The 10 most innovative artificial intelligence companies

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or most of our existence, human beings have seen for easier methods to complete tedious tasks. From the construction of pulley systems and wheels to dishwashers and drive-thru carwashes, business have tried to discover gears to do works for us so that industry could have more time to relish our lives. We can say that people weren’t missing out on experiences by having machines do these tasks, if anything; we were achieving time to have more of them. But as time went on, some of our best and brightest saw infinite possibilities of where AI could take us.

The advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a concept to its contemporary appeal as a field with near-limitless prospective in revolving around the method activities are achieved in a running culture. The ultimate edge for AI systems endures to be attaining a level of cleverness that matches that of the human mind. Researchers are linking techniques so that AI solutions can create a routine of the huge data imprint being produced in the development of daily activities through smart technologies such as personal digital assistants, location trackers, sensors, imaging devices and social media feeds.

Articial Intelligence: An Innovative Dimension in the Business

India has seen a delicate categorization of AI and machine learning into the daily lives of people to the extent that the expediencies resulting from their use have become part of our daily reality—for example, tailored interactions through a handheld device OS based on user behavior, app-based cab aggregations, social media recommendations—and no longer seem out of the regular. While consumers may not be conscious that they are using a form of AI, organizations catering to them are detecting different uses of AI to comfort delivery of service to end users. There is a lot of sanguinity around some of the landmark initiatives in motion, such as Make in India, Skill India, and Digital India.

At this stage, it is imperious to advance a vision into the possible insinuations of AI systems across different application domains. This is also the best phase to restrain the same within the purview of a strong policy outline that serves the dual aims of technological development on the one hand and ethical defiance and social addition on the other.

In an ever-evolving and learning AI environment, creating scenery for institutionalizing AI innovation is the need of the hour. This requires close collaboration industries in order to understand problems holistically and solve them. India is already on the track of a digital revolution and the subsequent step is developing the big data generated to yield intelligent resolutions.

Since the effectiveness of AI and machine learning has increased in direct proportion to an upsurge in the quality and quantity of training that the systems are exposed to, and the conditions are ripe for India to develop as a leader in AI.

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TARDID Technologies Autonomous Structural and Machine Health Management

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Tech Bytes “Spatial Intelligence”, Making Inroads into Different Sectors

How has technology Changed the Workplace Communication?

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Flutura Providing AI platform for Industrial Internet of Things

Niramai Providing Novel Universal Solution for Breast Cancer using AI

Robolab Technologies Trailblazer of the Robotics and Artiď€ cial Intelligence Space

Yeppar Adding New Dimension in Business Arena with the Support of AR/VR/MR Technologies

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I has faintly prepared inroads into the daily lives of Indian citizens in the form of app-based digital assistants and cab aggregators on smartphones. The curiosity can be gauged from the datum that leading IT service outsourcing enterprises have begun thinking, talking and (a few) beginning AI platforms. AI continuum comes to the fore here with AI innovations that fall under amplified, helped and autonomous intelligence helping users understand and decide which level of intelligence is helpful and required.

In the issue of The 10 Most Innovative Artificial Intelligence Companies, we have presented the bigger AI solutions provider, who have accomplished trademark by providing best-in-class AI solutions and are well equipped for continuing the Tech sectors’ future. These organizations sponsored the diverse industries in changing their approach of business work with excellent strategy execution and customer satisfaction as the best priority.

The journey of our magazine begins with Cover story, TARDID Technologies, which provides a predictive maintenance solution for structural & machine health management to help heavy industries like Shipping, Oil & Gas, Aviation, Manufacturing and Railways for preempting structural & machine component failures before it happens.

We have enlisted, Flutura is an AI led IoT intelligence company powering new monetizable business models, leveraging machine signals in the Energy, Engineering and Specialty chemicals; Niramai for providing a solution that is non-contact, non-invasive, radiation-free and can detect early stage breast cancer in women of all age groups; Robolab Technologies is a technology driven company, with current offerings for robotics, automation and Internet of Things for education and industrial sectors and, Yeppar for delivering innovative solutions with the concept based on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality & Mixed Reality. We have also grouped, AIndra, BloomReach, Fluid AI, SocialCops and Stylumia.

In the CXO standpoint, we have composed some deeply insightful articles from the stalwarts and the astute of our time. We have, “Virtual Systems Advancing the Enterprise Resource Planning Magnificently by Mr. Harish Kumar Saraf, Founder and CEO of Nippon Data Systems.

Our in-house writers have also contributed their expert views in “Time to Redefine the Present Tech Culture”.

So, do flip the pages of our magazine to uncover the prominent Artificial Intelligence inspirations.

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dvancement in artificial intelligence is real and ongoing, with the technology finding widespread application in almost every sector. In industries, machine and appliances are getting smarter day by day.

Businesses in the manufacturing space are looking at ways to optimize processes, both in terms of efficiency and costs.

The use of data-backed “intelligent” algorithms is a great way to make that happen. As a result, businesses are turning to AI applications rapidly.

BRAINBOX - A Super Intelligent Tool

Being a product development organization, TARDID has a Cognitive Analytics tool which is named as “BRAINBOX.” It is an Augmented Intelligence Platform which has a capability of minimizing efforts between Man & Machine and delivers advanced efficient and real-time predictions with high precision decision support. TARDID Technologies supports its end users through all levels of digital value BRAINBOX ENSURES CONTINUITY creation with embodied Cognition. Its modular design & SUSTAINABILITY AGAINST leverages customized frames and solutions that can identify DISRUPTIONS & STAGNATIONS, smallest of the small while simultaneously reducing risks requirements.

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An illustrious product development organization, TARDID Technologies provides a predictive maintenance solution for structural & machine health management to help heavy industries like Shipping, Oil & Gas, Aviation, Manufacturing and – Niladri Dutta, CEO & Founder BRAINBOX Solutions makes Railways for preempting structural & maintenance easy and attains machine component failures before it desired performance levels happens. It is the prime organization in delivering a efficiently. It brings a full-featured predictive and proactive productive tool that specifies where your plant, machineries maintenance program and applies its benefits to structural or structures interact with key stakeholders and provides an components, engines, motors, alternators, pumps, operative and efficient result with human like thinking. It is compressors, fans, valves, gearboxes, energy the only company which enjoys 50:50 Technology Joint synchronization and optimization or to any other equipment Venture with Blockchain.

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Brainbox-AIP, at every moment during the life of a structure or

machine, provides a diagnosis of the “state” of the constituent materials, of the different components, or the full assembly of these constituting the structure

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and machine as a whole.

deemed critical to operational excellence. This solution has the power to collect, process and analyze good and dark data in real-time for predicting equipment conditions and empowers end users during the decision making process. It also provides reports & alerts to Greenfield and Brownfield operations competently.

With self-managing & self-defending operation, BRAINBOX platform detects errors in the structures and machine by keeping one step ahead than beings. It also anticipates possibilities of machine’s failures and supports to improve the functioning of the structure. It calculates analyses, suggests options, detects failure and life expectancy and eliminates systematic casual analysis through autonomous & automatic models. Interestingly, it makes the machine interact proactively before the breakdown arises.

Aastha Verma describes the features of BRAINBOX by asserting, “BRAINBOX is more about sensing faults, faultlessly. It is like a machine “supervisor”. It overlooks the entire “team” of machines to ensure that all parts and wholes are functioning effectively, and detects or predicts any issue in the entire structure.”

“THINK UP, It’s the immune system that your machines deserve!”- Aastha asserts.

Thus, BRAINBOX is the core of manufacturing innovation that rethinks and optimizes the entire maintenance strategy as a whole from top to bottom.

Inspiring Leaders of TARDID Technologies The COO & Co-Founder of TARDID Technologies, Aastha Verma, responsibly handles all the operations & sales and strategic alliances in the organization. As in case of any young company, she is responsible for anything and everything which is not related to technology development.

Technology & Product Development is spearheaded by the CEO & Founder, Mr Niladri Dutta.

Advanced Innovations with Reputed Standards TARDID has drawn a line between make-believe and reality, without limiting their creativity. They have formed unimaginable things which makes them Distinct and exclusive from their competitors.

At present, TARDID is working with the Defense industry to provide Autonomous Structural Health Management system to estimate expected Lifespan of the vessels along with the details that help the naval systems to distinguish the limits to which the vessel can be used in various sea states. TARDID is helping them to recognize the comprehensive structural health of their hull. This empowers the client to plan their fleet in the most suitable manner for the calmer seas or high alert situations.

The new onboard feature immediately alerts the crews to the state of structural damage like fractures, bending, buckling etc., and its determination as and when they occur, providing the crew ample time for corrective actions before any major failure happens. TARDID is doing this by using multiple combinations of networked sensors to capture information and further deep learn it for logical reasoning and prediction.

“VISUALIZE- PREDICT- ANALYZE- OPTIMIZE” TARDID’s BRAINBOX has the capability to deliver different aspects depending on the customer’s requirement.

Its SHM, MHM & Cognitive solutions offer one-click visualization to understand the problem (anomalies related

the best possible diagnosis for your machines to structural components, machine component failures, pressure & humidity variations, temperatures variations, multi- body interaction effect, etc.) regions in a predictive mode after conducting in depth predictive analytics to safeguard augmented usage of the assets.

Future Expansions to Rule the AI Sector TARDID’s key to business efficiency lies in not just monitoring the output of various technologies, but also in taking the next step and employing advanced algorithms and machine learning to take action from real-time insights.

Future goals of TARDID are on a full throttle at the moment. They are currently engaged in working on different industries, such asShipping – An Advanced Autonomous Structural Health Management System which delivers real-time health condition of ship structural components and assists key decision makers that are onboard and on shore during the decision making process.

Refinery (Oil & Gas)- Where the company provides predictive analytics based solutions for refinery system

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“ Brainbox is a mechanical doctor that predicts

maintenance and asset management to develop refinery utilization (maximize asset performance and uptime) by monitoring the accessible and remote locations system in real-time.

Manufacturing-TARDID provides real-time predictive maintenance solution for structural health management and machine health management and assists key decision makers that are on-board and on-ground during the decision-making process.

Railways- They provide Advanced & Autonomous Smart Rail System, a systematic approach to predict rail derailment phenomena before it is going to occur and provide the necessary information to the key decision makers for ceasing rail derailment.

Henceforth, TARDID is delivering all this with the help of a highly skilled team of specialist & experts from the respective areas that are powered by the industry and through partnerships with the customers and premium research institutes in India.

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Aindra Systems

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Adarsh Natarajan Founder

Aindra is to build state of the art medical devices for screening Cervical Carcinoma. They are dedicated towards extending this to other Critical Illnesses as well.

Bloomreach bloomreach.com

Raj De datta CEO

BloomReach DXP is an open and intelligent platform for businesses to build, extend, personalize, analyze, test and optimize their digital experiences across all channels.

Fluid AI fluid.ai

Abhinav Aggarwal CEO

Fluid AI solutions redefine the landscape of AI.

Flutura flutura.com

Krishnan Raman Co-founder & CEO

Flutura is an AI led IoT intelligence company powering new monetizable business models, leveraging machine signals in the Energy, Engineering and Specialty chemicals.

Nidhi Mathur COO & CFO Geetha Manjunath CEO & CTO

Niramai, provides a solution that is non-contact, non-invasive, radiation-free and can detect early stage breast cancer in women of all age groups.

Robolab Technology robolab.in

Amol Gulhane CEO

Robolab Technologies is a technology driven company, with current offerings for robotics, automation and Internet of Things for education and industrial sectors.

socialcops socialcops.com

Prukalpa Sankar Co-founder

SocialCops is a big data analytics company. Their platform enables organizations to collect primary data, access secondary data, layer internal data, transform and merge data, and visualize relevant insights through dashboards.

stylumia stylumia.com

Shaurya Khanduri CEO

Stylumia is a platform where Artificial intelligence meets fashion with Real time analytics for Fashion forecasting to grow revenue and profit in your business.

Aastha Verma Co-founder & COO

TARDID Technologies provides a predictive maintenance solution for structural & machine health management to help heavy industries like Shipping, Oil & Gas, Aviation, Manufacturing and Railways for preempting structural & machine component failures before it happens.

Ankush Sharma CEO

Yeppar is an organization focusing to deliver innovative solutions with the concept based on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality & Mixed Reality.

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TARDID Technologies Private Limited tardidtech.com

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complex and product quality along with the associated aftermarket service levels increasingly stringent.

Amongst heavy machinery manufacturers, commoditization is leading to an existential threat to companies and their customers are leading them towards a service and experience based economy. Customers are demanding: New product offerings with guaranteed outcomes, Round the clock reliability of products and services, and Competitive business and pricing models.

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lutura is an AI led IoT intelligence company powering new monetizable business models, leveraging machine signals in the Energy, Engineering and Speciality chemicals. Flutura is amongst the world's leading AI platforms for Industrial Internet of Things and has been a pioneer to introduce the concept of asset and process centric AI platform for IIOT. Flutura’s Cerebra platform is the strategic choice for some of the largest oil and gas, process manufacturing, specialty chemicals companies and heavy machinery manufacturers in the world.

Unplanned downtime and machine influenced process deviations is a multi-million dollar problem for these companies. These are leading to cost over runs, service level non-compliances, economic opportunity losses, increased safety and environmental risks. All these are happening while operations are becoming increasingly 18

In order for companies to meet these new customer demands, there is a need for smart system that is able to sense and respond. Access to right information at the right time with the right person will be the core to this. It is humanly impossible to achieve this, given the complexity & scale of industrial operations and hence algorithmic automation is key.

To achieve a smart system, existing approaches based on first principles have to be augmented with new age Machine learning and Artificial intelligence capabilities. Cerebra does exactly this and surfaces early warning signals, enabling decision makers to intervene with the right actions at the right time.

About Krishnan Raman Krishnan Raman is the Co-founder and CEO at Flutura.

Krishnan is a thought leader in Analytics, has been honored as one of the “Bulls of Technology” in Houston, and regularly speaks at international forums.

Prior to founding Flutura, Krishnan was the Global Head of Business Analytics at MindTree Ltd, a business unit that he incubated from scratch and scaled to a 1000+ member team.

An entrepreneur at heart, prior to Mindtree, Krishnan had founded Atma Consulting, a Vertical Service Provider, delivering process automation solution to Auto & Auto Ancillary companies. He was a strategy consultant focused on IT strategy with the Strategic Change practice at PwC. January| 2018

He holds an MBA in Marketing and Systems from SP Jain, Mumbai, and a B.Tech from National Institute of Technology, Calicut.

Distinctive Solutions from Flutura Flutura has an Unflinching Vertical focus around Energy, Engineering and speciality chemicals. Within these industries, Flutura has developed further specialization in areas like Shale gas drilling and production, Adhesive & Sealants and OEM digitization. Continuing on its verticalized focus, Flutura is currently expanding into Deep water, FLNG, Refineries and other Specialty Chemicals.

Innovative Solutions of Flutura Flutura broadly categorizes its solutions in two categories of Connected Assets and Connected Operations.

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In Connected Assets, team Flutura looks at individual machines and associated data points with a focus on machine uptime and increased reliability. Flutura is helping many O&G equipment manufacturers to enable diagnosis and prognosis of their assets.

In connected processes, team Flutura looks at the entire manufacturing line, the sub-systems and associated signals like raw material characteristics, weight tolerances, process attributes, etc. and the focus is on improving the line efficiency in terms of yield or quality of the product being produced. Flutura is in fact supporting one of the leading industrial adhesive and sealant manufacturing company predict the quality specifications of the final product with 95%+ accuracy.

Benefits for Clients The most satisfying experience both for team Flutura and their clients has been one of Fluturas’ implementations in the connected processes side in the adhesives and sealants industry. The customer has won many global awards in the connected processes domain because of the implementation.

With the innovative services, Flutura is helping this customers to predict the quality of the product being manufactured in real time with 94% accuracy and helping them reduce the cost running into millions of dollars. For the company, the solution has been tested and scaled live in more than 20 plants and is in the process of being rolled out globally.

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Flutura enables the confluence of domain and AI with a multi-disciplinary team which is composed of reliability engineers, oil & gas upstream & downstream, operations experts, data scientists, UX specialists and big data specialists.

Industrial AI eclipses Popular Consumer AI

Future Prospects Flutura believes that the market in the future will need more & more focused business applications and has factored this in while constructing its future roadmap. Verticalized and Surgical Solutions with a clear articulation of business benefits and ROI will be key. Solutions that have the right balance between being an AI platform and business/Industry focussed app will emerge as leaders. Next 5 years, the market will still be fragmented like it is now and the OEMs, control systems guys and pure play analytics companies will still continue to bring their own platforms. Smart & Strategic partnerships to provide endto-end solutions to customers will play a key role in growing the market share.

In the next five years, Flutura envisions higher adoption of automated closed-loop systems and increased autonomous operations.

To handle the future, Flutura team is looking at building an asset library for their chosen industries to assist rapid deployment. They are also building verticalized nano-apps for their chosen industries. Flutura has already partnered with Key players to bring an end-to-end solution to their customers and is always looking for new partners who can add value and differentiation in the manufacturing AI space.

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he effectiveness of any organization’s communication systems forms an essential part of its working. We have come a long way from handwritten letters to typewriters, to pagers, and now tools like Emails, Skype and Messenger calls, Slack, and Workplace by FB to name a few. The accessibility and instant availability to talk to anyone and at any place is what makes technology an integral part of the workplace environment. Effective communication channels like instant messaging and conference calls over internet contribute highly to work productivity. As a result, the virtual office technology has removed workplace boundaries and has led to business expansion faster than we thought.

If organization was a machine, it would work smoothly when oiled with effective and transparent communication, both internally and externally. The effectiveness of any organization’s communication systems forms an essential part of its working. The accessibility and instant availability to talk to anyone and at any place is what makes technology an integral part of the workplace environment. Emails, conference calls, Skype calls, Messenger chatbots and various other channels of communication contribute highly to work productivity. As a result, the virtual office technology has removed workplace boundaries and has led to business expansions.

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Efficiency Effortless communication is the core of organizational efficiency. Since there are multiple layers of communication involved in businesses, including communication with clients, co-workers, peers, customers, and other stakeholders, the choice of communication channel can help make quick business decisions. The integration of technology has not only changed the pace at which inter and intra organizational communication works, but has also impacted the way work is done. It brings flexibility and ease of connectivity, which makes the global workplace mobile. The introduction of liquid computing is increasing efficiency by eliminating constraints like time, place and manner.

Transparency New trends in communication is gradually eliminating the traditional ways of workplace communication, thus, making way for ideas to flow in a coherent space. The idea is to bring transparency and trust in the communication which motivates the employees and makes the leaders less authoritative in a positive way. It creates a connection between the employer and employee hence bridging the gap between the two. It leads to quick problem solving and building of teams which essentially stems from effective means of communication. The mobile-friendly tools of communication are now seen to be taking over the age-old legacy of hierarchy.

Employee Engagement Free flowing communication and

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accessibility to connect with anyone irrespective of hierarchy motivates employees for active participation in the company’s workings and be a part of the decision-making process. This boosts the morale of the employees and makes them work toward the common objective of the company and themselves. The employee engagement through such tools not just promises workers’ productivity but also ensures the overall business success. It is believed that workers’ productivity increases by 20-25% where employees are connected and apparently company revenue is directly related to employee engagement.

Saves Time & Costs while Analyzing Data Unlike old times when the records were prone to all kinds of damage and miscommunication, the digital records provide a great way for data analyzing,

based on old communication records.

It also simplifies the process and provides automation of rigorous tasks which, historically, would require a lot of staff and time. For instance, bookkeeping can now be sought by software applications which reduce the labor cost and working hours. While the work today exists irrespective of different time zones and boundaries, the communication has truly made the workplace global in a true sense.

Tech-based communication also allows the easy way of sharing and retrieving information. The cloud storage eliminates the paperwork, makes the systems faster and agile and, saves a

lot of costs involved while providing abundant spaces of filing the information.

Secures the Work and Data Revolutionizing the world of work and connectivity, technology has made sure to reach people at a global level. A huge amount of business sensitive information which can be stored and accessed by people at work is prone to be hacked or damaged; but innovative ways of technology safeguards the information from possible security breach, which makes impossible for pertinent information to leak.

Since technology is an ever-evolving game, the best way to integrate technology in the workplace is adopting new trends and using the mix of various tools looking at the benefits it has on the employees. Every organization and its employees wish to work towards a meaningful purpose. Therefore, a well balanced mix of latest technology and talented team leads to optimum use of the work-days. Like many organizations, Click Labs, being a tech startup has always been a frontrunner in adopting and experimenting with new techniques of communication. Different tech tools are adopted by the company leading to smooth flow of information among all channels of the organization. This helps to improve employee engagement, relationship building, and collaboration among different verticals.

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hether moving in a driverless car or deliver an e-commerce product at customers doorstep. “Location” plays an important role. There is a significant dimension of “Location” in every business transactions. Location can be an address, a service boundary, a sales territory, or a delivery route. Therefore location-specific data and its analytics are high in demand among various enterprises. Analytics of location-based data helps an organization to earn more profit and also contribute in making operational activities much more efficient and faster. Enterprises from different domains, therefore, now started using location-based data analytics application. “Spatial Intelligence” is one of them.

Spatial Intelligence Spatial Intelligence (SI) is an application of GIS and is also known as Location Intelligence. Spatial Intelligence is the process of deriving meaningful insights from geospatial data captured by GIS. With many different observations, patterns get

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discovered which help a business to take better decisions, optimize their business operations and increase their profits.

Eminence of GIS GIS stands for Geographic Information System. GIS is a system, which is designed to capture, store, manipulate, manage and present “Location” specific data to its end users in graphical format. It is a system which comprises of software, hardware, people, data, and methods.

GIS software lets an organization to produce maps and other graphic displays of geographic information for analysis and presentation. GIS is much more than a container of maps in digital form. GIS hardware helps to capture an image and other digital data for a particular location. People are the end users of GIS; it can be GIS technicians, managers, administrators, etc.

Spatial Intelligence for Businesses Transformation

It is generally known fact that more than 80% of all data has a location element to it and that location directly affects the kind of insights that you might draw from many sets of information. By carrying out a spatial analysis of this data using varied business intelligence (BI) tools, decision makers will able to better understand the past, current and forthcoming aspects of business operations to derive valuable insights and make most effective decisions for their businesses.

Most of the time enterprises require customer’s data related to specific locations to know income levels, educational background, buying habits of persons residing in a specific area which helps a business to find a probable location where that particular business get flourished.

Spatial Intelligence derives meaningful observations for an existing business as well. In which areas an organization is performing well? Which are the underperforming areas? Which are the

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areas where a company needs to focus immediate attention? There is a series of many important questions related to a business growth. Spatial intelligence has the potential to derive meaningful answers to these questions.

Spatial relationships, patterns and trends reveal priceless business intelligence and bring easy-tounderstand visualization to business applications. The power of location intelligence enables companies to identify and increase where business performs stronger and cut down on failing assets.

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Spatial Intelligence is Getting Recognition among Different Enterprises Companies from different verticals are taking Spatial Intelligence very seriously and investing huge money on it. Traditional players of the geospatial industry like Esri, Hexagon and Pitney Bowes are working with spatial data on a large scale. Apart from these companies many hard-core IT corporations like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM are also venturing into spatial analytics at full throttle. For instance, by integrating Esri’s technologies into Azure IoT Suite’s preconfigured

solutions, Microsoft is empowering customers to gain valuable insights about where their assets are and what they are doing at all times, anywhere in the world.

Which sectors are gaining from Spatial Intelligence?

There are two categories of businesses which are using Spatial Intelligence.

The first set is of those businesses which are naturally embedded in geographies like transport, telecommunication, or real estate, which absolutely depend on locationbased information. The second set

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comprises of the group of users who not essentially use geospatial data on an everyday basis but they still depend on it for better performance. These would be retailers, insurance companies and banks.

Let's enlighten how these sectors are gaining with Spatial Intelligence: Logistics: To check the consumption rate of a particular product on a particular location help warehouse management to determine, which stock is needed on a priority basis? Thus it helps a logistic company to maintain demand-supply ratio without any caveat. Companies like United Parcel Service and FedEx are augmenting delivery routes using spatial analytics.

Transport: To determine the shortest and fastest transportation routes for delivery, SI is very helpful. Apart from this, it also provides direction to travellers while driving.

Real State: Many people buy a house based on the location. People prefer a location which is near to a hospital, a railway station, schools etc. Spatial analytics provides research, analysis, and presentation of each prospective site. It helps in determining ideal sites for development.

Telecommunication: In analyzing rivals network coverage, actual bandwidth, potential area to tap new business opportunity, SI is really helpful for telecommunication.

Energy: Spatial Intelligence is helping energy industry to identify the potential location for energy exploration.

Retail: Spatial analysis is helping the retail industry to maintain stock

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delivery, store management, inventory management, marketing and sales.

Advertisement Industry: SI helps Advertisement and PR agency in order to find potential location, to install billboard so that it gets maximum views.

Healthcare: To identifying those locations, which are more prone to a certain disease, SI provides valuable inputs to the health officials to make policy and administrative decisions to control epidemic diseases.

Airports and airlines: Air traffic control use SI to track flight operations with greater accuracy and efficiency. SI helps airlines to reroute flight path in case of an emergency. It also helps in optimizing fuel and staff cost.

Drought and hailstorm have become a common phenomenon since last few decades. Drought and hailstorm contribute to large-scale crop damages.

Crop insurance has gained popularity due to drought and hailstorm. SI helps insurance company to predict in advance about future climate behaviors for a particular location and helps them in making crop insurance policy and promotion as well.

Humans think visually, therefore spatially. Due to visual decoding, comparison of data and invaluable business insights, SI has already made inroads across various enterprises.

With many emerging technologies like crowdsourcing, human geography and visual analytics, dominance of Spatial Intelligence will only grow further.

Government agencies: Not only private companies but many government agencies are also using SI. Defense agencies, town planning department or public distribution system all are using SI for better administration and efficient operations.

Insurance Company: Climate is not under anyone’s control but policies are.

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he increasing toll of breast cancer in developing nations is really heading towards a devastating situation. The disease once considered as the problem of affluent nations is now affecting developing nations like India at a large scale. The incidence rate of breast cancer is relatively lower in India, but it is rapidly rising. Breast Cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in women today. Early detection of breast cancer can increase survival rates. Existing tests are reaching only 10% of the women that need to be screened every year globally.

Enabling the rest of the 90% of the women to undergo screening is a huge opportunity and also a challenge that Niramai is addressing with its novel universal solution for breast screening. The new solution from Niramai is gaining good acceptance by women as it addresses even the socialcultural issues that deter women from going for breast screening.

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A novel breast cancer screening by Niramai, provides a solution that is non-contact, non-invasive, radiation-free and can detect breast cancer in women of all age groups.

The core technology of NIRAMAI solution is computeraided diagnostics software that is powered by Artificial Intelligence and patented Machine Learning algorithms on high resolution thermal images. It provides complete test in two variants: one for hospitals and diagnostics centers to address the gaps in current screening tests to screen younger women, and second as a low cost, portable solution for enabling large scale screening in rural and semi-rural areas, as well as onsite corporate screenings. Niramai uses machine learning and big data analytics over thermal images to provide a reliable and low-cost method to detect breast cancer.

Indisputable and Accomplished Team NIRAMAI was founded in July 2016 by two women cofounders, Dr. Geetha Manjunath and Ms. Nidhi Mathur with diverse expertise. Geetha, who is the CEO and CTO at Niramai, holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from IISc and has led large teams to deliver innovative solutions in Hewlett Packard Labs and Xerox Research. She has over 25 years of research expertise in IT industry and has several patents, publications, national and international recognitions to her credit. Nidhi holds an MBA from IIMB with specialization in finance and marketing, and has expertise in commercializing new-to-the-world innovations.

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Nidhi plays the role of COO and CFO at NIRAMAI. The key asset of Niramai is the core team of researchers and engineers, who have the passion to solve this huge problem of breast cancer using deep tech AI solution. The solution developed by Niramai is low cost, radiation-free, portable, has better accuracy, works on women of all age groups and has the ability to detect even early stage cancers in a completely privacy aware manner. This combination of simplicity and effectiveness makes it an easy choice for women to opt for screening without concerns.

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NIRAMAI launched a privacy-aware breast cancer screening solution for hospitals and diagnostic centers mid2017. The team is now working on a mobile-based low-cost solution for breast cancer screening which can be used by gynecologists and general physicians to detect breast abnormalities in their patients, instead of relying only on hand examination.

It is very surprising that even educated women living in urban areas in India do not go for regular breast cancer screening tests. When Niramai conducted screening camps in corporate offices and apartment complexes, they also observed that a lot of women were initially very hesitant to undergo breast cancer screening. But when they saw the privacy aware aspects of screening, not only they came forward to get screening done, they also encouraged their friends and colleagues to go for the test. Apart from privacy-awareness, the portability of equipment used by Niramai also makes it possible to serve the unserved in rural areas by using advanced technology that takes care of their medical as well as socio-cultural needs.

Technology Reaching Out for Breast Cancer Care Technology is definitely useful in a country like India where there is a shortage of skilled medical professionals.

Niramai makes cancer diagnosis objective, simpler and effective for Radiologists. The core mathematics used by Artificial Intelligence algorithms has now matured and the accuracy levels of automated decision making has reached the threshold of acceptance, and some cases even surpassed human decision making. AI will be used in all application domains, and in fact applications which don’t use analytics and AI will become obsolete very shortly. Experts predict that AI will reach a mode of singularity in 2029 where machines will perform better than humans in decision

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NIRAMAI is detecting breast cancer in a non-invasive and privacy-sensitive manner through the fusion of thermal imaging and AI

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making. AI diagnostic tools are also booming in medical research at the moment, with machines helping doctors scour through data to better diagnose a variety of abnormal conditions.

Future Advancements of NIRAMAI Niramai is working towards increasing the awareness about the solution among women population as well as practitioners. It is partnering with leading medical specialists to create additional proofs of the efficacy of the solution and establish the complete workflow to recommend how this solution can be an integral part of health services delivery. With that, the new solution will be considered as a standard modality accepted by a wider section of medical community. In addition, Niramai is also looking at extending the application of the innovation to areas other than breast cancer.

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Time To Redene The Present Tech Culture

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he Indian Technology Sector has earned an enormous reputation throughout the world in previous decades. Some Indian Technology company has set its work culture at Global standard.

Work Culture is all about the stakeholders and their coexistence with one another. The key factor for the tech firm is to maintain a culture flow comprising of particularly regular behavior and decisions. This conversation is mostly initiated at the top level to sustain the suitable work culture in the organization.

Work culture has changed more rapidly with joining of the new employees across the world in the Indian Tech companies so handbooks and policies about work culture must be revised time to time.

Indian Technology Company follows a different kind of work culture. Likely, some follow very strict work culture like banning even the use of mobile phones in the office or wearing casual clothes. On the other hand, some companies are provide an employee friendly work environment, foe example they even allow them to work from home, emphasizing on achieving targets, rather than following very strict or disciplined work culture.

Over the last decade, Indian Technology Companies has raised significant capital to build businesses and expand its base beyond its boundary. So in most of the Indian’s Tech Company’s work

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CURRENT TRENDS culture is more versatile compared to other. As defined by one of the leading Tech Company in India “What is culture but a shared set of beliefs, values, and practices? Our culture is the foundation of our success and it is completely people oriented, touching lives and making a difference to employees, stakeholders, customers and partners alike. We believe that excellence is not a destination but a journey of continuous improvement and we keenly promote an open culture, encouraging feedback, and actively transforming it into action”.

Management desired work Culture In a Technology Company most of the employees are very young and fresh college graduates. So they always expect them to be very innovative and provide new insightful ideas. They’re also always ready to provide liberty to their employees to experiment with their ideas and thoughts.

Some companies create an atmosphere where the new employee gets the power to be involved in small as well as big strategy decision. So that each employee is glued in to what happens in the company.

The tech firms provide employment solely on the basis of applicant’s competencies and qualifications. They strive to create a work culture where an employee will enjoy equal opportunity in all aspects of employment, including training conditions of service, recruitment and career growth.

Furthermore, they are committed to maintaining a workplace where each employee’s personal dignity and privacy is respected and protected from threatening or offensive behavior including violence and sexual harassment.

An example is wherein the countries renowned IT Company based on its market performance, gives a lot of importance to the gender diversity and believes that the high number of women employee holds the company in high esteem and creates huge goodwill in the market. Most of the Technology Companies run Management Development Program throughout the year and allowed the young employee to learn Management skill.

Young Employees Aspire High As growth rate has slowed down due to multiple factors, it will be huge challenge for the Indian IT companies to manage expectations of their employees including retaining of their staff, in the era of rapid technology evolution.

Employee expectations are a delicate thing to deal with.

Providing too much will probably spoil a company’s profitability while too less could result in higher attrition rate. This is already very high near to 15 % in Indian

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Technology Companies. Career progression, benefits, leaves are the normal expectation of the employee as in other industry too but as in Tech companies most of the employee are very young and they are hungry to receive the acknowledgment that he or she is doing a good job and they also wanted to learn new things ongoing basis. It is of paramount importance to maintain diversity in the workforce because the imbalance in workforce percentage may create the negative vibe in the women workers. As Technological development strengthens Firms, clients are facing industrial disruption and are always expected to deliver best, cannot afford to be relaxed. But providing healthy, friendly and relaxed workplace atmosphere can do the magic in terms of meeting the expectations of the employee.

Current work culture Trend in Indian Tech Company A Technology Company by its nature is democratic. Since most of the information remains accessible to all employee as most of the records remain in digital form. This system helps the workplace become more transparent and accountable. Earlier Tech companies use to offer a challenging environment for motivating the employee to take out best from their works. But in recent past lot has changed in the work culture and they are creating an employee friendly work culture where an employee can feel relaxed even in the challenging situation. Many Tech companies now allow the employees to work from home and it creates lots of values in the mind of the employee and in turn helps companies to maintain a friendly relationship with the employee. Gym, library, relaxing zone, a good restaurant has become an integral part at the premises of a technology company. They also organize various entertainment programs on regular basis. Not only this but technology companies also provide the opportunity for the employee to nurture their other talent like music band, photography club, painting, acting, movie making, guitar classes, Zumba lessons, sports tournaments etc, to help the employee to develop their overall personality.

Work culture play very vital role in the growth of a company. It defines the personality of the company. Work culture in any company gets influenced by the culture of the country where it operates. Since Indian Technology Companies has their widespread presence in many other countries, they represent and adopt global culture. One of the major challenges faced by Indian Technology is higher attrition rate. To retain an employee for the long term is of paramount importance, and to create strong work culture so that an employee fits within the culture easily and also help the company to improve the productivity.

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n recent years we have been witnessing a tsunami of changes in the information age and the fastest rate of change every aspect of social life and business. A few observations:

• iPADs are now common in Kindergartens.

• Intelligent cell phones are widespread and social media is connecting people in real-time • Information companies have been replacing not just brick and mortar companies such as Blockbusters, but are not replacing the traditional Taxi cab companies and transportation companies • Speech and visual recognition is commonly used • Ecommerce is now 5% of the $4.3 Trillion in total US retail sales. For clothing and footwear, almost 20% goes to eCommerce • Intelligent devices are in people’s homes from Washing machines to vacuum cleaners and refrigerators • Personal shopping assistants in the form of robots in a number of stores and people’s avatar’s help shoppers on line to pick the right make up and clothing items.

• 6 Billion hours of video are watched every month.

• A one year old can play with iPAD while expecting a magazine picture to change size the same way as if it is a computer!

What has brought these changes to our lives is a combination of scientific approaches that have become mature enough to allow this. Of course the speed and memory capability of computing devices has enabled this revolution that continues to evolve. Collectively, we refer to these scientific advances as information Technology. But this is not just progress, what is going on is a revolution in the way we live, work, relate to each other, communicate, collaborate and even go to war with each other. The objective is to make the devices as close to humans as possible. Even facial expressions of feelings are now being detected and used for decision making. Intelligence in every aspect of our lives can be guided by machines from the right amount of water in our washer to how many shipments of an item to a location for storage or sale.

Stock market is a good example of such intelligence. As data becomes so available in real-time then systems are needed to make sense of it all. Every morning the same data is available to everyone everywhere. People who have the best decisions

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Cyrus Hadavi Founder & CEO, Adexa

made the fastest are the winners in the financial markets. They do this by highly optimized algorithms and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. The rate of incoming information in this age doubles every 5 minutes. 70 years ago it doubled every decade. As human beings the only way we can cope with this is to have intelligent systems to decipher the data and recommend what can be done or should be done. Currently the total amount of data is 44 Zettabyte of which 13 ZB is useful data and our current capacity is to hold only 7ZB. Areas that have been instrumental in this information technology revolution are: 1.

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Computer Vision and Speech Recognition AI Techniques, especially machine learning and inference techniques Optimization algorithms, including planning and scheduling Pattern recognition in Big data and techniques to uncover hidden information that may not be obvious

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particular our findings are that items 2-4 above can have a significant impact on supply chain planning systems and optimization of operations.

As an example, Starbucks is connecting every coffee machine to its IoT system to collect the data so that there is no latency in information needed as to what to buy and what to distribute. In fact, by doing so this data collection might reveal different habits of different regions in the type of coffee preferred as well as what people buy with their coffee. As soon as we are aware of such information, the next step is to plan to get what is needed and to schedule to source it, make it and deliver it and do it in an optimized manner in the least amount of time and cost. Now you can see how the 3 latter items are related to one another and necessary steps.

Learning systems in AI are intended to make software more and more intelligent by learning from its environment. As an example, given a model of the supply chain of a company, it must have the capability to constantly change since the supply chain is dynamic and the company is dynamic and it changes. In some cases the changes are subtle, such as demand falling slowly or more obvious, such as losing a customer or a supplier. How would the models of the supply chain understand these changes and relate to them is done with a lot of help form their users and expected events.

However, we feel that systems are capable of changing themselves by understanding the changes in the environments in which they operate. Assume a supplier is late by 3-5 days most of the time or a customer is generally over forecasts 10% of the time. Systems are capable of picking up this kind of behavior and confirm it and then

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build it into the future models automatically. Thus the supply chain model is constantly adapting itself to its surroundings and changing as the business changes. By using the techniques in big data analysis, models are constantly corrected and represent an accurate view of what is actually going on, and then optimization techniques can yield a much better results of what needs to be done using the planning engines.

Of course, none of the above is possible unless we tap into techniques which make the systems more human, i.e. ease of use, safety and reassurance and of course emotional connection. Much like video conferencing that became popular by showing people's faces and emotions, social media can also play a role in business. For example, the purchasers and vendors can see each other while sending messages back and forth or at least can see a picture of the other, much like Facebook so that a more personal connection is made resulting in better business practices.

In summary, the systems used in businesses over the next 2 decades or so will be very different from your average ERP system much the same as the changes that took us from the “green screens” to the “Apple” like interfaces except that this time it will be much more than just a change in the user interface. The generation of users of enterprise apps in business are the same as the one year old child who can work with iPAD but cannot recognize a magazine!

Messaging, social media, collaboration and communication as well as speed and intelligence are the ingredients and central to every business system. It will lead to making “personal assistants” available to everyone in every aspect of life, affordable with the use of intelligent systems which can also understand emotions not just your words and your commands!

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Robolab Technologies: Trailblazer of the Robotics and Articial Intelligence Space Some of their primary product features include advanced state-of-the-art technical research facility within a campus, hands on practical experience along with required theory, consolidation of concepts, Industry-Institute Interaction, standard guidelines and essentials, training by industry experts, superior quality and advanced robot study platforms, and affordable excellence.

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hey take every initiative to make their products and services better. They walk that extra mile to make customers completely satisfied with their services.

They keep researching and inventing so that clients can get the best value for their money and a remarkable experience.

Robolab Technologies is that company which is doing these things to outpace their competitors.

Robolab technologies have deep expertise in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Automation, and Internet of Things. The firm is well equipped with all the advanced technologies used in industries. It offers training courses at par with the latest curricula and the industry requirements.

Thus functioning as a perfect platform for its users to explore, learn, build and share their ideas. They believe in providing innovative and interactive training in guidance of industry experts. This provides an enriching learning experience to the trainees and empowers them to manage the Robolab in future.

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Torchbearer of Robolab Technologies Amol Gulhane, an astute Roboticist, is the CEO of Robolab Technologies. He is born and brought up in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra state. Amol has completed his Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Government College of Engineering Pune (COEP), Pune. Coming from a very humble and modest background, Amol was a very ambitious person since childhood who left his comfort zone during the school days itself to achieve greater heights in life. He would excel like an all-rounder throughout his life and has won many prizes in various extra and co-curricular activities. He is very fond of numbers and mathematics is also one of his fortes.

Amol has an extensive experience in designing and manufacturing complex and task specific industrial robots.

He is adept in educational and defense robots and is specialized in digital image processing, embedded programming, design analysis and optimization. With his entrepreneurial, management and technical skills and being an accomplished sports-person, he implements his unique ways to motivate the entire team and get the best out of people.

Vital things that Shapes Destiny of Company Challenges Finding Right Talent: Biggest asset for any organization is its human resource. Finding the right talents who can share the same passion and nurture them to prepare for future roles is also equally important for organizational success.

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compared to past. But, they feel it can be better and enriching.

Know how money flows: The core team of Robolab consists of mostly Engineers. So, it took them some hard efforts to really understand how the money flows. Knowing the regular profit and loss statement of the business is not enough.

Proud to Serve Indian Armed Forces Robolab’s most prominent and satisfactory professional experience was to serve Indian Armed Forces. They wanted a highly sophisticated surveillance, and automated system which was both game-changing and critical towards the safety of nation. By taking cognizance and sensitivity of the matter, entire robolab team was pumped in to give their contribution to ensure the Safety of the Soldiers and Nation. Robolab team feels proud for their contribution towards national building activity. Their expert offering in the Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Automation for the defense sector are now getting use in critical border areas.

Some Notable Ongoing Projects Ambitious Research and Development Projects for Indian Armed Forces; Miniature Industrial Production System (MIPS); Wireless Artificial Intelligence Based Fire Fighting Robot for Relief Operations; Development of Realistic UAV Simulations; Collision handling for robots; An intelligent mobile robot navigation technique; Artificial Intelligence Based Image Capturing and Transferring using Robot; Public-Cloud Based Smart Devices for Internet of Things (IoT); Face Detection by Image Discriminating; and Self-Driving Car are some of the noteworthy projects that Robolab is working on in present times.

“We are grateful to be incubated under and supported by BHAU Institute of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Leadership (BIEL), the Incubation center of the College of Engineering Pune (COEP).”- Amol asserts.

Awards and Recognitions

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Opportunities Digital India, Make In India, Skill India, Smart City Project: Such initiatives by Government of India definitely opens up wide sectors to work on Government’s push for Robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain: In the recently announced Budget the GoI has showed it’s interest in Robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain Inclusion of Robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) in formal Academia: A much needed change happened in the formal education sector for schools, science colleges and Engineering Colleges.

• Chosen for the Startup India initiative which was launched by our Honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Certificate Number: DIPP3006) • StartUp of the Year Under Future Education category at World StartUp Expo 2016, Bengaluru • Winner of the HOT100 Startup Award by CORE • Top50 Ed-Startups in India that will redefine the education system by SCOONEWS media • Top25 Tech Companies in India by Insights Success Media • Best startup you can work for in the year 2017 by The Economic Times Road Ahead Robolab want to take Robotics, IoT, Automation, Augmented Reality (AR),Virtual Reality (VR), and Artificial Intelligence to both Industry and Academia.

Coming times will see Robolab diversifying to different market segments of the education bringing out innovations and products from the institutions to the market, and at least a 10 fold rise in the number of beneficiaries associated with Robolab. Increasing presence of technology and automation around the globe is calling Robolab for the beat times ahead.

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overboards, Get ready for an awesome ride

Hoverboards are exists in three different boards- Omni Hoverboard, Hendo hoverboard and and Lexus Hoverboard. Omni Hoverboard, in essence a small helicopter, except you need to stand on top of the rotors rather than sitting beneath them. The acceleration on this model introductory machine is executed with a set of pliers that are tied up by way of wires to the hoverboard’s sensors. In addition, hoverboard runs on eight electric motors motorized by plenty of lithium polymer batteries.

All hoverboards requires some upward force to impel against the gravitational force. For the Omni hoverboard, this upward force is from the air. The props push air downward, resulting in an upward force on the rotors.

Omni hoverboard can fly over water or land; this makes it amazing and adventurous to take a ride. But this amazing ride can only possible if the batteries are active after all it’s a technology.

Hendo hoverboard, introduced a skateboard last year, which is more rideable. The Hendo engine functions on electromagnets that produce changing magnetic fields to communicate with a conducting surface. Generally, when these electromagnets change the magnetic field that creates an electric current in the metallic surface beneath the hoverboard. This electric current then makes its own magnetic field to repulse the hoverboard electromagnets.

Lexus Hoverboard looks smaller than either the Hendo and the Omni hoverboard, which runs on magnetic fields. It doesn’t work on water. Rather, changing magnetic fields from an electromagnet, the Lexus hoverboard utilizes superconductors. When a superconductor is placed near a magnet, you can get a levitation effect.

Next-generation of robots What are you expecting from new emerging robots? That it will take over all manner of daily tasks. Robotic future has persistently refused to eventuate. However, with robots still limited to factory manufacturing systems and other controlled tasks. Deliberately used robots are hazardous to human collaborators; so there should be some sort of protective armament.

Breakthroughs in robotics technology make human-machine collaboration an everyday reality. Better and cheaper sensors make a robot more capable to understand and respond to its environment. Robot bodies are becoming more mortifying and robust, with designers taking inspiration from the extraordinary flexibility and dexterity of complex biological structures, like the human hand. And robots are becoming more linked, benefiting from the cloud-computing revolution by being able to access instructions and information remotely, rather than having to be programmed as a fully autonomous unit.

Recently in Tokyo, Japan has showcased, a part of the biannual International Robot Exhibition from superhero suits to realistic ‘actroids’, the futuristic machines were focused on disaster relief, entertainment, helping the elderly and farming. Those robots are made for the disaster relief, prone to earthquakes, prepares for the next catastrophe.

HRP-2 kai and Jaxon robots have been exhibited work in a tunnel after a quake. These two slender robots with tiny heads attached to sensors walked through fake debris to extinguish a fire during a demonstration. The two disaster-relief droids were developed in a project under the New Energy and Industrial Development (NEDO), a national research organization – that started after a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit northern Japan in 2011.

The other highlights of the exhibition were, Pepper, a friendly robot to live with human which talked with visitors at the exhibition, this entice robot takes a rest before its performance. More interestingly, this robot reads emotions, gives its owners advice and makes small talk. There was a Leonardo Da Vinci android also on show, where the robot uses latest generation facial mimicry technology. It was developed by Osaka University’s Minoru Asada, who has spent years working on Androids.

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Virtual Systems Advancing the Enterprise Resource Planning Magnicantly

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RP solutions have drastically evolved over the course of ten years in the wake of smartphones, big data, cloud computing and the like. The virtual systems have given a plethora of opportunities to the ERP world.

Today, ERP system has advanced so far that they have removed themselves completely from the constraints of physical storage and analog based business processes.

The cloud in particular has been a vital asset for the ERP industry as it has revolutionized the way businesses function and ERP systems which are now hosted in the cloud enable businesses to go the extra mile and push boundaries.

ERP vanquishes the old standalone computer systems in finance, HR, manufacturing and the warehouse, and replaces them with a single unified software program divided into software modules that roughly approximate the old standalone systems. Finance, manufacturing and the warehouse all still get their own software, except now the software is linked together so that someone in finance can look into the warehouse software to see if an order has been shipped. Most vendors’ ERP software is flexible enough that you can install some modules without buying the whole package. Many companies, for example, will just install an ERP finance or HR module and leave the rest of the functions for another day.

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Nippon Data is a provider of IT enabled business solutions headquartered in Delhi which provide clients’ competitive business advantage. Harish Saraf, CEO of the company adds “We partner with customers to deliver business solutions to their satisfaction and help them ‘Live Your Enterprise Potential’™ ”. We take pride in conducting business with the highest degree of ethics and treat each transaction with fairness and honesty. For us client satisfaction is our ONLY measure of success”.

Enterprise resource planning software, or ERP, doesn’t live up to its acronym. Forget about planning-it doesn’t do much of that-and forget about resource, a throwaway term.

It attempts to integrate all departments and functions across a company into a single computer system that can serve all those different department’s particular needs.

Harish adds, with every single project, we have been credited for finding innovative ways to meet our clients Industry specific business requirements, providing cost effective solutions, shortening timelines, reducing risks, and lowering the total cost of ownership. We have done this through our product NEWTON ERP which covers end-toend functionality of a Manufacturing or Service business across different Industries. A high-level view of key business indicators facilitates faster and more accurate management decisions and NEWTON puts all of that at your fingertips.

Harish further explains as how NEWTON seamlessly integrates in a hybrid environment comprising of both on premise and cloud deployments. The investment in it ensures that businesses recuperate their investments in shortest possible time. In addition, NEWTON mobile deployments provide App based access and functions while retaining the web based controls. One aspect of ERP which stymied its usage in SMBs was that small organizations require only some of the functionalities offered by a fullfledged ERP software. Except the core functions, others remained idle, which reduced the overall productivity of the purchase. The current trend is need based sales of the ERP software.

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When ERP software was introduced, vendors were concentrating almost entirely on making specialized systems.

However, as time went on, they started favoring generic ERP systems. It appears that the clock has turned back as specialized ERP software is being favored by organization nowadays. Companies are focusing on making better predictions by using the ERP software with specialized business intelligence. Decision making processes have markedly improved if the right ERP system is in place.

Harish concluded that due to the increase in specialized ERP software, the focus of the ERP consultants has shifted more towards providing better integration architecture for competent ERP solutions.

The big players are either merging with or acquiring bigger companies. Of course, there are newer players in the market, but the big fishes seems to become more and more dominant. Enterprises prefer ERP delivered as SaaS. Ramco’s ERP on Cloud is a prime example of such a service.

While ERP has been in general successful, companies aren’t blindly implementing them anymore. They have become very sensitive to the ROI. Companies are investing on ERP solutions accessible from mobile devices like tablets and smartphones.

Since the time Nippon Data was established in 1994, It has built a solid foundation of success which is growing continuously. Specialized in solving business problems by harnessing technology and applying them for developing and implementing customized and standard information systems.

Over the years the professionals have encountered and conquered complex problems relating to various business needs.

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Mr. Harish Kumar Saraf Founder & CEO Nippon Data Systems

About Mr. Harish Kumar Saraf Mr. Harish Kumar Saraf, Founder and CEO of Nippon Data Systems, hailing from New Delhi as Gold Medalist in B.Tech, Computer Science, started his career as Software Trainee at DCM Data Systems for 1 year and System Analyst at Tata Unisys for 1year.

He did consulting for some leading clients in the USA. Then he returned back from USA and nally founded Nippon Data Systems. From last 21 years as CEO, he built NEWTON ERP with his hard-working team and took it to the market achieving great success.

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Yeppar: Adding New Dimension in Business Arena with the Support of AR/VR/MR Technologies art solutions across the globe based on AR/VR/MR. This organization not only serves their solution in India, but also have a satisfied client’s base abroad as well. Yeppar serves customized solutions based on client’s requirement. Their work culture is based on 24x7x365 to develop the products in a unique way, which provides satisfaction towards the clients. Moreover, the organization has ISO, NASSCOM, and CMMI LEVEL3 certification in their achievement which shows their potential towards excellence. The government of Rajasthan organized an event “IT Hack-athon 2017” based on the theme “Promote & Serve Rajasthan digitally”, where Yeppar was among the top in the event.

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ugmented Reality is an immersive technology which is not only offers a better vision to experience the things around us but also it has the power to transform the entire environment where we think, create & deliver. The way it’s being introduced in business sectors, it seems that AR has a potential to innovate the whole process in a way where each dimension of business like manufacturing, development, Training, education, real estate, medical, entertainment and more will definitely be benefitted.

Understanding this current requirement, Yeppar, an organization focusing to deliver innovative solutions based on Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) & Mixed Reality (MR), is revolutionizing all the perpendicular of business in print, packaging, retail, manufacturing, industrial training, advertising, real estate and so forth.

The Protagonist of Yeppar A competent person Ankush Sharma is the CEO of the leading AR/VR/MR organization Yeppar. He is associated with the organization since 2013, under his direction and motivation the company has grown significantly and achieved a milestone of success. Moreover, he always keeps organization moves forward towards excellence with the zeal to perform in a way where every aspect of business could be benefited.

Ankush describes, “We live in an era of rapid change, where products and services often become obsolete overnight and to survive in this tough competition we have to remain updated every moment and should keep working towards all the possible alternatives and innovations.”

Proffering Exclusive and Advance Services The way technology is upgrading the lifestyle, Augmented Reality is playing a vital role to modernize each dimension of life and its acceptance in industries is making it more reliable and groundbreaking.

• Yeppar for Print: Users feel more advanced in this digital era with the help of Yeppar’s augmented printing solutions. It increases the engagement of print article with less paperwork; people can access it with their electronic media.

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• Yeppar for Real-estate: Yeppar real estate retailers can showcase a panoramic view of their properties and on the flip side, the buyers can have a glance over the minutest details of the property they dream to buy before its materialized in real space.

• Yeppar for Restaurant: With Yeppar app, restaurant owners can add an extra dimension of creativity such as add videos, Images or any other multimedia to instantly create a personalized Augmented Reality experience.

• Yeppar for Automobile: Yeppar offers multivariate benefits to the automobile world with the use of avant-garde technologies and techniques. With this app, the users can create a digital showroom showcasing a wide range of models, cutting down the cost of physical space.

• Yeppar for Education: With the AR technology, Yeppar allows the students and the academicians to dive deeper into any discipline with enhanced clarity and understanding.

• Yeppar for Mixed Reality: Mixed Reality is basically merging virtual and real world to create new environments and visualizations where physical and digital objects coexist and interact each other in real time.

Unique Espousals Augmented Reality is in the Nascent phase right now, wherein Yeppar is trying to educate people on the concept based on augmented, virtual & mixed reality in different industries such as Education, Real Estate, Manufacturing, Packaging, Industrial Training, Print, Retail and more.

Industries are not aware of the technology benefits in view of the betterment of process in terms of cost and time. The organization is continuously working towards users to make them aware of the benefits of augmented reality.

Yeppar has started revolutionizing all the industries and have achieved lots of appreciation and trustable clients on the bases of their dedication and motivation to introduce latest technologies towards excellence.

Additionally, Yeppar has recently achieved recognition as “Top Rated AR/VR startups in India 2017 by Growthenabler.”

Ongoing Projects of the Organization Currently, Yeppar is working on various projects, wherein every project is different and challenging for them. They always are trying to provide a unique solution to their

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Our goal is to use AR in such a way that it creates an interactive and engaging experience for users by superimposing digital layers of Videos, 3D animations and additional information

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• Yeppar for Brands: It allows connecting offline marketing channel with a collaborating, attractive, and accessible digital way.

clients with the assurance of quality work.

Ankush says, “At present, we are working with a renowned automobile company to provide them Mixed Reality solutions to ease their manufacturing process.”

Future Aspects Ankush expresses, “We live in an era of rapid change, where products and services often become obsolete overnight and to survive in this tuff competition we have to update at every moment and should keep working towards all the possible alternates and innovations.”

Yeppar is on a mission to survive not only on a single product but is also motivated to adopt and implement each and every technology which looks futuristic and capable to transform each aspect of the business. Yeppar is working towards continuous improvement within the working class where industry growth is their aim.

The organization is prepared and motivated to adopt overnight innovations and bring them to their daily work life immediately, so that the organization could sustain the quality they offer and transform the world with their innovations every time.

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