1. BagiTag – Smart luggage

tracker

From Tektos Ecosystem, this wireless and waterproof (IP68) smart luggage tracker connects to Android and iOS supported devices. It notifies you when it’s time to get your luggage from the conveyor belt, when your luggage is moving away from you, or when you have forgotten to take your luggage or bag with you.

It has a detection range of up to 30 metres. It was designed and developed into a luggage tracker that is affordable, tiny and waterproof to offer you worry-free travel because “it knows” how stressful it can be to have to wait in a queue for your luggage at airports.

2. Xiaozhi – Artificial intelligence-backed service robot

This robot can comprehend natural semantics. Xin jinbao Corp’s Sanwei international group is responsible for the research and design of the hardware, with the natural semantic analysis established by Geosat Aerospace. It uses the cloud platform of Chunghwa telecom. Together, they provide a multi-purpose commercial service robot system.

Xiaozhi can make interactive operations by hearing the natural language of users. It also can let users use the touch screen on their chest for detailed interactive experience, and provides the tour and commercial services of airports, stations, banks, hotels, department stores and other places, which provide users with a different service experience.

3. BESV TRB1 AM – smart ride

Developed by Darfon Innovation, it features a 756Wh battery power that lets you move with abundant power assistance. It comes with a Brose electric motor delivers robust power. The BESV Sport App helps you check your bike status and review your fitness performance for the ultimate mountain biking experience.

4. ORII – Voice-powered ring

This communication wearable was developed by Original Lab. It is the world’s first voice assistant ring that transforms your hand into a communication hub. It can be used for private calls, messaging, text, readouts, and voice query functions. It combines bone conduction and voice assistance.

5. RH101 Arobot, developed

by ADATA

This technology is instantly likeable and offers to a wide range of responses to entertain and surprise. Users can control it via an app, including seeing what Arobot sees on smartphones and tablets. The company said it excellent for monitoring children and ensuring child safety. It comes with a 5- megapixel camera and 10,000mAh power pack with USB output, making it a mobile charger for smart devices.

Arobot can help children learn several languages such as Chinese, English, German and Japanese. It also can help them sleep easier with bedtime stories gently told by Arobot.

6. LyfieEye200 – 360-degree

camera

It is said to be the world’s first 360 AR/AV camera. The AR/VR camera lets users record and share 360-degree content using their Android smartphones. It captures 360-degree HD images, videos, and streams live to social media. It also integrated seamless with companion apps to create AR/VR experience. It is the smallest, slimmest and most lightweight device in this segment. The LyfieEye200 is manufacturer by Enron Technology and designed by eCapture Technologies.

7. COVR-C 1203 – Dual-band

whole home Wi-Fi system

From D-Link Corporation, this is a seamless Wi-Fi solution that fits in well in your modern home. It features three high performance Covr Points that blanket every square inch in your home with high-speed AC 1200 dual-band Wi-Fi as well as two onboard Gigabit Ethernet ports (per unit) for wired connectivity. With Covr, you enjoy Wi-Fi that’s stable, consistent and truly seamless. With Covr-C1203, D-Link has “got you Covr’d”.

8. VR GO 2.0 – VR Backpack PC

It is claimed to be first VR backpack in the world designed for virtual reality enthusiasts who want to be tangle-free. It is powered by Intel i7 processor and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 graphics. It makes virtual reality life-like, enabling users to enjoy full immersion in any VR application and entertainment. It is manufactured by Zotac Technology.

9. T183-Tool USB flash drive

This is a multi-tool flash drive from Team Group that offers many functions that are useful in daily life.

It can be used not only as a key ring, but to cut cartons, use as a ruler and even as a bottle opener. It is also waterproof and dust proof, with an anti-rust and anti-corrosion coating.

10. iBase – Multi-touch medical

panel PC

This 21.5-inch versatile medical panel is designed for a hospital patient information system for the clinic, bedside or waiting areas to provide clinical data medical records management or simply information. It is developed by Ibase Technology.

In a separate statement issued the same day, Kittinut Tikawan, True’s co-president in charge of commercial operations, said the company considered the move carefully before making the decision based on optimal benefit to customers and investors.

He insisted the company would lose no business opportunities by shunning the auction.

True announced in May it would not take part in the bidding, given that its existing 55MHz spectrum bandwidth was enough to maintain its comparative advantage in the long run.

Advanced Info Service (AIS) and Total Access Communication (DTAC) have yet to declare whether they would participate in the auction.

Bids must be submitted by June 15 and a pre-qualification process will extend from June 16 to July 31.

The 1800MHz, which the NBTC will put in auction, currently belongs to CAT Telecom. CAT has granted the 1800MHz and 850MHz bands to DTAC to provide a mobile phone service under its concession, which will expire on September 15 this year.

DTAC and CAT yesterday jointly presented a subscriber protection plan to the NBTC for approval as DTAC approaches expiration of its concession. Both confirmed the best interest of both the customers and the public would be upheld by providing them with continuous service for the duration of the so-called remedy period, in compliance with the NBTC requirements.

The remedy period is the time after the concession expires but the NBTC permits the operator to continue to provide the service on an interim basis to prevent a service disruption until the spectrum under such concession is reallocated to a bid winner.

DTAC chief executive officer Lars Norling said that currently, there are still a large number of active subscribers on 800 MHz and 1800 MHz, whose interests must be protected.

CAT president Colonel Sanpachai Huvanandana said that he is confident that the NBTC will approve the proposed plan in favor of the subscribers.

“DTAC along with CAT want to maintain service quality in accordance with relevant NBTC measures and announcements. While we are stepping up efforts to drive the migration of remaining 2G subscribers by giving them good offers to upgrade them to 3G/4G so that they enjoy much higher speed mobile internet, ” continued Norling.

Both company’s confirmed that the best interests of the customers would be upheld by providing them with a continuous service for the duration of the “remedy period”, in compliance with NBTC requirements.

The term “remedy period” refers to the time after the concession expires when the NBTC allows the operator to continue to provide the service on an interim basis to prevent service disruption.

DTAC chief executive officer Lars Norling said that there are still large numbers of active subscribers on 800 MHz and 1,800 MHz frequencies, whose interests must be protected.

“DTAC and CAT will endeavour to maintain service quality in accordance with NBTC measures and announcements. We are also stepping up efforts to encourage the migration of remaining 2G subscribers by offering incentives to upgrade them to 3G and 4G,” added Norling.

CAT president Colonel Sanpachai Huvanandana said: “CAT granted DTAC a 27-year concession on the 800 MHz and 1,800 MHz frequencies which are about to expire, and there are a lot of customers remaining on the network. Therefore, CAT is obliged to comply with the NBTC notification on measures for temporary subscriber protection for cases of licence, concessions or mobile service agreement expiry, to protect subscribers and allow them to continue using mobile services under the existing service agreements. We are confident that the NBTC will approve the proposed plan in favour of the subscribers.”

In a separate statement issued the same day, Kittinut Tikawan, True’s co-president in charge of commercial operations, said the company considered the move carefully before making the decision based on optimal benefit to customers and investors.

He insisted the company would lose no business opportunities by shunning the auction.

True announced in May it would not take part in the bidding, given that its existing 55MHz spectrum bandwidth was enough to maintain its comparative advantage in the long run.

Advanced Info Service and Total Access Communication have yet to declare whether they would participate in the auction.

Bids must be submitted by June 15 and a pre-qualification process will extend from June 16 to July 31. The names of qualified bidders will be announced on July 2.

Thanavut brings with him more than 17 years’ experience in sales and channel management in the IT industry.

Prior to joining Hitachi Vantara, he held a variety of management positions with IBM, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.

The project will have a production capacity of 1.6 million tonnes of olefins per year, which is used to produce plastic pellets, HDPE, LLDPE and PP for local demand, currently at 2.3 million tonnes per year.

Demand for olefins is expected to grow in line with the country’s economic expansion, he added.

According to Surat Leelataviwat, executive vice president of Kasikornbank, the Thai Bankers’ Association recently discussed with the central bank the possible impacts from the single-accounting measure and the central bank agreed to the relaxation to allow SMEs more time to adjust themselves.

Meanwhile, the BOT has launched an adjustment plan for SMEs to book their real accounting data into one account,” he said.

The company, which bills itself as the world’s leading infrastructure company and supplier of engineering technology products and services, yesterday signed more than 10 agreements with Chinese partners in support of opportunities arising from the BRI during the Belt and Road International Summit held by Siemens in Beijing.

The forum attracted more than 1,000 leaders and executive representatives from governments, enterprises, investment firms, financing institutions and think tanks from more than 30 countries and territories.

The cooperation agreeements were signed with leading Chinese enterprises, such as China Gezhouba Group Corporation International Engineering Co Ltd, Guangdong Yuedian Group Co Ltd, China National Chemical Engineering Group Corporation Ltd (CNCEC), China Railway Construction Corporation (International) Ltd, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), and China Resources Cement Holdings Ltd. They cover power generation, energy management, building technology and intelligent manufacturing, and aim to tap the market potential in countries and regions such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Nigeria and Mozambique, as well as South America.

Siemens in March set up a dedicated Belt and Road office in Beijing for enhancing global cooperation. The move will further intensify company-wide efforts to continue teaming up with global partners and jointly exploring business opportunities emerging from the BRI. Carsten Hasbach, head of strategy and business development in Russia, is leading the new BRI office in Beijing, with his main task to facilitate and strengthen the interaction with different stakeholders.

As part of the company’s global taskforce, the Belt and Road office will become Siemens’ global hub responsible for executing the company’s BRI business strategy, integrating internal and external resources to best support the initiative, strengthening interactions with multiple stakeholders, and creating collaboration opportunities that lead to multiple benefits.

Joe Kaeser, president and CEO of Siemens AG, said that as a long-term and well-established partner of China and its industries, Siemens supports the call of the BRI and is taking another solid step forward on a larger scale and with a wider scope.

“The Belt and Road Initiative has the strong potential to change the world trade and economic orders – with the investment of about one trillion euros, more than 90 countries involved and growing with the BRI. About 70 per cent of the world population will be influenced by the initiative,” said Kaeser.

Kaeser said that Siemens operations in China became its biggest outside Europe. Posting total revenue of 7.2 billion euros in fiscal 2017, the Siemens operations in China employ about 32,000, with 4,500 in research and development (R&D) and engineering staff, 12,000 patent applications, and 21 R&D hubs. Chengdu becomes the company’s first digital factory outside Germany.

Cedrik Neike, member of the managing board of Siemens AG, said that Siemens is among the first global companies to partner with Chinese EPCs (engineering, procurement and construction) in their “go global” endeavour. “The BRI is all about infrastructure and bridge-building. It is about bridges connecting societies, economies and cultures but also about bridges between the physical infrastructure and the digital world,” he said.

Lothar Herrmann, CEO of Siemens Greater China, said that by connecting multiple stakeholders of BRI, by providing innovative and digital technologies and by working closely together with its Chinese partners, Siemens continues to support a successful, open and fair international collaboration.

 James Wu, president of Huawei’s Southeast Asia region, said that the investment commitment would empower developers and young IT talent to test their products at Huawei’s OpenLab centres.

The Chinese technology giant will officially open an OpenLab in Delhi in August.

The company also announced a collaboration with the Thai government after a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed with the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSDTA) and the National Innovation Agency (NIA).

The initiative will support the process of research and development into digital innovation in Thailand. The MoU outlines a series of joint R&D objectives aimed at stimulating the country’s digital transformation process and bringing the country’s innovations to the global market.

Specific initiatives include developing deeper technological insights, fostering a startup-friendly ecosystem in Thailand, promoting public-private collaboration and cultivating talent through Huawei’s OpenLab and Customer Solution Innovation and Integration Experience Centre (CSIC), facilitating communication between scientists, scholars, innovators, and other researchers, and conducting research into ICT basic theories.

Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak said yesterday on the fourth Huawei Asia-Pacific Innovation Day – held in Bangkok by Huawei Technologies and the Ministry of Science and Technology under the theme of “Innovate for a Digital Asia-Pacific” – that the government would like to see support from Huawei in three areas: strengthening the rural sector and the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and further developing the education sector.

“We thank Huawei for its commitment to support Thailand’s digital economy transformation through its continued investments in Thailand across areas such as training the human resources of universities and establishing the OpenLab to allow Thais to test innovative business ideas before commercialisation,” Somkid said.

“This will lead to the development of the country as startup nation. The collaboration with Huawei will encourage Thais to realise the importance of digital technology to the development of the people and the country.”

He said Thailand is very active in innovation and technology and that this is the right time for Huawei to hold the Huawei Asia Pacific Innovation Day in Bangkok.

Thailand has 121 million mobile phone numbers, 41 million Internet users, and US$80 billion of e-commerce business value. Meanwhile, business sector has been actively investing in the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data, especially in the banking sector, Somkid said.

Moreover, the country’s economy is turning a corner, with the likelihood of 4 per cent growth in gross domestic product for this year, he said.

Guo Ping, rotating chairman of Huawei Technologies, said that many economies in the Asia-Pacific region have set out on their digital transformation journey.

“The ecosystem is critical here. Governments need to take the lead, industries need to proactively do their part, and individuals need to work to improve their digital skills,” Guo said. “Huawei is ready and willing to work with Asia-Pacific countries to build this digital ecosystem.

“We have set up an OpenLab in Bangkok where we open up our knowledge and resources on ICT to our customers and partners. Since its opening in June 2017, Huawei’s OpenLab in Bangkok has made substantial progress.”

In the future, the company hopes that the OpenLab in Bangkok will better serve local partners and play a greater role in enabling joint innovation across different sectors, Guo said.

The Bangkok centre was opened with investment of US$15 million. It is the seventh such centre to be opened worldwide by Huawei. The others are in Suzhou, Mexico, Munich, Singapore, Johannesburg and Dubai. OpenLab Bangkok covers 2,000 square metres at G Tower, home to Huawei Thailand’s new headquarters.