Shanghai, Nov. 10, 2014: A wide range of topics including cutting-edge Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, intelligent city and community, intelligent medical care, IoT investment and financing match-making, among others, were discussed during the just-concluded Shanghai Intelligent City Week, IoT China 2014 & CVITS Expo 2014.
Over 100 exhibitors from Britain, Germany, Holland, France, Japan, the United States, Sweden, Slovenia, South Korea, Russia, mainland China and Taiwan displayed their wares and services across the 6,000 square meter exhibition space at the Expo in Shanghai. Nearly 100 guest speakers from China and around the world addressed the delegates and visitors, estimated to be around 10,000.
Held from Oct. 28, the themes for this year’s exhibition were – IoT: Leading the Intelligent Life” and “IoT: Leading the Intelligent Travel”, with a focus on three major topics: Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Vehicles (IoV) and Intelligent Transport.
One thing that came across clearly at the Expo was that the IoT had, over the years, evolved from traditional forms of cooperation within the communication industry into a cross-border cooperation opportunity with industry leaders in areas such as automotive, transport, healthcare, agriculture, home appliances, and capital management. Some analysts said a new IoT ecosystem was already taking shape, and the participants had demonstrated their strength “intelligently” at the Expo.
During this year’s event, keynote speeches and interactive demonstrations were used to elaborate “IoV”, one of two of the most important components of this year’s Expo. Star proponents of the “networked vehicle” included Ford, Toyota, General Motors, SAIC Motor, QOROS, Geely and BYD, as well as communication operators Onstar (whose systems are installed in new Cadillacs), China Mobile (in Highlanders), China Unicom (in BMWs) and China Telecom (in the VW Magotan).
The “Intelligent transport” section was an exhibition area jointly set up by the Expo, the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization and Shanghai Municipal Commission of Construction and Transportation. The Highway Scientific Research Institute under the Ministry of Transport, the Shanghai Electrical Apparatus Research Institute, the Third Research Institute of the Ministry Of Public Security and China Unionpay, among others, discussed topics and shared cases on the construction of intelligent transport and intelligent parking management systems with a special focus on park and pay systems and the implications for development trends in the car rental sector. It was perhaps for the first time ever at any IoT conference that “intelligent parking”, as an independent topic, was included and discussed.
Practices that could barely have been imagined in the past, such as mobile ward rounds, mobile nursing, mobile first-aid, remote medical care and health monitoring, were now becoming realistic possibilities as a result of the IoT. The IoT authorities in the medical field including delegates from China Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai Children’s Hospital, Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital Corporation, Shanghai Fifth People’s Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (SHUTCM), Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning, among others, showcased futuristic applications during the Expo, including digital and remote medical care, Big Data and Cloud technology, health management as well as wearable devices, among others.
The intelligent agriculture and food safety sub-forum, one of the four major sub-forums, provided a venue for industry experts from the EU, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan in tandem with professors from Shanghai Agricultural IoT Application Engineering and Technology Research Center and Fudan University as well as representatives from Chinese companies who shared case studies on solutions in the area of food safety and intelligent agriculture.
During the seven years from 2007 to 2013, the 7th Framework Programme, initiated by the European Union (EU) and implemented by IoT European Research Cluster (IERC), with a budget of 50.521 billion Euros, has yielded substantial results. Under the backdrop of China-EU IoT cooperation and integration, the IERC has joined hands with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technologty of China as hosts of the “China-EU IoT Forum”.
Image Credit: CVITS Expo 2014
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