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The internet of things (IoT) has dominated the main role of the smart city through the cutting edge development of artificial intelligence, big data and other technologies. As such, a tremendous number of IoT connections have inevitably been set up.
However, there was no universal standard to monitor IoT performance. The IEEE P2668 IoT Maturity Index (IDex) was introduced to assure the quality of performance of smart IoT sensors. In this webinar, Dr Carmen Fung shared the vibrant sensor ecosystem via the Sensor Lab and Hub at the Hong Kong Science Park, and Ir Dr K F Tsang explained how to improve IoT solutions by IDex.
The objective of the Sensor Lab and Hub is to offer a well-equipped cleanroom (class 100; 1000; 1000) for start-up companies and small and medium enterprises to conduct trial runs of prototyping micro-/nano-sensors and test the sensors in a real environment under different protocol standards such as LoRa and SigFox. The Sensor Lab support platform also facilitates sensor chip development by offering 6”/8” wafer processing equipment and high precision backend packaging equipment.
Currently most IoT systems adopt the low-power wide-area with maintenance supported by different manufacturers. However, interoperability and market-entry barriers are also the key challenges to IoT development. A standardised communication mechanism or standardised design ensures the reliability of different kinds of end devices communicating over the same server platform.
IDex is the global standard providing a fair and consistent performance score that accounts for the performance in IoT cyber security, privacy, and reliability, for evaluation and comparison of all IoT-related issues embracing all domains such as safety, communication, healthcare, robotics, manufacturing, retail, logistics, smart energy, smart grids, fisheries, farming and others. The higher the Maturity Index, the higher the IoT performance. IDex contributes to all aspects of smart city development.
The core design of IDex consists of a wireless transducer interface module and network capable application processor, which aims at developing more efficient and secure solutions.
The EN Division would like to express our sincere thanks to Dr Fung and Ir Dr Tsang who shared such insightful information with our members.
The future of the city will encompass many new technologies to provide greater convenience and information transparency for different kinds of users.
The EN Division organised the captioned webinar on 6 October 2020 to share the effects of a new paradigm shift and possible upcoming technologies to increase human mobility.
During the webinar, Mr Keith Cheng, who has been driving smart city innovations in Hong Kong and Macau as Head of Digital Hub of Siemens Advanta Solutions for the past three years, shared examples of a possible use with a cloud-platform and applications for integrating various robotic systems to assist facilities managers to improve the way they operate buildings and campuses.
The webinar attracted over 100 participants who appreciated the digital technology examples. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Mr Cheng and the Division Committee for offering their valuable time for this sharing session.