Author: Vincent Fong

Smart Cities have been gaining a lot of traction of late, though not an entirely new concept, much of smart cities initiatives have been driven by an explosion of technological innovations. We’ll spare you the whole spiel of how over 50% of the world live in urban population lives in cities, climate change and so forth, I’m sure after decades of conversation around this subject we are intimately familiar with why we need smarter cities. During the sidelines of the Global Entrepreneur Summit in Kuala Lumpur late 2017, the IOT News Asia team had the privilege of having a…

Brookings Institution has released a new report ranking global cities in terms of their public safety innovations at Huawei Asia Pacific Innovation Day 2017 validating the Singapore Safe City Initiative that was launched in 2014.  The report examines the ways digital technology, mobile networks, and integrated solutions help authorities in 17 global cities manage public safety and law enforcement. The report cites Singapore emerged as the safest city of the 17 cities it studied. The report reveals that there are considerable variations in safe city innovation from city-to-city, based on implementation progress and adoption of best practices. Singapore, Copenhagen, London are…

In 2016, countries in Southeast Asia began significantly exploring the potential of the Internet-of-Things (IoT). While most have just started with the technology or tested out components, countries such as Singapore have taken a leading position, setting up dedicated innovation labs and rolling out pilot projects. Singapore’s Smart Nation The IoT refers to Internet-connected physical devices, objects, vehicles, buildings and other items, which are able to collect and exchange data using embedded sensors. These stand-alone Internet-connected items create a network in which they can “communicate” to one another, and which users can monitor and/or control from a remote location.…