 20 to 25% of the IoT value chain in terms of revenue.”

“There’s a need for an immediate focus to be able to participate in this IoT opportunity. From the experience on OTT (over-the-top, or app) wherein, telcos were late in participating, telcos realize that they have to be aggressive and need to invest now rather than wait for the ecosystem to mature,” he added.

He further explained that the requirement for investment and the addressable revenue opportunity will increase as telcos move from connectivity to end-toend solution provider.

As per consultancy firm Deloitte, the IoT units in India are expected to see a growth of 31 times to reach 1.9 billion in 2020 from its current base of 0.06 billion.

In terms of revenue, this opportunity could represent $9 billion by 2020 from $1.3 billion in 2016 — a growth of 700%.

Government of India though is aiming to create a $15 billion IoT industry in India by 2020.

Counterpoint's senior analyst Hanish Bhatia commented that the key areas in the IoT industry for telcos could be vehicle tracking, smart appliances, smart metering and security & surveillance.

"Besides smart cities, telcos also plan to target retail, manufacturing, healthcare

and automotive."

RIL’s latest buy will accelerate Reliance Jio's push to build in-house development capabilities for fifth generation (5G) technology and IoT. Its rival and leading telco, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone, on the other hand — as part of their established enterprise businesses — are now offering IoT services.

In a major push, Airtel is in advanced talks with US telecom major Verizon for a broad partnership around IoT. It has already initiated several IoT projects at its Manesar network centre, and is establishing a new centre in Bengaluru to work on these technologies.

Vodafone, which is in the process of merging operations with Idea Cellular, has tipped IoT to be one of its fastest growing segments and will bring some

global IoT use cases to India, besides launching a narrowband IoT network, mirroring a similar one by Jio. Jio though appears to be the most aggressive of the telcos in India, having already set up a narrowband IoT network which is commercially active in a few cities, including Mumbai. It has now followed it up with the acquisition of Radisys.

The company’s vice president, Aayush Bhatnagar, who is currently looking after the software development around domains such as 5G networks, IoT platforms, blockchain and SDN/NFV platforms, will be heading the Radisys team.

Dhamija said that Indian telcos see a huge IoT opportunity even in the short to medium term, especially with the arrival of 5G due to low latency and higher capacity benefits. 5G technology, according to analysts, will support billions of connected devices, and digitisation of different sectors such as healthcare, education, agriculture, and smart cities, thereby creating a huge demand for IoT and M2M devices which will be connected by the telco infrastructure.

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