The Department of Industrial Technology (DoIT), under Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), has showcased a selection of 30 creations from startup teams and R&D institutes at 2023 Meet Greater South, one of the startup expositions in Asia. Among the highlights of opening event was unveiling of DoIT’s pelagic fishery AIoT (artificial intelligence of things) value-added system, an advanced drone application system that utilises four drones to precisely locate and track schools of pelagic fish.
Chiou Chyou-Huey, director general of DoIT, emphasised importance of this advanced drone application system, stating that “the Pelagic Fishery AIoT Value-Added System marks that Taiwan is introducing AI (artificial intelligence) technologies into pelagic fishing for the first time.” Compared to using helicopters for fish search, this boasts a threefold increase in capability and 65% reduction in operational costs. This AIoT pelagic fishery system incorporates efforts of local enterprises, pelagic fisheries, non-governmental organisations that contributed to vital technologies, and the drone supply chain in Taiwan. Chiou, director general, expressed optimism that this AIoT system would catalyse the industrialisation of drone fleet services for pelagic fisheries.
The event also showcased an array of other AI-powered exhibits, including edge cloud low-latency computing software and hardware innovation technology, which is co-developed by Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and Institute for Information Industry (III). Integrating a management platform and AI accelerator cards, this can perform data transmission and analysis within 100 milliseconds, while halving deployment costs for enterprises. With its excellent low-latency computing capability, this technology finds broad applications in venues demanding substantial AI computing power, such as 5G-enabled smart shopping malls and advanced smart factories.
DoIT also introduced an advanced AI display solution called magic surprise craft, which features an angular three-sided naked-eye 3D display, real-time interactive perception technology. Developed by ITRI, this AI display system can detect human body movements even when off-screen. Eslite Spectrum is set to demonstrate this in stores in Japan this upcoming fall. This potential has led ITRI to collaborate with AI-related enterprises in United States, making roads into global automotive parts sector.
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