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Alex Hsieh , said : “ As voice control technology becomes more mature , it is time for us to embrace the IoT era .”
In addition to adding voice-control integration to its set-top boxes , Kbro announced its plans to include Chinese-language recognition platforms , and community projects like “ smart surveillance services that could include time-lapse videos and a license plate recognition system ”. Kbro has set aside $ 68.3mn in capital spending this year to develop and deploy these new networks and features . The company hopes to increase its subscriber base by 50 %, from 40,000 to 60,000 as a result of IoT-integrated services in 2018 .
According to Scroxton , “ it is not merely big hardware companies ... developing IoT systems in Taiwan ”. Taipei-based startup incubator Mediatek Labs is “ driving this explosion in devices by continuously innovating across a range of systems on a chip ( SoCs ) to deliver the processing power , battery life , compact size and sensing capabilities at the cost points needed for the mass market ”. The company provided
80 May 2018