HKIE – Hong Kong Electronics Symposium 2020 (Virtual Symposium)

Hong Kong Electronics Symposium 2020 is organized by The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers - Electronics Division and performed virtually on 13^th July 2020. This year the theme is “Embracing Smart City with IoT”. 

In the beginning, Ir. CK Lee (Chairman, HKIE Electronics Division) gave a welcome speech.

Then Ir. Ringo Yu (Immediate Past President, HKIE) gave an opening speech.

The first keynote speech was Mr. Sanda Cheuk (Deputy Director-General (Telecommunications) OFCA, HKSAR Government) and his topic entitled “A Regulator’s Perspective on development of IoT in Hong Kong”.  

Firstly, he overviewed Hong Kong’s Telecommunications.  

Then he briefed the facilitating development of IoT since March 2015 to May 2020 that opening for application and subsidy scheme for 5G.

Mr. Nigel Chan (Customer CTO, Customer Operation Taiwan/HK/Macau, Nokia Solutions and Networks Taiwan) and his presentation named “Enabling smart, safe and sustainable cities with 5G”. Firstly, Mr. Nigel Chan reviewed the development journey of 5G from 2008 to 2020.

Then he briefed the 5G use cases compared to 4G.

After that he mentioned the release 15, 16 and 17 within one more year.  On the road to 5G use cases were showed as follows:

1.      Video surveillance & analytics

2.      Immersive experience

3.      Smart Stadium

4.      Fixed Wireless Access

5.      Assisted & autonomous vehicles

6.      Machine remote control

7.      Cloud robotics & process automation

8.      eHealth

Finally, he introduced smart city model that was not just technologies but also other elements including financing, contracting, ecosystem and throught leadership.  And concluded that 3Ps (Planning, Partnership & Patience) to prepare the 5G revolution.

Mr. Keith Cheng (Head of Digital Hub, IOT Services – Smart City Siemens Ltd. HK) was the third speaker and his topic presentation was “Analytics, Blockchain, Internet of Things”. 

In the beginning, he played Siemen video and then used Singapore case to introduce the floating farm employed those technologies (ABIoT).

Then he briefed MindSphere concept that employed IoT, Machine Learning Algorithm, Aquaculture 4.0 MindApp Dashboard, Data Analytics, and Data Engineering & Automation.

Lastly, he concluded the following points of ABIoT:

i)                    Automated systems enable the same amount of manpower to run five farms and increased productivity.

ii)                  MindSphere App provides cloud connectivity, data analytics and live dashboards for optimizing operations.

iii)                Sensors ensure water quality & oxygen level creating a stress-free environment for optimized fish growth.

iv)                Secure cybersecurity infrastructure incorporating Kaspersky Industrial Cybersecurity solution (KICS) for Nodes.

v)                  Video Analytics with Machine Learning algorithm calculates bio-mass and hunger level to optimize feeding

vi)                Camera vision detects skin anomaly and unusual swimming behavior to prevent outbreak of diseases.

vii)              Trusted traceability through the entire value chain using Blockchain.

The fourth speaker was Mr. Henry Ng (Managing Director, Critical Information Systems and Cybersecurity, Asia Thales Transport & Security (HK) Ltd.) and his presentation was “Living in a cyber secured smart city”.  He said security should be an early consideration and design point in every phase of a smart infrastructure deployment - “Security practices need to move to the forefront”.

Lastly, Mr. Henry Ng pointed out two important points and they are showed as follows:

1.      Security Framework with Layered Protection Mechanism.

2.      Security by Design.

The fifth speaker was Mr. Kev Hau (Head of Security Engineering, Check Point Software Technologies Limited, North Asia) and his topic named “Enabling the IOT connected world through cyber security”.

Panel Discussion.

(Are we ready? (e.g. governance, infrastructure, equipment supplier, …)

Mr. Simon Wong (CEO, Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D Centre) was facilitator and Panelists included Hon Charles Mok, Mr. Keith Cheng, and Mr. Kev Hau.

Afternoon Session

Dr. Lucas Hui (CTO, ASTRI) was the second keynote speaker and his topic entitled “IoT Smartcity Landscape – Experience in ASTRI”.  Firstly, Dr. Hui introduced the ASTRI and IoT smart city landscape which included Smart Home, Entertainment, Manufacturing, Smart office, Education, Utilities (Water/Electricity) and Transportation.  

Then Dr. Hui briefed different ASTRI Cases including Smart Water Supply, DC Building, Smart Mobility for Vehicle, C-V2X and AGV navigation, Virtual Experience (VE) etc. For example, the World’s first successful city live trial for Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) Networking System in Wuxi, China.

Another example was ASTRI Smart Elderly Home System that included bed sensor, location map, healthcare app and devices.  

Finally, Dr. Hui said IoT can change every aspect of human life and those technologies involved IoT sensor, 5G, AI, Security, and IC design, etc.

The seventh speaker was Mr. Ronald Chan (Senior Solution Specialist, Microsoft Hong Kong) and his presentation title was “Back to the NEW normal, empowered by IoT”.  He said we need for resiliency drives automation and IOT/AI adoption so as to back to the new normal.

Then Mr. Ronald Chan briefed how technology enabling new opportunities from cloud, to IoT, to Edge, AI and Digital Twins. 

Finally, he selected some cases to explain how to empower by IoT. The case showed to monitor diabetic patient offloading compliance and activity.  

Panel Discussion.

(AI, Robotics and 5G)

Mr William Tse (Head of Strategic Engagement, HK, Taiwan, Macau, GSMA) was facilitator and panelists included Mr. Ronald Chan, Mr. Alan Cheung (ASTRI) and Mr. KL Ho (HKT Engineering).

Mr. KL Ho (Senior VP, Strategic Wireless Technology and Project Office, HKT Engineering) was the eighth speaker and his topic named “5G - Enabling Infrastructure for Smart City”.  In the beginning, he briefed the evolution of mobile technology from 1G to 5G.  

Then he stated mobile network builds for Coverage, Performance and Capacity for best user experience.  

Since mobile data usage trend in HK increased significantly, HKT needed to mix of spectrum for 5G implementation at this moment.

The 5G rollout HK map was showed and we found that two restriction zones in New Territories and Hong Kong Island, respectively.  Finally, he concluded some challenge of public network such as SLA shared among all users, and different need for enterprise & public users.

Mr. Steve Chan (Senior Engineer, EMSD, HKSAR Government) was the ninth speaker and his presentation entitled “Realizing Smart City with IoT”. Firstly, Mr. Chan briefed E&M 2.0 which was started from digitized asset management system to regional digital monitoring and control centre. Six L’s characterizing Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) was proposed that included Low Power, Long Range, Low Throughput, Low Cost, Large Scale and Low Responsiveness.

Then he introduced different projects in Hong Kong such as Smart Carpark, Smart Toilet, etc.  And then Government Wide IoT Network (GWIN) was introduced.

 After that Mr. Chan introduced different application in EMSD and one of them was Internet of AI Things such as vibration monitoring and trial project in drainage services department and water supplies department.

Finally, he mentioned the concept on IoT Ecosystem in EMSD.

Ir. Dr. KF Tsang (Associate Professor, EE Dept., CityU) was the last speaker and his topic presentation was “Internet of Things (IoT) Maturity Index –IEEE P2668 (Idex)”. Dr. KF Tsang is chairman of IEEE P2668 WG.  His talk contents included IoT Challenges and IoT Index (Idex).  

Beginning, Dr. Tsang asked do IoT ready? Some challenges discussed such as what information has been embedded into sensors and sufficient best practices for following.  If not in place, hacking may occur.

After that Dr. Tsang introduced IoT index (IDex) which is a global standard of grading and ranking of all IoT-related “things”.  IDex, a single indicator, for All things including Objective grading, Knowledge based, Scientific, Benefit and boost the internet economy.  

Finally, he showed some concept to apply IDex and showed how to improve the score to the best practice. 

Lastly, Dr. Tsang showed the project objective of IEEE P2668 IoT Ecosystem on China Mobile Hong Kong (CMHK) OneNet Platform.  He concluded IDex cope with IoT demands (including cyber security) to assist government, corporation …etc. to draw smart decision that help to boost internet economy.

At the end, Ir. John Chan (Chairman, HKIE Electronics Division) gave closing speech.

Reference:

HKIE-EL - http://el.hkie.org.hk/

Hong Kong Electronics Symposium 2020 - http://en.hkie.org.hk/en_it_events_inside_Upcoming.aspx?EventID=374&TypeName=Events%20/%20Activities