Jul 1, 2021 | Tech
Company’s TimePictraÒ 11 timing infrastructure management system works with its BlueSkyTM GNSS Firewall to create a unified view for a more secure network timing architecture
Today’s 5G wireless infrastructure has more complex, higher-density synchronization needs than previous-generation networks and is highly dependent on the integrity of “live-sky” timing signals from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP) today announced it has integrated its BlueSky GNSS Firewall with its TimePictra 11 synchronization monitoring and management platform to protect 5G networks and other critical timing infrastructure from Global Positioning System (GPS) signal jamming and spoofing while providing single-console visibility across the entire timing architecture.
“Microchip’s TimePictra system improves overall situational awareness by managing network timing synchronization as well as our GNSS firewall that improves a network’s resilience through real-time GPS threat detection and mitigation,” said Randy Brudzinski, vice president, Frequency and Time Systems business unit. “Our solution’s scalability is particularly valuable for mobile operators who can use TimePictra to monitor GNSS based source clocks along with our secure network-based timing distribution solutions to deploy a highly resilient timing architecture for their transition to 5G.”
In addition to requiring precise timing from GNSS sources, critical infrastructure operators need accurate timing to be distributed across their networks so they can ensure reliable performance and service delivery. TimePictra provides full control and monitoring for resilient timing architectures created with Microchip’s broad product portfolio including its TimeProvider 4100 grandmasters for 5G network synchronization. It also monitors the health and performance of these networks’ distributed Precision Time Protocol (PTP) client clocks. Integrating BlueSky GNSS Firewall management into the TimePictra console view now gives operators a unified picture of the entire timing architecture and all timing sources.
Beyond supporting 5G deployments, TimePictra enables aviation, railway and maritime ports with a regional, national or global view of GNSS reception. TimePictra in combination with BlueSky GNSS Firewalls monitor key GNSS observables to detect live sky signal anomalies and deliver early alerting so that operators can engage alternate procedures that do not rely on GNSS. These capabilities are increasingly important where public safety is dependent on the position and navigation for daily operations.
Jul 1, 2021 | Tech
Codelattice has announced the launch of its latest product, Chlorofill, a self-watering and self-caring smart pot for urban farmers and plant enthusiasts to mark world environment day 2021.
The product is designed and developed by Codelattice Labs, the research and development arm of Codelattice, and is an affordable, low-maintenance, self-watering, tech-pot for indoor and urban home-based plantations.
During these hard days when we are spending an enormous amount of time at home, it makes all sense to bring some greenery home and that is what Chlorofill does- minus the trouble of watering every day and constant vigilance.
The hassle-free pot alerts the owners when it needs water and nutrients and can be installed anywhere in a house- balcony, terrace, indoors, or courtyards.
Priced at about one-fifth of the typical smart pots in the market, Chlorofill is a self-sustaining and interactive pot. It works without batteries or electronics, yet communicates with the caregiver via an app when it needs water or a potting mix change…(more)
Jul 1, 2021 | Lifestyle, Regional, Tech, Uncategorized
From June 16 to July 15, 2021, Macs4U supports the advocacy of no-kill communities all over America through its Macs4Pets campaign. In this charity fund, the company aims to donate to and highlight 9 stand-out animal shelters.
For this year’s campaign, any purchase made at the Macs4U website during the campaign period will automatically trigger a donation to the Macs4Pets charity fund. Consequently, the company runs an internal program that helps subsidize costs and support sessions for employees adopting pets from these shelters.
While all shelters will be rewarded for their participation, the animal center with the most votes will take home the grand prize of a $10,000 donation.
Participating shelters of the campaign include Austin Humane Society, Center for Animal Rescue and Enrichment of St. Louis, Dane County Humane Society, Humane Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha County, Humane Society of Central Texas, Nevada Humane Society, Ruff Start Rescue, Stray Rescue of St. Louis, and the Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter.
Over the past years, Macs4U has felt strongly about supporting animal rescues by providing free products and targeted donations. This is given the sharp increase of cats and dogs ending up in shelters as many give up their companions to return to work after the pandemic. Hence, the company found the importance in specifically supporting shelters with high animal save-rates to ensure animal protection and welfare.
Anyone can punch in a daily vote for any of these shelters at bit.ly/Macs4PetsShelterCampaign.
Alongside this initiative, Macs4u has also decided to host a special pet photo contest that is giving away brand new iPads and gift cards to the best pet pictures! In the same time period as the shelter campaign, pet owners can make a submission featuring their lovely companions and gain votes for them at bit.ly/Macs4PetsPhotoContest. The top 3 entries with the most votes will be receiving the following prizes: iPad Air 7th Generation, iPad Air 6th Generation, $200 Chewy Gift Card.
Jul 1, 2021 | Business, Tech
Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering services, today announced partnership with TAC Security, the global leader of risk & vulnerability management, to enable next-generation enterprise security for customers globally. The partnership will leverage artificial intelligence and user-friendly analytics to help measure, prioritize, and mitigate vulnerabilities across the entire IT stack.
As part of the partnership, the global security competency of Tech Mahindra’s and TAC Security’s patented next-generation risk-based vulnerability management platform ESOF (Enterprise Security in One Framework) will be combined to accelerate vulnerability management protocol for customers thereby protecting their modern applications and infrastructure against cyber threats. The partnership will also help analysts to prioritize security responses and threat investigations in real time while improving security postures for enterprises across the world.
Rajesh Dhuddu, Blockchain and Cybersecurity Practice Leader – APAC and EMEA, said, “Cybersecurity threats are becoming a cause for concern for enterprises with each passing day. Therefore, a comprehensive risk and vulnerability management platform to efficiently reduce risk postures, becomes a necessity. Tech Mahindra is fully committed towards providing world-class security to customers by continually improving the experience and effectiveness of the security ecosystem. The partnership with TAC Security is in line with our NXT.NOW framework, to provide cutting-edge security solutions to customers globally by enabling widest view of vulnerability and risk data across the enterprise to create insightful cyber risk scores.”
TAC security ESOF is powered by the Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning (AI/ML). This will help customers by providing them with the widest view of vulnerability and risk data across the enterprise to create insightful cyber risk scores.
Trishneet Arora, CEO, TAC Security, said, ““In the age of zero trust, we are witnessing a rapid growth in vulnerability management challenges. In today’s market, the need for risk – based vulnerability management along with cyber score is imperative for every organization, regardless of the industry or size. We are excited to partner with Tech Mahindra to help them effectively manage their complete IT stacks cybersecurity on Enterprise Security in One Framework (ESOF). For TAC Security, this partnership is a step towards capturing the global market of vulnerability management, which valued USD 12.5 Billion in 2020 and is expected to grow to USD 15.5 Billion by2025, together.”
As part of NXT.NOW framework, which aims to enhance ‘Human Centric Experience’, Tech Mahindra focuses on investing in emerging technologies and solutions that enable digital transformation and meet the evolving needs of the customer.
About TAC Security:
TAC Security headquartered in SAN FRANCISCO is a global leader in Vulnerability Management that protect Fortune 500 companies, leading enterprises and governments, around the world. TAC Security manages 5 + Million vulnerabilities through its Artificial Intelligence (AI) based Vulnerability Management Platform ESOF (Enterprise Security in One Framework).
Jul 1, 2021 | Auto, Business, Tech
Park+, India’s leading provider of automated Smart Parking solutions, announced that it has been selected by India’s largest managed office space provider to Enterprises- Smartworks, to provide a next-gen parking experience in its office campuses.
As a part of this engagement, Park+ will enable campus administration for the flex space provider by automating parking allocation and managing seamless entry and exit of vehicles in and out of the premises. The unique RFID tag affixed on every car will ensure the movement of authorised vehicles only. The solution will help save time where real-time parking slots availability will be visible to members through Smartworks mobile app.
Speaking on the solution, Amit Lakhotia, Founder of Park+, said, “Both Smartworks and Park+ are working towards elevating the experience of corporates and office-goers across metro cities. The users will now be able to check the real-time availability of parking lots on a mobile app, which will help them save time, reduce stress and save on fuel. Also, as more and more people are looking at personal vehicles for a daily commute, corporates are partnering with Park+ to enable their employees to access our 70,000+ parking slots network and ensuring that they are no more constrained by the number of parking available in a specific building. By getting nearby parking on our platform, we have more than doubled the parking spaces available to users at various Smartworks campuses.”
Neetish Sarda, Founder of Smartworks, said, “We are building offices of the future, and technology will be the key driver. Our digitally-enabled office campuses are in line with our vision of offering contactless and efficient workspaces to clients. Our association with Park+ will help automate the first touch-point of our member’s daily office schedule – “parking”. In addition, it will remove the need for manual authentication of vehicles, improve access controls and further elevate the security profile of the campuses.”
Park+ is a mobile app-based platform that offers automated smart parking solution for daily commuters, corporates and commercial establishments. Park+ currently provides more than 600,000 customers a seamless and real-time experience for parking discovery, booking, payment and tracking, all of which can be easily accessed through the app. Park+ was founded by Amit Lakhotia, who had earlier played a key role in scaling MakeMyTrip, Paytm and Tokopedia. Park+ is backed by marquee investors including Sequoia Capital and Matrix Partners.
Jun 19, 2021 | Business, Health and Wellness, Tech
Tech Mahindra Ltd., a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering services and solutions, is partnering with many of its global customers to collectively drive the COVID-19 support movement in India. This collaboration aims to extend support to Tech Mahindra Foundation, a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR arm) of Tech Mahindra, to service communities, employees and families across India through various revolutionary work.
With the increasing severity of COVID-19 in the second wave, Tech Mahindra Foundation alongside Tech Mahindra have rolled out several on-ground initiatives within and outside the organisation. These include enabling supply of critical medical equipment, training frontline workers, facilitating vaccination drives for employees and their dependents across the world, distribution of ration kits and other supplies to those in need, converting cafeteria to COVID care facilities, partnering with NGOs to support vulnerable communities, and more. Anticipating the possibility of the third wave, these partnerships are helping further these initiatives that will help in combatting the challenges in future as well.
Rakesh Soni, Chief Executive Officer, Tech Mahindra Foundation, said, “In these difficult times, we must take care and stand by each other to sail through the crisis and emerge stronger. While the Foundation continues with its COVID Relief and Rehabilitation initiatives, we are also collaborating with some of Tech Mahindra’s global customers to facilitate a broader eco-system with diverse expertise to solve some of the recurring COVID challenges. As part of Tech Mahindra’s initiative #ResolveToRISE, this collaboration reiterates our commitment towards supporting the country’s response to the pandemic and help minimize its impact.”
Several of Tech Mahindra’s customers have since extended their support to this cause to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 and make a difference on ground. These partnerships have been vital in drawing global support and trust to collectively fight on ground. Alongside Tech Mahindra’s extensive ground work, the Tech Mahindra Foundation has provided relief support to over 23 lakh people across 16 states and counting.
Mallik Rao, Chief Technology & Information Officer, Telefónica Deutschland, says, “The current Corona situation and care in our partner country India is dramatic. Therefore, an initiative by various employees of Telefónica Deutschland launched a fundraising campaign together with the Tech Mahindra Foundation in which everyone can participate to support people in India. In a short time, we have managed to offer different ways of support, e.g. by donating money, buying and shipping needed medical equipment to hospitals and Covid Care Centers all over India or by sponsoring medical trainings for the upskilling of nurses and paramedics.”
The Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s leading association for project professionals and changemakers, has also stepped up its efforts by collaborating with Tech Mahindra Foundation to provide finance aid and resolve the oxygen crisis in India. These donations will join wider efforts to financially help people in need during their pandemic recovery process.
Sunil Prashara, President & CEO, Project Management Institute, said, “We are concerned about the situation India is facing, and are focused on doing our best to extend all possible help. Our collaboration with Tech Mahindra is an effort to make a difference on the ground, helping the people in need. Our donations are being used to augment ongoing oxygen availability efforts and to feed the underprivileged during these difficult times. PMI will also continue to rally our community of volunteers and stakeholders to lend their project skills and knowledge to tackle this challenge and ongoing recovery.”
Earlier this year, Tech Mahindra extended its support to Mission Oxygen and #OxygenForIndia to set up 50 oxygen plants for charitable and government hospitals across India and deploy 3,000 concentrators and 40,000 cylinders to resolve oxygen crisis in India.
Alexander Rinke, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Celonis, said, “Our hearts and minds are with India and every single patient and their loved ones as this terrible health crisis continues to unfold. We are proud of the efforts by our close partner Tech Mahindra and the amazing work their team is doing to provide help on the ground and get oxygen to those in need. We stand united and are happy that we can do our part to offer support.”
In an effort to ensure employee wellness during this crisis, the company also recently announced the appointment of a Wellness Officer to institutionalize holistic wellness for all employees, partners, and vendors. Tech Mahindra with its philanthropic arm will continue to drive these initiatives to reduce the adversities caused since the pandemic broke out.
