Taiwan’s industrial IoT hub has expanded its manufacturing services to support foreign companies in developing and utilising AI and IoT technologies, both within products and within the manufacturing process. A key aim to transform manufacturing by equipping firms with the latest Industry 4.0 innovations.

The Institute for Information Industry of Taiwan is an organisation supporting the development of the nation’s information industry. The Institute’s IoT Service Hub is designed to bring together the best of Taiwan’s tech talents, enterprises, and industry-leading technologies to help manufacturers and inventors bring IoT products to market in a faster and more cost-effective way, and apply AIoT technologies in their development and manufacturing processes.

These services have now been extended to overseas manufacturers and developers as well as Taiwanese organisations.

The IoT Service Hub provides three key services. It provides AIoT evaluation board(EVB/Demo board) made by Taiwan’s IC to assist product development. It connects startup or product to interdisciplinary experts in Taiwan. And it provides AIoT solutions to help firms achieve industrial digital transformation.

The hub has released several AIoT evaluation boards with the cooperation of Taiwanese semiconductor companies to help product developers lower their technical and technological thresholds and speed up prototype development and mass production processes. The Hub makes Taiwan IC-based development toolkit of various transmission applications, and offer assistance such as coordinate files for PCB, BOM, Gerber file, and SMT proofing to lower the technological threshold and accelerate production.

The Hub connects inventors to over 200 cross-industry corporate partners and experts, including system integrators, mass production, and designers across Taiwan’s manufacturing industry chain, providing technical consultations and critical assessments

Building on this service, the Hub is currently organising an international manufacturing service, with numerous companies expected to start assisting international mass production of prototypes in 2022.

Hub product managers can support each production phase for a project. Individual case managers provide in-depth management for each potential case, and arrange key resource services including case consultation and resource introduction.

Since its founding in 2018, the Hub has supported more than 400 IoT smart manufacturing innovations, of which 100 have been brought to market.

Industries that have benefited from digital transformation managed by the Hub include healthcare equipment, with the creation of smart isolation rooms for remote care at the Long-term Care Centre for the Elderly, and 3EGREEN TECHNOLOGY’s IoT power usage monitor that assists traditional food factories in reducing their carbon footprints towards achieving net zero carbon emissions.