Union Ministry of Electronics & IT, Govt of Andhra Pradesh and NASSCOM launch ‘Centre of Excellence of IoT and AI’ in Visakhapatnam

What is the News?

National Association of Software and Services Companies(NASSCOM) in a joint partnership with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology(MeitY) and the Government of Andhra Pradesh has inaugurated the ‘Centre of Excellence on IoT and AI’.

What is the Centre of Excellence on IoT and AI?

The Center of Excellence on IoT and AI is located at Andhra University Campus, Visakhapatnam.

Objectives: 

To solve real-world challenges by promoting innovation in emerging technologies like the Internet of things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence(AI), robotics among others.

To promote entrepreneurship by providing an incubation facility for peer-to-peer learning and the benefit of an industrial environment.

What are the Nine Sunrise Technologies?

The 9 technologies which are going to be the sunrise technologies for world events are: 1) Artificial Intelligence & Machine learning 2) Robotic Process Automation 3) Edge computing which is an extension to Cloud computing 4) Quantum computing 5) Virtual reality and Augmented Reality 6) Blockchain 7) IoT 8) 5G and 9) cyber security. 

Source: This post is based on the article “Union Ministry of Electronics & IT, Govt of Andhra Pradesh and NASSCOM launch ‘Centre of Excellence of IoT and AI’ in Visakhapatnam” published in PIB on 1st December 2021.