How IoT Is Transforming Farming Into Smart Farming

By using IoT enabled agricultural equipments, farmers are gradually obtaining mastery over the complete crop growing and livestock raising process.

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Apple TV Troubleshooting guide

Apple TV 4K has turned out to be the most successful streaming device from Apple. With this, Apple has introduced some brand new features such as 4K UHD support, HDR imagery, P3 wide gamut color display and numerous enhancements in terms of improved Siri features, new home screen and Apple Music.

While the functionality is quite similar to previous Apple TV devices, there’s a lot to explore in Apple TV 4K. But many users face difficulty while performing several tasks due to a new interface and added features. So here’s a basic troubleshooting guide to fix the most common issues that arise in Apple TV 4K and other Apple TV devices.

 

AirPlay Not Working

The AirPlay feature in Apple TV lets you mirror the contents of your Mac, iPhone or iPad on your TV screen at the press of a button. While the feature works flawlessly most of the times, it may start giving trouble at some point in time. For example, if you enable AirPlay on your Mac or iPhone, sometimes it doesn’t detect your Apple TV. But it is mostly because you probably didn’t enable AirPlay on your Apple TV. Remember, AirPlay must be enabled on both the devices for it to work. To enable AirPlay on your Apple TV, go to Settings > AirPlay and select from the two options i.e Everyone or Anyone on the same Network. Selecting former will allow any Apple device within its vicinity to connect with the Apple TV and the latter will allow access to the Apple devices on the same WiFi network as your Apple TV.

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Storage Issues

If you usually install a lot of apps and games on your Apple TV, it might get low on storage. This is obviously not good for your Apple TV for many reasons. Not only does it refrain you from installing new apps, but if you are running low on storage, you might start experiencing frequent app crashes. While the ultimate solution is to uninstall the unused apps, you can speed up the process by examining which apps are consuming maximum storage space. To check that, go to Settings > General > Manage Storage.

 

Sound Issues

It happens many times on Apple TV that the sound goes off unexpectedly. In most of the cases, it happens when you have connected external audio hardware with your Apple TV. In that case, first, restart your television as well as the audio hardware and see if that makes any difference. If even that doesn’t work, check your audio settings. Go to Settings > Audio and Video and make sure that the right speakers are selected. Also, make sure that the Audio Mode is set to Auto.

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How To Reset

If you’ve tried everything but your Apple TV is still experiencing glitches like app crashes or frequent hanging, the best way to fix this is to hard reset the device. However, keep in mind that performing a hard reset will erase all the local content saved on your Apple TV including app data, browsing history and bookmarks etc. To restore your Apple TV to factory settings, go to Settings > System > Reset.

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FFmpeg is a free software project that generates libraries and programs to handle multimedia content. It is proficient of encoding and interpreting a video format into another one. FFmpeg is fast and is capable to collect content from a live audio/video source efficiently than others.

Furthermore, it is a cross-platform solution that helps you in muxing/demuxing, audio/video conversions, encoding/decoding, and streaming of audio/video content. The codec library “libavcodec” renders support for all the major audio/video codecs and functions.
 

Technical Expertise:

• Input devices, decoders, Video coding, metadata, and filters.
• Broadcast codecs like ProRes, DNxHD, IMX/D-10, AVC-Intra
• Formats MXF, GXF, MOV
• Usages like Avid, Interlacing, FCP, Time Code
• Maintenance of FFmpeg bug tracker
• Expertise with RTP, RTSP, HLS, and SDP

Industrial Segments We Assist:

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Benefits of Live Streaming using FFmpeg command

• Convert video files to audio files.
• Create slideshow video using multiple images.
• Resize Video Files
• Extracting Audio From a Video File.
• Extraction of Video While Muting Audio.
• Adding Poster Image to an Audio File.
• Cut Video File into a Smaller Clip.
• Split a Video File into Multiple Parts.

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How Retailers Can Use Chatbots To Boost Their Sales

Technology is massively disrupting the face of businesses today and staying ahead of the game is becoming arduous than never before. As customer expectations are outpacing day by day, the retailers are finding themselves totally perplexed in the competitive marketplace. Advancements in technology can allow businesses in the retail sector to attract new customers as well as retain the old ones. With personalization and user engagement playing a crucial role in this business, few retailers have started investing in chatbot development and its time for the others to fit in the space too.

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Blockchain Is Transforming The Future of Businesses

The world is going crazy for Blockchain technology. More than forty big market sharks have already created a consortium to search the prospects of Blockchain technology. By this, they will get to know more about the fields where Blockchain technology can be used. In our previous blogs, we have told you how it is influencing the Fintech and Stock market industry. In today’s blog, I will let you know how Blockchain technology is transforming the businesses of the future.

Use Cases of Blockchain Technology

To Improve High Uptime For Nationalized Banks

The usages of a cashless framework are increasing. For instance, Apple Pay, Visa, or QR code payment are becoming popular. But, what happens when the framework goes disconnected for a longer duration of time?

There's a disorder.

The point that bitcoin has been working for quite a while, and has not endured even a nanosecond of downtime. Thus, a large number of national banks are effectively trying blockchain for an assortment of usage. Specifically, for its strength and transparency.

Lessen Insurance Fraud

Insurance is exposed to various fraud schemes. For instance, a fresh candidate can do fraud by hiding essential data. Or, by recording a claim in the interest of ineligible wards.

So what would we do to decrease insurance fraud? All things considered, record medical methods and time stamp by means of blockchain technology. This helps in confirmation and adherence of medical services. Together with Cateina technologies and IBM, fifteen Indian insurance companies joined hands to make it a blockchain based arrangement.

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5 Best Artificial Intelligence Tools

The most trending topic of technology 2017 is undoubtedly Artificial Intelligence. Big companies like Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft are investing money in this field. The most shocking thing is, smartphones are also trying to incline towards artificial intelligence. They are working hard in the research of this field. People nowadays are finding ways to make their lives easy and comfortable. AI is the only way to make this happen. Here are 5 tools for building AI algorithms

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How To Use Split Screen Functionality In iPad Safari

Multitasking is an uber cool feature that works on iPad and lets you handle multiple apps at the same time. It offers a dual-window feature called Split View which allows you to run multiple apps side by side. However, it doesn’t support multi-app instancing as of now which means you can’t see two different windows at the same time from the same app.

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All About Machine Learning and Data Mining

We have seen how far AI has taken us from the field of science fictions to apps, and these apps are helping companies in growing and are also changing lives of ordinary people by helping them in their day to day tasks. Companies ceaselessly endeavor to look for the most recent AI, depending on two essential technologies: Machine Learning and Data Mining.

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IoT Possibilities In HealthCare Industry

IoT is a trending topic that has made its prominent mark in the tech world. As the human race is going towards using digital technologies, IoT has impressed us for its benefits in business, daily life, and other fields. And, it has multitudinous applications in the healthcare industry as well. IoT devices capture and monitor data. These devices are connected to the public or private cloud and can communicate with other IoT devices. A Research claims that the rise of IoT implementations in healthcare for remote monitoring healthcare systems can identify serious life-threatening diseases.

IoT is consistently coming forward with such devices and tools that make up an integrated healthcare system. The use cases of the IoT in healthcare has grown in number from the past. IoT enabled devices for healthcare will improve the outcomes of treatment. Also, patients are treated better and more care. IoT helps to reduce healthcare costs due to remote monitoring of the patient without being hospitalized. Healthcare IoT is effective in taking care of patients in the best way possible as it improves how medical practitioners deliver care.

In hospitals, data management has gotten better with the implementation of IoT devices such as scanners and monitors. IoT devices have been offered as fetal monitors, electrocardiograms, temperature monitors in hospitals for tracking health data. 

Remote health monitoring is provided with healthcare IoT at the time when there is an emergency. Patients require timely and prompt medical attention. Failing so, it is a major concern for the patient’s health. IoT enabled devices which are embedded with sensors will notify the concerned healthcare providers immediately upon there is any variation in the significant functions of an individual. This is possible for these devices due to their capacity of applying complex algorithms and analyzing it which in turn ensures the patient receives proper attention and medical care. Many patients risk their life because of the infections they get from lack of proper hand hygiene in hospitals. Hand hygiene monitoring system integrated with IoT is there to detect the person when he comes near patients without washing hands or to identify unhygienic conditions. A number of hospitals have smart IoT beds which have the capability to detect when the patient is getting up from bed or the when there is a person or not lying on the bed.

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It has also vast possibilities in an area that deals with home medication dispensers. This IoT technology is combined with home medication dispensers to automatically upload data to the cloud at the moment when medication is not taken by the patient or any other vital indicators to alarm the healthcare team. This smart technology gives accurate data analysis. It reduces errors along with the reduction of medical cost. It makes a better management of all the patients and is beneficial for effective cost reduction, instant disease diagnosis, better treatment, and a more efficient health care system for boosting the patient experience.

On a clear picture, we already have been seeing its major potential in the healthcare sector. And by this and next year, the number of healthcare companies is going to increase immensely in implementing IoT technology. However, it also raises concerns about data privacy and security. There is risk prevailing in the use of healthcare IoT as well. Healthcare data is so sensitive and is vulnerable to hackers and data thefts.

Before implementing these devices, it should be confirmed that the data traffic between IoT devices is encrypted. Although most of current IoT devices are secured, they could not be fully protected.

Banking Inter entity Reconciliation Made Simple with Blockchain

The blockchain technology is becoming ubiquitous by playing a significant role in process efficiency, time reduction, and cost-effectiveness, where the end game is “all good” for the consumer.

Blockchain has every potential to lower the cost for banks and the consumers as well with its adoption for reconciliation. Let us see what promise the blockchain holds in banking reconciliation.

The Blockchain is being adopted as a strategic initiative in almost all industrial sectors today. It is the much appreciated and alluring technology of the day. Evidently, the key players are exploring the technology for several operations across their industries in order to increase efficiency, reduce the time and investment cost.

Banking is one sector, where blockchain technology could be explored and offers a promising data management and sharing by keenly addressing the inter-entity reconciliation and consolidation challenges.

A bank reconciliation refers to the process of matching the accounting records of an entity to the corresponding records on the bank statement. It has to be completed on a regular basis so that the accounting records are appropriate.

However, the large banking groups spread across the globe find this task extremely challenging as it involves sharing of cost for common services, multiple currencies, service fees, allocation of tax, dividends, and, etc., apart from routine transactions.

Some of the complex activities involved in maintaining the records have been briefed below.

Challenges of Inter-entity Reconciliation:

Limited Visibility:

The entities are distributed over the geographical locations, possess varied and isolated accounts. This limits the visibility of the transactions at the enterprise level.

System-level Variation:

The banking groups include takeovers, mergers, or the acquisition. And, also the group entities use varied accounting systems. This obviously curtails the common accounting process.

Level of Accuracy:

The process involved in different groups may be manual, semi-manual, or system-based which are error-prone and time-consuming. Assurance of accuracy and timeliness is a challenge.  

Transaction Volume:

The transactions are voluminous and multidimensional leading to complexity in record maintenance. It is difficult to record all of them within the stipulated time frame.

Accumulated data:

When data gets accumulated, it may lead to errors in accounting, duplicate entries, cancellation charges, foreign exchange, transfer pricing, and, thus complicating the situation.

Thus, the banks are already exploring ways for a common and standardized reconciliation process to perform activities in-sync and real time.

Effective management of the reconciliation process enable the banks to foresee the errors and curtail mismatches. The banking enterprises are creating centralized reconciliation teams or outsourcing them to the third-party service providers. Though this seems to be a solution, it may not work in the long run.

As anticipated, here comes the role of the blockchain.

“The Italian Banking Association (ABI) has opened a pilot project on blockchain-based interbank reconciliations to the first group of 14 lenders.

The workgroup, composed of the participating banks and ABI Lab, is using R3's blockchain-based Corda platform to bring more visibility to the exchange of interbank transactions, verifying the matching of correspondent accounts and highlighting discrepancies for automated remediation”.

The robust mechanism involved in blockchain minimizes the bank personnel involvement and they can devote their time to core business activities, and bring value to the overall business.

How Blockchain Makes Banking Reconciliation Easier?

• The inherent distributed ledger feature maintains the entries easily.
• The commonly distributed ledgers available in real time eliminates mismatches.
• It distributes the financial info to all the participants during remittance.
• The participating entity can download and match the payment info with the info from the bank.
• Use of digital signatures helps for auditing process and is also secure.
• Blockchain delivers the APIs for integration with the accounting systems.
• The APIs could be integrated with branch-level accounting systems or as a standalone app.
• A] The branch-level API records, approves and query the accounting entry.
• B] Group-level API queries the unapproved accounting entries.
• Another plausible approach is the encrypted ethereum based solution for each of the entities.

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The Final Thought:

Kharim Lakhani, a Harvard Business School professor, said in an interview with HBR IdeaCast, hacking blockchain requires a “James Bond-level villain”.

And, of course, James Bond-level villain is hard to get. Henceforth, your blockchain dependent banking reconciliation process is secure and safe.

Though proof of concepts [poc] is needed, blockchain-based solutions are as promising in reality as they are projected.

Reconciliation process when integrated with blockchain accelerates the process of financial close accurately every month and strengthens the defense by detecting the fraud at an earlier stage and foresee the errors.

Thus, blockchain maintains the integrity of the balance sheet.

Leading Airline Companies To Go AI Friendly

The worldwide aviation industry forms a humongous network, supporting 3.6% of the world’s GDP. The number doesn’t seem quite impressive just yet? Believe it or not, this small fraction accounts for over $2.7 trillion out of which $898 billion comes from tourism. In the US alone, over $168 billion were generated by the commercial airline system in 2016. Seeing these mammoth numbers, one can figure out how vast Airline industry is. Not only that, the global airline industry generates over 10 million jobs every year, thereby contributing about $700 billion to the global GDP. As a matter of fact, the industry is still growing in massive numbers as it’s going through innumerable technological advancements.

Artificial Intelligence is one of the many technologies that is being used in the aviation industry for quite a long time now. From ground staff monitoring to flying aircraft carriers, AI is everywhere. Nevertheless, AI is finding new use cases in the Aviation industry every now and then. As it turns out, numerous Airline companies have embraced this state-of-the-art technology to improve their improve their customer services. In this blog, we have listed 3 such companies that have gone AI friendly in recent years and are likely to implement this technology in many other business operations pretty soon. So let’s get started!

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Delta Airlines

Delta Airlines or simply ‘Delta’ is a prominent US-based airlines company having its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. In May 2017, the company announced a huge investment of over $600,000 in four of its automated self-service security kiosks. All four kiosks are powered by Artificial Intelligence and one out of these incorporates an astonishing facial recognition technology. The company installed these kiosks at St. Paul International Airport in Minneapolis. One of these kiosks makes use of a facial recognition technology to verify customer identity by matching the faces of their customers with the photos in their passport.  

 

Southwest

This yet another American Airlines company is using Machine Learning to improve its flight operations and customer services for quite a long time now. Although the company hasn’t released an official statement of it using AI and Machine Learning in its operations, there are many pieces of evidence that explicitly show that the airlines has been using machine learning techniques such as time-series analysis and pattern recognition to empower its data mining capabilities.

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Air Asia

Malaysia’s low-cost aircraft carrier, Air Asia is apparently working on an AI project with Google Cloud to implement AI and Machine Learning in their business processes. The company is planning to install up to 20,000 sensors into one of its aircrafts, thereby providing better means to the aviation engineers to perform timely maintenance tasks and reduce unnecessary wastage of spare parts. If this experiment turns out to be a success, then the company is likely to implement this on a large scale in the coming months.