Exhibitions & Events・2016-03-30

【Exhibition Report】The 3rd Taipei Smart City Expo 2016 - "Building Smart Cities with IoT"

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The 3rd Smart City Summit & Expo 2016 was grandly held from March 22 to March 25 at the Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall. The theme of this exhibition was "Building Smart Cities with IoT," combining real-world scenario solutions across six major themes: retail, building, healthcare, community, security, and campus. It successfully attracted over 600 overseas buyers from 30 countries to visit Taiwan. Naturally, BXB did not miss this exhibition. We were highly honored to be invited again by ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) to jointly participate in the Smart City 4G Experience Pavilion. During the exhibition, we showcased the "BXB Earthquake Early Warning App" and conducted wireless AV intercom demonstrations, showcasing zero-latency, wireless transmission of 1080P high-definition video.

Aiming for a smart campus environment, BXB has developed a smart campus security management system, the "ICP-5000 Digital IP Audio & Video Broadcasting System," which is showcased at the exhibition. With an all-in-one full-featured design, it integrates multiple control functions: disaster prevention alarm broadcasting, zone broadcasting, emergency help, access control security, and energy management. Schools can pre-schedule timetables based on activities and set any time or date to execute automated, localized playback. They can also record audio or use text-to-speech (TTS) for content pre-recording, allowing faculty and staff to broadcast without needing to stay in the main control room at all times. In addition, with campus security incidents occurring frequently in recent years, this system can also combine anti-theft, emergency help, two-way audio/video intercom, and video surveillance through wired/wireless networks and AV streaming. When students encounter an emergency, they can send a distress signal back to the school office via an emergency button, which simultaneously displays the location and live video. Combined with the intercom function to understand the situation on-site, this helps reduce potential harm. Furthermore, this system can be integrated with BXB's conference systems, transforming into a powerful emergency response command station. Through the interoperability of video and audio, it effectively protects personal safety and facilitates warning and evacuation actions, achieving broader and more flexible applications.

In addition, the English subject of the Comprehensive Assessment Program for Junior High School Students, implemented by the Ministry of Education since 2014, includes reading and listening, with the listening portion officially included in the grading starting in 2015. Therefore, BXB spares no effort in building campus English listening systems. In addition to establishing campus sound reinforcement systems based on the STIPA speech intelligibility standard, the "BXB Digital IP AV Broadcasting System ICP-5000" combines general audio broadcasting with TTS (Text-to-Speech) technology. This allows exam questions to be directly converted into speech for playback without extra recording, effectively saving labor costs. It also features 1080P high-definition AV broadcasting, which can play different English listening AV materials for each grade, and can also be used for silent broadcast text announcements and multimedia AV broadcasting, making the system's application scope even broader. Due to the frequent occurrence of earthquake disasters recently, the "BXB Digital IP AV Broadcasting System ICP-5000" also integrates the Central Weather Administration's "Earthquake Early Warning Software." When the Central Weather Administration issues an earthquake warning, it can immediately trigger the school's existing PA system to broadcast the earthquake early warning sound. Combined with Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology, which allows emergency broadcast text content to be pre-entered, the graphical control software can instantly convert the text into emergency broadcast voice messages during an earthquake, providing teachers and students with clearer emergency response and preventive measures.

Meanwhile, to help everyone better understand the application and integration of this digital IP audio-visual broadcasting system, BXB's Vice President, Jerry Hung, hosted a seminar on the topic of "Smart Campus Safety Integrated Management System" at the exhibition. Vice President Hung hoped that through the seminar, smart campuses could utilize digital transmission over IP networks to effectively integrate, allocate, and fully utilize various resources, optimizing education and school administration as a whole, and achieving digital teaching, digital learning, and digital management.

The exhibition was a great success with an enthusiastic response. We sincerely thank ITRI for their assistance and every guest who visited the BXB booth to support and recognize BXB's products. These are the encouragement and motivation driving BXB's continuous innovation. We look forward to presenting more brand-new products next year! See you next year!