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Friday 14 November 2025
Reshaping the future of construction, Shipeng Technology leads a smart building revolution with AWS
The rise of generative AI is accelerating digital transformation across traditional industries, and the construction sector is no exception. In an industry long dependent on hands-on expertise and experience sharing, construction companies face mounting challenges including labor shortages, rising costs, project delays, and increasingly stringent regulatory requirements. To address these issues, Shipeng Technology has developed an end-to-end smart construction solution centered on a "Digital Twin + AI Platform," powered by the robust computing capabilities of Amazon Web Services (AWS).Integrating AI, cloud, and digital twin technologies to drive smart constructionAccording to Shibo Lin, founder of Shipeng Technology, the company's core solution revolves around three key pillars: visibility, precision, and control. Covering the entire project lifecycle - from design and construction to operation and maintenance - it establishes a comprehensive digital twin management process. By replacing traditional 2D blueprints with 3D BIM (Building Information Modeling), design conflicts can be identified and resolved before construction begins. The AI platform integrates material and scheduling data, allowing on-site teams to query project progress and cost details using natural language. In addition, AR and sensor technologies enable real-time comparison between physical structures and digital models, ensuring quality and progress remain aligned. The result is a significant reduction in human error and delay risks, along with enhanced data-driven decision-making capabilities.Shipeng Technology leverages AWS cloud computing, AI/ML platforms, and IoT services to handle the massive volume of construction data and 3D model computations. By integrating sensor, image, and progress data in the cloud, the company builds high-precision digital twins that remain perfectly synchronized with the physical site. This architecture not only ensures flexibility, scalability, and security but also enables rapid model updates and data processing within minutes - greatly reducing operational costs and accelerating project delivery. Lin emphasized that AWS's global cloud infrastructure allows the team to focus on application innovation and AI model optimization, truly realizing the vision of bringing "smart construction from cloud to job site."Real-world projects demonstrate efficiency gainsIn a recent major construction project, regulatory changes required a complete redesign. Traditionally, the revision process would take four months. With Shipeng Technology's BIM solution and AWS support, the team completed the entire update and validation in just one week, reducing the timeline by over tenfold and saving substantial downtime costs.In another project, the Startup Terrace A6 Tower in Linkou adopted Shipeng Technology's digital asset management system. Tasks that once took three months - such as inventory verification - are now completed within five to ten minutes. Supported by AWS's real-time data integration and high-performance computing, the platform enables project managers to monitor on-site progress and asset conditions seamlessly. Lin noted that Shipeng Technology aims to make every data point from construction sites actionable, turning real-time insights into the foundation for smarter decisions.From Taiwan to the world: building a cloud ecosystem for smart constructionThrough its participation in the Startup Terrace Kaohsiung AWS Joint Innovation Center (JIC) project, Shipeng Technology established a presence in Kaohsiung's Startup Terrace and gained access to extensive local industry resources. The project's matchmaking and mentoring programs have helped the company connect with construction partners in southern Taiwan and refine its business presentation and client engagement capabilities. Lin remarked that this industry collaboration model - combining local partnerships with cloud-based coordination - not only accelerates digital transformation in southern Taiwan's construction industry but also strengthens Shipeng Technology's local market foothold.While deepening its presence in Taiwan, Shipeng Technology is actively expanding internationally. Following its strategy of "Taiwan R&D, Japan validation, and global deployment" , the team recently participated in a global startup competition and secured collaboration opportunities with Japanese partners to deploy smart construction solutions overseas. Given Japan's strong demand for construction automation and ESG management, the market serves as the company's first step toward globalization. Moving forward, Shipeng Technology will continue to establish international standards for smart building practices and bringing its digital construction technologies to the world.
Thursday 13 November 2025
Brainport Industries Campus Development Organization - The largest high-tech manufacturing expansion in the Netherlands
Brainport Industries Campus (BIC) is a development project for an industrial park in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Phase one (BIC 1) has been completed, encompassing 105,000 square meters of existing buildings, surrounding public space, and parking. The site is home to several high-tech manufacturing companies and educational institutions. Expansion plans are currently underway, with the newly expanded BIC 2 campus expected to double the size of BIC 1, reaching 300,000 square meters. More than 40 pioneering companies are already established on the campus. BIC is the largest campus expansion in the Netherlands for years to come.Notably, ASML, the Dutch EUV lithography equipment giant, is considering expanding to the northern part of the BIC 2 campus. In 2024, ASML announced plans to establish a subsidiary in the BIC Industrial Park by 2030, accommodating thousands of employees. The Brainport Industries Campus development company stated that it aims to provide startup facilities, co-innovation spaces and built to suit manufacturing space for high-tech companies.In partnership with Invest Holland and the Brabant Development Agency (BOM), the park will offer Taiwanese companies the option of establishing regional business units or research centers in the Netherlands through support services provided by the industrial park.The campus aims to attract leading companies in cutting-edge technology fields, including semiconductor related technologies, photonics, quantum and additive manufacturing. BIC and Invest Holland jointly unveiled this plan at Semicon Taiwan 2025, offering the access to advanced facilities, a strong open innovation ecosystems and encouraging Taiwan's high-tech industries participating in this collaboration opportunity.
Thursday 13 November 2025
Empowered by AWS JIC, eNeural redefines edge AI with dual solutions to accelerate global expansion
Empowered by the Startup Terrace Kaohsiung AWS Joint Innovation Center (JIC), eNeural is redefining the landscape of edge AI with two flagship innovations - AI-Craft, an automated AI development platform, and an edge AI self-learning solution. These breakthroughs aim to make AI truly self-learning and self-evolving, helping industries overcome long-standing barriers in deploying AI at the edge.As AI applications rapidly expand across industries, enterprises have realized that beyond computing power, the biggest barriers to AI implementation lie in the high cost and lengthy cycle of model training. For system integrators, success increasingly depends on the ability to integrate optimized AI models into lightweight edge devices to deliver reliable inference services in real time.A spin-off startup from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), eNeural combines strong academic research foundations with practical AI R&D experience. The company has already forged partnerships with major electronics manufacturers including Quanta, Compal, and Lite-On, and is collaborating with a North American e-commerce logistics fleet on developing an AI-based collision warning system.According to eNeural CEO Eric Huang, edge devices are typically designed to be small, lightweight, and energy-efficient, which makes AI model optimization particularly challenging. "Our AI-Craft platform provides a one-stop, modular, and standardized AI development workflow," said Huang. "It allows developers to automatically generate optimized models as efficiently as products rolling off an intelligent production line."Edge AI self-learning accelerates model optimization and reduces costsFounded in 2022, eNeural focuses on proprietary AI technology R&D, with AI-Craft serving as the backbone of its innovation. The platform integrates four key technology modules - automated annotation, model pruning, model quantization, and generative AI data augmentation - to make AI development faster, more scalable, and more energy-efficient.Using pre-trained AI models and advanced image analysis algorithms, AI-Craft boosts data labeling efficiency by 10 to 100 times, significantly shortening AI project launch time. Model pruning removes redundant parameters to enhance computational efficiency by up to 90% without compromising accuracy, while reducing the memory and processor load.Model quantization converts floating-point operations into 8-bit, 4-bit, or even 2-bit precision, dramatically lowering power consumption and enabling smooth deployment of AI models on compact edge devices. Meanwhile, generative AI data augmentation automatically creates training data for rare yet critical conditions - such as night, rain, snow, or backlight - improving AI model robustness and generalization.Traditionally, AI models deployed on edge devices must send large amounts of data back to the cloud for retraining - a process that consumes time and resources. eNeural's Edge AI Self-Learning technology allows models to learn and recalibrate autonomously in real time, reducing the need for cloud data transfer."For example," Huang explained, "when fleet vehicles operate under different weather, lighting, or road conditions, the AI model can automatically adjust its decision logic to maintain accuracy. With federated learning, training results are securely shared across thousands of vehicles." This innovation reduces retraining cycles from months to weeks and significantly lowers AI operation and maintenance costs.AWS JIC Accelerates cloud transformation and strategic collaborationSince joining the AWS JIC in 2025, eNeural has leveraged the expertise of AWS specialists to upgrade its AI-Craft platform using Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning (ML) service, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) GPU computing power. This transformation has turned AI-Craft into a cloud-based development solution, enabling developers to perform automated annotation, model pruning, and quantization in the cloud. With dynamic AWS resource allocation, eNeural can efficiently run multiple AI projects in parallel with greater scalability and cost efficiency.Participation in the AWS JIC program has also opened doors for new business collaborations. Huang shared that while earlier partnership talks with Advantech did not progress, joining the AWS JIC program led to the successful signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two companies in 2025. Under this collaboration, eNeural will feature its two flagship AI solutions on Advantech's Marketplace, paving the way for deeper engagement with system integrators worldwide.Beyond Taiwan, eNeural is actively expanding into the U.S., Japan, and India. Leveraging AWS's global cloud infrastructure and innovation ecosystem, the company is pursuing a "software-driven core + hardware collaboration" strategy, collaborating with global players to unlock new opportunities in the rapidly growing edge AI market.