At the LWE 2022, We showcase 6 successful、innovation and edgy AIoT use cases , it quickly attracts attention among the attendees and industry

The biggest LoRaWAN® marketing activity ever. How’d it go ?

The LoRaWAN World Expo 2022 in Paris has been a big success! The event has gathered over 1,400 people from all over the globe, uniting enterprises, device makers, system integrators, distributors, developers, solution providers, educational institutions, IoT alliances, influencers, and many more, making this event the largest global LoRaWAN activity of the year. We want to send a big thank you to all our Partners and Customers for having joined with us and to the LoRa Alliance for allowing visitors from all around the world come together after two long years of on-line meetings.

The LoRaWAN® World Expo held July 6-7 at The Palais des Congrès de Paris in Paris, France. Organized by the LoRa Alliance. Kiwi Technology shared how we affects vertical industries and shared 6 successful AIoT practical use cases to thousands of guests, how to assist and accelerate the digital transformation of enterprise customers and achieve their ESG goals by specific AIoT integration solutions and value-added of data services. Through the co-creation and cooperation with domestic Japanese companies, the IoT can be implemented more quickly.

Over past years, Kiwi technology has successful built large-scale AIoT systems and applications for clients in Japan, Taiwan and ASEAN. In addition to the smart temperature management in the food and pharmaceutical cold chain industry; Indoor air quality management, which are currently the most eye-catching and it is a massive use case. We are also committed to making the statistics of gas utility usage more intelligent and intelligent, highlights are smart meter remote reading and disaster prevention and site security.

Deploy on demand and truly understand customer needs

The IoT is emerging as the third wave in the development of the Internet, In general, companies mostly design products and then sell them to customers. Kiwi technology focuses on the needs of customers, especially in traditional industry fields that are relatively decoupled from technology. The language of pain points and needs is transformed into the terms and solutions of the technology industry, so the most important thing is “listening”.

Cold chain, the problem is how to maintain low temperature in whole delivery continuously

In addition to complying with the requirements of HACCP and ISO23412, the monitoring of refrigeration and freezing is more critical to the management of fresh food, beverage and sea food. The business loss caused by a broken freezer may be temporary, but if food spoilage occurs unfortunately, which leads to customer foodborne illness, it will not only affect the goodwill but also lose customers. The refrigerated and frozen cabinets commonly found in supermarkets and are used for low-temperature or frozen products such as dairy products, fish, meat or beverages. The cabinets need to be inspected several times a day (at least three times a day) to ensure a low-temperature environment. The temperature recording method is to manually write down it to the paper posted on the site at regular intervals, and then key-in it to the Excel or ERP after close for the day, in order to comply with the HACCP standard, and the temperature record needs to be kept for at least two years. Manual temperature recording is not only inefficient, but it may also be due to various human factors making mistakes or acting cheaply. More importantly, after the store is closed up, there is no way to track, it is a so risky for food safety.

Kiwi’s “Cold Chain – Smart Temperature Management Solution” is to solve the pain points for those food retail companies. AEON Group is the largest food retailer in Japan and owns many branded supermarkets and sub-brand supermarkets. In the past, the staff needed to manually write down temperature records on a regular basis every 3 or 4 hours a day and it is a burden, time pressure, inefficiency, and because of improper temperature preservation of food, the annual loss of food waste is even greater. After AEON has deployed our smart temperature management solution, it is convenient for asset and health tracking of refrigeration and freezing equipment, and it is also conducive to the 24/7 recording and reporting of temperature data as well as warning. For those food retail companies, it can reduce costs and increase. Efficiency, reduce food waste, optimize manpower, improve operational efficiency and so on, at the same time, it can also properly monitor temperature, to make appropriate preventive equipment maintenance, and reduce energy use, taking into account the goals of intelligence, greening and sustainable operation. In view of the increasing demand for this type of cold chain industry in the temperature and asset tracking market, we have also successively launched solutions to be used for the pharmaceutical cold chain logistics.

Business expansion, IAQ

At the same time, the flexible and extendable architecture of Kiwi’s AIoT SaaS cloud management platform makes it easy to add more applications. For stores and staff offices, IAQ (indoor air quality), through temperature, humidity and CO₂ index can instantly understand the current crowd density and a proper environment to stay, not only comply Japanese regulations stipulate but also reduce the risk of customers being infected with COVID-19 , and to create a healthy and safe shopping environment with productive office space through further data application to develop smart buildings which link to the HVAC to increase the ventilation rate.

Further Data Application, The Heatstroke Index for Industrial Safety

In terms of temperature and humidity related applications in factories, the average summer temperature in Japan continues to rise, and the number of heatstroke patients is on the rise. By industry, the construction industry and manufacture industry have a large number of patients, and various industries are taking measures to prevent heat stroke, such as taking frequent breaks, replenishing water, introducing fans, etc., and detailed health management is not possible. As workers age and labor shortages intensify, employee safety and health management is important. Kiwi’s big data analysis, using the calculation of the heatstroke index WBGT, can help to take more effective and appropriate measures in advance or immediately and reduce the severity of heatstroke.

Gas Utility, the LPWA AMI Solution Could help on Energy Industry Upgrade

The success stories are not limited to this. In the gas energy industry, we also assisted Japan’s second largest natural gas utility to build the world’s first “smart gas” built with LoRaWAN Class B protocol using AMI system, a wireless remote meter reading and bi-directional communication system, including LoRaWAN NCU (network control unit), micro-computer gas meter, gateway as well as MDMS. In Taiwan, we had also successfully completed a trial for LPG AMI application, assisting Taiwan’s LPG retail and repackaging plants to build a system that would like to turns traditional industries, improve operational efficiency and reduce logistics/delivery costs by a AI planning delivery, thereby achieving net-zero ESG emissions goals.

NEXT and Future

In the future, Kiwi will target the integrated of AIoT SaaS and value-added services of data (DaaS), for commercial market, to provide AI/BI solutions through data mining, data cleaning, analysis, artificial intelligence, interactive experience and visualization intelligent. In order to help clients obtain, organize and present valuable information, identify key issues, achieve corporate sustainability goals through digital transformation, and accelerate expansion to other international markets.