National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs) held the "IoT Sensors Demo & Talk Show" on May 19, 2017 to showcase the "Internet of Things (IoT) Sensors Service Platform Project" annual achievement, inviting nearly 20 Taiwan leading manufacturers and venture capital firms. IoT sensors results developed by academic teams were demonstrated in public.
"IoT Sensors Demo & Talk Show" this year involved twelve projects from seven universities. The presentations were divided into four application areas: wearable devices and personal health care, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Internet of Vehicles, and general applications. The objective of the event is to develop applications of perception layer for smart life, smart manufacturing, smart factory, smart city, and so on. Every team was required to embed sensors in real-life application and demonstrate the specifications and efficiency under different scenarios.
The intention that NARLabs inviting Taiwan leading enterprises, manufacturers and venture capital firms to participate in this exhibition, is to bridge industry with academic institutes, and promote industrialization of sensors developed by academic researcher and utilizing these sensors for commercial products.
Many objects are connected to network, IoT has been changing our lives and we have entered a new technological era with loT. With mobile devices, sensors capture and send data to cloud to store and analyze for decision making. In early days of IoT development, Taiwan put much of the focus on network layer and application layer, but relatively not on perception layer (sensor). Through "IoT Sensor Service Platform Project", NARLabs helps optimizing the sensors developed by academia teams for specific applications and market.
Department of Engineering and Technologies of Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and NARLabs worked with academia and industry to start up "IoT Sensors Service Platform Project" in 2015. Through the Service and Certification Platforms jointly built by Instrument Technology Research Center (ITRC), National Nano Device Laboratories (NDL) and the National Chip Implementation Center (CIC), NARLabs forged partnership with universities to develop sensor technology for industry application, aiming to develop new sensor products to meet market demand.
"IoT Sensors Service Platform Project" was initiated by Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) as synergy among the IoT industry chain, from sensor technology development (upstream), network computing/cloud Big Data analysis (midstream), to industry innovative application (downstream), and eventually to commercialize the sensor research achievement with IoT application platform, take the sensor technologies from lab to markets, and showcase Taiwan IoT sensors research and development capability.
