Drivers and Barriers to Adoption of Multivendor ATM Technology in India: Synthesis of Three Empirical Studies

As an incremental change to single vendor ATM Technology, multivendor (MVS) ATM technology has already penetrated into Indian Market. However, its growth in Indian market may depend on several factors. Understanding the drivers and barriers from the point of view of all the stakeholders of this technology can provide a preliminary understanding about its growth in India. This paper attempts to compile the empirical findings from three studies on three stakeholders and provides a synthesized finding on the possible drivers and barriers of this technology implementation in India

Advanced Communication and Control Methods for Future Smart Grid

The reliability of intelligent electronic device (IED) function that ensures a particular disturbance will disconnect as fast enough from the healthy network to mitigate the effect of the fault is directly related to the reliability of the electrical system. This work aims to test the performance and comparison between the developed Light weight IED and different commercial IEDs from different vendor. The developed light weight IEDs are implemented on a microcontroller as well as on an FPGA. The test set-up is implemented by the Hardware-In-the-Loop platform. The simulation platform is OPAL-RT’s eMEGASIM. The results shows the performance of the FPGA to be better than microcontroller and other commercial IEDs when comparing results.© 2021 The Author(s). Licensee IntechOpen. This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed

Case Study - IPv6 based building automation solution integration into an IPv4 Network Service Provider infrastructure

The case study presents a case study describing an Internet Protocol (IP) version 6 (v6) introduction to an IPv4 Internet Service Provider (ISP) network infrastructure. The case study driver is an ISP willing to introduce a new “killer” service related to Internet of Things (IoT) style building automation. The provider and cooperation of third party companies specialized in building automation will provide the service. The ISP has to deliver the network access layer and to accommodate the building automation solution traffic throughout its network infrastructure. The third party companies are system integrators and building automation solution vendors. IPv6 is suitable for such solutions due to the following reasons. The operator can’t accommodate large number of IPv4 embedded devices in its current network due to the lack of address space and the fact that many of those will need clear 2 way IP communication channel. The Authors propose a strategy for IPv6 introduction into operator infrastructure based on the current network architecture present service portfolio and several transition mechanisms. The strategy has been applied in laboratory with setup close enough to the current operator’s network. The criterion for a successful experiment is full two-way IPv6 application layer connectivity between the IPv6 server and the IPv6 Internet of Things (IoT) cloud

How open is open enough?: Melding proprietary and open source platform strategies

Computer platforms provide an integrated architecture of hardware and software standards as a basis for developing complementary assets. The most successful platforms were owned by proprietary sponsors that controlled platform evolution and appropriated associated rewards. Responding to the Internet and open source systems, three traditional vendors of proprietary platforms experimented with hybrid strategies which attempted to combine the advantages of open source software while retaining control and differentiation. Such hybrid standards strategies reflect the competing imperatives for adoption and appropriability, and suggest the conditions under which such strategies may be preferable to either the purely open or purely proprietary alternatives

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging for focal liver lesions: Bridging the gap between research and clinical practice

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is highly important for the detection, characterization, and follow-up of focal liver lesions. Several quantitative MRI-based methods have been proposed in addition to qualitative imaging interpretation to improve the diagnostic work-up and prognostics in patients with focal liver lesions. This includes DWI with apparent diffusion coefficient measurements, intravoxel incoherent motion, perfusion imaging, MR elastography, and radiomics. Multiple research studies have reported promising results with quantitative MRI methods in various clinical settings. Nevertheless, applications in everyday clinical practice are limited. This review describes the basic principles of quantitative MRI-based techniques and discusses the main current applications and limitations for the assessment of focal liver lesions

Process Development and Analysis of SHA and Procurement of Servers for XYZ Organization

The “ABC” – Datacenter at the XYZ organization is the central repository for more than 1000 servers that provide information technology to the XYZ staff and students at its different campuses. It houses servers, network devices, storage devices, unique applications, databases, multivendor servers and the necessary expertise to provide availability of information technology to the staff and students throughout the year. The business services are provided through procurement of servers and, either by only SHA (Server Hosting Agreement) or SHA with SME (subject matter expert) support to different departments of XYZ. The Network Operations Center is a department that acts as the central point of contact for all the other departments to ensure its 24 / 7 functioning and availability of devices, automated scheduled jobs, data backups, network and monitoring servers.. While working there, I had the opportunity to work on a process analysis project. It becomes cumbersome and expensive to maintain such a complex and diverse environment due to various management tools required to support the information technology. In addition, there is always a cost of training and replacement of labor that drives information technology. This business process simplifies the complexity of service agreement projects and creates a standardized guideline to fulfill the clients’ requirements of reducing the cost and increasing the profitability of the project

Collaborative Messaging for the Financial Industry

Global Relay Communications is a Vancouver based company offering online compliance archiving services to the financial industry. The company is interested in growing its existing customer base and expanding new revenue streams through the development of a new collaborative messaging platform for regulated financial firms. In order to accomplish this goal, Global Relay will need to leverage its existing Message Archive product by embedding it into an Instant Messaging platform, specifically tailored to meet the compliance requirements of financial firms. This report analyzes current Instant Messaging trends in the financial community and examines IT adoption rates of collaborative software applications. An online community lifecycle model is then presented with key success factors to help Global Relay achieve a level of critical mass for its potential new product offering. By combining the market analysis with an online community framework, this report is able to provide a clear business model while taking into consideration the company’s core competencies and strengths. The primary mode of distribution for achieving strong network effects for this new product will be top down through key vendors, suppliers and partners