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David Paterson, Sales Director, Connected Home Division,
Intel Corporation |
HONG KONG, Apr 17, 2018 - (ACN Newswire) - The
15th edition of the Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition),
Asia's largest event of its kind, was held from 13-16 April at the
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). A series of
seminars was organised during the first three days of the fair, as
part of the "2018 Tech Trends Symposium", including one focusing on
smart homes, held on 14 April.
Building the foundation for a revolutionary Smart Home --
The evolution of the Smart Home is among the many Internet of
Things (IoT) revolutions, according to David Paterson, Sales
Director, Connected Home Division, Intel Corporation, one of the
Symposium speakers.
But despite its advent five to six years ago, Mr Paterson said the
IoT revolution has yet to fully be realised. The foundation for a
true Smart Home, he said, remains under construction, with its
progress divided into four phases. The most developed stage,
connectivity, allows mobile devices to connect with machines such
as appliances and lighting through WiFi connections. The second
phase is control, which involves using the smartphone, for example,
as a smart controller. The third phase is communication, allowing
devices to talk to each other by using a single controller for
various applications, such as lighting, appliances and
entertainment. The main focus of the speaker's presentation was the
final phase - intelligence - which he said is now under
development.
Mr Paterson explained that a truly smart home is (1) responsive, in
terms of doing what users want, immediately and accurately; (2)
perceptive, by recognising who is giving the command and what the
user wants, and (3) autonomous, which allows it to anticipate user
needs and act on them.
On the subject of industry needs, Mr Paterson said top among them
is performance. The broadband network, he said, must be reliable
and respond instantaneously. Second, the network must cover the
entire home. Third, it must guarantee secure transmission and
protection of data, which remains a problem, given the huge amount
of data sent to equipment-providers and stored on the cloud. He
said that the issue was a major development focus for Intel.
He pointed out that the number of connected devices was expected to
double in two years, and that growth will require powerful,
affordable broadband access, enhanced in-home connectivity and
artificial intelligence (AI) in devices at all levels, to filter
the huge amount of data generated daily.
Artificial Intelligence Used in Different Areas --
Speaking on the topic of AI development, Liu Weiwei, Sales Director
of Smart Service Division, iFlytek, focused on iFlytek's success in
the areas of speech synthesis and translation. Noting the three
levels in AI development - computation intelligence, perceptive
intelligence, which involves hearing, speaking and seeing; and
cognitive intelligence, which involves understanding - Mr Liu said
that iFlytek's translation corpus is based on 140 million sentences
and can accurately translate within one second. For now, however,
the company still has to rely on human translators to work with
machines for higher accuracy. Jargon, in particular, remains a
problem in speech recognition.
China's massive outbound tourism has resulted in fast-growing
demand for iFlytek's translation service. In 2016, 122 million
mainland tourists travelled abroad, one third of whom can only
speak their native language. The iFlytek translation system can
translate more than 20 languages. Chinese travellers can also use
the company's offline mode when there is no Internet available.
In addition, Mr Liu said that iFlytek's smart doctor assistant was
the first AI robot to pass the examination medical students take to
become licensed doctors in China, noting that the system works
considerably faster than human doctors. He said that this could
have a lasting impact on the medical field in terms of reducing
costs, improving patient outcomes, and helping people in rural
areas.
In the legal field, the company helps stenographers achieve 97 per
cent accuracy. Its robots are currently handling customer-service
jobs in insurance companies and banks, and Mr Liu predicted that
human bank clerks will eventually be replaced by robots.
Helping Businesses Participate in the Smart Home Revolution --
Alex Yang, co-founder and COO, Tuya Global Inc, discussed ways
businesses can be part of the Smart Home revolution, pointing out
that in five years, the smart home industry is expected to become a
US$1 trillion market, with 5.28 billion devices estimated to be
added annually by 2020. He said Amazon Echo and Google Home had
reached 40 million US consumers in only two years, representing
more than 10 per cent of the population, compared to the smartphone
revolution, which took four to five years to achieve the same level
of adoption. "Interest is high," he said. "But how can we connect
with this new business?"
Mr Yang said that business must first make adoption easy. To
achieve this, Tuya created a plug-and-play platform to help
manufacturers with no know-how, to develop and market smart home
products. A company, he said, can develop a mobile app in one hour
and a prototype in one day, and be ready for mass-production in one
month. The Tuya platform covers all smart-home categories,
including appliances, healthcare, security, entertainment. Tuya
develops clients' product and finds a manufacturer for them through
its network of more than 10,000 manufacturers in China that works
with many OEM and ODM brands. Once the supply chain is ready, the
Tuya platform connects with all the best-selling points and is
immediately compatible with all devices and products in all
languages.
AI and big data-enabled, the platform has natural language
interaction, uses sensor data for intelligent control, permits
continuous self-learning of user habits, and has face and object
recognition.
Tuya is currently expanding globally, with a target for its cloud
service to cover 200 countries and regions in the next two
years.
How Smart Home Products can Provide Wise Living --
Vincent Chow, Senior Marketing Manager, Philips Lighting Hong Kong
Ltd, discussed the limited functionality of most smart home
products. Being able to remotely switch off home lights via
smartphones is not as popular in Hong Kong.
He remarked that the goal of his team at Philip's was to use
interconnected devices to encourage smart living. Initially, his
team found that the only consumers buying connected appliances were
those who like trying new gadgets. But focus groups have resulted
in the development of new uses. For example, a small child who
needs to use the toilet at night may not be able to reach the light
switch; a remote device solves the problem. Pet lovers may want to
turn on the lights to observe their pets remotely. Light-effect
notification may be useful for elderly people whose hearing does
not allow them to hear a phone or doorbell.
Big Data and Small Players in the Internet of Vehicles --
Dr Lawrence Poon, Principal Consultant, Hong Kong Productivity
Council, focused on the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). He said that by
2020, it was estimated that 90 per cent of cars would be connected
to the Internet, potentially making the IoV industry a Rmb250
billion market, especially since the Chinese mainland government
has introduced many new IoV-friendly policies.
According to Dr Poon, the IoV involves mainly big data analytics
for convenient living, creating an entirely new ecosystem. He said
that IoV has room for small players, such as app developers, to
enter the supply chain, since automotive engineers are not
generally good at software. He said that the industry needs new
blood, including start-ups and SMEs that can provide creative
solutions that the big automotive companies cannot.
Dr Poon mentioned a few examples of how to make the most of IoV
technology, including voice and image-recognition sensors that
collect information and issue accident and traffic jam alerts.
For vehicle manufacturers, the IoV can help with product
evaluation, providing enhanced reliability, he said. As an example,
he noted that the Tesla car has 7,000 battery cells in a single
car, which can be connected remotely to a back-end server to
monitor the cells.
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