National Conference on Industry 4.

0 - What Does the Future

Looks Like? How Business and SME’s Can Benefit?
21 March 2019
Pacific C Ballroom, Seri Pacific Hotel Kuala Lumpur

Digital Transformation for SMEs –

How SMEs Can Benefit from
Internet of Things?

James Lai, Chairman

What do these things have in common?
 Things in common
• You have all of them in your pocket or hand bag everyday!
• Some are already obsolete or obsoleting along with the
companies who created them
• Those that still exists in the next few years (or more) will have
an embedded microcontroller or a mobile app & will be
connected to the web to create “Internet-of-Things”
Defining the Internet-of-Things (IoT)

•Must be able to CONNECT

•Must COLLECT
•Must COMMUNICATE
IoT vs IIoT (Industry 4.0)
 IT & OT Convergence

Information Operational
technology (IT) is the technology (OT) is
application of computers hardware and software
to store, study, retrieve, that detects or causes a
transmit, and manipulate change through the
data, or information, direct monitoring and/or
often in the context of a control of physical
business or other devices, processes and
enterprise. events in the enterprise.
 “access” or “on demand” economy

Largest Taxi companies, doesn’t own a single vehicle

market valuation of $10 billion

market valuation of $70 billion

Largest “hotel” chain, doesn’t own or manage a single property

market valuation of $31 billion

market cap of $467 billion The world’s most valuable market cap of $438 billion

retailers, but doesn’t keep most popular media company,

any stocks creates no content
market cap of $360 billion
 Why is it important?

Ericsson, Uen 284 23-3278, Cellular networks for massive IoT, Jan., 2016. Available: https://www.ericsson.com/res/docs/whitepapers/wp_iot.pdf
Launched on 31st October 2018
Businesses who migrate to IR4.0 can
apply for funding from the Intervention
Fund, Domestic Investment Strategic
Fund and High Impact Fund.

https://www.miti.gov.my/miti/resources/National
Policy on Industry 4.0/Industry4WRD_Final.pdf

Or Google “Industry4wrd”
Apply at https://www.miti.gov.my/index.php/forms/form/90

Members, Agencies
& Partners

Intervention to upgrade SME’s to

Industry 4.0 ready organisations
 • Improve customer experience (CX)
• Improve staffs performance & retention
• Saves OPEX or optimise operational costs
• Create new revenue streams
• Predicts operational issues before it happens
What can IoT • Real-time “health” diagnostics of your processes,
people & profits!
do for your • Avoid wastages in raw materials, human-power, time
businesses? • Just in time inventory
• Improves cashflow
• Fully business process automation
• Re-usable business models
• Designed in for scalability
• … much much more!
IoT Applications
Enterprise
• Smart Factory/predictive maintenance/supply chain
management, Operations optimization, asset & facilities
management

Smart Cities
• Infrastructure, smart street lamps, building automation, energy
efficiency/smart grid, traffic control, air pollution/weather
stations, parking, storage management, sustainable living, smart
homes, flood/earthquake early warning/detection

Transportation
• Fleet management, autonomous vehicles, connected cars,
drones, fuel management, EV, traffic management
www.icee.com.my
IoT Applications
Agriculture
• Precision Farming, Farm to Fork Monitoring, Yield Improvement,
Early disease detection & warning, Environmental Monitoring,
Connected machines, soil analysis and weather sensors, drone-
based data collection

Consumer
• Smart Homes/ Appliances, Security, Healthcare, insurance
(premium optimization), Elderly, Children & pets location
services, sports, social media, smart retail, digital services

R&D
• Faster data, faster innovation, user driven/ real-time feedback,
discovery of bugs /immediate update of fixes, lower cost of
development
How IoT & AI will Impact Ecommerce Businesses?
 Consumer
• Smart Homes/ Appliances, Security, Healthcare, insurance
(premium optimization), Elderly, Children & pets location
services, sports, social media, smart retail, digital services
IoT Applications
IoT – UBI Usage Based Insurance IoT – Lifestyle

IoT – Fleet Management

IoT – Driving Behavior
“Live Demo” • Scan the QR Code for the link
for the web app
• Click any of the sensor icons
to see real-time data
• Or go to http://www.iot-
labs.com.my/smart-building-
demo
 Blockchain in 3-minutes

IOU

Ali Ah Kau

Bitcoin address example:

“BvBMSEYstWetqTFn5Au4m4GFg7xJaNVN2” Muthu (Miner)

“Proof-of-work”
Blockchain in 3-minutes

Ali

Mining pool

Ah Kau

Ah Kau
Blockchain application for IoT Edge Nodes
Uses of blockchain in IoT

• Autonomous access negotiation

• Power bartering
• Running “smart contracts”
• Advanced Security
• Resources management
• Smart billing
 IoT & AI

•Must be able to CONNECT

•Must COLLECT
•Must COMMUNICATE
 IoT vs Industry 4.0 vs 4IR
• Related ,but not identical
• The term "Industrie 4.0" originates from a project in the high-tech strategy of
the German government, which promotes the computerization of
manufacturing.
• Basic principle is that by connecting machines, work pieces and systems,
businesses are creating intelligent networks along the entire value chain that
can control each other autonomously
• Smart factories, supply chain & logistics, smart infrastructure
 Emerging Technologies
Nanotechnology

3D Printed house
 The Fourth Industrial Revolution
“We must develop a comprehensive and globally shared view of how
technology is affecting our lives and reshaping our economic, social,
cultural, and human environments. There has never been a time of greater
promise, or greater peril.”
Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman,
World Economic Forum

from LinkedIN Pulse article picture of “Sarawak dawn landscape series” https://hiveminer.com/
Timeline of Terminologies
Where next?
 About
Registered in the later part of 2016, MyIoTA or Malaysia Internet-of-
Things Association is founded by a group of individuals & companies in
the private sector, passionate & involved in IoT value chain in Malaysia &
beyond. With the global trend of 50B* devices(things) connected by 2020,
IoT will be an important catalyst in transforming the digital economy
landscape. MyIoTA works together with industry players to develop a
thriving IoT eco-system for companies adopting & providing IoT solutions
& services

OUR VISION
To Champion & realize the full potential of IoT as part of Malaysia’s
digital economy , empowering towards the Fourth Industrial
Revolution
 Our Mission
• To promote investments, use cases & applications of IoT
• To be the forum for IoT entrepreneurs, researchers, CIOs & policy makers for
sharing ideas & expertise in latest IoT technologies
• To harmonize & promote partnerships in software, hardware & platform
services
• To promote local IoT companies at the global level & increase their
competitiveness
• To help industries in their digital transformation journey using IoT
Activities
•
Activities
MCMC : IoT, Transforming Businesses
• IoT Smart Cities & Buildings
Working with Global IoT Research Organisations
Websuite
Solutions

http://www.my-iot.org/membership-application
IoT Eco-system Directory/Portal
 www.hypernet-of-things.com

The term "the Internet of things" was coined by Kevin Ashton of

Procter & Gamble, later MIT's Auto-ID Center, in 1999 where
smartphones doesn’t exist yet. Today, we have ubiquitous mobile
connectivity with infrastructure that combines the internet, micro
services, sensors, WiFi , 5G & other wireless technologies (which we
call the “Hypernet”)