The IoT Development Strategies for Taiwan Hsien-Tang Ko, Chi Chang, Nan-Shiun Chu Abstract —The internet of things enables new forms of communications between people and things, and between things themselves by embedding short-range mobile transceivers into everyday items. The IoT can be applied in environmental monitoring, disaster prevention, health & safety, medical biometrics, smart transportation and smart vehicles to provide green environment and create new opportunities for ICT industry. Although several challenges remain to be overcome, Taiwan government has implemented application oriented policies and provided strategic incentives to stimulate the development of IoT. This study reviews international trends, Taiwan’s progress and strategies of six main applications, smart disaster prevention, smart logistics, smart energy, smart transportation, smart healthcare, and smart building. Also, the study underlines the establishment of IoT infrastructure and the integration of Taiwan ICT industry. Index Terms—IoT; smart disaster prevention, smart logistics, smart energy, smart transportation, smart healthcare, smart building ————————————————————1 INTRODUCTION owadays, the Internet of Things (IoT) develops at a rapid pace around the world. Forrester Research predicted that the proportion of the communication service business between something to something and human connect to human will reach 30:1 by 2020, so the Internet of things will be the next information services at trillion levels. [1] Governments have also defined their IoT policy as well, including the Intelligent Taiwan pro- ject in Taiwan, the i2010 policy framework o f the Eu rope- an Commission, the i-Japan project in Japan, the IOT pro- gram in Korea, as well as China's “Sensing China”. The inclusion of “Sensing China” into the “12th 5-Year Plan” indicates that IoT technology will be incorporated with policy developments on public infrastructure and liveli- hood. Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC) estimated that the global Internet of Things industry will hit to nearly 700 Billion USD by 2016. With further analy- sis of the IoT industry chain, IoT policy initiatives will spur IoT devices in a rapid growth. Meanwhile, approxi- mately 384 Billion USD, or nearly 90% of the market value, is expected to come from software and value-added ser- vices as the true driving force behind the growth of the IoT industry. The development of the IoT applications in Taiwan will not only enhance soft power and stimulate the trans- formation of the domestic industrial structure, but im- prove the socio-economic environment and social welfare such as green buildings and smart grids. Furthermore, the IoT can be applied in environmental monitoring, disaster prevention, health & safety, medical biometrics, smart transportation and smart vehicles. Due to the highly inte- grated characteristic of the IoT, the introduction of rela- tive services will create new opportunities for Taiwan ICT industry. 2 BACKGROUND The concept of the “Internetof Things” was formally proposed in 2005 by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) at the World Summit on the Information So- ciety (WSIS). Under this concept, all objects in the world, from car tires to toothbrushes or from houses to paper napkins, can all actively communicate with each other through the IoT. RFID, tele-sensing and smart embedding technologies will also be used even more extensively. Ac- cording to the ITU, the definition of IoT is “by embedding short-range mobile transceivers into a wide array of addi- tional gadgets and everyday items, enable new forms of new communication between people and things, and be- tween things themselves”. [2]At the “China and EU Con- ference on the Internet of Things and Enterprise Envi- ronments” held in September, 2009, the head of the Euro- pean Commission's RFID Division Dr. Lorent Ferderix stated EU's definition on the Internet of Things: The In- ternet of Things is a dynamic global network infrastruc- ture that has a self-organizing capability based on stand- ards and interoperable communication protocols. All the physical and virtual “objects” in the Internet of Things have a unique identity, physical properties, virtual char- acteristics, intelligent interfaces and can be seamlessly integrated with communications networks. [3]————————————————Hsien-Tang Ko is with the Industry Support Division at the Institute forInformation Indust ry (III), Taipei, Taiwan 106. Chi Chang is with the Market Intelligence & Consulting Institut e at the Institut e for Informat ion Industry (III), Taipei, Taiwan 106. Nan-Shiun Chu is with the Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute at the Institute for Information Industry (III), Taipei, Taiwan 106. N JOURNAL OF COMPUTING, VOLUME 4, ISSUE 11, NOVEMBER 2012, ISSN (Online) 2151-9617 https://sites.go ogle.com/site/journ alofcomputing WWW.JOURNALOFCOMPUTING.ORG 13
