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VIISA Hold Virtual Investment Day For The First Time

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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, Jan. 18, 2021 — On 7 January 2021, VIISA organized Investment Day Batch 8 on its online platform, attracting more than 80 investors as well as corporations and startup community builders. This invite-only event also marked a new milestone for tech-startups Batch 8 in their 4-month journey with VIISA.

Taking place online for the first time, Investment Day Batch 8 solves the problem of geographical distance as well as difficulties in the global context of the COVID-19 pandemic, providing opportunities for startups and investors to share and exchange the latest updates about startup ideas. The event was divided into 2 sessions: live-streamed pitching shows from startups and networking activities between founders and investors with separate rooms for each startup team.

Opening the event, Mr. Vo Tran Dinh Hieu – Board Member and Program Director at VIISA, said: "Unlike any other, we want to preserve the excitement of live pitching, so this is not a recorded video, we have all the founders here with us and they are ready to go. So it is the first week 2021 and it seems like we will have another very eventful year. The UK announced 3rd lockdown, the Capitol Hill was taken yesterday. But still in Vietnam thousands of people gathered for fireworks shows on new year’s eve. I believe this tranquility in Vietnam represents what everyone has achieved in the last year. We all have sharpened our adaptability and agility to maintain the composure of our businesses. I hope we all will carry on this great attitude forward to 2021. We started this batch in June 2020 with 3 companies and only one succeeded to graduation. During this batch, we also continued supporting the alumni to recover from the covid situation."

This year’s Investment Day is not only an opportunity for VIISA Batch 8 startups to demonstrate their maturity, but also a chance for alumni startups who have participated in previous courses to reconfirm their development and position in the startup ecosystem. Whether the startup model is about real estate, fashion, events, e-commerce, technology, and applicability factors are all of the program priorities. With the hope to help young Vietnamese startups build their global business, these are special features that VIISA always appreciates.

Pitching in the event are 5 startups:

CYHOME: CyHome is Vietnam’s leading Property management platform that has already served top-tier customers in the field of Property management (PM) such as CBRE, Proman (Novaland), Visaho, Blue Diamond, My House… With an affordable fee, PMs now can have a world-class ERP, and service providers can have a better way to serve customers. What the startup wants to bring to market is a new way of living and working in crowded cities: with no fee, the resident/tenant should have a premium experience.

DROBEBOX: Drobebox is a disruptive fashion tech startup that offers a clothing subscription service for women. Users could unlock their dream closet, which contains thousands of premium designs with a fixed monthly fee, and enjoy any items without buying, maintaining, or laundry. Starting at 30$ per month, members could explore and enjoy up to 30 new items every month that used to cost them 1000-3000$. Using state-of-art technology such as AI, Drobebox platform provides an "infinity" closet with a true personalization experience that helps dress best every day as simple as ordering food delivery.

WISEPASS: WisePass is a lifestyle app enabling its subscribers to access products, services, or events sponsored by brands. Starting from 239,000 VND per month, a subscriber gets 3 PASS a day to enjoy anything brands provide on the platform.

VDES: VDES is the very first marketplace of the event industry, which connects event venues & event suppliers to customers in the simplest way with advanced technology. During over 4 years of operation, VDES has been partners with more than 520 vendors and organized more than 2250 events for users (customers & cooperate). With technology solutions and event-ecosystem platform, VDES offer service to vendors to increase competitive advantage, increase business efficiency, and decrease operating costs by event management system, we will launch this SAAS in 2021.

ECOMEASY: EcomEasy Asia (ECE) is a dynamic ecommerce solution provider for consumer brands in Vietnam. ECE’s integrated capabilities encompass all aspects of the e-commerce value chain from SKU selection, sales and inventory management to on-site operations, logistics and fulfilment. ECE has generated billions of VND in sales and hundred thousands of orders on all 10 ecommerce platforms operating in Vietnam for a dozen of brands.

The representative from VIISA hopes that Investment Day will provide Vietnamese startup community with many opportunities to connect and exchange knowledge, which contribute to awakening the potential of domestic businesses and open up more opportunities to promote Vietnamese startups

At the end of Investment Day Batch 8, Mr. Hieu also called for startups to apply at www.viisa.vn to capture opportunities for companionship and support from VIISA.

About VIISA:

Established in January 2017 by FPT Ventures and Dragon Capital, VIISA is an acceleration program and seed-stage fund that invests to build global-ready startups from Vietnam. After 7 batches, there have been 40 graduates, in which some startups have successfully called for US $5.5 million committed deals from investors.

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CES 2021 dp Smart Technology Creates Cutting-edge, Powerful, Slim, and Stylish Rogy 360° Livestream Camera

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TAIPEI, Taiwan, Jan. 17, 2021 — dp Smart Technology is proud to introduce the Rogy360 streaming camera – a cutting-edge, powerful, slim, and stylish 360° livestream camera that provides users with the ability to record wirelessly for up to 6 hours and to share across Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and other social media channels with only a few clicks.

Rogy360 reach uses six powerful, big-pixel, high sensitivity CMOS sensors to improve the appearance of distorted, stitched photos and to create vivid experiences that are fully encapsulated and brought to life.
Rogy360 reach uses six powerful, big-pixel, high sensitivity CMOS sensors to improve the appearance of distorted, stitched photos and to create vivid experiences that are fully encapsulated and brought to life.

Rogy’s 360° livestream camera solution addresses the primary challenges of challenging user experience, complicated processing, and high price. Rogy360’s top-of-the-line technology, created through extensive research and development, simplifies live streaming and eliminates the high cost of hiring professionals without sacrificing quality – what more could one ask for?

Solving your Livestream Shooting Issues

In with the new, out with the old: Compared to the limited peripheral capture angles of traditional fisheye lenses, Rogy360 reach uses six powerful, big-pixel, high sensitivity CMOS sensors to improve the appearance of distorted, stitched photos and to create vivid experiences that are fully encapsulated and brought to life.

Earthquake Filter No More: Whether you’re capturing impressive ski jumps or rambunctious family gatherings, blurry videos and photos are a thing of the past thanks to Rogy360’s 3D Anti-Shake stabilization capability.

Night Crawler: The 8K/photo 4K/video 360° panoramic filming captures high-resolution details even in scenes with dark backdrops and surroundings.

Chameleon-Like Flexibility: Built-in Wi-Fi functionality and direct, live streaming options to YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, and other social media platforms allow users to live stream anytime, anywhere without needing to tie up their phones. Yes, this means you can check the weather, text your friends and family, see if your team is winning the game, find your hotel booking confirmation, and multitask as you please…all without disrupting precious moments captured on your Rogy360.

VR Mania: Step into 3D simulations of your photos and videos to relive your entertainment experiences in 360° all over again. The easiest way to travel!

Simple Content Editing within the App: Our exclusive app allows users to view and edit recorded 360° videos and photos and even to select screen-captured 2D photos from within 360° videos. It also supports instant image post-production. Select the special effect and see the results immediately.

From Taiwan, Made for the World

dp Smart Technology’s core team has over 20 years of experience in the digital imaging market. dp Smart Technology was established in early 2019 in Taiwan and has emerged as a leader in robust innovations, technology integrations, and outstanding product quality in the worldwide digital market.

The dp Smart Technology team is thrilled to be one a "100 Taiwanese startups to watch", and we are excited to exhibit our innovation, the Rogy360, at CES 2021.

Whether you’re new to capturing media or a veteran content creator, producing professional quality images and videos has never been so simple.

CES 2021 TTA-VR Pavilion: https://pse.is/3bpgyv

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CES 2021 Avalanche Computing Develops Hyper-scale Computing Technique for Speed and High-Scalability AI Projects

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TAIPEI, Taiwan, Jan. 17, 2021 — Avalanche Computing, a hyper-scale computing technique provider based in Taipei and the Bay Area, has developed a one-click-through AI framework that allows for production speed and is highly scalable.

Avalanche Computing focuses on optimizing the deep learning environment and training in parallel, lightening the trained model, and then deploying the AI model at a hyper-scale.
Avalanche Computing focuses on optimizing the deep learning environment and training in parallel, lightening the trained model, and then deploying the AI model at a hyper-scale.

Avalanche Computing’s AI framework effectively trains your AI model in parallel or distributed mode on multiple GPUs without changing the algorithm for reducing AI project costs, and then does AI model deployment from one to many edge devices in one command.

Avalanche Computing focuses on optimizing the deep learning environment and training in parallel, lightening the trained model, and then deploying the AI model at a hyper-scale. The proposed AI framework helps increase the speed of manufacturing and medical applications, including predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, machine diagnosis, defect detection, supply chain analysis, operation optimization, EGG signal, breath sound, medical signal, medical speech to text, anomaly detection, lung cancer detection, and more.

Turnkey Solution for AI Development and Deployment

"Our mission is to help our customers who focus on intelligence services and applications save time, staff numbers, and money during AI development. With our deep tech and computing domain knowledge, we aim to provide an excellent workflow for AI development and deployment in one platform at scale. Besides, our many alliance partners, academic collaborations, and computing hardware partners have further helped our AI customers succeed in global business," said Avalanche Founder and CEO Jay Chen.

"With our AI experience with global enterprises, we can help customers achieve high-speed AI training, reduce waiting time, and quickly scale the inference system without building a new engineer team."

Developing AI to Suit Different Needs across Different Industries

Chen said his company currently serves more than 15 enterprise-level manufacturing and medical AI companies and SMEs. Avalanche’s focus markets include the USA, Japan, Taiwan, and a several European countries, with target sectors including smart manufacturing, Industry 4.0, smart medical, and more. He related that his company has worked globally with NVidia SA, cloud service providers, and many software partners as well as with two accelerators, including NTUTEC and NTPC-AWS Joint Innovation Center.

Avalance began tactical planning for expanding into the Japan and US markets in 2019. This year (2020), the company joined the NTU Corporate Accelerator Program (with AUO), TSS Lineup, and NVidia Inception Program; won AIdea first prizes in many categories; and was selected as an Airbus DDMS International Startups top-10 finalist. Avalanche Computing was selected by Taiwan Tech Arena (TTA) as one of the 100 featured Taiwanese startups showcased at CES 2021.

A Significant Team with High Potential

Avalanche Computing Taiwan was founded by MOST LEAP members, NVidia alumni, professors, and serial entrepreneurs who embrace the company’s mission to help businesses without sufficient AI expertise to implement AI and transform the world together.

Avalance Computing Co-Founder Jay Chen earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at National Taiwan University. His research interests include big data analytics, cloud computing, and mobile data analysis. He was involved in deep learning and AI framework performance optimization at Nvidia. He has over 15 years of experience in big data analysis. He is a Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society member (Award in 2006 and 2016) and co-founder of the NTU Design Thinking Club. At Avalanche Computing, Jay provides technical support for smart manufacturing, smart medical, and more.

Avalanche Computing Co-Founder, C.W. Huang earned his master’s degree at National Taiwan University as well. His research thesis focused on machine learning, computer vision, and data mining. He has competed in numerous machine learning competitions and earned many recognitions, including a silver medal in the 4037-participant "Quora Insincere Question Classification" challenge hosted by Kaggle and a bronze medal in the "APTOS 2019 Blindness Detection" competition. At Avalanche, he developed a real-time breathing sound detection AI system in partnership with a smart medical technology corporation.

CES 2021 TTA-VR Pavilion: https://pse.is/39wsem

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Caohejing Hi-Tech Park Releases Science and Technology Innovation Index Map for 2020

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SHANGHAI, Jan. 15, 2021 — On January 12, the 2020 Caohejing Hi-Tech Park Science and Technology Innovation Index Map was published and unveiled at the opening ceremony of the 5th Caohejing Hi-Tech Carnival. This event coincided with the release of the 4th issue of the park’s innovation index report series.

Caohejing Index Map
Caohejing Index Map

During the 13th Five-Year Plan, for the purpose of accurately representing the formation rules of global innovation centers in science and technology and accelerating the construction of important carrier and innovation clusters, Caohejing Hi-Tech Park focused on the basic framework of an innovation ecosystem and built a science and technology innovation index system with "six forces" at its core. Qualitative and quantitative analyses were conducted in areas of innovative economy growth, innovative resource aggregation, innovation outputs, innovative service improvement, innovative industry development and innovative environment construction. These studies objectively reflected the park’s performance in building the science and technology innovation center, providing typical insight and experience.

The park’s science and technology innovation index is calculated using 2011 as the base period (reference value of 60). According to the report, the index moved up to 186.8 as of the end of 2018 with 15.93% year-on-year growth. The compound annual growth rate during the 13th Five-Year Plan period was 13.55%. Across the measured indicators, six first-level indicators all saw rapid and steady growth. These indicators were: supporting force for science and technology innovation, demonstrating force of science and technology service, aggregating force of innovation platforms, pioneering force of innovation commercialization, leading force of emerging industries and benchmarking force of urban renewal.

Science and Technology Innovation Index PLUS

In 2020, the park adopted the concept of an "innovation map" in its science and technology innovation index. Indicator data and regional space resource distribution are combined to form the science and technology innovation enterprise map, innovative industry map, science and technology service technology, innovations map and fintech map, serving as the "instrument panel" and "navigator" for its innovation-driven development.

 The index map focuses on science and technology innovation and future industry development, visually reflects the aggregation and interaction degree of various innovators and elements in the park and shows the independent innovation degree of enterprises and levels of high-tech products. In addition to this, it also represents the development of the park’s economy featuring new technologies, industries, business types and development patterns. At the same time, the index map is committed to strengthening the park’s brand by building an innovation information service center to guide the launch of innovation projects, distribution of innovation resources and participation of social capital.

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BONA Released Two Latest Household Robot Vacuum Cleaners at CES 2021

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LAS VEGAS, Jan. 15, 2021 — BONA Robot, an expert in the intelligent robot vacuum cleaner industry, demonstrated their two latest products at the CES 2021 online: BL900-AI LDS robot vacuum cleaner and BV332AL-self-cleaning LDS robot vacuum cleaner with automatic dust collection docking station. Both of the latest products are developed independently by BONA, which has higher parameters and excellent performance in this industry.

BONA's robot vacuum cleaner BL900 "Starry Night"
BONA’s robot vacuum cleaner BL900 "Starry Night"

The newly released Vacuum Cleaner Robot BL900, leading the brand new series called "Starry Sky" in BONA, is a household vacuum cleaner that combines future aesthetic design combined with cutting-edge technology. The BONA team drew inspiration mainly from Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night and applied it for the new mechanic design. The featured design of the profiled body is unique and eye-catching. Being differed from the common vacuum cleaning robots in home appliance industry, Starry Sky approaches overwhelmingly into global household robot vacuum cleaners market.

Technically, the BL900 model is equipped with elevating laser module and AI camera as location and navigation system that scans 360° full coverage view at the home fast and accurately to build up the map for the house floor. The most advanced AI visual recognition function of robot avoids hitting against different furniture and obstacles. It intelligently recognizes about 10 common objects such as shoes, paper, cable and pens, etc., and avoids to hitting them without bumping or sweeping. The unprecedented automatic lifting laser module is equipped with advanced unmanned ToF sensor, shortens the height of ultra-thin robot body to 89mm within 1.8s, realizes free access to the bottom of more furniture like bed bottoms, sofa and table etc, to increases the cleaning coverage rate significantly for deep clean requirement.

The robot vacuum cleaner makes universal cleaning automatic, but its collected dust and trash in the dust bin get consumer’s hands dirty when they empty the dust bin manually. In case of more dust leakage that annoyed consumers, BONA developed and launched the self-clean robot vacuum cleaner with automatic empty docking station as a perfect solution. Robot automatically goes back to the base after cleaning and all the trash and dust will be collected into the recycle dust bag in the docking station. Therefore, consumers just pull out the dust bag and drop away instead of frequent dust bin cleaning.

About BONA Robot

Guangdong BONA Robot Co., Ltd was founded in 2004, a high-tech enterprise with integrated R&D, manufacture and marketing. BONA devotes itself for focused cleaning and service robot like robot vacuum cleaners and window robot cleaners. So far, BONA has served more than 10 million consumers & families, and its products have been exported to over 45 countries around the world. It has cooperated with more than 60 famous international brands, and its global export sales volume is in the forefront of Chinese ODM robot vacuum cleaner industry. Besides of household cleaning robots, BONA also provides solution of commercial cleaning robot which is designed for supermarkets, unmanned factories, logistics warehousing and other application. For more information, please visit the official website: http://www.robotbona.com/

Or contact BONA via marketing@robotbona.com

 

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Samsung and Bambuser launch #LiveAtSamsung – releasing new flagship Galaxy S21 in unique partnership with Aftonbladet and Halebop

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STOCKHOLM, Jan. 15, 2021 — After a successful partnership for a handful of regional live shopping events over the past six months, Samsung and Bambuser announce today the launch #LiveAtSamsung – an interactive broadcast concept first of its kind, allowing simulcast between brand, retail, and media.

At #LiveAtSamsung, viewers will meet knowledgeable experts and beloved ambassadors in exclusive live experiences filled with exciting surprises and offers that one simply does not want to miss. Powered by Bambuser’s proprietary technology, viewers will have the opportunity to interact directly with Samsung experts and purchase products in real-time online both at Samsung.se and Halebop.se.

The world premiere of #LiveAtSamsung kicks off tonight, Friday 15th January 2021, at 18:00 CET, in connection with when Samsung releases its new flagship lineup for the new Galaxy S21 in Sweden. In an interactive live shopping broadcast hosted by Mans Zelmerloew and Dasha Girine, viewers will also get a closer look at Samsung’s latest epic products from yesterday’s Galaxy Unpacked.

The launch event of the Galaxy S21 is world-unique, as it will be broadcast on three platforms simultaneously – also known as a simulcast. This is the first time that Live Video Shopping is used by a brand, a media outlet, and a retailer – at the same time. In addition to viewers being able to follow and interact from Samsung.com, the event will also be available on Aftonbladet.se, Sweden’s largest online news provider with 3.8 million unique readers and 36 million page views every day, as well as Halebop.se, one of Sweden’s largest mobile operators and part of TeliaCompany. Aftonbladet’s readers will be able to interact and shop frictionlessly via Samsung’s webshop, while Halebop’s customers will enjoy Halebop’s brand and e-commerce experience from start to end. 

In addition to the Nordic countries, Bambuser’s Live Video Shopping is planned to be rolled out to new Samsung markets in the near future. 

Krister Karjalainen, Digital Director at Samsung Electronics Nordic said: "In an ever-changing digital world, brands need to drive innovation; therefore, we are thrilled to announce our #LiveAtSamsung concept together with Bambuser, Halebop, and Aftonbladet. The retail world, as we know it is transforming and with the #LiveAtSamsung concept we are adding entertainment to social commerce and making online shopping more engaging. It’s important for us to deliver a seamless shopping experience, regardless of where and when consumers decide to shop."

Maryam Ghahremani, Chief Executive Officer at Bambuser said: "Samsung is a global market leader who continues to be at the forefront of the technology revolution and we at Bambuser are very proud to partner up with them on pushing the boundaries of how to produce and distribute live video shopping experiences around the world."

Contact information
Maryam Ghahremani
CEO Bambuser
press@bambuser.com
+46 8 400 160 02

Bambuser is a software company specializing in interactive live video streaming. The Company’s primary product, Live Video Shopping, is a cloud-based software solution that is used by customers such as global e-commerce and retail businesses to host live shopping experiences on websites, mobile apps and social media. Bambuser was founded in 2007 and has its headquarters in Stockholm. Erik Penser Bank AB is Bambuser’s Certified Adviser.

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“Coffee Matters” Praised for Telling China’s Poverty Relief Story Well

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BEIJING, Jan. 15, 2021 — On November 27th, 2020, Coffee Matters, a Chinese-English bilingual short animation film was jointly released by China Story Database and Fuxing Road Studio, and soon attracted extensive attention globally. It was broadcast on the "China Screen" at New York Times Square on Jan. 13, 2021, Beijing Time.

"Coffee Matters" is praised for telling China's poverty relief story well.
"Coffee Matters" is praised for telling China’s poverty relief story well.

It tells a story about how a coffee bean travels across the seas to China, and eventually helps the once impoverished hinterland of S.W. China’s Yunnan province shake off poverty and achieve prosperity.

This touching story is from a short film titled Coffee Matters.

The 3.34-minute short film shows the cultural and economic interactions between China and the West brought by small coffee beans, and connects the overseas viewers to China’s poverty alleviation campaign. This film went viral after being released on major media and social networking platforms in China and has achieved 400 million views globally so far.

Hu Zhaoming, Spokesperson of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee retweeted it immediately saying "When coffee beans traveled to China, home of tea, and when the taste of daily life meets the needs of livelihoods, a story unfolds how coffee beans help people escape poverty. Fuxing Road Studio and the China Story Database have jointly released an animated short film, ‘Coffee Matters.’ Just like tasting a cup of fresh-made, mellow coffee, we hope you enjoy this video."

Targeted poverty alleviation is an innovative policy to ensure the achievement of the anti-poverty efforts. In its anti-poverty endeavor, Yunnan has been promoting development of coffee industry in its hinterland where policies of poverty alleviation go deep among residents and local conditions are suitable for coffee growing, providing the world with Chinese experience. The short film begins with coffee, the indispensable element in Westerners’ daily life, and proceeds with integrating China’s "coffee poverty-relief" story into the video at the same time. James Kimonyo, Ambassador of the Republic of Rwanda to China said: "How successful China’s industrialized anti-poverty model has been. The mellow coffee from Yunnan tells the story of China’s targeted poverty alleviation, and we will share and exchange with China on their experience and best practices to apply them in our country."

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CES 2021 AIPHAS Smart Ward Total Solution Helps Raise Nurses’ Efficiency and Reduce Operation Costs

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TAIPEI, Jan. 15, 2021 — The outstanding solutions offered by AIPHAS earned them selection by Taiwan Tech Arena (TTA) as one of the 100 featured Taiwanese startups showcased at CES 2021.

Aipha-Call is a plug-n-play smart nurse call system that can quickly and easily upgrade hospital wards. Each plug-n-play Aipha-Call forms a WiFi mesh system that keeps every Aipha-Call connected while acting as a Bluetooth and WiFi portal for other IoT devices.
Aipha-Call is a plug-n-play smart nurse call system that can quickly and easily upgrade hospital wards. Each plug-n-play Aipha-Call forms a WiFi mesh system that keeps every Aipha-Call connected while acting as a Bluetooth and WiFi portal for other IoT devices.

The average nurse is directly responsible for the care of 9 patients and is on-call for up to 30+ patients at any given time. Moreover, nurses work on average 1-2 hours overtime most every day.

AIPHAS sees the problem and wants to help. AIPHAS has built a smart ward solution to let nurses respond to call events 10 times faster and help nurses keep an eye on ward safety and patient safety to prevent emergent incidents such as fires and falls.

This system helps raise nurses’ efficiency and cuts down on overtime wages to the tune of over $150K per year. The most exciting part is that system installation requires just 3-5 days, allowing hospitals to benefit from AIPHAS’s smart boost almost immediately, saving time and money.

AIPHA Helps Hospitals in Different Ways

Aipha-Call is a plug-n-play smart nurse call system that can quickly and easily upgrade hospital wards. Each plug-n-play Aipha-Call forms a WiFi mesh system that keeps every Aipha-Call connected while acting as a Bluetooth and WiFi portal for other IoT devices.

Aipha-Eye is a thermal monitor system that watches over ward beds. The system immediately sends out an alert when abnormal environmental heat or patient activities are detected, pushing real-time notifications when something goes wrong. Together with Aipha-Call, Aipha-Eye sends notifications to medical personnel when abnormal heat is detected before a fire starts and when patients need assistance to get out of bed.

Aipha-Board is an integrated center for medical personnel to better manage the entire nurse station. Aipha-Board contains each patient’s status in detail as well as all notifications from Aipha-Call, Aipha-Eye, and other connected IoT devices. Aipha-Board can display across devices so that medical personnel stay informed anytime, anywhere.

AIPHAS is the most innovative smart-ward solution from management tools and IoT devices to service. As a total solution provider, AIPHAS values system design, software & hardware integration, and product design.

AIPHAS may be used in hospitals, nursing homes, and long-term care institutions. AIPHAS built immediate connectivity in 6+ hospitals within our first 6 months in business, and are continuing to deepen AIPHAS’s partner relationships with each.

AIPHAS Is Here to Help the Aging Society in Taiwan

Aiphas Co-Founder Veronica Chung is a former investment analyst at Tatung Corp. and VC funds. Chung received her BS in Economics from "National Taipei University". Aiphas Co-Founder Michael Huang formerly held an AI Lead position at Melten and a Research Analyst position at Academia Sinica. Huang earned his MS in Robotics from the University of Michigan.

Aiphas solutions come right at the time Taiwan is becoming a super-aged society, in which 20 percent or more of the population will be 65 years of age or older. These trends are continuing, with this portion of the population expected to rise to 40 percent around the year 2065, meaning one elderly person for every 1.2 persons of childbearing age. This proportion was one to five just last year.

CES 2021 TTA – VR Pavilion: https://pse.is/3bd5r8

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CES 2021 Taiwanese Startup ACSI Gives New Technological Shine to Traditional Chinese Medical Treatments

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TAIPEI, Jan. 15, 2021 — Chinese medicine has been receiving increased attention worldwide. These traditional therapeutic treatments are now being combined with modern technology and integrated into Western medicine. Acupuncture, for example, is being widely adopted and trusted by patients and doctors. However, more serious but rarer side effects of acupuncture have also been observed to occur, including collapsed lung (pneumothorax), which accounts for 1.5% of incidents. Thus, a more precise and safer method is being introduced by Advanced Control & System Integration Laboratory (ACSI) under the Handheld Automatic Acupuncture System (HAAS) project, according to Taiwan Tech Arena.

HAAS is a handheld, AI-enabled device that identifies acupoints and positioning using AI image recognition technology.
HAAS is a handheld, AI-enabled device that identifies acupoints and positioning using AI image recognition technology.

Technology Is No Longer Limited to Western Medicine

HAAS is a handheld, AI-enabled device that identifies acupoints and positioning using AI image recognition technology. This makes acupuncture significantly safer than before. In addition, HAAS automatically identifies suitable acupoints for different symptoms based on AI decision making and big data.

Furthermore, HAAS is equipped with different acupoint stimulation modules. The acupuncture module autonomously drops needles to stimulate acupoint positions and provide real-time acupuncture according to the user’s symptoms. The physiotherapy module covers techniques such as moxibustion, the massage gun, and far infrared. This product not only provides more convenient, independent treatment and rapid health recovery effects to achieve personal health care assistance but also provides professional traditional Chinese medicine education assistive devices.

Using HAAS is simple and straightforward. First, after entering the symptoms or acupoints into the mobile app, the AI system confirms the user’s requirements and identifies the acupoints automatically. Simply by operating the device in accordance with the HMI instructions on phone, HAAS will treat the body with AI-controlled acupoint stimulation.

Research results show that both patients and healthy individuals may experience enhanced self-immunity functions and improved symptoms (or even full recovery to health) after treatment with HAAS.

A Steadily Growing, Worldwide Market

The traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) market in China is growing steadily and is expected to reach $844 billion RMB (US$123 billion) in revenue by 2023.

In May 2019, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) included traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in the Global Medical Outline of Diseases ICD for the first time. Since then, TCM has received growing attention in many Western countries, with an increasing number of researchers and clinicians devoting themselves to TCM research.

Innovative Cross-field Applications Are in the DNA of Startups

Advanced Control and System Integration (ACSI) Laboratory is a professional artificial intelligence vision solutions provider. ACSI has over 7 years of experience in the development of vision-based biomedical engineering, advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous cars, embedded system technologies, and proprietary high-performance mechatronics solutions. ACSI is dedicated to creating innovation value through the development of TCM-related and adjacent technologies and autonomous cars and by identifying the needs of emerging-market customers.

They have also developed many advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and vehicle dynamic controls, focusing on control algorithm development and deployment, including various methods based in nonlinear control theory, robust optimal control, predictive control, machine learning, artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning for vehicle dynamic control systems, adaptive cruise control systems, and adaptive collaborative vehicle control systems.

Its previous success in hardware has helped ACSI develop cross-field applications such as HAAS. This innovative and interesting product has been selected by Taiwan Tech Arena (TTA) as one of the 100 featured Taiwanese startups showcased at CES 2021.

CES 2021 TTA – VR Pavilion：https://pse.is/39znlv

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CNN’s ‘Local Hero’ meets five iconic Japanese athletes ahead of the Tokyo Olympics

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A week of special coverage begins January 11, with a 30-minute program airing January 17-18

HONG KONG, Jan. 14, 2021 — This month, CNN profiles five incredible Japanese athletes whose stories of strength, ambition and sporting glory define what it means to be a ‘Local Hero.’ In this brand-new 30-minute program, CNN sports anchor and correspondent Coy Wire looks ahead to the Tokyo Olympics and asks these competitors to reflect on what this moment means to them.  

CNN’s ‘Local Hero’ meets five iconic Japanese athletes ahead of the Tokyo Olympics
CNN’s ‘Local Hero’ meets five iconic Japanese athletes ahead of the Tokyo Olympics

In 2019, Kanoa Igarashi became the first Japanese surfer to claim a World Surf League championship tour event – a feat which launched him to an impressive sixth place global ranking. CNN joins him as he trains for the Tokyo Games, where he’ll represent Japan and the sport of surfing in its Olympic debut. 

Like surfing, the sport of skateboarding will also be making its Olympic debut. CNN catches up with Aori Nishimura, a professional skateboarder and a favorite in the Tokyo Games. Nishimura says she has noticed a growing interest in her sport in Japan over the years, particularly among women, and hopes her performance on the Olympic stage will encourage more people to take up the board.

In 2017, Takuma Sato became the first Asian driver to win the Indy 500. Just three years later, he won his second. Despite having conquered one of racing’s most prestigious competitions twice, the 43-year-old shows no signs of slowing down. Sato reflects on his career and achievements, and looks to the next generation to make an even bigger impact on the world of motorsport. 

Baseball has become one of Japan’s most popular sports, producing legendary players like Koji Uehara. Not only did he play for Japan’s Yomiura Giants and transfer to Major League Baseball in the U.S., but he also competed twice for Japan in the Olympics. After two decades as a professional baseball pitcher, Uehara retired in 2019 – but he stays connected to the sport through his work as a commentator.

Finally, CNN meets former judo champion Kaori Matsumoto, who made a name for herself as one of the top female judokas in the world – winning gold at the London Olympics in 2012 and bronze at the Rio Games in 2016. These days, she’s pivoted to an entirely different passion: making healthy ice cream in Tokyo. 

Local Hero trailer: https://bit.ly/2XqJwFp 
Local Hero images: https://bit.ly/2X7wrR3 

Airtimes for 30-minute special:
Sunday, January 17 at 1:30am and 7:00pm HKT
Monday, January 18 at 7:00am HKT

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