05.2019 Cover Story
Far EasTone Telecommunication Starts a New Era of Smart City with the help of Big Man + 5G
Far Eastern Magazine / Editorial Room
In the first half of the year, the telecommunications industry experienced two major technological events: the 2019 MWC, held in Spain at the end of February, with the theme "Intellegent Connectivity" centering on various links of wisdom and the deployment of 5G products and services; and the 2009 Smart City Exhibition, which was launched in Taiwan at the end of March, showed that both Taiwan and the global market are entering the key time of 10,000 Internet of things (IoT) and 5G. As the leader of action technology, Far EasTone Telecommunication has already laid out Big Data+AI+IoT to welcome the arrival of 5G and draw a new vision for urban upgrading.
Big Data knows the environment and gives advice
The theme of "Smart City Exhibition 2019" is "Intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) Leads Intelligent City Upgrading". Far EasTone Telecommunication plans two innovative applications in the fields of "Wisdom City Vision" and "Wisdom Enterprise Upgrading". They include: Internet of Vehicles, Wisdom Parking, Wisdom Street Lamp, Wisdom Meter, Environmental Detection, Wisdom Medicine, Big. Data flow/traffic analysis, etc., fully presents the smart city created by the public sector.
The fruitful results are not only for display, but also for real application in daily life. Taking Big Data application as an example, Far EasTone Telecommunication first used Big Data to filter, reorganize, analyze and other information quenching steps in the Taiwanese Lamp Festival 2018 sponsored by the Chiayi County Government. Combined with self-developed algorithms, the analysis was quickly completed within 1.5 hours after the data collection was completed, providing the most immediate information for the Chiayi County Government on that day. When the number of visitors is counted, it is convenient for the county government to grasp the change of people in the exhibition area and estimate the number of daily visitors in each activity area. In addition, Far EasTone Telecommunication also provides profile analysis information during the lamp festival, which serves as a decision-making basis for adjusting service and marketing resource allocation, and greatly improves activity satisfaction and overall activity effectiveness.
Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence Innovation
The application of Internet of things (IoT) in smart cities is constantly upgrading and growing. Among them, in environmental detection, the issue of air pollution has attracted much attention. In 2018, Far EasTone Telecommunication, in cooperation with the Tainan Municipal Government, launched a new smart air pollution prevention and control system, using sensing elements to detect the odor of the surrounding environment, once abnormal and beyond the preset. At the same time, the sensor will warn the county and city environmental protection bureau, and then cooperate with the inspection team to investigate, handle and issue a ticket in time, hoping to quickly eliminate the factors causing air pollution and maintain a clean and fresh city. It is worth mentioning that Far EasTone Telecommunication uses Internet of Things (IoT) wireless transmission technology in Tainan City. A large number of low-cost sensing elements are densely distributed, which can effectively improve the previous problem of insufficient sensing density and make the air pollution prevention effect more effective.
Referring to NB-IoT, Far EasTone Telecommunication's technological hegemony over Taiwan has created a "Six Crowns" record, including: the first company in Taiwan to obtain 3 million Internet of things (IoT) exclusive doors, complete NB-IoT network coverage, publish NB-Ionformation fee program, complete NB-IoT formal business transformation, establish NB-IoT ecosphere, and provide NB-IoT enterprise free experience program, etc. 。 With the maturity of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, Far EasTone Telecommunication not only continues to deepen its cooperation with the industrial chain to expand the IoT ecosystem, but also works with international partners to promote the integration of AI and IoT, and successfully develops rich innovative applications of AIoT. For example, "AI Smart Street Lamp" is a collaboration with Microsoft to build an Azure cloud platform, which is different from traditional or networked streetlights. Far EasTone Telecommunication combines mobile phone signal information as a data basis, and establishes the integration of three models through Taiwan Microsoft Expert Technology Team and Azure cloud platform machine learning mechanism, so as to judge the number of people, and then determine the brightness of streetlights. It is estimated that more than 20% of the electricity will be saved. In the future, Far EasTone Telecommunication plans to implement AI technology in many fields, such as traditional industry, manufacturing industry, long-term medical care and smart city, to help customers innovate and upgrade.
 High Speed 5G Realizes Wisdom Dream
Far EasTone Telecommunication focuses on Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (IoT), while responding to the government's promotion of 5G and actively exploring the potential areas of 5G applications. Among them, the "Far Eas Tone Telecommunication 5G Pioneer" established at the end of last year is based on the "Internet of Vehicles" as the main axis, working with members of the industrial chain to jointly develop technology and business models. As Far EasTone Telecommunication was successfully admitted to the 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) in October 2018, it became the first telecommunication industry in Taiwan to join the alliance. After that, it will jointly promote the application development of the new generation of C-V2X technology standard in Internet of Vehicles and self-driving, and obtain the first-hand capital for the development of technology and business model. News, and domestic automobile upstream and downstream industry chains jointly invested in C-V2X related research and development. "Far EasTone Telecommunication 5G Pioneer" with Internet of Vehicles as its main axis will be an important cornerstone of the future self-driving network environment. The current technological test results will continue to replicate to Taipei Far Eastern Group Communication Park Tpark, New Taipei Linkou New Park, Taoyuan Hutoushan, and Tainan Sharon... Such as self-driving test field, and actively participate in a number of government-led project plans, accelerate the promotion of the entire Internet of Vehicles industry, outline the new vision of intelligent transportation in the 5G era.
In addition, Far EasTone Telecommunication also cooperated with Ericsson Taiwan in this year's "Smart City Exhibition" to make participants feel the high-quality video, audio and visual feast brought by 5G high speed, large bandwidth and low latency through real 5G networking equipment, as well as a number of 5G equipment exhibitions by SERCOMM, GEMTEK, ASKEY and other partners. When 5G-related digital communication laws and regulations are officially launched, all kinds of innovative technology applications can be transformed into commercial ones, market opportunities for domestic industry development in 5G era can be grasped, cross-border Internet of things (IoT) services can be strengthened rapidly, and industrial upgrading and international marketing of domestic traders can be assisted.
 In fact, Far EasTone Telecommunication has long been internationally renowned for its achievements in innovative applications in smart cities. Currently, the cooperative counties and cities include New Taipei City, Tainan City, Taoyuan City, Yilan County and Chiayi County, and have helped Tainan win the Top 7 award of the 2018 Intelligent Community Forum (ICF). Moreover, last year, the National Communications Commission (NCC) arranged a special visit by the Telecommunications and Information Working Group (TEL) of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) to Tpark, Far Eastern Group Communication Park, Taipei, to share Far EasTone Telecommunication's smart city foresight applications. The VIPs included Canada. In the future, experts in telecommunications-related industry and government in the United States, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore and other countries are expected to continue to export the experience of smart cities abroad through international exchanges.
Far EasTone Telecommunication has insight into the future trend of science and technology, and has been deeply engaged in the field of smart city application for many years. With the maturity of Big Data+AI+IoT technology, 5G will soon be in place, which innovative, smart and popular cross-border applications will be brought about by the 2.0 version of Smart City.