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According to the United Nations, 68 percent of the world’s population will reside within urban zones by 2050. A large portion of these urban areas will be smart cities by then, where residents use mobile applications and various other digital services to interact directly with private and governmental institutions. It’s likely that all of those interactions will be made with AI-managed bots rather than humans - and virtually impossible to tell the difference.As the world moves into the future and technology advances, more capital cities around the world will transform into "smart cities." Smart cities rely on IoT technologies, Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and other technology designed to streamline public and private services.The needs of smart cities will drive future innovations, improve and optimize governance, and improve the environment. However, a few steps must be attended to and implemented before cities can be called "smart."Infrastructure ImprovementsImprovements to a city's infrastructure include robust wireless and fiber broadband that enables connectivity and cloud services to store, update, maintain, and monitor data. Countries like Australia are upgrading their broadband services as can be seen in this NBN roll out map.The cloud allows for crucial data to be stored off-site, facilitating ease of accessibility. This means a smaller number of system failures, covered by swift acting disaster recovery protocols to minimize the devastating results.Data Freshness and Better SecurityOnce upon a time, it was all about speed. Now as the age of sensor data has taken center stage, Internet speed has taken a back seat. Experts from MIT say that the environments of the Internet and Location-of-Things don't require data to be transmitted quickly but rather that data must be fresh.MIT has been researching better methods that ensure sensors distribute salient data for analysis. Since all the data can't be sent at once, finding a solution isn't easy. The biggest reason being there isn't enough bandwidth for such.Self-driving automobiles, drones, and various other IoT gadgets require consistent, up-to-date data if their users want them to work correctly. For example, a networked collection of vehicles will meet disaster if they're fed old data. So, differentiating stale information from pertinent data holds more weight than the amount of time it takes to reach those self-driving automobiles. And this idea applies to most if not all IoT devices. In reality, it's a radical change in paradigm.Robust SecuritySmart cities possess the ability to deploy and monitor fundamental public services that include utilities, public transportation, public safety, among other services. Hence the need for a robust cybersecurity stance.Thus it's crucial these services are free from vulnerabilities whether physically or virtually. Technologies such as blockchain may be much safer than the cloud, providing a set of security measures that help future smart cities stay impervious to breachers.Decentralized ManagementBlockchain technology complements artificial intelligence and machine learning, the two sentinels charged with the task of monitoring smart cities remotely.Decentralizing city management tasks remove human errors. Additionally, these technologies identify issues and rectify them before they become serious problems - disaster recovery missions are handles in a matter of moments rather than days. The monitoring of utility consumption by AI and ML lower cost, decrease the carbon footprint and improves the overall quality of life.

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leaagueofrevolutionarie · 5 years ago

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The Amazon-ification of America

By Steven Miller 8-14-2020

Last week, tech leaders spoke to Congress on Capitol Hill. Google’s Sundar Pichai, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos all spoke from prepared remarks. As the US economy shrank by 32.9%, Amazon’s share price rose by half, and Facebook’s growth rate approached 60%.

Congresspeople were supposedly “grilling” these uber-capitalists, but they were politely slobbering at their wealth. Since COVID began, American billionaires have made $637 billion, while 50 million people have lost their jobs. Timidly asking these billionaires questions about monopoly practices, the politicians refuse to address how this mega-wealth could be used to help people out in the greatest collapse in the history of capitalism.

Tech capitalism is fomenting the Amazon-ification and the Google-ization of America, right now in real time. This will culminate in a major re-organization and the State. This is class warfare on the rights of humans to control their own basic needs to live and thrive. Private property is on the march to seize every resource of the public and to re-organize society in its own image.

Microsoft has controlled the Pentagon’s cloud computing efforts since October, 2019. Big tech is constantly making inroads into the military, including $11 billion in contracts in the last 3 years.:

“’As we continue to execute the DOD Cloud Strategy, additional contracts are planned for both cloud services and complementary migration and integration solutions necessary to achieve effective cloud adoption,’ the Pentagon said”. (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pentagon-jedi-idUSKBN1X42IU)

Then just look at what we are already seeing! Capitalism’s massive collapse as a result of COVID means that an estimated 40% of African-American business will not open. One-third of restaurants will never open again.

What happens when the restaurants close? People increasingly order online. Big Tech becomes ever more dominant. Then Big Box stores enter the scene and become the only places that provide the distribution of the necessities of life. Private equity corporations and hedge funds actively finance this extermination. Amazonification aims far higher than replacing mom and pop stores. It also rises to counter the demand for the domination and extension of public property to benefit everyone..

Then Rent Apocalypse is about to hit, with multi-billion dollar corporations waiting to evict up to 28 million people by Thanksgiving. This tidal wave is lead by Blackstone, the world’s largest private equity management corporation. Blackstone works closely with Blackrock, the world’s largest asset-manager, and shadow bank to the world, which was founded in partnership with Blackstone in 1988. While Blackstone proclaims that the rentership society is here, Blackrock manages the government multi-trillion bailout for financial speculators and the financial industry. By driving millions out of their homes, these criminals will keep the homes empty, and turning them into rentals, in an attempt to extract more wealth from our communities..

“Today the fast-growing ETF (“exchange-traded funds) sector controls nearly half of all investments in US stocks, and it is highly concentrated. The sector is dominated by just three giant American asset managers – BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street, the “Big Three” – with BlackRock the clear global leader. By 2017, the Big Three together had become the largest shareholder in almost 90% of S&P 500 firms, including Apple, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, General Electric and Coca-Cola….

“Giant pension and other investment funds largely control the stock market, and the asset managers control the funds. That effectively puts BlackRock, the largest and most influential asset manager, in the driver’s seat in controlling the economy.”

(https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/06/24/meet-blackrock-the-new-great-vampire-squid/)

These corporations are hell-bent on impose extractive capitalism on our communities and families. This model that vacuums wealth and information out of communities and sends it to the top. Oh yes, and what about the morality of evicting people to live on the street in the middle of a pandemic? Oh well, it’s just collateral damage.

That, of course, is what the Amazon-ification of America is all about. No longer even pretending to offer jobs, the capitalist class, lead by Big Tech, is re-organizing the economy and the government to extract wealth and give it to themselves.

Before COVID hit, the government had already authorized “Opportunity Zones” in 2017 to re-invest in impoverished American communities. Such predatory gentrification and dispossession is beloved by both Jared Kushner and Gavin Newsome. The giant capitalist equity companies and hedge funds are now in charge.

From “Displacement Zones: How Opportunity Zones Turn Communities into Tax Shelters for the Rich”:

“Boosters promised Opportunity Zones would help bring capital to the neighborhoods that most need it, but in reality allow wealthy investors to benefit from huge tax breaks while they speculate at the expense of the most vulnerable communities. The structure of the Opportunity Zones program was designed with the interests of speculators, not communities, in mind. Communities living inside many Opportunity Zones across the country are already experiencing rapid changes. Unregulated speculative investment will throw even more fuel on the fire. The Opportunity Zones program will exacerbate an already unbearable

“Opportunity Zones were created by the rich, for the rich.

“Opportunity Zones are an invention of the Silicon Valley millionaire-backed Economic Innovation Group, and contain some of the most generous tax breaks currently available. The program gives capital gains tax exemptions that scale up based on the length of time an investment is held, eventually culminating in a 15% reduction in the taxable basis of the principal, and complete tax exemption of any profits made on the investment after 10 years. Because the distribution of capital gains income is highly unequal, the overwhelming majority of these tax benefits will flow directly to the richest investors in the country. Indeed, 90% of all capital gains income in the United States is owned by the wealthiest 10% of people, and 70% of all capital gains is owned by the wealthiest 1%.” (www.saje.net/.../2019/11/SAJE_DisplacementZones.pdf)

This was before COVID. The virus is now aggravating and amplifying every tendency that existed before its advent. It should be no surprise, therefore, that New York Andrew Cuomo recently invited Google and Microsoft into the state to “re-imagine” the new world where Big Tech companies seize control of telehealth, public education and the entire society.

In other words, Cuomo is abrogating the responsibilities of government to guarantee a safe and healthy environment for everyone and turning this charge over to corporations. They, of course, will place private profit above the public good.

“This is a future in which, for the privileged, almost everything is home delivered, either virtually via streaming and cloud technology, or physically via driverless vehicle or drone, then screen “shared” on a mediated platform. It’s a future that employs far fewer teachers, doctors, and drivers. It accepts no cash or credit cards (under guise of virus control) and has skeletal mass transit and far less live art. It’s a future that claims to be run on “artificial intelligence” but is actually held together by tens of millions of anonymous workers tucked away in warehouses, data centers, content moderation mills, electronic sweatshops, lithium mines, industrial farms, meat-processing plants, and prisons, where they are left unprotected from disease and hyperexploition. It’s a future in which our every move, our every word, our every relationship is trackable, traceable, and data-mineable by unprecedented collaborations between government and tech giants.

“If all of this sounds familiar it’s because, pre-Covid, this precise app-driven, gig-fueled future was being sold to us in the name of convenience, frictionlessness, and personalization.” (https://naomiklein.org/the-screen-new-deal/)

The Social Response

Yes, the US capitalist class could have responded to the virus by taking steps, similar to Europe, to make things easier, but it didn’t. Now that the capitalist class is doubling down to make ever greater political and private profit from the crisis, we have already seen a decisive social force take the political stage. Two new generations have now mounted the stage of history. The great mass of protestors, though not all, in the massive George Floyd rebellion came from these new generations.

Millennials are roughly those who were born after 1980 and came to political awareness in 2000 or after, and who came into political maturity around 2000. This year they would be 40 years old. Rising behind them is he generation that came to political maturity with the Parkland Massacres in 2018, often called Gen Z by the corporate media. There are 74 million people in the US in this group who were born between 1995 and 2015.

These generations intend to assert their agency. They understand that their future will be there long after the Boomers have passed on. They intend to take control of the situation. For these generations, the American Dream is a hollow antiquated notion. They understood already that their future was imperiled with Climate Crisis. They already were the primary casualties of the digitally-driven laborless-production that is sweeping through every branch of the economy. Somehow, they must survive the Gig Economy that is consuming them. They are a substantial part of a new proletarian class, one that is being replaced by digitally-driven production.

The new social force already clearly holds government for guaranteeing the safety of the public. This issue began with the murder of Trayvon in 2012, and escalated with the response to Michael Brown’s and Eric Garners murders, to name a few. It expresses itself as righteous rage at white supremacy and police murder. And it correctly holds the government and the State accountable. This rising demand for the public good threatens to overflow the narrow limits that the Democratic Party tries to impose. Voices from myriad directions have been asserting that if government cannot do the job, we know very well how to govern ourselves and society.

This new proletarian class has much to learn, but objectively it cannot back down. We are witnessing the concretization for our times of Lenin’s famous statement that revolutions begin when the working class cannot live in the old way and the ruling class cannot rule in the old way.

As society is drawn further into political crisis with re-opening schools, massive voter suppression and an election that may well be suborned, the social response, sooner or later, will build its political consciousness. As Engels observed long ago, the people today are transforming themselves into the people of tomorrow:

“You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society but also to change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power.” [Revelations concerning the Communist Trial at Cologne]

Steven Miller

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August 9, 2020

Steven Miller is a retired public school science teacher in Oakland, California

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shellywrighttech · 3 years ago

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Smart Health Products Market Size, Share – Global Outlook and Forecast 2022-2028

Introduction:

Information technology towards smart healthcare, the concept has increased in the internet of things, big data, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing transforming the traditional medical system into smart efficient and convenient for the healthcare sector. Moreover, smart healthcare includes multiple participants like doctors, patients, hospitals, and research institutions. It helps the patient for various aspects such as smart parking, data maintenance, card facility for hospitals, medical assistance through virtual assistance, and image visualization for the smooth experience and avoiding time consumption. According to the study of Springer’s article, after the covid-19 pandemic pushes healthcare for the technological growth and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) become very efficient towards tracking systems, medical treatment. Moreover, to analyse the data applications for healthcare electromyogram (EMG), electrocardiogram (ECG) and electroencephalogram (EEG), magneto encephalogram (MEG), galvanic skin response (GSR), electrooculography (EOG).

Segmentation:

Global smart health products market is segmented into product type, Application, users, and region. Based on type market is segmented into electronic health record, RFID, telemedicine, and others. Based on application market is segmented into health data storage, monitoring and treatment, and inventory management. Based on user market is classified into hospitals, home health care, and others. Based on region, skincare products market is segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa.

Market dynamics and factors:

The increasing demand for smart health products seems long-term scope and helps in harmful disease efficient way which drives the growth of the global smart healthcare products market. In addition, the rising adoption of smartphones, digital technology, cloud-based electronic record, makes entire health operations smooth by sharing data and easy access to launch new products. For instance, Johns Hopkins Hospital, USA using a smart command center that helps manage beds, dispatch ambulances and allocate staff. It also helps in waste management and manages supplies. Furthermore, the high cost of the products and lack of skilled professionals to work on electronic healthcare products hamper the growth of the market. Furthermore, smart healthcare products have opportunities across the country after the pandemic situation. Telemedicine, e-commerce, drones, robots, and artificial intelligence will transform healthcare that is performed by humans to reduce variability, cost, and error. Moreover, drone companies have started working to deliver blood, vaccines, snakebite serum, and other medical supplies. For instance, Zipline has been developing a drone service known as Zips, which can deliver 150 blood packets a day. Drone manufacturer Flirtey also worked on demo delivery in the U.S. of the emergency testing products. Hence, these opportunities have been expected to rise for the forecasted period of the overall market.

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Regional analysis:

Geographically, Global health product market is segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa.

North America dominates the market due to increasing demand for electronic inventory management solutions, RFID, and rising healthcare expenditure by individuals in the region. Efficient and better healthcare quality to the population has increased the demand for smart healthcare devices and information electronically.

Europe region captured the second largest market growth of smart health products, countries such as U.K. and Germany believed to be the major countries witnessing smart healthcare products. This augmented demand is attributed to the rising in this region. Smart Health innovation, continuous developments in ICT, e-location technology, healthcare infrastructure, and broadband data connectivity encourages both the public and the private sector to explore the possibilities of Smart Health.

The Asia Pacific owing to a quickly evolving smart health products market on a digital platform. The favourable government initiatives to improve the healthcare sector are helping to boost the growth of products. For instance, India launches the world’s biggest healthcare program called Modicare which is based on digitalized healthcare products like telemedicine and mHealth.

In the Middle East and Africa, the government has taken some smart digital healthcare initiatives, The investors investing in medical services but due to government pressure and laws affecting the future expansion of the smart healthcare market and hindering rapid in the region.

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Medtronic

Honeywell international inc.

Becton, Dickinson and company

AirStrip

Olympus Corporation

Flirtey

Flyzipline

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04-06-2021: Samsung India has added new Samsung Smart Healthcare centres at Government hospitals across the country, as part of its citizenship initiative, helping Covid Warriors perform faster Covid-19 diagnosis. Samsung ramped up the program to add 56 new Samsung Smart Healthcare centres in hospitals across 19 states, contributing to Covid management.

21-06-2021: Japan plans to launch paper documents indicating vaccination status by the end of July to allow its residents to travel internationally. Moreover, South Korea has rolled out a digital health pass, in the form of a smartphone app known as ‘COOV’ and developed by Blockchain Labs, with the backing of the Linux Foundation.

02-06-2021: Huawei Launches Huawei Watch 3 Series Powered by Harmony OS 2. It has multifunctional features, additionally this watch can monitor skin temperature with a new high-precision temperature sensor. It also supports fall detection and SOS functions so users can monitor and manage their health in real time.

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chloedecker0 · 3 years ago

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SMART HEALTH PRODUCTS MARKET RESEARCH, FUTURE TRENDS, OPPORTUNITIES AND DEEP ANALYSIS 2028

Introduction:

Segmentation:

Market dynamics and factors:

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Geographically, Global health product market is segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa.

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Medtronic

Honeywell international inc.

Becton, Dickinson and company

AirStrip

Olympus Corporation

Flirtey

Flyzipline

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jacelynsia · 4 years ago

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Understand the various types of data analytics along with their features and use cases. Based on these a business can determine the best fit to take informed decisions and plan future growth.

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perksofwifi · 5 years ago

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Four Autonomous-Car Features You’re Gonna Dig [CES 2020]

The 2020 CES nerd-a-palooza won’t be crowded by the Detroit auto show, which is moving to June this year, so we’ll be devoting more time and attention to the event formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show. To whet your tech appetite, here are four noteworthy autonomous-vehicle technologies that were revealed just recently.

Magna “Campfire” Seating: Multiple Configurations

Officially, they’re called Power Long Rails with Stadium Swivel, and they’re brought to you by the Stow ’n Go folks. On the move, when your electrons bid you to “sit back and leave the driving to us” (in that sing-songy voice they undoubtedly have), these clever seats feature bottom cushions that fold up, allowing the seat to pivot in place and slide fore and aft to achieve a “campfire” configuration that lets the family (or board of directors on the move) see each other for a chat. And when you’re toiling away at your daytime desk job and send the car off to earn its keep, the “power long rail” part kicks in, folding the cushions up and powering all the seats forward to leave a giant cargo area into which package delivery drones can dump stuff. This tech is still in the concept stage of development.

Continental eHorizon and PreviewESC: The Cloud Can Can Prep Your Car for Weather

This new advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) teaches some old sensors new tricks and combines the added info they’re providing with cloud computing, nav data, and artificial intelligence to help vehicles match their speeds to current conditions. An example: Those dumb sideview mirror cams that used to just twiddle their digital thumbs when you weren’t parking now watch for water spray coming off the front tires to gauge hydroplaning danger. This Road Condition Observer data gets transmitted to the Continental cloud, where similar info from other vehicles gets combined with local temperature and precipitation weather data. In this cloud, Continental’s eHorizon technology uses artificial intelligence to combine swarm data from the entire fleet with additional info from neural networks used for image processing and object detection into an information stew of data that models can use to predict accurate, localized coefficients of friction and identify hazardous situations. Back on board your vehicle, PreviewESC uses this friction info along with onboard knowledge of the curvature of the road, upcoming intersections, and the like to regulate speed—whether you’re driving or the car is. This technology is in development with a specific customer, and it’s in limited commercial production today (lacking any auto-braking function).

CNXMotion Brake-to-Steer: Correcting for Faults or Danger Automatically in Driverless Cars

This Continental-Nexsteer (CNX) joint venture delivers redundant emergency steering if the primary (and perhaps secondary) electric power steering windings should fail during autonomous driving (or when a driver fails to accept a Level 3–4 handoff). It brakes a front wheel to steer the car in that direction. This idea is already in use for lane-keep-assist functions, but it is able to steer more dramatically if the suspension design incorporates a greater scrub radius (that’s where the steering kingpin angle axis intersects the ground well inboard of the center of the tire’s contact patch). A big scrub radius can compromise dynamic handling and steering feel—things nobody will notice or care about when the electrons take the helm full-time. This technology is still in the concept phase of development.

OSRAM-Continental SMARTRIX-HD “Talking” Headlamps

The HD in that shout-case nomenclature stands for high-def and refers to the 4,096 pixels of LED light in each headlamp. With that many pixels, the lamps can very precisely shade the area of an oncoming car’s windshield to prevent blinding glare, or they can highlight a biker or deer on the side of the road with added brightness. They can also create messages on the roadway—navigation arrows, deer warnings, or even communication with pedestrians to replace that human eye-lock that makes us feel comfortable crossing in front of a motorist. In autonomous mode, lamps like this can draw a crosswalk in front to acknowledge recognition of the pedestrian. Oh, and these lamps also include laser high-beams that can project light almost 2,000 feet down the road! Many of the wonderful things these smart lamps can do are not yet legal in the U.S., but the hardware will be in production in 2020, ready to be activated over the air if/when NHTSA (finally) approves their use.

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ilovecandy97 · 5 years ago

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SOCIAL MEDIA AND CHINA

Alright everybody here’s the last post for this blog and this week I will be talking specifically about China and their social media platforms. So let’s jump into it!

China has experienced rapid rates of growth in their internet platforms where trends are constantly changing even overnight. China is also known to be one countries that possesses the most high tech economy in the world, deriving the Chinese internet ecosystem. China has a population of 1,4 billion where it has a community of internet users amounting to 772 million people forming the largest community on the internet in the whole world.

In terms of the internet platforms in China, Tencent operates the largest social media platform in the country known as WeChat which has more than a billion active users. The three companies Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent Holdings holds majority of the internet platforms known as BAT where they have expanded their online reach, reaching a market value of over US $1trillion. Chinese companies have expanded vastly through the concept of E-commerce and social networking to increase and enhance their customer base allowing users to partake in buying deals offered for groups, (Ho, Soo & Deng 2018).

Is China’s AI technology the answer to the future?

The governing body of China has made extensive efforts especially in the inculcation of Artificial Intelligence to make China as the world’s principal Artificial innovation center by the year 2023 and has made noticeable progress towards this goal. China as an economy will be able to obtain a strong hold in the international market and also give the biggest three companies in China, Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu an even higher boost in terms of market power and profitability. China has already invested extensive amounts on smart cars, cloud and big data which all falls under the concept of Artificial Intelligence indicating that Artificial intelligence will indefinitely be the future of the Chinese economy, (Webb 2018).

Is the Social Credit System a way to instill good behavior and provide safety to citizens? At what cost?

As mentioned before, with a population of 1.3 billion, China plans to adopt a system of face recognition that is able to identify people within three seconds with a percentage of 90 for accuracy. China has adopted a system of mass surveillance in the economy where they track the activity of users through mobile applications through social credit systems in order to monitor the people of the country. The government body and official military departments have even gone far as using drones in the shape of birds to spy and keep tabs on certain people. These drones are designed in such a way to look like actual doves by creating the identical flapping of a bird’s wings for instance. These drones are designed with an inbuilt GPS system along with cameras and a data link antenna to facilitate satellite communication. According to statistics it was reported that China had invested in the installation of over 200 million surveillance cameras, causing a rise in issues of privacy, as they even installed cameras in schools to monitor whether students were paying attention.

The facial recognition technology in China was adopted at two checkpoints t borders to check the appearance of the visitors along with the information of their travel and informs customs officers in case of any suspicious activities. Officials in Chinese airports also use facial recognition to match the luggage of the passengers in case of lost baggages or security concerns, (Jiaquan 2018).

it is clear that China is extreme when it comes to security concerns but the extent of it is at question as it can be considered as an extensive invasion of privacy and can cause discomfort to the people.

References

Ho, C., Soo, Z and Deng, I, 2018, “China’s internet ecosystem model increasingly being copied globally”, South China Morning Post, viewed 25th November 2019, <https://www.scmp.com/tech/enterprises/article/2155155/chinas-internet-ecosystem-model-increasingly-being-copied-globally>

Webb, A, 2018, “China is leading in Artificial Intelligence and American Businesses should take note”, Inc.com, viewed 25th November 2019, <https://www.inc.com/magazine/201809/amy-webb/china-artificial-intelligence.html>

Jiaquan, Z, 2018, “Drones, facial recognition and a social credit system: 10 ways China watches its citizens”, viewed 25th November 2019, <https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2157883/drones-facial-recognition-and-social-credit-system-10-ways-china>

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alexjosephalex-blog · 6 years ago

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Digital Transformation – The Driving Force For Large Enterprises In India

Large Enterprises* form the backbone of the Indian economy and contribute revenues equivalent to as much as 40% of the country’s GDP. Till date, these enterprises have generated close to 7Mn direct jobs, which has grown at a rate of 7% year-on-year. Interestingly, 45% of these Large Enterprises are growing slower than India’s GDP, despite India being one of the fastest-growing trillion-dollar economies in the world.

A combination of factors such as unicorns, digital natives, and technologically advanced global players eating into Indian Large Enterprises’ revenues; digital disruptions wrought by the emergence of new-age technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Internet of Things (IOT), etc.; and lower than needed investments into digital initiatives have caused this slower growth.

Digitalization and Indian Large Enterprises

India took 60+ years since independence to become a USD 1Tn economy, while the next couple of trillion dollars were added in 7 years and 6 years respectively. This timeframe is further expected to shrink to 3 years, when India is expected to become a USD 4Tn economy by 2023. A combination of focused globalization, dedicated structural reforms, generous government spending, and widespread digitalization will help propel India to achieve this feat on the global stage. In fact, the Indian government is allocating nearly USD 100Bn to boost the physical as well as the digital infrastructure across the country.

Key segments driving business demand in India

The following key segments are currently driving business demand in India –

Public-listed Large Enterprises: There are nearly 1200 Large Enterprises in India, which contribute close to 40% of India’s GDP. In 2018, around 160 companies were listed on the BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange), of which 20 were Large Enterprises.

Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs): There are 60+Mn SMBs in the country, with more than 50% of them being technology-influenced.

Global Capability Centers (GCCs): There are close to 1250 GCCs active in India, which have been set up by more than 900 MNCs. Among these, 40-45% belong to Global 2000 companies.

Start-ups including Unicorns: India is home to about 7700 start-ups, making it the third-largest start-up ecosystem in the world and one of the most vibrant in the technology ecosystem. Unicorns, the start-ups with a valuation in excess of USD 1Bn, are also included in this mammoth number. Collectively, these start-ups provide employment to about 1.7 lakh people in the country.

Government: There are over 300 companies under the Central Government. In 2018 alone, the government invested ~USD 500Mn in planned digital initiatives.

Digital Consumers: Digital consumers are driving business demand thanks to increased Internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones. Currently, India boasts of 100Mn+ e-commerce customers, who will spend an estimated USD 100Bn by 2020.

Public-listed Large Enterprises – the Backbone of Indian Economy

Of the 1200+ public-listed Large Enterprises in India, around 11% have their HQs in tier-2 and tier-3 cities such as Coimbatore, Vadodara, and Jaipur. These enterprises collectively bring in a revenue of USD 1.1Tn and house close to 7Mn talent, of which 1-2% is digitally skilled talent, capable of working on new-age digital technologies like AI, RPA, Blockchain, Cloud, etc.

Further, the billion-dollar Large Enterprises (companies with more than USD 1Bn in annual revenue), witnessed a growth of 10% year-on-year, while around 150 of these Large Enterprises have clocked in approximately USD 700Bn in revenue in 2018 alone. An interesting trend is that ~50% of these billion-dollar Large Enterprises have a Chief Digital Officer (CDO) or a Head of Digital, who focuses mainly on digital initiatives in the enterprise. Interestingly, of the total USD 42-48Bn IT spend in India in 2018, 32% was contributed by Large Enterprises alone.

Reasons for Slower Growth

Over 45% of these enterprises are witnessing a slower growth in annual revenue than India’s GDP growth. Disruptors like unicorns, digital native start-ups, and technologically advanced global players are impacting incumbent Large Enterprises across traditional verticals such as Banking, Transport and Hospitality, Organized Retail, etc.

NPAs and low capital to risk-weighted assets ratio (CRAR) have led to slower growth in BFSI, followed by financial inclusions. In retail, restrictions on FDI and an inability to retain relevant talent are a few factors hampering growth.

Digital Native start-ups like Oyo, Paytm, have raised billions of dollars in funding, which they are investing in building digital infrastructure, hiring skilled digital talent, and creating awareness in the market.

Oyo is a case in point. Having raised in excess of USD 1.7Bn in funding, it has an inventory of more than 500,000 rooms worldwide, with plans to earn 90% of its revenue from the franchise model. Oyo has achieved this feat in a mere 6 years, propelling its current valuation to exceed that of India’s top 4 listed hotel chains. Further, asset-light businesses like Uber, Airbnb, Ola have revolutionized their respective verticals by focusing on building robust platforms that bring together all the ecosystem players. In fact, the impact of digitalization on public-listed Large Enterprises is undeniable.

What is Driving Business Growth in Large Enterprises?

Digital has become a core focus area for Large Enterprises, especially in recent years. In fact, Zinnov research revealed a strong correlation between the digital spend and the business growth of Large Enterprises. Enterprises with a strong digital focus have witnessed higher business growth. Enterprises such as Reliance, HDFC, and even unicorns such as Swiggy, are great examples of companies that have derived significant business outcomes with their focused efforts on digital initiatives.

The digital natives and start-ups are putting pressure on the incumbents to invest aggressively in digital strategies for their very survival. Across verticals, enterprises are investing in cutting-edge digital use cases such as omnichannel experiences in Retail, connected cars in Automotive, blockchain in BFSI, drone surveillance in Telecom, AR/VR in Media & Technology, to name a few.

Case in point is Reliance Jio, a digital native Indian enterprise that achieved explosive growth in record time. Some of the key digital technology initiatives undertaken by Jio include an AI-based voice command feature, leveraging ML algorithms to hire high-impact talent, setting up of a dedicated research center and CoE for Big Data/Analytics.

From forging strategic partnerships to offering a bouquet of new services, Jio is leaving no stone unturned to cement its place at the top. This has not only helped Jio acquire new customers faster and enhance customer experience, it has also significantly reduced the time-to-market of new services.

Impact of Digitalization on Large Enterprises

Digitalization is helping Large Enterprises become agile, grow faster, and compete better in the current volatile business environment. In fact, Large Enterprises that are investing in strategic digital initiatives are witnessing 2x growth in their revenue and 40% growth in their profits. Additionally, they are also witnessing a significant gain in savings through cost optimization. This aggressive growth will be sustainable only if enterprises invest more in digital.

Zinnov research suggests that the total IT spend by public-listed Large Enterprises in India was approximately USD 14Bn in 2018, of which USD 1.4Bn was spent on digital initiatives. However, over the next 3 years, this digital spend is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 40% to touch USD 3.6Bn by 2021, while the total IT spend will grow to touch USD 17Bn.

But what is the impact of digitalization on Large Enterprises? How can Large Enterprises capitalize on their digital initiatives to propel India to become a USD 4Tn economy by FY2023?

*Any organization that has a headcount exceeding 1000 is considered to be a Large Enterprise

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Smart Health Product Market 2022 Share, Trend, Segmentation and Forecast to 2028

Introduction:

Information technology towards smart healthcare, the concept has increased in the internet of things, big data, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing transforming the traditional medical system into smart efficient and convenient for the healthcare sector. Moreover, smart healthcare includes multiple participants like doctors, patients, hospitals, and research institutions. It helps the patient for various aspects such as smart parking, data maintenance, card facility for hospitals, medical assistance through virtual assistance, and image visualization for the smooth experience and avoiding time consumption. According to the study of Springer��s article, after the covid-19 pandemic pushes healthcare for the technological growth and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) become very efficient towards tracking systems, medical treatment. Moreover, to analyse the data applications for healthcare electromyogram (EMG), electrocardiogram (ECG) and electroencephalogram (EEG), magneto encephalogram (MEG), galvanic skin response (GSR), electrooculography (EOG).

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The 5 Most Interesting Artificial Intelligence Trends for Entrepreneurs in 2019

Artificial intelligence is the next big thing for at least the next decade. All the big tech giants have invested in this technological progress. However, Facebook has recently stopped its AI-based operation. Their AI engine has spoken in a newly developed language. While others consider it a threat, it is also a milestone in technological progress. Technologies related to machine learning will see the most significant increase in 2019. Therefore, we can see AI development services developing very quickly. Many businesses are trying to integrate AI with their operations. Companies like HP, Microsoft, and Google have done extensive research. They aim to bring the world together and develop like a branched ecosystem.

Top 5 AI Development Trends:

Let's look at the top 5 AI trends that are ready to dominate the AI industry in 2019: -

1. Progress of AI embedded chips

Artificial intelligence uses its intelligence to answer. This perception comes through machine learning consulting technology. When the software learns from the input received by the user and starts acting for future work. Then, this operation requires sophisticated software and an adjustable, sophisticated processor that can handle the heavy work of the CPU. It is not guaranteed that higher RAM can claim machine learning because it might require more than one CPU to train AI machines. The machine must be lightning fast in receiving and delivering output. As in the case of AI photography, the camera adjusts itself according to its surroundings. Then adjust the light and contrast to give the best picture

2. Development of voice commands

Voice search is the latest trend with home assistants evolving like Google Home and Amazon Alexa. Soon, we will see the keyboard and cursor go extinct. The touch screen will belong to an obsolete era. According to Edit, 40% of adults use voice search every day. This is increasingly popular among young users who want to do the task without using hands!

This device gets access to our lives. However, we surrender ourselves to the slavery of this technology. Like our smartphone; we can't even think of a day without it. If you ask Siri, what is the average consumption of home assistants in the west, the answer appears around 70-80%. This is very impressive; this is very phenomenal. We all know what we say into the device goes to the company's server for training and development. This is what we have prepared for a decade.

3. AI and the Internet of Things finally meet

In 2019, AI meets the internet at the other end of the computing layer. Most models that are trained in the public cloud will test the horizon. Where the two principles finally felt met. Corporate internet is the best solution for AI development services. It keeps sharp decisions, professional approaches and sharp analysis to correct mistakes.

They will walk, provided that facing the machine learning process is going on. In this case, hiring an AI development consulting company is a good idea. This will look into the automation of the entire business process while the fund management is in progress.

4. AI training by lay people

The training process for AI and machine learning is very tedious and also time-consuming. The rules that are followed for machine learning training are the connection of the model to remote cloud clusters. Custom web developer companies must collect all this data. It is irregular and irregular. Then they put it in the machine learning code at their data command center. One AI idea has many weaknesses. First is the difficulty to provide updates for software. Then, there is no scope for machine training and it is used later, given the continuous data received from the user.

There is a thing called the Federated Learning approach proposed by Google. It learns from keyword input by millions of users throughout the world. Rather like captcha, which Google does to read all books available online. And then verify all genuine human user traffic. Technology experts appreciate this step. Because it does not depend on network problems or remote cloud reception. We do it every day without much noise.

Also, there was a significant increase in engine development companies in India. Youth are now more interested in developing passive drones and safety techniques because they help solve everyday problems such as ransacking or lifting shops. However, this AI development service provider company offers world-class solutions for market beginners. They are now climbing the ladder to reach top business partners

5. AI uses offline data

AI uses online data and mining it. The technology giant buys such sensitive data and sometimes sells it to generate revenue for research on the same project. The data is collected, stored and tabulated to identify common traits and adopt machine learning. Now online data can be manipulated occasionally. But machine learning consulting services make sure they don't get tricked into buying it. However, offline data is real gold, because it stores a variety of human behavior. As well as a lot of insights about the properties that remain untouched when dealing with online data.

There are CCTVs, sensors, scanners everywhere. Most of them are connected online for security purposes. What many of them don't know is that several open ports are used to get data as simple as the way humans walk, or they say hello! This insight is combined with data analysis, which is then fed into the student machine to be programmed into an AI-based solution.

Recently, many technology giants have received about stealing sensitive data and tracking the user's online activities. This is an invasion of privacy, but can sometimes be considered as being used to make our future easier and more prosperous.

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Digital Transformation in Healthcare Industry

Healthcare has acquired an all-new meaning in this age of digital transformation. Digitization has helped those sectors that have large volumes of data to be handled. So practically every industry benefits from digitization. The innumerous benefits of digital transformation in healthcare sector have made modern-day medicine and patient care more convenient and efficient.

When the right level of technology is incorporated in healthcare, it helps in gathering the data in one place, making the data accessible anytime and anywhere and in making it easy for hospitals and healthcare institutions to improve the overall quality of healthcare provided. The sophisticated and modern digital transformation technologies have made it possible to integrate various modules in a digital healthcare system to cater to the needs of the hospital and administration, the doctors, and the patients. Now that you are aware of What is Digital Transformation in Healthcare? it is time to understand different terminologies associated with it.

Table of Contents

Digital Transformation Framework

Healthcare Trends 2020

Digital Transformation in the Pharma Industry

Digital transformation roadmap in Pharma Industry

A Need to Opt For Digital Transformation Consulting

Management Board

Feedback system

1.Chatbots: A Promising Healthcare Digital Transformation Trend

2.The Cloud

3.Big Data: A Rising Digital Transformation in Healthcare Industry

4.Artificial Intelligence: Current Largest Trend

Digital Transformation Framework

Management Board

As with most other centralized modules, a management dashboard is required for every healthcare module. When there is a large volume of data interpreting, it is one thing that gets complex. The management dashboard is what makes it easy to obtain a clearer picture of the gathered data quickly. There are graphs and charts that add simplicity to data interpretation. The management team might not always have the time to get into the details to look for important information from the collected data. The dashboard gives a quick glimpse of the data by observing and displaying patterns that are relevant. It makes it easy to understand the statistics.

Read More : “Impact of Digital Transformation in shaping future Healthcare“

There are various details that could be incorporated into the dashboard. And based on the user logging into the module, there could be a personalized dashboard displayed. For example, the type of information that a doctor requires might not always be the same as the type of information that a patient requires. Real-time data collected would then be updated live. The dashboard could also be designed to be viewed easily on multiple devices. And all these features come with the added benefit that integrating the system with the existing system would be very simple. It would avoid downtime caused during transitions periods when process changes occur.

Feedback system

As the name indicates, the feedback system is one that gathers inputs from the users, and this data is then used to improve the existing system. In the digital healthcare systems feedback system consists of real-time data from the patients. Patients would feel better when their opinion is respected, and service quality is improved. And for the hospitals and healthcare institutions, real-time feedback would help improve the processes.

Be it for the normal in-patient and out-patient services or for corporate healthcare programs, the credibility of the hospital would be determined by the timeliness and overall quality of the services. Feedback rating systems make it easier to collect information about the facilities in the healthcare center as well as doctor-patient relationships. Patient feedback can also be integrated along with post-surgery follow-ups. Hospitals can then know about the effectiveness of the treatment plans being recommended and the timeliness of the diagnosis provided. Besides the medical aspects, there are other aspects of the hospitals that should be periodically reviewed, including the patient queue management, service desk, customer assistance, pharmaceutical services, and others. Patients’ opinions about these services would help the hospitals identify problem areas and then work on them.

Healthcare Trends 2020

1.Chatbots: A Promising Healthcare Digital Transformation Trend

Digital transformation in healthcare is also witnessing the rise of chatbots that give an all-new dimension to the typical healthcare services. Internally these are just pieces of codes written to interact with the user and provide real-time responses in a natural-sounding language.

For the patients, these bots could be used in conveniently booking appointments as well as to answer a few basic questions. If patients require financial assistance or if there are queries about insurance claims, chatbots could easily answer all such questions.

For the doctors, chatbots can help by easily delivering patient information before scheduled visits.

For the administration teams scheduling the appointments based on the availability of the doctors can also be made simpler with chatbots.

Chatbots are also handy in providing quick information about inventory status. It helps medical and non-medical staff plan the purchase of equipment, medicine, and more.

For the general management of the hospital, there could be management bots. The difference in integrating a chatbot is that all the information that is available in the database can be easily accessed with a few quick questions. The answers are instantly provided by the relevant chatbots which also come with straightforward user interfaces; surely another reason why these chatbots are a perfect example of digital transformation.

2.The Cloud

Having stored your entire data in the cloud, you no longer need to rely on maintenance teams and even go as far as to build infrastructures when it comes to having a common platform. With the help of the cloud, digital medical records can now be easily accessed thereby making the entire process quite convenient.

3.Big Data: A Rising Digital Transformation in Healthcare Industry

As has been observed, large amounts of medical data get generated each year, with the number almost doubling by the next year. With so much information coming up from various spruces, the need for a better handling technology has given rise to data-driven medicine that is experiencing increasing popularity with time.

Big data in healthcare has great benefits to this sector, some of which include :

Reduction in medication errors

Constructive plans on illness prevention

Offering long term care to patients

Reduction in waiting time that is generally caused due to understaffing.

4.Artificial Intelligence: Current Largest Trend

Machine learning, along with artificial intelligence, is turning out to be a promising innovation in the healthcare sector. From drug discovery, medical research to disease diagnosis and creation of treatment plans, this technology helps in improving the operational efficiency of hospitals at the time of epidemic outbreaks.

Read More : “Digital Transformation in Healthcare – II“

In the coming years, it is persecuted that this technology will be widely utilized for personalized medicine. We might also enter a phase where in human doctors will be replaced with autonomous AI.

Listed below are some major applications of Artificial Intelligence :

Image classification systems under AI will help in better quality diagnostics that would require minimum time.

Artificial intelligence can easily be utilized for saving risk patients so that there isn’t any delay in treating them.

AI also helps in predicting possible epidemic outbreaks with the help of a drone that can collect the required information.

Digital Transformation in the Pharma Industry

Pharma industry being the core of the healthcare sector has undoubtedly addressed a major fundamental change. Many pharma companies are already engaging themselves in improving patient care and medicine development to a whole new extent, thanks to the latest innovations and technologies that have been paving the way to a better future in healthcare.

Digital transformation roadmap in Pharma Industry

A more precise way of analyzing the digital transformation in Pharma is in starting off by describing it through the network of product supply and product cycle perspective. In this way, we will get to know the extent to which the medication developed helps improve the patients.

Ultimately, this unbelievable transformation is bound to pose huge benefits to the pharma companies and help them turn into patient-centric. It indicates that the possibilities of the patients being exposed to cost-effective and better healthcare outcomes are increasingly high.

A Need to Opt For Digital Transformation Consulting

Digital transformation in healthcare industry is all about the integration of patient care and interaction along with the latest digital technologies. However, the right kind of digital transformation strategy is the one that does not involve your prime focus on technology. What’s most important in this entire transformation is the extent to which the patient experience is improved. This means that the health care companies also need to focus on quality service delivery and patient care, apart from transforming their business.

Getting comfortable with the regular things you do is quite simple. But in the case of digitalization, you will have to get comfortable even with the constantly changing technologies, in short, something that is uncomfortable. Being a part of the hyper-competitive environment, companies need to keep their pace to deliver beyond their capabilities, and this where they might certainly find the need to consult digital transformation consulting providers to improve their patient experience.

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Travelers - Enterprise Tech Ecosystem Series

Travelers – Enterprise Tech Ecosystem Series

Summary

Travelers is an insurance company that offers a range of commercial and personal property and casualty insurance products and services. It provides insurance products for auto, real estate, marine, valuable items, wedding, and identity fraud. It also offers flood insurance, business owner cover, special risk insurance, management and professional liability insurance, and surety bonds.

In addition, the company offers claims settlement and insurance advisory services. The company provides its products and services to individuals, government units, associations, and businesses. Travelers markets and sells its products through independent agents, brokers, branch offices, and direct marketing. The company operates in the US, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, the UK, and Ireland.

This report explores Travelers’ digital transformation strategies. It also provides extensive insight into its technology initiatives, covering partnerships and product launches. In addition, the report includes details of the company’s estimated ICT budget for 2020.

Scope

– Travelers operates an online portal for business owners to gain information on cybersecurity measures in order to protect their assets and customers’ information. – Travelers operates the Early Severity Predictor program, which leverages data analytics to help businesses with accurate calculation of risks and claims assessment. – The key technology themes under focus for Travelers are artificial intelligence, automated home, big data, blockchain, the cloud, cybersecurity, data analytics, data centers, drones, voice recognition, insurtech, the Internet of Things, machine learning, virtual reality, and wearable tech.

Reasons to Buy

– Learn about Travelers’ fintech operations, including investments, product launches, partnerships, and acquisitions. – Gain insight into its fintech strategies and innovation initiatives. – Discover which technology themes are under the group’s focus.

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How Can Technology Help Fight The Pandemic COVID-19?

Without a doubt, the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the gravest threats human kind has ever faced. Every passing minute is shrouded with despair and uncertainty. What started in Wuhan, China has now spun its webs across all parts of the globe, disarming thousands of individual ambitions and businesses. The world economy is slowly falling apart, and so is the resilience of the people.

In the wake of a global emergency, the brightest minds in the world have put their heads together to pioneer innovative solutions with the use of technologies to monitor and limit the spread of the deadly virus. But the real question is, can technology help fight the pandemic COVID-19?

As rightly said by Sir Arthur C. Clarke, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic”, here are some of the brilliant ways technology is being used by the various sections of the professionals including, doctors, engineers and developers to put up a brave fight against the global crisis:

AI to Detect Pandemic Spread

Artificial Intelligence is taking over the world and with the help of high-quality data; it can turn out to be a powerful tool when it comes to foreseeing the future of the disease all the while searching for potential treatment.

Toronto based health monitoring Artificial Intelligence platform called BlueDot, which scans data from thousands of sources, noticed a cluster of pneumonia-like illness in Wuhan, China and proved to be one step ahead of WHO and CDC while issuing warnings about the pandemic COVID-19 spread. Moreover, it was able to correctly predict the path of the virus spread from Wuhan to Tokyo.

When it comesto using Big Data & AI to fight Coronavirus, researchers and practicing physicians are trying to learn more about how to control the spread and treat it. With the abundance of data available worldwide, AI can help professionals leaf through that information to identify the most relevant data to form better and faster decisions. AI powered tools like AliveCor and CLEW, are being utilized to detect the signals that anticipate heart attack and respiratory weakening respectively.

Robots to The Rescue

One of the foremost known facts about Coronavirus is that it spreads through human-to-human contact, thus putting the medical staff at risk of contracting the disease. Thanks to medical robots, the threat to the lives of health workers has been minimized to a certain degree.

Although still a relatively new concept, a quadruped Spot robot is already in use at one of the hospitals at Boston to help with Coronavirus treatment. The robot allows physicians to converse with the patient via a screen and it is also endowed with a stethoscope, enabling doctors to take the man’s vitals all the while restricting exposure to the staff.

With the use of a mobile robot, hospitals are able to decrease the number of the required medical staff at the scene and preserve their limited PPE (personal protective equipment) supply. In the US, one patient in the State of Washington is being treated by a robot named Vici, through which he communicates with his care team.

Robots are also being stationed to take care of patients residing in the isolated wards. In China, a small robot called “Little Peanut” is being used to transport food and medicines to the passengers of a flight from Singapore to Hangzhou, China, that are now staying at a hotel in quarantine.

Maps for Monitoring

The Center for Systems and Engineering (CSSE) at John Hopkins was able to create an online dashboard which can help in visualizing and tracking the reported cases on a daily basis. Along with it, they have also developed a full set of downloadable Google Sheet.

An example of one such interactive map to monitor the COVID-19 cases was developed in the US by the website called covidvisualizer.com. IT has the ability to provide users with the option of clicking on a country or region of their interest to see the number of cases, deaths and recoveries.

The data they use to envisage is gathered from several different sources like WHO, CDC, China CDC, NHC and DXY, a website that accumulates local CCDC and NHC reports in real-time.

The data for the US is obtained from the U.S. CDC, and for other countries the case information is acquired from the respective regional health departments, making the final dashboard extremely informative for people that wish to gain deep insight about the scenario.

Smartphone Apps

When it comes to pandemic COVID-19, smartphone apps are playing a huge role in the quest of flattening the curve. These apps are equipped to track infected individuals, issue self-quarantine guidelines, provide the latest communication to the common masses and relieve health care staff from some of the burdens.

Experts have come a long way to understand which technology is best suited for pandemic management. Using apps in the COVID-19 milieu is useful to the common masses to help people to report their symptoms and to gain knowledge about the virus and the health response. Apps are now being surveyed to trace contacts through interaction and proximity analysis. From South Korea to Poland, millions of people have downloaded these apps so far.

Apps like CovidWatch, developed in collaboration with Standform University, uses Bluetooth signals to perceive if somebody who has tested positive is in the proximity and sends alerts. This empowers people to protect themselves and their society without having to give up their privacy.

Another app that has so far gained immense popularity is AgorgyaSetu app which has been downloaded by more than 50 million users within 13 days of its launch. Developed by the Indian Ministry of Electronics and IT, this app features a distinguishable self-testing function through which its users can answer the basic questions pertaining to Novel Coronavirus symptoms. In case the app identifies somebody with the virus, the data goes directly to the government servers and appropriate actions are taken further.

Drones

In the battle against Coronavirus, drones are becoming some of the most powerful tools used by the government of various countries. From walkways with loudspeakers to alerting residents to stay at home and wear masks, drones are ensuring a seamless flow of information between the citizens and the authorities.

There are a number of ways in which drones playing a vital role in the war against this invisible enemy:

· Surveillance: Coronavirus, being a highly contagious disease, is compelling the government to take drastic measures in order to ensure minimum to no human-to-human contact. Authorities round the globe are banning gatherings and limiting any sort of human-to-human interaction. Drones are being used to observe the people and alert the authorities to the violation of any such ban. Through drones, the government makes sure that the instructions given by them are followed, at the same time avoiding any risk to the health of frontline officer.

· Disinfectant Spraying: Simple to operate, inexpensive and easily mobilized, drones are being used by health authorities to carry out tasks like spraying disinfectants. These spraying drones are loaded with disinfectants and can cover an area almost 50 times quicker than any tradition methods. Along with China, other countries such as India, Philippines, Indonesia, Chile, Columbia, Chile and UAE have made use of drones to manage the spread of virus. Recently, Spain has become the first country in Europe to employ agricultural drones for disinfecting vast public areas.

· Medicine and Groceries Delivery: Deliveries through autonomous vehicles, drones and robots are slowly becoming the norm. With doctors and hospitals requiring medical supplies and laboratory testing more than ever, drones are emerging to be the safest and fastest route that could be taken for the delivery of medical supplies and lab samples. In some parts of China, Australia and the US, apart from delivering medical supplies, drones are being used for grocery supplies as well. In the US, Alphabet Inc.’s Wing has seen an exponential growth in the number of drone deliveries in Christiansburg, Virginia after the outbreak. They turned out to be particularly useful in red zones where outside physical contact should be negligible.

3D Printers for Easy Breathing

Every passing day of this pandemic is adding more and more patients to the list, which translates to a worldwide shortage of medical equipments. Ventilators being one of the mandatory equipments when it comes to providing treatment for the most severe cases are facing a lack of supply.

In a situation like this, different groups of people around the globe, with the help of technology like Telegram (cloud-based instant messaging and voice over IP service) have set up network interaction platforms and channels. This way, individuals can share information related to open-source design for producing ventilators using 3D printers.

Any individual who has an access to a 3D printer can contribute; the main agenda is to make them available as soon as possible to the medical staff. Fortunately, this project is said to yield quick and efficient results with a cost-effective approach.

In Spain, one group successfully created an open-source respirator prototype which was tested on a pig at Central University Hospital of Asturias. Due to the successful testing, the group members have garnered a lot of support and are said to be collaborating for human testing of the same.

Chatbots

With the lack of direct interactions due to the lockdown, companies are finding it extremely difficult to maintain a steady communication with the customers. To help eliminate this particular challenge, various organizations are choosing the Chatbot route.

Chatbots have proven to be extremely useful when it comes to spreading awareness about the virus and to also assist with customer queries. Some of the chatbots that have gained popularity amongst the people include the WHO chatbot and Microsoft Azure.

The World Health Organisation’s WHO chatbot has a simplistic approach with users having to send numbers or emojis to extract information related to different topics. Operating on WhatsApp platform, WHO chatbot answers generic questions related to sickness.

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services on the other hand can be utilized by large companies and healthcare organizations to create enterprise-grade bots (Microsoft Healthcare bot) with the ability to converse, comprehend and listen. A few health care organizations such as Copenhagen Emergency Medical Services have already started using Microsoft’s tech to automatically solve people’s queries regarding COVID-19 symptoms, along with virtually screening patients before inviting them in for personal checkups.

In Conclusion,

The pandemic has now transformed into a global calamity, causing a state of economic emergency. Dealing with a global pandemic is petrifying, but technology comes as a beacon of light in such a dark time. The latest forms of technologies like AI, and Data Science along with the increased awareness of the environment around us promises a hope that containment and eventual treatment of outbreaks are achievable. After all, modern problems call for modern solutions.

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New Industrial Revolution Market Analysis by Size, Status, Regional Demand and Growth Opportunities During 2019 to 2025

Worldwide markets are poised to achieve explosive growth generating several new trillion-dollar markets as the digital economy takes hold. Across the industrial spectrum smart devices and robots provetheirvalue by managing digital informationin real time across enterprise boundaries, encouraging collaborative business efforts. Lowering the costs of manufacturing and logistics management is a key benefit.

This study provides the bare outlines of 25 new trillion-dollar market segments, describing how the New Industrial Revolutionwill unfold. Each section provides a brief market description of market opportunity, market change, market forecasts,and market shares in many of the leading market segments impacted by the New Industrial Revolution.Rapid change in how business is conducted and how people are cared for is an exciting new development in business and industry.

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Trillion-dollar markets are expected to develop as a result of AI and collaborative robot development. The companies that have stakes in the current tech industry sector will benefit greatly if they can keep up, if they can fund innovation at the pace needed to stay competitive and if they have mega data center IT that supports building innovative projects with a couple people in a few hours instead of a large team over several months.

An example is the smart manufacturing, industry 4.0, changes brought in part by robots and logistics automation. Manufacturing robots are being improved to make possible implementation of a series of automated operations that replace single step operations. The ability to provide operation of robotic sequential operations with multiple steps to the sequence of automated process for manufacturing creates far more sophisticated automated workflow.

The new industrial revolution brings unparalleled levels of automation and efficiency to every aspect of life. Every man, woman, and child will have a smart phone soon. Even babies like them. They represent a must have device, on hand all the time, even close at hand while we sleep.

The world is at the dawn of next generation of mobile networks, to be based on broadband. Networks bring broadband 5G that Is transformational. 5G is an innovation platform that enhances mobile connectivity of information. It enhances existing services by implementing automation of simple process. It opens capabilities for mechanical actuators that are managed automatically by sensors and information from Micro-Electro Mechanical sensors (MEMs).

Moving past a nefarious history, the blockchain market moves into rapid growth mode as the digital economy takes hold. As the banks and finance industry move into the modern age of real time transaction processing, blockchain is a core enabling technology. This market segment previously has been held back in part by the outdated aspects of the mainframe computing technology. Blockchain is spurred by more modern ways to manage global transactions across national borders from IBM, Microsoft, and Accenture.

Digital technology is dominant worldwide. The digital computer technology that managed data in batchesis outdated, now digital data is managed in real time over the Internet.Blockchain brings digital technology into real time computing systems management. It has the ability to change all aspects of the digital economy, including conducting business, delivering healthcare, shopping, enhancing education and learning, entertainment, and staying connected with a social world.

Cryptocurrency is becoming increasingly popular. Distributed ledgers support the payment system for digital currency to operate in decentralized mode, by eliminating the need of intermediaries to centralize processing. It virtualizes tracking and trading anything of value via creating digital money. Credit cards become an essential part of the blockchain process.

Demand for robotic technology is growing among the largest users of IBM cloud capacity. IBM 60 cloud data centers see blockchain growing to be one of the top applications in use. IBM blockchain digital ledger market is growing rapidly, a much-neededevent for big blue.IBM has been one of the key companies behind the Hyperledger consortium, a nonprofit open-source project that aims to create efficient standards for commercial use of blockchain technology.

Microsoft enterprise customers are making the transition to cloud services and blockchain on Azure. Modernizing transactions to digital economic collaboration support is key to success in modern business environments. Blockchain Cloud Service, helps customers extend existing applications like enterprise-resource management systems. Microsoft expanded its partnership with consortium R3 to make it easier for financial institutions to deploy blockchains in its Azure cloud.

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How Technology Is Protecting Endangered Species

Cambodia is home to 16 globally endangered species, like the Asian elephant, tigers, and leopards. Conservationists there are working with a Harvard computer scientist to stop the poaching that is pushing so many species to the brink of extinction.

It's just one of a growing number of collaborations bringing technologists and conservationists together to fight to protect wildlife from being wiped off the face of the planet. Environmentalists have long had a daunting challenge ahead of them when it comes to protecting animals from poachers, habitat loss, pollution, and climate change. They're now hoping, though, that technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), drones, GPS trackers, smart cameras, and the cloud could give them the upper hand they've been looking for.

"It is horrifying to think about the possibility that we may be leaving a world behind where keystone species like tigers, elephants, and rhinos may just be gone," says Milind Tambe, the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and director of the Center for Research in Computation and Society at Harvard University. "We don't want to have to tell our children, 'Well, they're all gone.' We don't want a world like that."

According to the United Nations Environment Programme, which coordinates the organization's environmental activities, the earth is in the midst of a crisis, with 150 to 200 species of plants, insects, birds, and mammals reportedly going extinct every 24 hours. Biologists say that's 1,000 times the rate that's considered natural extinction. And a 2019 U.N. report notes that approximately 1 million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction, many within decades. More recently, research from the University of Arizona suggests that one-third of plant and animal species could be gone in 50 years.

Here are some more alarming numbers:

In 2018, three bird species vanished from the earth.

In Tanzania, the elephant population has dropped by 20 percent in recent years.

Because of widespread poaching for their horns, as of 2018, there were only two northern white rhinos—both female and incapable of natural reproduction—left in Kenya.

An estimated 100 African elephants are killed each day by poachers seeking ivory, meat, and body parts.

Fewer than 450 North Atlantic right whales, including a little more than 100 breeding females, remain. With so many dying and so few being born, scientists warn that the species may not survive more than another 25 years.

With numbers so staggering and dire, conservationists around the globe increasingly are turning to technologists and tech to protect endangered animals and hopefully save them from extinction. Seeing the plight of many species, tech-savvy people are offering their time and expertise to track animals, analyze their habitats and availability of food, and better understand population dynamics.

It's not new for wildlife conservationists to draw on technology like cameras and tracking collars. What's new is the explosion in technologies like AI, machine learning (ML), the Internet of Things, 5G, wireless, and the cloud. And that explosion is touching many industries, including conservation.

"Every industry is going to be changed by it," says Jeff Kagan, an independent industry analyst. "It's transforming so much. It only makes sense that it's transforming wildlife protection. Where before they could never really follow the animals and the paths they take, and the things they're eating, and how they're living, now we can see exactly where these animals are and what they're doing. And think about how much it will advance in the next 10 years."

Outsmarting the poachers

Tambe, who for the past 15 years has been working on how AI can benefit society, made a slight turn six or seven years ago when he began to wonder how technology could be used to protect animals.

The computer scientist is the creator and driving force behind Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security (PAWS), predictive AI software geared to analyze massive amounts of data and then use ML, game theory, and mathematical modeling to take on the poachers decimating many species of animals around the world, including Cambodia.

For instance, intensive poaching of both Cambodian tigers and their prey have caused a rapid decline in the big cats. Today, the World Wildlife Fund reports that there are no longer any breeding populations of wild tigers left in the country, making them functionally extinct there. As for wild elephants, it's generally estimated that only 300 to 600 remain in Cambodia, down from 2,000 in 1995 and 500 to 1,000 in 1999, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N.

Normally, park rangers and environmentalists study maps trying to figure out where poachers may be laying traps or lying in wait to kill protected animals. The PAWS system goes beyond human gut instinct and crunches data to predict where the poachers will be working, where the animals are in the most danger, and the best patrol routes for the rangers.

Tambe has been extensively testing PAWS in Cambodia. Conservationists there are finding poaching traps five times more today than they were before they began using his AI-based system.

"I kept saying, 'I think AI can help,'" he says. "Where are the poachers going to hit next? There are thousands of square kilometers in national parks. There are hundreds of rangers. They can't be everywhere. If we can tell them where they need to be [to stop the poaching], that's important."

Now, Tambe's PAWS system is being adapted to work with 800 global national parks that use SMART (Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool) software to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of conservation and wildlife law enforcement. With the help of an AI engineer from Microsoft, Tambe has been working for the past six to eight months to integrate PAWS with the SMART software and enable it all to run in the cloud. The system, which so far has been running only on an experimental basis, is scheduled to launch this spring.

"We are honored to be able to contribute," he says. "Some people think of AI being a technology that might be harmful in some ways, maybe taking jobs away. It's a surprise to people that you can apply AI to protect wildlife and use it for social good. The gift to us, as AI researchers, has been opening the door to new AI research challenges so we can advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence."

Saving the salmon

In the Northern California foothills of the Sierra Nevada range, a group of conservationists, the Friends of Auburn Ravine, has been working to protect the local wild Chinook salmon, also known as king salmon. The salmon's numbers have been slashed by logging, dams, overfishing, and pollution. Scientists estimate that 29 percent of the Pacific salmon populations have become extinct in the past 240 years.

The group of volunteers set up cameras to record video of the fish as they migrate upstream to spawn every fall and winter. They were trying to collect data on the number of salmon swimming through, to garner support to improve habitat and facilitate natural migration of adult and juvenile salmon.

The problem was that volunteers were sitting and staring at a seemingly endless amount of video to count fish swimming by.

"It's boring work looking at the videos," says Brad Cavallo, president of Cramer Fish Sciences and a board member of the Friends of Auburn Ravine. "It's easy to miss something because you just space out, but estimates are important so we know how to set harvest limits and how the fish are doing."

Eric Hubbard, a master technologist who has worked at Hewlett Packard Enterprise since 1999, came along and changed that boring, but important, work.

Hubbard says two or three years ago, his dad, who is a volunteer with Friends of Auburn Ravine, told him about video watch parties where volunteers ate pizza and counted fish.

"It was a cool volunteer effort," says Hubbard. "I saw their enthusiasm and effort, but it hurt me to see them doing it so inefficiently. It took huge amounts of hours to look at videos to count these fish. I knew we could automate this and make it so much easier on them."

Hubbard, using the annual 60 hours of paid volunteer time he receives from HPE through the company's community involvement program, HPE Gives, traded out the volunteers' security cameras, which used proprietary protocols that were difficult to work with, for new digital underwater and overhead cameras—dubbed salmon cams—with standard protocols and formats.

Using the Java programming language, Hubbard wrote 5,000 lines of code to create a software program, called FishSpotter, to detect and document passing fish. Raw digital video is uploaded to the cloud, where FishSpotter processes it. Using advanced image recognition to detect activity and identify salmon, FishSpotter automatically produces short GIF highlights of any passing salmon, so humans can then review it to confirm the fish species.

The 2018-2019 migration season was the first to be monitored with the new digital system.

By eliminating the need to watch this large batch of data, FishSpotter was able to pare down 1.6 terabytes and 2,416 hours of raw data into just 101 gigabytes and 20.4 hours of GIF highlights for volunteers to vet and verify as salmon (or other wildlife or activity). In future seasons, Hubbard hopes to further refine FishSpotter's image recognition capabilities to narrow this data set of possible suspects down even further to further accelerate insights.

"I live in a real tech bubble," says Hubbard. "Everyone around me is tech-savvy. I look at these nonprofits and they're outside that bubble. They don't necessarily have the expertise to know what's possible. It's been very gratifying. Initially, it started out as helping people more than the salmon. Then as I got more involved, I was drawn into how important these fish are."

Tech to protect polar bears and rhinos

Colby Loucks, vice president of the Wildlife Conservation Program at the World Wildlife Fund U.S., says technology is increasingly a vital tool in wildlife conservation. And as a leader in the organization's Wildlife Crime Technology Project, which focuses on using cutting-edge technology to fight poaching, he says tech advancements have opened doors.

That's what led the group to create WildLabs.net, a global online community joining conservationists with technologists, engineers, data scientists, and entrepreneurs. With more than 3,000 active users, the group's mission is to use technology to tackle conservation issues, like illegal wildlife trade and poaching.

"We had conservationists trying to use technology, but they weren't technologists by training," says Loucks. "There were a lot of technologists around the world who have the skill sets, knowledge, and desire to help in conservation. WildLabs.net is about connecting those communities. We're piecing together innovative ideas between people with a conservation background and a technology background."

For instance, Loucks says conservationists are combining cameras with ML software trained to distinguish between animals and people. When the system identifies humans, as opposed to zebras or rhinos, passing by a camera, rangers are notified so they can check to see if the people are poachers.

Others in Africa are using thermographic cameras that use infrared radiation to detect elephant and rhino poachers.

Loucks notes that the smart thermal camera technology was installed in 2016 in two different areas of Kenya's Lake Nakuru National Park, a site known for its rhino conservation work. The year before the technology was installed, there were 17 attempted poaching events in the park, he says. The year the system was installed, two poachers were caught, and after that, there were no poaching incidents for the rest of the year and none in 2017 and 2018. In 2019, the system was used to catch another four poachers.

"We feel like that is a big success," says Loucks.

Some scientists are even using environmental DNA (eDNA) technology, which can detect genetic material, such as traces of biological tissue and mucus, obtained directly from environmental samples like soil, sediment, and water. Loucks explains that scientists studying polar bears can scoop samples from streams or footprints in the Arctic snow. From that, they can pull up DNA and use that information to identify what the bears have been eating and even identify individual bears.

"The dream is that you might not see a bear, but if you get a polar bear footprint, you could still know quite a lot about it, which would be a big leap forward for tracking polar bears and seeing how climate change is impacting them," says Loucks. "It is an exciting time to be in the wildlife conservation space right now. We've seen a lot of developments and efforts using technologies to solve problems."

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