Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 18: The Computer Engineering Department of Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu organised a webinar on “Emerging Era of IOT and Cyber Physical Systems: the Interdisciplinary Aspects”, in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UIET Chandigarh.
The webinar was organized under Twinning Initiatives of TEQIP, to familiarize the faculty and students with the thrust area under the chairmanship of Talat Parvez Rohella, Commissioner/Secretary to Govt, Higher Education Department.
Dr N S Rajput, Associate Professor, Department of Electronics Engineering IIT (BHU), Varanasi, was the keynote speaker. He talked about the thrust areas of IOT applications including usage of NLP (Natural Language Processing) in Intelligent Systems, importance of Data Centre in Intelligent Systems, Edge Computing, Cloud Computing & Data Transformation Method. He also explained the concepts of an Intelligent System citing an example of “ALEXA” which has become very popular in our households today. He threw light on the role of IOT in Agriculture & Environment monitoring, Smart Water Management, Smart City Infrastructure, Smart Dairy Farming and many more. The entire session was very interactive and the students and faculty of various institutions put forth a number of questions.
Dr Sameru Sharma, Principal GCET appreciated the efforts of the organizing/coordinating team comprising of Dr Simmi Dutta, Head Computer Engineering Department, Dr Bhawna Sharma & Er Sheetal Gandotra, Associate Professors Computer Engineering Department, besides student members.
Dr Bhawna Sharma, Associate Professor, GCET Jammu and Webinar Coordinator guided the proceedings. The webinar was attended by around 150 participants comprising of students and faculty of various engineering institutes and organizations besides GCET Jammu & UIET Chandigarh and made the event a grand success. The vote of thanks was proposed by Dr Nirmal Kour, Associate Professor, UIET Chandigarh.
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