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Home Automation with IOT Using Google Services

IOT, Internet of Things has rapidly brought a huge rise in the self sufficiency of the machine, equipment. It has enhanced the way of living. It has eased the way of living by machine learning. A task that used to take ample amount of time can now be done within fraction of minutes. Also the productivity of the desired work has been spectacularly increased. One such masterpiece can be accounted as HOME AUTOMATION with Google services such as GOOGLE HOME, a complete set that enables the smartness of your home. You may feel a science fiction magic at your home. From adjusting light intensity to increasing the volume of your speakers to the regular newsfeed to receive calls and to your day to day activities can all be lined up and assisted, get all on one voice saying with Google assistant with the help of the Google devices. It also will keep your home safe with its safety features that will enable to peek outside to check for an intruder.

There are five trending Google instruments that would make your HOUSE A SMART HOME.

1.      GOOGLE HOME https://store.google.com/in/product/google_home

Google Home is a line of smart speakers developed by Google. The device enables users to speak voice commands to interact with services through Google Assistant, the company's virtual Assistant. Both in-house and third-party services are integrated, allowing users to listen to music, control playback of videos or photos, or receive news updates entirely by voice. Google Nest devices also have integrated support for home automation, letting users control smart home appliances with their voice command. The first device, Google Home, was released in the United States in November 2016; subsequent product releases occurred globally from 2017–2019. The original Google Home model is a cylindrical speaker that is 5.62 inches (143 mm) tall and 3.79 inches (96 mm) in diameter. The top surface of the device features colored status LEDs, and features capacitive touch controls to start and stop music, and adjust volume. A mute button is located on the back of the device, which disables the microphones. The base of the device is covered by a shell acting as a speaker grille, which is designed to be removed and replaced with one that suits the decor of a room. Get answers, play songs, tackle your day, enjoy your entertainment and control your smart home with just your voice. Get personalized help with your schedule, reminders, news and more, whenever Google Home recognizes your voice. Use your voice to control your favorite compatible home automation devices

 2.      NEST MINI https://store.google.com/in/product/google_nest_mini

It is a variant of Google Home with the same overall functionality, but in a smaller pebble -like form factor around 4 inches (10 cm) in diameter, with a fabric top that its white-colored status lights shine through. It has a mute switch rather than a mute button, and uses a micro USB connection for power. It is available in the colors "AQUA", "CHALK", "CHARCOAL", AND "CORAL". Analysts compared the Google Home Mini to Amazon's equivalent Echo Dot model.  It includes a larger speaker, an additional microphone, a Machine Learning chip that can catch voice recognition data for commonly-used commands locally, and "ultrasonic sensing". It is nearly-identical in design to the first-generation Home Mini, except its cover is now made from recycled plastic, the back contains a hole for wall-mounting with a screw, and it contains LED lights that highlight the touch areas for volume control. It is available in the colors "CHALK", "CHARCOAL", "CORAL", AND "SKY BLUE"

 3.      HOME MAX https://store.google.com/?srp=/product/google_home_max

It is a larger version of the Google Home device with stereo speakers (including two tweeters and subwoofers), an audio connector, and a USB Type-C connector intended for a wired Ethernet adapter. It is available in the colors "CHALK" AND "CHARCOAL", and includes a magnetically-attached stand for vertical orientation, and "Smart Sound", an adaptive audio system that uses machine learning to automatically adjust sound output based on factors such as the environment (including placement and sources of noise) and time of day.

 4.      NEST HUB https://store.google.com/in/product/google_nest_hub

It features a 7-inch touch screen display. The "Home View" feature provides a centralized, visual interface for controlling supported smart home devices and Nest video cameras. Unlike its closest competitor, the Amazon Echo Show, the Home Hub does not include a camera for video calls, citing customer privacy concerns. Although Google has developed an OEM solution for Assistant-powered smart display devices based on Android Things and a Qualcomm system-on-chip, the Home Hub utilizes a different hardware platform. The device is available in LIGHT GREY, DARK GREY, PINK, AND AQUA BLUE

 5.      NEST HUB MAX https://store.google.com/?srp=/product/google_nest_hub_max

An upgraded version of the Home Hub, known as the Nest Hub Max, was announced on May 7, 2019. It features a 10-inch display, integrated camera (which can be used for face recognition, Google Duo video calls, and as a security camera), and larger speakers with a rear-facing subwoofer.

These Google speakers may at present may not be the most popular, but some feature surely makes it different from Amazon’s Echo and Siri. The advantage of Google services are:

1.      Three commands in a row

The Google assistant is capable of taking three commands in a row which the other services are capable of taking only one. You can just follow turn off the lights, set the volume to three and play my favorite playlist after “OK Google”

 2.      Play music via WIFI

All the speakers up till now were connected to via Bluetooth but now this Google services are directly connected with WIFI. So now no more the Bluetooth problem, directly connect with WIFI and also enjoy with more speed and high quality streaming.

 3.      Wide voice options

Google Home offers 10 different voice options that users can choose from. These include male and female voices speaking in American and non-American accents. Assistant’s voice can be changed by opening the Google Home app, tapping on the personal icon in the lower-right corner, then tapping on “More Settings” under the Google Assistant heading

 Thus these features help Google Services differ and be efficient and more productive for the HOME AUTOMATION.

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SHOPIFY BENEFITS

Brief on SHOPIFY

SHOPIFY is an online, e-commerce platform which helps you to start your business. Even if your business is started it can help you grow your business at give a superb boost to your startups. It helps you create an online store for your offline store or market store. So you can just sit at any place and sell your products everywhere in the world including web, mobile, social media, online marketplaces, brick-and-mortar locations, and pop-up shops giving you a complete flexibility to access and run your business from anywhere in the world. It allows you manage products, inventory, payments and shipping. A complete cloud based and hosted which will leave you worriless about upgrading or maintain software and web servers. For a good starting experience on SHOPIFY you can try SHOPIFY for a free-trial of 14 days after which you can select one from its pricing plan https://www.shopify.in/pricing according to your choice.

 Be worry-free about the language to interact

You can use SHOPIFY in nearly every country in the world. The customer-facing parts of your SHOPIFY store, can be in any language if the theme supports it. Learn more and explore our themes. The admin of your SHOPIFY store is currently available in English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Spanish, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish.

 Advantages of using SHOPIFY

 1.      NO CERTIFICATES needed

One important feature, you can say advantage of the SHOPIFY is that you need not be a professional or a certified designer to make changes or change the appearance of the website. This will simply be done by the store builder and themes available.

2.      Continue with your OLD DOMAIN

Another feature is if you already have an existing domain name, you can simply just link the domain with SHOPIFY and save a handsome amount of money. If you don’t have one, relax!!! You can purchase it from SHOPIFY.

3.      Be a BUSINESS MIND

Even though you don’t own a product you can still sell it by drop shipping on SHOPIFY. It is like you are a dealer or a broker selling the products worldwide without even owning it.

4.      SOCAIL MEDIA: A BOON

Increasing use of social media has been a boon for SHOPIFY. It enables you to sell your products on social media which will ensure a good acceleration to your business

5.      E-mail NOTIFICATION

You will just receive an email once you get an order on SHOPIFY and then you will have to deliver it that also not by yourself but by using third party shipping fulfillment https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/shipping/fulfillment-services .

 6.      THIRD PARTY PAYMENT

SHOPIFY makes payment easy by Payment Gateways. It is a third party payment system, where just submit the merchant bank account details and you get all your payments over there. https://www.shopify.in/payment-gateways

 Let us look at some of the SHOPIFY apps that turn out to be very useful:

1.      OBERLO https://www.oberlo.in/

If you're looking for a small business idea or in need of a product to sell, Oberlo can help you source a supplier. With Oberlo, you can search a marketplace of products to import directly into your SHOPIFY store. When you receive an order, you can fulfill it through your dropshipping supplier via Oberlo and they will ship the product to your customers for you. There's no need to worry about packaging or shipping it yourself.

2.      KIT https://www.shopify.in/kit

After you've launched your SHOPIFY store, the next step is to drive traffic to it. A popular way to do that is with digital marketing.  Powered by artificial intelligence, Kit will help you find potential customers on Facebook and Instagram, and send them targeted messaging and offers at the right time.

3.      FREE SHIPPING BAR https://apps.shopify.com/free-shipping-bar

According to SHIPPO’S 2018 state of shipping, 34% of consumers only make online purchases if free shipping is included. Free Shipping Bar allows you to display your free shipping offer in a slide-out bar, show progressive messages to encourage shoppers to reach your free shipping threshold, and congratulate customers when they meet it.

4.      PRINTFUL https://www.printful.com/

Printful syncs with your SHOPIFY store to let you sell print-on-demand products like t-shirts, mugs, posters, and more. When an order is made on your SHOPIFY store, it's automatically sent to Printful, which will print and ship it to your customer on your behalf. There are no minimum order quantities or upfront fees, so services like Printful are a great way to get started quickly and avoid holding your own inventory.

5.      PUSHOWL https://pushowl.com/

 If you're suffering from lots of traffic and little sales due to abandoned carts, you're not the only one— and PushOwl could be the answer you're looking for. Automated abandoned cart push notifications can help you increase sales and re-engage visitors to your site who have left.

For a step-by-step tutorial just open the link and get additional details where you will be guided to how you can start using SHOPIFY. https://websitesetup.org/build-online-store-shopify/

You can also just check to the website and start your FREE TRIAL soon https://www.shopify.com/ giving a push to your business.

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PROTOTYPE

And then there is suddenly flooding of ideas in your mind that you want to design an app or a website of so and so project or may be your firm that provides e-service. This stage of initiation requires amount of implementation which is done then. Certain types of design or you may say demo is required which are made from earlier available information from other user. This will make your new design more easily and fast and also give you some taste that might be missing in your thoughts that will serve as a berry to your cream.

So prototype is basically a model to your website or your app that will help you give visual and functional interface enhancement and help you build your app or website more attractive and audacious according to your need to test the initial and main function of the website or a mobile application.

ADVANTAGES OF PROTOTYPE

1.      Before translating to code this will test or enhance and give you the best user interface for your app or website.

2.      You can make all the necessary changes over here and may help you avoid the costly changes that might occur in future. So you will be cost benefited from prototype.

3.      Apart from this if you are a start up then prototype may help you win the finance of the investor’s team.

HOW TO CREATE A PROTOTYPE?

It can be anything from a paper sketch, to a clickable HTML prototype. However, typically when people talk about a prototype they are referring to an interactive prototype of some kind which allows users to navigate from page to page and use functionality such as drop down menus.

There are numerous ways to create a prototype. It can be I form of powerpoint, pdfs or even in form of word documents. Setting aside these old orthodox ways to create prototypes, in the present generation there are several other smart tools that will help you create some interactive prototype, increasing the effectiveness and attractiveness of you website or your application.

TOOLS USED TO CREATE PROTOTYPE

1.      Origami https://origami.design/

Origami has helped in design and building of products like Facebook, Messenger and Instagram. Copy anything from Sketch and paste native layers into Origami Studio. Then quickly adjust, add behavior and animate any layer property without going back. Show off your designs in presentations in full screen, on a number of different devices.

 2.      Webflow https://webflow.com/

Webflow, Inc. is an American company, based in San Francisco,that provides software as a service for website building and hosting. Their online visual editor platform allows users to design, build, and launch websites.

 3.      Marvel https://marvelapp.com/

Wireframe, design and prototype fast with this intuitive design and prototyping tools. Instantly generate design specs and connect integrations that power up your workflow. From low to high-fidelity, Marvel supports you every step of the way.

 4.      Vectr https://vectr.com/

Vectr is a free graphics software used to create vector graphics easily and intuitively. It's a simple yet powerful web and desktop cross-platform tool to bring your designs into reality.

5.      Sketch https://www.sketch.com/

Built on the best of mac OS technologies, giving you familiarity, power and performance where you need it most. Sketch’s interface automatically adapts to show you the tools you need, and gets out of the way when you need to focus.

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Conservation of Natural Resources with the Help of Technology

You wake up in the morning, it’s a new day and a new technology is added to the existing list. In this rapidly ascending world new technologies are introduced every day to the market. Machines are getting modified and intelligent with machine learning and introduce the concept of Artificial Intelligence. AI combining with the wide and excess use of Internet gives rise to IoT Internet of Things. And this has taken a boom and slipped in almost each and every sector of the industries present. With the ease in use and simple handling this is becoming an addicted technology. Though it’s not a drug it’s really good to get addicted as it increases the productivity. Thus AI, especially IoT has been a boon to the technology.

Seeing the dark side on increase in the modernization is that the natural resources have been already decreased at exponential rate and has reached to serious threats that need to be protected at urgency. Then why not to use this technology to protect the natural resources. Yes there are several attempts and experiments already made in order to use these technologies in conservation of natural resources. The hunt for new smarter ways to support our development has always been a key driver of technological advancement. Today as our civilisation faces a new unprecedented challenge technology can play a crucial role in decoupling development and environmental degradation. From the high seas to the depths of the world’s most dense forests, technology can transform how we identify, measure, track and value the many services and resources nature provides us with.

Blockchain to revolutionize the commodity markets

To stop the illegal fishing and slave labor in fishing industry, Blockchain Technology is used. Through blockchain technology, soon a simple scan of tuna packaging using a smartphone app will tell the story of a tuna fish – where and when the fish was caught, by which vessel and fishing method. We can also use satellite data and cost-effective GPS tracking devices to ‘see’ and understand global fishing and global vessel traffic.

Remote sensing in planning and monitoring

The social and economical sensitive areas are destroyed by extensive industrialization so remote Sensing can be used on the land and such sensitive sites and the heritage sites can be protected. There can be proper planning done up to which mark the industrialization can be permitted!

Drones and crowdsourcing help monitor forest health and detect illegal logging

A state’s health can be normalized by the forest cover present in the state. But at present the forest health is degrading rapidly due to urbanization, the result is paid by the wildlife having a habitat in those forests. This need to be monitored and the loss of this natural resource need to be stopped at the earliest. This task can be completed by drone technology that will help a lot in the monitoring of the area and the people taking action against this conservation of heart of the state can be punished.

Thermal imaging to combat poaching

Majority at night when the rangers are on patrolling the armed poachers slid through the wire wall and enter the reserved area to kill the animals and receive a good trade for the dead. So the thermal imaging cameras are used to catch these poachers and hand them to the rangers

AI to track wildlife

It is hard to think of technology and nature together but even advances like Artificial Intelligence (AI) that could not be further removed from the natural world are helping conservation efforts. Many wildlife organizations are harnessing the power of AI to help protect the endangered and extinct species especially tigers and their habitats, while also protecting countless other species as a result while helping carbon storage, vital watersheds and communities in the area.

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IONIC APP DEVELOPMENT

IONIC

A complete open source SDK, IONIC is for hybrid mobile app development was created by Max Lynch, Ben Sperry, and Adam Bradley of Drifty Co. in 2013. Its original version was released in 2013, seven years ago and the latest version was launched in March, 2020 as Magnesium, re-built as a set of Web Components, allowing the user to choose any user interface framework, such as Angular, React or Vue.js. Ionic uses Cordova and, more recently, Capacitor plugins to gain access to host operating systems features such as Camera, GPS, Flashlight, etc. Users can build their apps, and they can then be customized for Android, iOS, Windows, Desktop (with Electron), or modern browsers. Ionic includes mobile components, typography, interactive paradigms, and an extensible base theme. Using Web Components, Ionic provides custom components and methods for interacting with them. One such component, virtual scroll, allows users to scroll through a list of thousands of items without any performance hits. Another component, tabs, creates a tabbed interface with support for native-style navigation and history state management. Besides the SDK, Ionic also provides services that developers can use to enable features, such as code deploys, automated builds.

Latest Updates in IONIC

IONIC 5, Magnesium is a really thrilling for the IONIC fans. It includes iOS 13 design updates, new API for creating your own custom animations, updated Ionic colors, new starter designs, improvements to component customization, and more! There have been a lot many changes and updates seen. Let us look at few of the IONIC 5 updates:

·         Easy Upgrade

They have committed in publishing a major release when any known incompatible API changes were introduced. So in this case, the major version just indicates that public API has been updated. And because Web Components are used, API changes are handled separately between UI components and the JavaScript framework.

·         iOS design

There was a massive design upgrade in the UI components and that was a large change in this update. Some of the changes were made to the native iOS.

·         Menu Overlay Type

In prior versions of iOS, the side menu used a “reveal” type menu. This pushed the main content over to reveal the menu. The new iOS design features a menu that will overlay the content with an updated animation. If you are not suitable with this menu type you can shift back to “reveal”

·         Ionic Animations

Ionic 5 introduces some brand new open source animations utility, Ionic Animations, those provides the tools developers need to build highly performance animations regardless of the framework they are using. This is giving us ideas that how the IONIC animations are different from animation library.

·         Ionicons

It has a new and free open source library of extensive icons, IONICONS 5

·         Ionic Colors

So all new colors by default has been updates and you will automatically get new colors in your app. If your app was created using an Angular or React starter, the colors are defined in the theme/variables.scss file and will need to be updated manually. Also you get recommendations for the colors most suitable with the Dark Mode theme.

·         Redisgned Starters

With all of the changes to as the design of  components were changed, to be competent, update to the design of existing starters were needed and add a new one was created.

·         Easier Customization

Components were not easy to customize due to less available CSS Variables and IONIC styles taking priority over customization styles. But now more CSS variables have been added which will enable easier ad simple customization.

Why do we use IONIC for app development?

Ionic apps run with a mixture of native code and web code, providing full access to native functionality if necessary, with the bulk of the UI of the app built with standard web technology.

Let us look at top five reasons that suits the best to give IONIC a try!

1.    Open Source

Open source is the best way for a cost cut off. It’s absolutely free. You might think the open source software are easy to break. But you might need to change the opinion after you see IONIC

2.    One Code for All

With Ionic, comes the flexibility of building cross platform apps without any problem. With IONIC it is easier to build high-end user interface with added functionalities.

3.    User Interface

It is a friendly user interface. It has easy customization options that a hybrid app is often criticized. It also supports different languages. Moreover, Ionic also supports the depth, motion, and vibrant colors of the material design for a beautiful looking UI.

4.    Cordova Plugins

These are the small things that perform various activities of native app. This plugin do the wonder giving access to different features of the operating system such as battery, pro-location, camera, access to logs and more. These plugins enhance the overall performance of apps and this only involves adding a few simple codes to your development.

5.    Big and Helpful Community

More contacts help you more! , for all your questions, there’s always an existing blog post about it or members eager to help on forums. You can even try posting your app questions on social media and if you are lucky, you never know, you might get your answers from the founders of Ionic framework.

 Though decide for the best app development by seeing the various options available out in the market.

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Klarna On-site Messaging App on Shopify

Installation

To have a successful hurdle free instalment get the prerequisite. Before using the Klarna On-Site Messaging app, merchants should integrate the Klarna Payments app. Get the link here: Klarna Payments install wizard.

Set yourrself ready with the API credentials. If you don’t have it yet, get it from this link: US Signup or EU Signup

API credentials and the instructions to activate will be received. Follow it to activate Klarna Payment in Shopify store app.  Klarna Payments on Shopify - Merchant Guide.

1.      Install the Klarna on-site Messenger app available here: Shopify App Store

2.      Connect- As soon as you install the app your Klarna API credentials will be automatically connected if you already have completed Klarna Payments for Shopify Integration. If you have still not done than follow the guidelines and complete it.you can confirm your Klarna API credentials in the settings menu.

3.      Add Placements- Click ‘New Ad Position’ from the dashboard and follow below steps:

·         Enter a name for your Shopify Ad Position

·         If your country is not already defaulted, select the country that matches your Klarna API credentials.

·         Select the appropriate placement; the Product Detail is recommended for Product and Cart pages.

  Manual OSM integration (without using SKOSM)

So it might happen that the Java script errors prevent the app code from running and the store blocks the app preview. Here you can directly integrate Klarna On-Site Messaging manually instead of using the Shopify app and use custom code for your store, or use a combination of the app and custom code. If you are directly entering code in Shopify theme instead of using SKOSM, make sure you refresh the placements when variants change. Now follow the three steps mentioned below:

1.      Adding Klarna OSM Java Script Library  to the Shopify store

2.      Add Placement to the theme

It is the most important step as the appropriate theme files to update with Klarna On-Site Marketing placement tags & refresh code are dependent upon the Shopify theme you are using. Look at an example of placement code for a Shopify theme, which is also available in the Klarna Merchant Portal: 

3.      Refresh placement when variant changes

For the store which has product with variants also has to add code to update OSM placement when a customer select different variant. Look at below example:

Removing the Klarna OSM App

First of all disconnect your account from the setting’s page if you don’t wish to use the Klarna App. Then delete the app this will remove all the libraries. Look at the below image:

 The main issues/ problems faced

1.       At present, Klarna Payments merchants integrated using Shopify Payments do not have access to the Klarna Merchant Portal and Klarna API credentials. This app supports stores with Klarna Payments integrated as an Alternative Payment Provider Check under Shopify admin -> Settings -> Payment providers -> Alternative payments where this app supports stores with Klarna Payments integrated as an Alternative Payment Provider.

2.      There is no other solution except for product preview page to fully display, the store must not be password protected.

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GAMING DEVELOPMENT

https://angel.co/ora-infotechNow the technology is changing and improving and in the gaming sector the happiest are the gamers as these technologies have given them a new perspective of playing. Yes the 3D games have been successfully started and have seen a massive boom. But even today people are not completely vanishing the 2D games from their lists. Both 2D and 3D games have their own pros and cons.

DIFFERENCE IN 2D AND 3D GAMING

·         MOVEMENT

2D games permit linear movement. The player can move from around in the screen but the ultimate movement is from start point to end point. While in 3D games there is no restriction and the movements are free and explore the entire map or the world.

·         ENVIRONMENT

In 3D games you can explore a rich visual experience, while in 2D games the landscape is not focused.

·         CONTROL

Comparing to 3D game the controls are simple and easy in 2D games.

·         GOAL

In 2D games, the goal is normally just as straightforward as the direction of movement, with the simple mechanics while 3D games offer more possibilities to explore around.

 HOW TO EARN FROM GAMING

In today’s world if you do a work without earning money just forget your time invested. So, exactly how do you make money by making games? Which means to earn a PROFIT! Most games earn money from being bought from a store, such as an app store. The developers receive their percentage of hare decided previously. But now you will say that most of the games nowadays are free. So what is the source of their profit? So there are basically three techniques:

1.      Sell additional levels, assets or features.

2.      Sell virtual goods (such as power-ups and decorative items) as micro transactions.

3.      Sell eyeballs (incorporate advertising)

 WHICH COUNTRIES HAVING MAXIMUM GAME PLAYERS AND HIGHEST EARNINGS?

 You would be surprised but yes even such types of surveys are being carried out at international level. According to an American survey it was found that on an average an American sends 15 minutes of gaming daily. The gaming industries have made a 17% increase from 2016 to 2017, which was led by Uzbekistan by 100% growth. Top 5 countries for he gaming revenues are: CHINA, JAPAN, GERMANY, UK and USA. USA combines the 68% of global gaming. Seeing the latest survey done in 2019 China had the highest revenue of 34,400 million US dollars, followed by USA with 31,535 million US dollars. This was followed by JAPAN17,715 million US dollars, KOREA 5,764millio US dollars and UK 4,731 million US dollars. These were the top six countries with huge game revenues. The revenue of India was ranked 16th with 1,105 million US dollars.

 HOW GAME ADS WORKS AND TYPE OF ADS?

In-game advertising (IGA) is advertising in computer and video games. IGA differs from advergames, which refers to games specifically made to advertise a product. The IGA industry is large and growing. IGA can be integrated into the game either through a display in the background, such as an in-game billboard or a commercial during the pause created when a game loads, or highly integrated within the game so that the advertised product is necessary to complete part of the game or is featured prominently within cut scenes. Below are the given types of Advertising. Look for the link for more details.

1.      Static In-Game Advertising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-game_advertising#Static_in-game_advertising

2.      Dynamic in-game advertising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-game_advertising#Dynamic_in-game_advertising

3.      Advertising in online-only games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-game_advertising#Advertising_in_online-only_games

 HOW TO INTEGRATE ADS IN UNITY?

Enabling advertisement and monetizing your games has been made as easy as possible with Unity.

a.       Enable Ads. in editor

b.      Click the switch on the right-hand side to turn Ads on, then answer a few questions about the game you are making.

c.       Add Coode to your game- Go to the Code samples tab and copy the relevant script snippets to your C# code

There are code samples for:

1.      Simple: Easy to use for simple fullscreen interstitial ads to appear between game levels)

2.      Rewarded: You can use this to give your players in-game rewards such as coins, gems, points or extra lives for watching an Ad.

Hence select accordingly!

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Conservation of Natural Resources with the Help of Technology

You wake up in the morning, it’s a new day and a new technology is added to the existing list. In this rapidly ascending world new technologies are introduced every day to the market. Machines are getting modified and intelligent with machine learning and introduce the concept of Artificial Intelligence. AI combining with the wide and excess use of Internet gives rise to IoT Interne of Things. And this has taken a boom and slipped in almost each and every sector of the industries present. With the ease in use and simple handling this is becoming an addicted technology. Though it’s not a drug it’s really good to get addicted as it increases the productivity. Thus AI, especially IoT has been a boon to the technology.

Seeing the dark side on increase in the modernization is that the natural resources have been already decreased at exponential rate and has reached to serious threats that need to be protected at urgency. Then why not to use this technology to protect the natural resources. Yes there are several attempts and experiments already made in order to use these technologies in conservation of natural resources. The hunt for new smarter ways to support our development has always been a key driver of technological advancement. Today as our civilisation faces a new unprecedented challenge technology can play a crucial role in decoupling development and environmental degradation. From the high seas to the depths of the world’s most dense forests, technology can transform how we identify, measure, track and value the many services and resources nature provides us with.

Blockchain to revolutionize the commodity markets

To stop the illegal fishing and slave labour in fishing industry, Blockchain Technology is used. Through blockchain technology, soon a simple scan of tuna packaging using a smartphone app will tell the story of a tuna fish – where and when the fish was caught, by which vessel and fishing method. We can also use satellite data and cost-effective GPS tracking devices to ‘see’ and understand global fishing and global vessel traffic.

Remote sensing in planning and monitoring

The social and economical sensitive areas are destroyed by extensive industrialization so remote Sensing can be used on the land and such sensitive sites and the heritage sites can be protected. There can be proper planning done up to which mark the industrialization can be permitted!

Drones and crowdsourcing help monitor forest health and detect illegal logging

A state’s health can be normalized by the forest cover present in the state. But at present the forest health is degrading rapidly due to urbanization, the result is paid by the wildlife having a habitat in those forests. This need to be monitored and the loss of this natural resource need to be stopped at the earliest. This task can be completed by drone technology that will help a lot in the monitoring of the area and the people taking action against this conservation of heart of the state can be punished.

Thermal imaging to combat poaching

Majority at night when the rangers are on patrolling the armed poachers slid through the wire wall and enter the reserved area to kill the animals and receive a good trade for the dead. So the thermal imaging cameras are used to catch these poachers and hand them to the rangers

AI to track wildlife

It is hard to think of technology and nature together but even advances like Artificial Intelligence (AI) that could not be further removed from the natural world are helping conservation efforts. Many wildlife organizations are harnessing the power of AI to help protect the endangered and extinct species especially tigers and their habitats, while also protecting countless other species as a result while helping carbon storage, vital watersheds and communities in the area.

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Have a brief on TREB

WHAT is TREB?

The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) was founded in 1920 by a small group of real estate practitioners.  TREB is now Canada's largest real estate board.  There are more than 23,000 Members of TREB. It is committed to advancing the interest of real estate sales people and brokers who are a member of TREB. It is the main real Estate Board in the Great Toronto Area (GTA) that is the home board for Real Estate Agents in Toronto and nearby area. IT is also responsible o memberships, ethics and arbitration decisions and mandates much of the direction of membership with regards to the Public and the Government.

WHY DO YOU NEED TO ADD TREB IDX TO A WORDPRESS SITE?

So everyone needs to have a cut down in cost for yielding a good amount out of it. So here it is, just add TREB IDX to your WordPress Site! Thus no need of any special Real Estate theme or expensive realtor web service to add searchable MLS (Multiple Listing Service) listings to your WordPress site. Toronto Realtors can easily add searchable MLS property listings to a WordPress site with the free TREB IDX data feed, that will promote ALL TREB property listings on your website and not just your own featured listings.

STEPS TO ADD TREB IDX TO A WORDPRESS SITE:

1.      Create a new page in your WordPress site as “Property Search”.

2.      Pen down a brief description of text.

3.      Move to HTML view from Visual Editor and then copy and paste this line of code into your page below the text.

 <iframe width="940" height="1200" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.torontomls.net/api/Idx.asp?api_key=PUT YOUR API CODE HERE"></iframe>

4.      Save the page as Draft.

5.      Get your own Unique API credential (code) to customize listings with your realtor information by following the below steps:

a.       Use Internet Explorer to login to torontomls.net.

b.      You’ll need to provide three pieces of information to login – User ID, PIN and Authenticator Password.

c.       After logging in click “Search Properties”.

d.      Click IDX Management.

e.       Under Manage IDX settings select “MYSELF” and click continue.

f.       Enter the URL of your website.

g.      Click Save and you’ll get an API code.

 6.      After copying your API code and go back to your WordPress page. Look at the line of code from step 3 above and replace the words “PUT YOUR API CODE HERE” by pasting in your API code.

7.      You want to select a one column, no sidebar page template layout to display the full content.

8.      Save and Preview your new page. If you’re happy you can go ahead and publish the page.

  HOW TO SUBMIT TORONTO REAL ESTATE BOARD (TREB) IDX AND VOW DATA ACCESS AGREEMENTS?

 To build a website, or to get access to TREB MLS data for any other reason, you need to submit an IDX and VOW data access agreement online. Just remember you require these prerequisite:

1.      Your membership #, PIN and authenticator token.

Thus you must be an active member with the credentials.

 2.      A technology provider

 3.      Decide on what website URLs you’ll be using

This is for the audit purpose as TREB needs to know where you will be providing the data. You must provide at least one URL and maximum of three.

 4.      Give your technology provider and broker of record a heads up.

Both your technology provider and broker of record are anticipating approvals, thing tend to move along much faster. If everyone is on their toes you could have access in as little as 24 hours.

 NOW FOLLOW THE BELOW STEPS TO SUBMIT:

a.       Go to http://profile.torontomls.net/oas/common/login.jsp and login with your TREB credentials.

b.      Once logged in, click on the “Start New” tab.

c.       Click on the third option, “IDX Data Agreement” and click “Continue”

d.      Third party information is to be specified. See the below example.

e.       Enter the URLs of the website you intend to publish the data on.

f.       Click “Send to third party” on the bottom right of the page. 

g.      To complete your VOW data access agreement click on the “Start New” tab.

h.      Click on “VOW Data Agreement” and click “Continue”.

i.        Technology provider’s information needs to be specified. See the below example.

j.        Enter your website URLs. Again, these are websites you intend to publish the data on.

k.      Click on the red text indicating “Send to AVP”.

l.        You technology provider will receive two emails asking them to authorize your agreements (IDX and VOW)

m.    After TREB authorizes you get access.

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TOP IT COMPANIES OF INDIA

1.       TATA Consutancy Services https://www.tcs.com/

Renownedly known as TCS, is a subsidiary of the Tata Group and is the top Information Technology company in India. It was founded in 1968 by the tata sons, headquartered at Mumbai, Maharashtra, India TCS owns very high revenue in IT sector for India. Also is on e of the largest IT companies in the world. It operates in 149 locations in 46 countries. TCS and its 67 subsidiaries[76] provides a wide range of information technology-related products and services including application development, business process outsourcing, capacity planning, consulting, enterprise software, hardware sizing, payment processing, software management and technology education services. TCs operates in India, china, UAE, Israel, Austraia,Italy, Malaysia, Japan, Morocco, Belgium, Switzerland, Thailand, Netherlands, Germany, USA, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, etc

2.       Infosys https://www.infosys.com/

Headquartered at Bnagore, Karnataka, Infosys is a multinational corporation that provides business consulting, Information Technology and outsourcing services to the customers. It was founded in 1981, by seven engineers in Pune, Maharashtra. Infosys provides software development, maintenance and independent validation services to companies in finance, insurance, manufacturing and other domains. One of its prime services is Finacle, universal banking solution. Its key products and services are:

·         NIA – Next Generation Integrated AI Platform (formerly known as MANA)

·         Infosys Consulting – a global management consulting service

·         Infosys Information Platform (IIP) – Analytics platform

·         EdgeVErve System which includes Finacle, a global banking platform

·         Panaya Cloud Suite

·         Skava

Infosys has 82 sales and marketing offices and 123 development centres across the world as of March 31, 2018, with major presence in India, United States, China, Australia, Japan, Middle East and Europe.

3.       Wipro https://www.wipro.com/

Formerly known as Western India Palm Refined Oil is headquartered at Bangalore, Karnataka , is an Indian Multinational corporation providing services in Information technology, consulting and business processing. It was founded in 1945 in Maharashtra. There were two non-IT firms which were separated and it founded Wipro Enterprises in 2013. It serves worldwide. Wipro was ranked 1st in the 2010 Asian Sustainability Rating (ASR) of Indian companies. In March 2017, Wipro was recognized as one of the world's most ethical companies by US-based Ethisphere Institute for the sixth consecutive year. Wipro won 7 awards, including Best Managed IT Services and Best System Integrator in the CIO Choice Awards 2015, India. Apart from IT sector it also provides medical sector services named under ‘Wipro GE medical System.’

4.       HCL https://www.hcltech.com/

HCL technology is Indian multinational company providing services such as Information Technology and consulting. It is headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Formerly it was HCL Enterprise, research and development company which demerged in  1991 as HCL technology as an independent company. It has established worldwide in nearly 44 countries such as Australia, France, Germany, China, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Belgium, Israel, Czech Republic, Japan, Canada, etc. it provides business line in :

·         IoT Works

·         DRYiCE

·         Digital & Analytics

·         Cyber security

·         Applications Services and Systems Integrations

 5.       Tech Mahindra https://www.techmahindra.com/en-in/

An Indian mutinational subsidiary of Mahindra Group, tech Mahindra is IT Company headquartered at Pune, Maharashtra. It provides services in Information Technology and Business Process Outsourcing. It was founded in October 1986 and since then provides services in horizontal and vertical markets. Presently is under the chairmanship of Mr. Anand Mahindra. It has offices in over 60 countries including India such as China, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Philipines, Peru, Thailand, Taiwan, Hungary, Hongkong, etc. it was awarded with IDC insights award in 2018. Initially 30% stake was occupied by British Telecom. But they lost entire the stake to Mahindra in 2012. Services provided:

·         Cyber Security

·         Business Process Outsourcing

·         Telecom Product Engineering

·         Data Analytics and many more

 6.       L &T Infotech https://www.lntinfotech.com/

Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited (LTI) is a global IT solutions and services company based in Mumbai, India. In 2017, NASSCOM ranked LTI as the sixth-largest Indian IT services company in terms of export revenues. It employs standards of the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and is a Maturity Level 5 assessed organization. It was founded in 1996 in Mumbai as L& T Information Technology Limited. Apart from India it has its branches in Australia, China, Japan, South Africa, USA, Canada, England, Germany, Spain and at many more places in this short time span of 24 years. It provides services like:

·         Cloud and Infrastructure

·         Cyber Defense

·         Consulting

·         Application Management

 7.       Mphasis https://www.mphasis.com/

Mphasis is an IT services company based in Bangalore, India. The company provides infrastructure technology and applications outsourcing services, as well as architecture guidance, application development and integration, and application management services. It serves financial services, telecom, logistics, and technology industries. It was founded in 2000 as IT service providing and consulting company. It was ranked 7 in Indian IT sector. Mphasis provides information technology services to its customers around the world. Mphasis provides integrated solutions that include business process outsourcing, infrastructure technology, Cyber security, enterprise automation, application services and many more. The application services offered by the company include application development as well as applications maintenance and support services. Mphasis has more than 60 sales and delivery centers in 19 countries with delivery centers in India, China, Australia, Japan, North America and Europe.

8.       Mind tree https://www.mindtree.com/

Mindtree Limited is an Indian multinational information technology and outsourcing company headquartered in Bangalore, India and New Jersey, USA. It is a Larsen & Toubro group company. Founded in 1999, the company employs approximately 20,204 employees dealing in in e-commerce, mobile applications, cloud computing, digital transformation, data analytics, enterprise application integration and enterprise resource planning. It works in Application Development and Maintenance, Data Analytics, Digital Services, Enterprise Application Integration and Business Process Management, Engineering R&D, Enterprise Application Services, Testing, and Infrastructure Management Services. Mindtree provides various research and development services including Bluetooth Solutions, Digital Video Surveillance, an integrated test methodology called MindTest, an IT infrastructure management and service platform called MWatch (https://mwatch.mindtree.com/MWatch/authentication), the application management service, Atlas, SAP Insurance and OmniChannel. It works in the pursuit of better living of people and has different projects with the well being of people.

 9.       Rolta http://www.rolta.com/

An Indian Multinational company founded in 1989 in Mumbai is now headquartered at Mumbai. The company focuses on IT solutions, Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics, Geospatial and Engineering. Rolta is a leading IT solution provider in vertical segments including Federal and State Governments, Defense and Homeland Security, Utilities, Process, Power, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail, and Healthcare. Rolta offers comprehensive services for implementing enterprise-level applications and systems integration on multiple technology platforms. Rolta’s expertise encompasses EBS, ERP, CRM, and EPM, all high-impact areas of interest to CXOs. With deep domain expertise in our selected verticals, Rolta provides a comprehensive set of services for a company’s IT needs – from initial assessments, to development of an IT roadmap, including evaluation of Cloud and virtual data-center strategies, through sizing and implementation of complete solutions for optimal infrastructure configurations and enterprise-level business applications and analytics, with ongoing technical support. It has executed projects in more than 40 countries in Europe, Midde East, Asia and Africa.

 10.   HexawareTechnologies https://hexaware.com/

Hexaware Technologies Limited is an information technology and business process outsourcing service provider, company based in Navi Mumbai, India. Founded in 1920 the company provides services such as development support, integration, implementation and testing services across all major enterprise software systems such as PeopleSoft, Workday, Oracle, SAP and Microsoft. Hexaware has thirty five offices worldwide and eight development center in New Jersey, Mexico, Mumbai, Chennai, Pune and Bengaluru with employees over 11000. In a survey of 2006, it was rated the sixth Best IT Employers from India. The company is strategically developing in cloudifying everything and inclusion of more of automation in the need for a prosperous and developing world.

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PROTOTYPE

And then there is suddenly flooding of ideas in your mind that you want to design an app or a website of so and so project or may be your firm that provides e-service. This stage of initiation requires amount of implementation which is done then. Certain types of design or you may say demo is required which are made from earlier available information from other user. This will make your new design more easily and fast and also give you some taste that might be missing in your thoughts that will serve as a berry to your cream.

So prototype is basically a model to your website or your app that will help you give visual and functional interface enhancement and help you build your app or website more attractive and audacious according to your need to test the initial and main function of the website or a mobile application.

ADVANTAGES OF PROTOTYPE

1.      Before translating to code this will test or enhance and give you the best user interface for your app or website.

2.      You can make all the necessary changes over here and may help you avoid the costly changes that might occur in future. So you will be cost benefited from prototype.

3.      Apart from this if you are a start up then prototype may help you win the finance of the investor’s team.

HOW TO CREATE A PROTOTYPE?

It can be anything from a paper sketch, to a clickable HTML prototype. However, typically when people talk about a prototype they are referring to an interactive prototype of some kind which allows users to navigate from page to page and use functionality such as drop down menus.

There are numerous ways to create a prototype. It can be I form of powerpoint, pdfs or even in form of word documents. Setting aside these old orthodox ways to create prototypes, in the present generation there are several other smart tools that will help you create some interactive prototype, increasing the effectiveness and attractiveness of you website or your application.

TOOLS USED TO CREATE PROTOTYPE

1.      Origami https://origami.design/

Origami has helped in design and building of products like Facebook, Messenger and Instagram. Copy anything from Sketch and paste native layers into Origami Studio. Then quickly adjust, add behavior and animate any layer property without going back. Show off your designs in presentations in full screen, on a number of different devices.

 2.      Webflow https://webflow.com/

Webflow, Inc. is an American company, based in San Francisco,that provides software as a service for website building and hosting. Their online visual editor platform allows users to design, build, and launch websites.

 3.      Marvel https://marvelapp.com/

Wireframe, design and prototype fast with this intuitive design and prototyping tools. Instantly generate design specs and connect integrations that power up your workflow. From low to high-fidelity, Marvel supports you every step of the way.

 4.      Vectr https://vectr.com/

Vectr is a free graphics software used to create vector graphics easily and intuitively. It's a simple yet powerful web and desktop cross-platform tool to bring your designs into reality.

5.      Sketch https://www.sketch.com/

Built on the best of macOS technologies, giving you familiarity, power and performance where you need it most. Sketch’s interface automatically adapts to show you the tools you need, and gets out of the way when you need to focus.

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BUDGET FOR MOBILE APPLICATION

What do you mean by mobile application?

A mobile application also called an application or simply an app that is just the computer program or the software that is intended to use on the mobile phone. It increases the productivity as most of the time when you are not able to access or carry your computer system there you can simply just remove your cell phone and get access to that software so called application in the mobile terminology. The introduction of mobile application took place in 2009, and has caused a rapid expansion in gaming, GPS, order tracking, and all other services that makes the life simple and productive. There are even those applications that make the work of a teacher easy. Now there is no more the paper and pen attendance, directly the attendance gets uploaded on the portal and gets freeze so there are no chances of faking of attendance and let the teacher free from the mess of after attendance.

Where can you get this application?

These applications are widely available for all the users no to worry if you are an android user or an IOS user or even a window user. You all can access to the application from their respective store; Google Play Store for Android user, Apple Store for IOS user and Microsoft Store for Windows user. These applications are available as paid and free application. Mostly an IOS user has to pay higher prices to get an app. The Google Store has a lot of app that are available for free. But these may have a lot of ads in them that might give you headache.

What budget does it fit to?

This will be the round question when you are planning for a digital startup! Though the app start up is too fruitful nowadays as most of the people nowadays have their head tucked in their mobile phones. But what type of interface you give to the user is the most important thing and the more prime to it is that it fits in your budget. So what should be your budget?

The median app development cost is around $171,450 (at a rate of $150/hour), which represents 1,143 development hours. The total app price could even increase to $727,500 in the case of complex functionality implementation 

Average minimum app development project is between $5,000 to $10,000. The typical cost to create an app is likely to be far higher

Enterprise mobile app development cost is an average of $140,000

Available app cost calculators state a price range from $267,000 to $360,000 for complex, multi-feature mobile apps

The above data was obtained from the Clutch survey 2017. (https://clutch.co/app-developers/resources/cost-build-mobile-app-survey)The key findings suggest that the cost to develop an app ranges from just $5,000 to $500,000 based on up-to-date industry surveys. The complex mobile app development cost starts at $240,000.

First decide do you want a native or a hybrid app. An application that suits the guidelines of a specific operating system is called native. Thus, you can only build a native app for each system separately. In contrast, a hybrid or cross-platform app works with multiple operating systems, which means that you can save money by building only one application for all required platforms. Look at the below figure of the percentage of investment in Native v/s Hybrid app.

                                Investment in Native v/s Hybrid app

 The application does not overnight become a great success it takes a pretty long time. So plan your web development on the following factors:

1.      Vendor type and location

2.      Complexity and the number of app features

3.      Back-end infrastructure and connected APIs

4.      Complexity of UX/UI design https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/minimizing-complexity-in-user-interfaces/

5.      Inclusion of additional branded visual elements

6.      Development approach (native, mobile web, hybrid, etc https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/definition/native-application-native-app)

7.      Number of platforms to be developed (iOS, Android, web, etc)

A feature is a special activity or task according to which the software should operate and give the expected result. This can be a sign-up button on a screen or something more complex like video-streaming integration. The number of features and complexity of their implementation directly correlates with the cost to build an app. The formula for finding the cost is:

Total Development time * Hourly Rate = Cost of the Application

The cost is generally estimated by the following way:

1.      Concepts - present a sum of features to accomplish

2.      Stories - list all the features necessary to make a concept

3.      Story Points - show the app development pace and complexity

TOOLS USED FOR APP DEVELOPMENT

1.      XAMARIN

It is the preferred mobile app development tool for native applications. It reuses business logic layers and data access across platform and is widely used to build apps for iOS, Windows, and Android app development.

     Features:

a.    It is a mono framework which allows communication with the API of mobile devices.

Xamarin Component Store includes UI controls,     cross-platform libraries, and third party libraries.

It tends to produce fewer bugs and thus provides faster     time to market.

Platform-specifics allow to consuming functionality     that's only available on certain platforms.

2.      Appcelerator

It allows developers to create apps with fewer lines of code. This app development tool supports iOS, Android, Windows, and browser-based HTML5 applications.

          Features:

a.    It improves the speed of mobile app development.

b.    Higher cloud capacity limits.

c.    This tool allows building mobile apps for all supported operating system.

d.    Virtual private or on-premises deployment

e.    Built on open-standards and full access to the underlying mobile OS

f.     Support for multi-region global deployments

3.      Phone Gap 

It is an Open Source free to use mobile app development framework. It falls into the category of cross-platform app development (https://www.kony.com/resources/glossary/cross-platform-mobile-development/). It can be used for developing a single app which works on all mobile devices.

           Features:

a.       It works effectively on JavaScript, HTML5,and CSS3

b.      It can integrate with various libraries to enhance app development

c.       It allows development of various mobile applications with lesser time and efforts

d.      It helps developers to extend the functionality of the application with the help of plug-in architecture

e.       Robust tool for building apps without any special skill set

4.      ICONIC

It is HTML5 mobile app development framework (https://www.idslogic.com/building-mobile-apps-with-html5/). It is widely used for developing hybrid mobile apps. It is a useful tool to build mobile apps using web technologies like CSS, HTML5, and SASS.

          Features:

a.       Ionic Framework is a 100% free and open source project

b.      Build progressive web and native mobile apps for every major app store

c.       It offers great tools and services to create highly interactive apps

d.      It allows web developer to create apps for all major app stores with a single code base

e.       It comes with many CSS components and JavaScript components for developing mobile apps

f.       Ionic emulates native app UI guidelines and uses native SDKs

So just set your mind first, decide and then act on the planning of development of application.

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What is Agile Methodology? Why is it important to manage project?

What do you mean by Agile Methodology?

To ensure a satisfactory and successful achievement of the goal an eye is to be kept continuously on the project and the management should be too powerful. Agile methodology is an exactly the needed method that will ensure an absolute work of a project. Any framework that is used to structure, plan and control the process of developing a system is its development methodology Agile is a continuous iterative method to use to develop software and test the software throughout the life cycle of project. Both methods development and testing are concurrent. It comprises various approaches to Software Development under which requirements and solutions evolve through the collaborative effort of self organizing and cross functional teams and their customers or end users. While there is much anecdotal evidence that adopting agile practices and values improves the agility of software professionals, teams and organizations. Another similar methodology for development of software is Waterfall. But there are two important differences which make agile methodology better:

1.      Same testing and build phase is adopted in agile methodology, while in waterfall these to phases are different

2.      Waterfall software development moves a project through various Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) phases. One phase is completed in its entirety before moving on to the next phase, which in Agile takes place simultaneously.

Principles used for Agile Methodology

There are prime twelve principles on which the agile methodology to develop a software is based. They are:

1.     Customer satisfaction by early and continuous delivery of valuable software.

2.     Welcome changing requirements, even in late development.

3.     Deliver working software frequently (weeks rather than months)

4.     Close, daily cooperation between business people and developers

5.     Projects are built around motivated individuals, who should be trusted

6.     Face-to-face conversation is the best form of communication (co-location)

7.     Working software is the primary measure of progress

8.     Sustainable development, able to maintain a constant pace

9.     Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design

10. Simplicity—the art of maximizing the amount of work not done—is essential

11. Best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams

12. Regularly, the team reflects on how to become more effective, and adjusts accordingly

 Why you should choose agile methodology for your project?

For the projects, businesses have a number of options to choose from. Though Agile methodology has proved to be very effective in larger organizations the communication and co-operation dynamics in a start-up is very different from that of a larger organization. Its effectiveness has made it a deserved methodology from all the available methodology. Is is very important to manage projects even though you have a start-up, it proves the most effective but yes it is a bit effort asking methodology.

1.     Adapts to Organizational Change Quickly: Agile methodology provides a rapid response to change in the organization. It aids the dynamic characteristics of business processes and helps in managing changing requirements of the projects. One of the important principles of Agile Manifesto stresses on welcoming changing requirement, even if late in project.

2.     Encourages Individual Interaction: Agile methodology majorly depends on its stand-ups, the meetings. Every team member has to come prepared with answers to these questions.

a.     What have you accomplished since the last meeting?

b.     What are you currently working on?

c.     What are the obstacles or hurdles you are facing to do your job efficiently?

The answers to these questions majorly describe the scope of the projects, profiles, schedules and specify everyone’s individual role in it. Everyone knows who is responsible for what. This eliminates the chances of any kind of duplication of work and clarifies confusion if any, among the team members ensuring good communication. 

3.     Installs The Culture of Working Cohesively: Agile methodology helps interacting with your peers on daily basis to discuss the ongoing projects and ensuring collectively that the projects stay on schedule and on track promotes teamwork- a sense of belonging with a clear sense of responsibility.

4.     Agile Development Boosts Quality: In agile development cross-functional teams eliminate bottlenecks through constant communication.  There is a sense of immediacy and dynamism. 

5.     Saves Time and Effort, Fostering Resourcefulness: Agile is a mindset. It believes in constantly adding value to the product by managing the constraints. Agile methodology ensures your projects remain in budget, on schedule and are completed without hitches. Start-ups work on limited resources. Agile development ensures optimal use of its resources. Teams are smaller and can work cross-functionally.

6.     Enables Diffusion of Knowledge and Cross-Training Across Organization: Daily meetings, the stand-ins, ensure everyone knows what everyone else from the team is working on at any given time. There is diffusion of knowledge and by sharing the details of the development process together team members know and understand even the parts of the components they aren’t directly associated with.

7.     Keeps all the stake holders in the loop: Agile methodology is aimed at promoting sustainable development while ensuring all the stakeholders -like product owners, developers and users are in the loop. Scrum, a part of the agile movement helps you achieve that.

 Tools for projects based on Agile Methodology

1.      Active Collab

Pros: Intuitive, outstanding support, iOS apps, can bill the client straight through the app, time tracking, and the ability to limit which user sees what.

Cons: Timeline and column views for tasks instead of Gantt.

https://activecollab.com/

 2.      Agilo for Scrum

Pros: A great communication system, responsive support team (24-hour response time), and well-priced.

Cons: No ability to host more than one project, no mobile app, and some have noted that the system is difficult to learn.

http://www.agiloforscrum.com/

 3.      Pivotal Tracker

Pros: Great specifically for Agile software development, lots of integrations, supports cross-functional teams, and free for individuals and public projects.

Cons: Support can be slow for non-paying users and the system is difficult to customize.

https://www.pivotaltracker.com/

 4.      Sprint Ground

Pros: Great for software development, encourages customer-driven product development, and has many traditional Scrum functions like burndown charts.

Cons: File storage is limited regardless of which plan you choose.

https://www.sprintground.com/

 5.      Target Process

Pros: Gorgeous, unique design that’s great for enterprise companies.

Cons: Company charges $150 per hour for training on how to use their own product for “free” members (paid members get training for free).

https://www.targetprocess.com/

 Agile methodology is the best bet for start-ups.  It ensures that iterations are faster. It helps in managing its resources optimally and the business gets on track at their earliest. By adopting agile methodology start-ups can reduce their costs, keep the teams closely knit, keep their projects on schedule and yes, stakeholders get better returns on their investments.

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Data Breaching from JD

Personal Data Exposed from Just Dial Database.

https://www.businessinsider.in/slideshows/biggest-data-breaches-of-2019/just-data-breach/slideshow/72465953.cms

One of the India’s largest local search platform tend to lose its data which included name, email, address, gender, etc. this was because of an unprotected API end in the system. This provided a path to the hackers to enter the database and steal the information from the database. It was found that this API was kept open since 2015 and no care was taken to protect it. It seemed as an open invitation to the intruders.

This work can be prevented by:

·         Validating all the incoming data

·         Use the essential method for authentication verification

·         Encrypt Data and may other ways

Apart from these there should be regular checking and testing performed. The major types of testing are:

·         Network Security

·         System software security

·         Server-side and client-side application security

These all testing should be carried out by dedicated team as the hackers are becoming more and more smart everyday.

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An example on ATM Server Hack

ATM Server Hacked, 2018, Kolkata

https://www.ibtimes.co.in/kolkata-atm-fraud-sit-team-probe-card-cloning-customers-be-refunded-776733

And yes one more bank got cyber attacked in India at Kolkata I the July of 2018. The hackers attacked the ATM systems and swiped off around 2 million rupees, ranging to 10,000 to 40,000 per account it was found that there were 37 victims in this attack. But later the gang was arrested from New Delhi. It was found then that skimming devices were arranged in the ATM cubicles. This was just certain cases but also other cases were filled the police stations of the southern parts of the city complaining about the fraudulent cases.

This can be prevented by improvement of security features in ATM. The monitoring system should be prevented from any misuse. Moreover also lock-box should be used to prevent skimming. These lock box uses encrypted code that prevents the fraud and increase healthy transfer o f money.

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Major reasons for security breaches!

So basically the intruders, so called hackers in our language, breach the system and attack the data of prime importance that are meant to keep private and out of reach. The security act as a guarding wall for the privacy of the system but these intruders make a bypass route from the security wall and enter the system to perform malicious function to destroy or steal the data may be for any reason: for money, to take information or might be just for fun! This incurs a huge loss to the company, firm or organization which is attacked.

Looking forward to the reasons behind security breach are:

·         Weak and stolen credentials

This includes the password. If you password is not of enough strength then it will create a vulnerability and there will be chances of breaching.

·         Phishing

This generally happens with user when they click some malicious link tha appears and then they are caught hard by the attackers.

·         Pre texting and Social engineering

This might have happened with all. You get some message about some offer that is really irresistible but when you follow it they will ask for handsome amount of money for exchange of data

·         Insider threats

The biggest threat to data security to an organization can come from within, where the intruders are from insider. But this one is preventable.

·          Application Vulnerabilities

Using software that is not updated or patched or applications that are poorly coded and may contain black holes often leave businesses open to data breaches and vulnerabilities. This can be fixed by implementing basic security hygiene by the IT departments of businesses

·         Ransom ware

Vigilance is the best defense against ransom ware.

·         Physical theft and loss

 Sometimes, they may also occur out of physical theft and loss. The cause for this may be unsecured ways in which physical storage devices are used.

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ADA Compliance

First let me make you clear about the ADA, The Americans Disabilities Act. So the ADA is the Americans disabilities act standards that are accessible for disabled people. This act was enforced by the by the US department of Justice in the year 2010 to protect the disabled people against any kind of discrimination in several areas like employment, transportation, public accommodation, communications and access to state and local government programs or schemes or services. These standards require companies to offer and maintain sites that people with disabilities can use and access. With resources like the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) , as well as ADA compliance services, your business can start making your site accessible to users everywhere. That proactive approach can help your company not only grow but also emphasize its commitment to serving users everywhere. All the websites that is made needs to be ADA compliant due to the law enforced in 2010.

Now you might be thinking why the ADA compliance is necessary and what if we not keep our websites ADA non-compliance! Well you are leaving out a significant amount of population out of the reach to your website that might even decrease your profit than if it was ADA compliance and leaving your business open to legal action in which you can even be sued. Though you don’t mean to exclude the people by not letting your website be ADA compliance but still you are discriminating people with disabilities that may cause legal action against your website or your business.

Now you might be thinking that tin which category do I need to fall to have an ADA compliance website. Well let’s look at it. Your firm should be one from the below to have an ADA compliance website:

·         State and local government agencies

·         Private employers with 15 or more employees

·         Businesses that operate for the benefit of the public

So just make sure that you website is ADA compliance and enjoy your business free of legal actions!