Chunghwa Telecom recently held the "Contract Manufacturers Signing Ceremony for Building Kaohsiung Yawan District 5G AIoT Smart Healthcare and National Development Conference 5G Kaohsiung Rongjia Smart Long-term Care Project" at the Chenggong Building in Kaohsiung City. Chunghwa Telecom announced its Cooperation with other industries and academic institutions to create the first demonstration field in Taiwan. In recent years, STUST has focused on the development of the combination of AIoT technology and 5G applications. It has also built a production-academy joint research base—"Smart Factory + Smart Manufacturing Visual Inspection Factory." The research and development results are outstanding, and STUST is the only academic-research cooperation partner of this project. The cooperation is quite eye-catching.

[A group photo of the STUST team, including of teachers and students (from left to right) Shenhong Zheng, Pei-Yi Wu, Bo-Heng Wen, Hong-Wen Chen, Professor Wan-Rong Chang, Director Rui-Shing Chang, and Yi-Chen Lin]

This project will allow smart medical applications to land in Kaohsiung through the 5G Kaohsiung Veteran’s Home Smart Long-term Care Project of National Development Council. According to the plan, 5G AR+AIoT will be applied to Kaohsiung’s Veterans’ Home to introduce a long-term senior care system. Chairman Ji-Mao Shie of Chunghwa Telecom said that after Kaohsiung’s Veterans’ Home is verified, the system is expected to be promoted to 16 homes of veterans within three years, so that approximately 8,000 elders can enjoy 5G smart long-term senior care services.

[(From left to right) Director Rui-Shing Chang of the Research Development and Industry-University Cooperation Division, STUST; Chairman Wen-Long Liang of Zuozhen Co., Ltd.; Chairman Ming-De Wu of China System Integration Co., Ltd.; and Director Wan-Zong Zhang of AIoT Smart Networking Application Technology Research and Development Center, STUST]

In order to implement the plan and benefit the elders who need long-term care, China System Integration Corporation has joined hands with its partners to introduce multiple applications of smart medical care and integrate the medical industry chain. Apart from its partners in the industry, STUST is the only academic research partner. The signing ceremony presents the complete ecological chain of smart long-term care and smart medical care through the achievements of smart wards, nursing stations, and smart medical care. Among them, the works displayed by STUST are the research and development results of Professor Wan-Rong Chang’s team of teachers and students, focused on a series of smart medical care. The integration of the system includes the following:  focusing on preventing the elderly from falling down at the bedside;  developing a two-stage out-of-bed warning and bedside falling notification system to improve the lighting environment of the elderly’s bedside "being-out warning and bedside falling notification night light";  sustaining convenient Nursing staff take medicines and managing the time for patients to take medicines;  using the medicine identification box for medicine identification, which reduces the "automated medicine cabinet and medicine identification box smart nursing cart" caused by patients taking medicine mistakes;  applying AR smart glasses combined with AI Application; and  working on medical treatment and doctor advice recommendations through the first-view real-time image of smart glasses for remote consultation related illness inquiry, to achieve long-term inspection and telemedicine "long-term inspection and remote consultation." This series of research and development results are quite fruitful, and they can be implemented in homes, hospitals, long-term care, maintenance, and nursing institutions to create multiple applications for smart medical care.

[Professor Wan-Rong Chang from STUST was introducing the smart medical system displayed this time.]

Professor Wan-Rong Chang of STUST said that in recent years STUST has focused its resources on the development of the combination of AIoT technology and 5G applications, and it has become the first 5G private network coverage and implementation factory for artificial intelligence visual inspection and smart manufacturing among all the colleges and universities in Taiwan. It will be offered to the teachers and students of STUST and the industry for common use. Through frequent interaction with the industry, not only can the STUST's artificial intelligence be combined with the development of the Internet of Things technology and the application of 5G communication be deeply cultivated, it can but also be used to cultivate industrial technical talents with cross-field innovation and practical capabilities.

Deng-Maw Lu, President of STUST, said that for many years, STUST has been committed to teaching innovation and valued industry-university cooperation. Through links with the industry, it has not only enhanced technological research and development capabilities, but also strengthened students' practical ability and employability. STUST has cooperated with many well-known companies in the industry to introduce the smart medical services and technology of the school's teachers and students' research and development achievements AIoT+5G into the actual field, and STUST is the only academic research partner in Taiwan, which once again verifies the research and development of the masters and students of STUST. The results have been affirmed by the industry, which also means that the students of STUST have the immediate ability to integrate their learning and practical uses. STUST will stay in line with the industry leaders in the future and continue to work hard to create more achievements and research, making great contributions to the society.