Itanagar, May 12: A three day national seminar on IoT and IoT Based Application began today at Arunachal Pradesh Science Centre, I.G. Park. The seminar is organized by the  Arunachal Pradesh State Council for Science & Technology and supported by ICPS Division, Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, New, Delhi. 
The programme was inaugurated by Secretary Science & Technology, Ajay Chagti, in presence of special guest Taba Tath, Principal Rajiv Gandhi Govt. Polytechnic, Itanagar, CD Mungyak, Director cum Member Secretary, APSCS&T and Bamag Apo, Joint Director.
Chagti in his address said such seminars would create awareness towards futuristic technologies and will help especially the students. He stressed on using artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, robotic technology, cloud computing as this has a huge potential for employment generation in this age of industry 04 revolution.
He also exhorted the officials to think, what to do with Internet of Things for the people of Arunachal Pradesh and put a challenge in front of the officials and participants to come up with a smart IoT based application for the farmers of kiwi, orange, apple, cardamom etc. of Arunachal Pradesh so that they have easy access to markets for their produce. He also said that connectivity is one of the major problems in the state and assured that it will be sort out shortly and efforts are going on.
Director Mungyak during his introductory remark said, "Today’s world is technology and market driven where science & technology comes first then economics. Internet of Things is going to drive new consumer and business behaviour that will demand increasingly intelligent industry solutions, which in turn, will drive trillions of dollars in opportunity for IT industry and even more for the technocrats and companies that take advantage of the IoT." He also highlighted the key aspects of Indian Government’s draft policy on IoT, 2015, pertaining to smart cities like smart parking, Intelligent Transport System, Smart urban lighting, Waste management, Smart city maintenance, Tele-care, Citizen safety, Smart Grid, Smart Energy, Water Management etc.  
Taba That, Principal, Rajiv Gandhi Polytechnic, Itanagar spoke about different applications of Internet of Things in day-to-day life and elaborated how this technology had made our life easier. He also cautioned about risks of dependency of smart IoT devices. 
Resource person Dr. Swarnendu Kr. Chakraborty, Assistant Professor, CSE, NIT, Jote, spoke about the “IoT application in the North East”, Dr. Deepak Gupta, Assistant Prof, CSE, NIT, Jote had expert talk on “Machine Learning”, Monssor Akthar, Scientist’B’ NIC, Hailakandi, and  Surajit Phukan, Scientist ‘B’ NIC, Dibrugarh,  gave live demonstration of Real time River Management "Jal Taringini” EVM booth monitoring, with IoT based application and expert talk on applications of IoT.

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