Kuala Lumpur (Oct. 30, 2017) – FAVORIOT and Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU) exchanged the MOA documents in a simple ceremony at Prof. Ron Edwards, Vice Chancellor’s Office in APU New Campus.

The purpose of this Memorandum of Agreement is to set to:

• building industry capable talent for IoT industry
• supporting the collaborative research in industry relevance areas
• exploring research funds for R&D in the identified areas

Specifically, both parties will cooperate to develop

• APU curriculum development – introduce FAVORIOT’S IoT platform to APU’s IoT specialism students as a tool to demonstrate the usage of IoT.
• FAVORIOT’s IoT solutions – APU student community can be the testing ground for any FAVORIOT’s IoT solutions.
• APU can support in providing internship students to FAVORIOT if required and jointly work on providing industry related final year projects for APU students.

Dr. Mazlan said, “FAVORIOT is a leading IoT player in Malaysia and wishes to see the IoT eco-system grow faster to support Malaysia’s 4th Industrial Revolution mission. With our expertise, we will provide consultation on APU curriculum development and offer FAVORIOT IoT middleware platform to be used by APU staff and students for the projects. Although we have our own Smart Health solution for the Senior Citizen called favorwatch, we also wish to see more IoT talents that we called Generation-IoT to create more innovative IoT solutions”

FAVORIOT has unique expertise and experience in the following areas:

• Internet of Things Sensing as a Service to various sectors with the focus on Smart City and Smart Health
• Internet of Things Platform for various vertical solutions

APU has unique expertise and experience in the following areas:

• Build the talent pipeline by identifying high potentials and accelerate their growth
• Design, develop and execute courses based on new and innovative technology trends

You are likely benefitting from The Internet of Things (IoT) today, whether you’re familiar with the term. If your phone automatically connects to your home, or if you have a smartwatch counting your steps, congratulations! You have adopted one small piece of a very large IoT pie, even if you haven’t adopted the name yet.

IoT may sound like a business buzzword, but it’s a real technological revolution that will impact everything we do. It’s the next Internet Tsunami of new possibility that is destined to change the face of technology, as we know it.

IoT represents a massive wave of technical innovation. Highly valuable companies will be built and new ecosystems will emerge from bridging the offline world with the online into one gigantic new sensor network.  Our limited understanding of the possibilities hinders our ability to see future applications for any new technology. Mainstream adoption of desktop computers and the Internet didn’t take hold until they became affordable and usable. When that occurred, fantastic and creative innovation ensued. We are on the cusp of that tipping point with the Internet of Things.

IoT matters because it will create new industries, new companies, new jobs, and new economic growth. It will transform existing segments of our economy: retail, farming, industrial, logistics, cities, and the environment. It will turn your smartphone into the command center and gateway for both digital and physical objects in your life. You will live and work smarter, not harder – and what we are seeing now is only the tip of the iceberg.

A very important concept within IoT is the “last 100 meters connectivity” concept, which refers to the low-power wireless devices that operate in the short-range of 100 meters. These are the devices that represent the growth in IoT.  In fact, 90% of the market share will be in the small things that are in the short range of 50 m to 100 m. The “last 100 meters connectivity” presents a huge potential since today most of these devices are not yet connected to the Internet.

Due to the heterogeneous nature of IoT service i.e. sensors, connectivity, protocols, middleware, and analytics, how do we ensure we can provide a ubiquitous IoT solution?

You can register for the FORUM HERE.

MyDuino.com conducted another IoT Workshop with hands-on using FAVORIOTPlatform (Oct. 20-21, 2017). The 2-day workshop is conducted at UniSZA Besut Campus.

FAVORIOT also offered very affordable rates (as low as RM 100 per year) for a Beginner who wanted to use an IoT middleware to connect their sensors. This platform will allow users to develop IoT prototype in a very short time.

MyDuino can also offer the FAVORIOT IoT workshop at customer’s premises.

Below Photos are courtesy of MyDuino.com

This is our effort to increase more IoT talents in Malaysia. Our training partners have been aggressively conducted several workshops nationwide. For those that feel can start doing their hands-on independently can check the full documentation at Favoriot’s website.

Contents of the Workshop

Getting Started with Favoriot IOT Platform:
1. Getting Started with Favoriot Platform.
2. Understand Favoriot Hierarchy and JSON Data Format.
3. Create Project, Application, Group and Device.
4. Favoriot REST API & MQTT.
5. REST API Testing with Postman.
6. Create Graph on Favoriot.
7. Create Email & SMS Rules on Favoriot.

Below are some interesting IoT projects that students can develop further:

• How-To Develop Smart River Monitoring
• How-To Develop Smart Garbage Collection
• How-To Develop Smart Flood Monitoring System
• How-To Develop Smart Agriculture Solutions