What Taiwan's smart city tells us

The elevator can be controlled without leaving the house. Which visitors can be seen in the office; The ambulance is still on the road. The doctor has seen the patient's condition and prepared in advance, and in the Community hospital can also enjoy the large hospital expert long-distance consultation and prescription; The bus will not leave the office until the arrival time ... This is not a sci-fi film, but the current situation in Taiwan, it is like a sitcom, from Taiwan Enterprises have been to market the Intelligent City application services.

Once upon a time, Taiwan's computers and mobile phone manufacturers, which have been ahead of the mainland, have been overtaken by the mainland's Up-and-comer, are Taiwan's companies that have been overtaken by them to lie down and dim their figures? After the reporter came to Taiwan, it seems that under a mechanism of reverse force, a revolution in the field of intelligent services has occurred in Taiwan's information industry. Some observers say the move will bring Taiwan's chips, terminals, software and telecoms industries back to prosperity.

The revolution of Information Industry "wisdom" brand

In depth, it is not difficult to see what is happening in Taiwan is a technological revolution in the integration of Internet + Mobile + smartphone + cloud computing and the profound reshaping of human life. In this revolution, Taiwan enterprises followed the European and American technology Forefront, spawned a number of transportation, medical, retail, home, energy, building intelligent application of the service program. It is essentially an industry as a result of market demand for the end-driven restructuring and reshaping the production process, a group of the world's Taiwan information industry enterprises are gorgeous turn, determined to break through the bottleneck to find the wisdom of the city service overall output of the new glory.

The recently concluded Taiwan Wisdom City exhibition, Datong, China Telecom, Advantech, ASUS Cloud, tele-transmission, the vast number of computers, research, Rittal, Shen da computer, Jing Lian, such as Taiwan's eighty or ninety companies debut exhibition. In this industry to expand the direction of information is very clear, full of the exhibition, they launched the Intelligent City application program, let us clearly see the magic power of Technology change life, technology in changing the production of lifestyle, also constantly upgrade themselves.

With nearly hundred years History of Datong Co., Ltd. is Taiwan's established computer, notebook manufacturers, they have launched Intelligent Energy, Chihuian distance health care, roadside parking remote control, such as a combination of hardware and software services program. Datong Wisdom Meter automatically reading every 15 minutes, the data automatically returned, power companies can always grasp the distribution of power consumption, according to peak, trough two kinds of tariff charge is no longer a problem. Guo Wenyan, general manager of Datong shares, told the Shenzhen business newspaper Reporter: If you can accurately equip the power resources, the power companies do not need too much reserve power. Reserve electricity consumption of 1% per drop can save 1 million yuan. If applied to the mainland that can save how much!

Long-distance health care for many enterprises such as Datong, can achieve long-distance blood pressure, blood sugar and other physiological index measurement, medical team through the data returned to track and give health care advice, not around the parents with this system, you can through the mobile phone app at any time to master the elderly's daily physical signs.

The same prestigious Quanta computer, the intelligent medical services they offer, the patient is still in the ambulance, and the doctor starts the surgery by looking at the data and photos of the patient's physical signs. Reporter saw at the exhibition, the vast number of computers and the United States, MIT jointly developed another set of hardware and software system, more God can "see" through the computer pulse, "see" Blood flow, of course, do not need the amount of need to "shine" you. The technology was used by the Obama campaign team to observe applause for the presidential campaign and which were fake applause.

Jing Lian Electronics and many other enterprises to launch the smart Home program, let the prevention of anti-theft no longer become a problem, such as home gas leakage, burglar intrusion, the elderly fall, once this situation, this system can be called to call for help, even if you are in the office through mobile phone app can also see the community and home is happening. According to the Jing Lian electronic introduction, this system has been installed in twenty or thirty new districts in Taiwan. China Telecom Development of Intelligent Home program, but also to ensure that the room constant temperature and humidity constant oxygen, can see the garage electric car charging situation, can control the elevator operation, in short, living in such a room, you are like the greenhouse vegetables as well as care and thoughtful.

The mainland's familiar ASUS and Acer computers have invested heavily in a company that has been operating cloud computing for years.

The age of the Internet of things has small advantages

Taiwanese businesses think Taiwanese companies have an advantage in the era of Internet of things.

Committed to the wisdom of medical services, Wang Qingxian deputy general manager of the Shenzhen business newspaper reporter Frankly, Taiwan enterprises are facing bottlenecks for many years, monomer products such as mobile phones, computers we certainly but the mainland, the mainland scale cost advantages placed there. But the era of things networking needs is cross-industry integration, such as intelligent medical care is the information industry and medical integration of the cross-industry, both indispensable. Taiwan has a small advantage over the continent's too large cross domain integration.

Millet mobile phone camera software provider Taiwan Joint Wisdom Co., Ltd., 80% of sales from the mainland, the company's chief executive Guo Qiming also said: "Taiwan is small more convenient for communication and integration, in the era of the Internet of things greater opportunities."

The advent of a large number of applications has demonstrated Taiwan's ability to integrate across sectors. The Datong smart meter, together with China power, has already been used by 1 million Taiwanese users and will increase to 6 million.

The vast majority of computers in long-distance care ambulance has been opened in a Taiwanese hospital. Taiwan's Changhua Hospital has established the world's first and third-largest remote minimally invasive surgery center in Asia.

China Telecom Smart Home and Taiwan's far-male real estate cooperation, will be far male development of the "left Bank" community to create an internationally recognized Intelligent City demonstration community.

The smart Bus app, developed by the Chinese Telecom and Taipei government, integrates eight thousand or nine thousand buses and more than 10,000 sites in Taipei, where guests can find out what cars to take and when.

Taiwan's cross-sectoral integration is not only fast, but also the performance of the production of official research forces to promote the characteristics. Taiwan "Ministry of Finance Consulting Center" with enterprises to launch electronic invoice cloud, Taiwan Industrial Research Institute, the Fund, the Taiwan Geographical Information Center and Datong, ASUS Cloud, China Telecom, IBM and other joint establishment of "intelligent City and things Networking industry Alliance" to carry out in-depth exchanges to promote intelligent transportation, intelligent logistics, intelligent retail applications.

In fact, not only the Cross-sectoral integration capacity is strong, Taiwan has accumulated many years of manufacturing capacity is playing. In the era of Internet of things, things and things to be connected, air, water, light to be perceived, are inseparable from the same thing-sensors, (that is, sensor Taiwan called sensor). Sensor is sensitive, can play a synergistic role, performance is stable, the perceived information can be inherited ... There is unlimited development space in this area alone.

Wuxi Materials Networking Industry Research Institute, the National Networking Foundation Standard Working Group General group leader Dr. Shen in Taipei, the perception control domain is the equipment side of the sensitive process and manufacturing is the foundation of the Internet industry, in the sensor production precision, etc., Taiwan enterprises have advantages.

The new wave of smart city applications has swept through, and the mainland's response to Taiwan has been different. China actively participates in the development of global IoT standards, and enterprise application research and development is still piecemeal. Taiwan enterprises to follow the European and American cutting-edge technology strategy, aiming at a clear demand for smart home, intelligent transportation, smart retail, intelligent medical, intelligent Energy six areas of all-round dash, in any of these areas, Taiwan's ready-made services are not less than 10 conservative estimate.

Taiwanese companies are committed to smart city application development, eager to find killer apps that can eventually replicate to mainland and Southeast Asian markets. The development of a hospital care system in Taiwan to test the hospital, while thinking about the mainland 3,000 new hospitals every year the huge business opportunities, which has become an ambitious Taiwanese enterprises once again the huge impetus to go to sea.

Next stop, Smart city

Taiwanese companies are still struggling to find a killer app. Su Mengzong, director of the Industrial Economics and Trends Research Center of Taiwan Institute of Industry and Technology, even believes that in the next 10 years, there is no physical device in the field of things to go beyond the smartphone, the Internet business opportunities a little bit of smoke and mirrors. This is also Taiwan's enterprises are facing difficulties.

Shen and other experts believe that as long as the standard unified there will be killer applications appear. But some experts believe that even if the standards of unification, because of the personalized differences in demand, it is difficult to sell mobile phones, aircraft, such as mass replication production.

China Telecom Wisdom Home experts said, our current dilemma is that upfront investment costs are too high, the early need for a long period of time to serve customers, customers will ask a very strange problem, there is no unified transmission standards.

According to the reporter understands, the Wisdom City Service application is becoming the Taiwan production official research to promote the important strategic industry jointly. Taipei City is about to set up a smart City Promotion committee, the first government pilot project is the government will be funded to build 20,000 young intelligent community. Taiwan's "Executive Yuan", a "deputy Dean", said at the Intelligent City Expo Forum that the island plans to launch its 7 billion NT creative Industries Fund this year, with a forecast of NT $15 billion in the next two years. Most applications are related to smart city applications. The official also hopes that every city in Taiwan will set up an inter-departmental organization and executive Body, the aim of which is "to develop the industrial environment of Intelligent City application and create space for enterprises".

As a matter of fact, Xinzhu's Citizen card, the new Bei Technology Defense City Plan, Pingdong County Smart micro-grid in the border area, Taipei's intelligent Transportation, Taidong County's e-Home allocation and intellectual health have become the apotheosis of Taiwan's pride.

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Internet of Things and "smart city"

The Internet of Things, as its name implies, is connected to a network of objects, based on the Internet, traditional telecommunications networks, so that all Internet devices with IP address interconnection. The importance of IoT will be over 1990 years of Internet and 2000 mobile Internet.

The Taipei Computer Business Association believes 2015, the internet of things from the experiment into the application phase, intelligent manufacturing, intelligent transportation and intelligent medical care will become an important area of internet development, as more and more manufacturers of innovative applications on display, Taiwan's Intelligent City exhibition will also become an important indicator of the development of Taiwan's Internet of things.

The concept of smart city was first derived from IBM's Wisdom Earth concept, the so-called wisdom is through a new generation of information technology, such as the Internet of things, cloud computing, mobile Web, intelligent terminals to apply to urban power systems, water systems, transportation systems, buildings and oil and gas pipelines, factories, A variety of things in the production or living system, such as office and home life, that allow them to become perceived and manipulated to make life more quality and efficient.