Taiwan-based Anchor Tech, a provider of smart buildings control systems, is actively striving to apply its control, monitoring and maintenance solutions to commercial properties including Carrefour, RT-Mart, and convenience stores, so as to keep the premises in an optimal operating state through predictive maintenance, according to the firm's CEO Duncan Huang.

While mature infrastructures, stable system technologies, sound supervision regulations and public acceptability are required to support the development of driverless vehicles, such vehicles for public transportation will work in three main scenarios: grid network in smart city, smart tourism in theme parks, and shuttle services in remote areas, according to Ting Yen-yun, president of 7Starlake,...

In 2017, 380,600 industrial robots were sold globally, increasing 29.3% on year, according to World Industrial Robot 2018 published by International Federation of Robotics (IFR).

Developing AI (artificial intelligence) solutions for industries face many challenges mainly because of lack of AI talent and availability of necessary data, according to experts.

Manufacturing of electronic components including ICs and PCBs will account for 36% of collaborative robots to be deployed in Taiwan in the future, followed by metal working with 32%, retail logistics with 15%, food processing with 11% and shoe making with 6%, according to Industry, Science and Technology International Strategy Center under government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be applied to the travel service industry to better gauge the real needs of consumers through deep machine learning, according to CH Kuo, chief strategy officer of Lotus Group, a travel service and technology group based in Canada.

Taiwan government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has kicked off operation of AIdea, a platform for developing AI (artifical intelligence) solutions to enterprises' problems, according to Yu Shiaw-shian, ITRI senior vice president and general director for Computational Intelligence Technology Center.

A Taipei park has kicked the official use of Taiwan's first smart public lavatory allowing citizens to experience IoT-backed smart living, and the lavatory will double as an emergency call center in the next stage to enhance night safety for citizens, according to Spencer Liang, chairman of Flowring Technology playing a role in the project.

Taoyuan City has been selected by Intelligent Community Forum as one of the global top-7 smart cities for two consecutive times. Cheng Wen-tsan, mayor of the northern Taiwanese city, pointed out during a recent interview by Digitimes that the core mission for a smart city is to solve problems by virtue of innovative technologies to hike efficiency and quality.

The advent of the smart car era is providing an overtaking opportunity for latecomers that can master domain know-how at the client end and know how to develop profitable product design, packaging and sales models based on the latest market trends, according to Wu Hsueh-liang, professor with the Department of International Business at National Taiwan University.