Taiwan-based Anchor Tech, a provider of smart buildings control systems, is actively striving to apply its control, monitoring and maintenance solutions to commercial properties including Carrefour, RT-Mart, and convenience stores, so as to keep the premises in an optimal operating state through predictive maintenance, according to the firm's CEO Duncan Huang.
Huang said in the IoT era, the niche market for startups like his company, founded in 2010, rests with the space for integration, flow optimization and maintenance services, which accounts for 5% of business opportunities which big enterprises can hardly tap as they are busy developing, producing and selling products.
In terms of smart illumination, he said, radar sensors and LED driver can be combined to allow indoor lights to automatically switch on and off, or to detect sunlight brightness at signage boards to determine where to switch on or off lights and luminance.
As to predictive maintenance, sensors can be used to collect data on the frequencies and waveforms of lights to accurately predict when every light will wear out, so as to reduce the cost for patrol personnel and provide customers with proper maintenance solutions.
Huang stressed that his company will move to increase long-term added values for products already sold by offering maintenance solutions to customers, aiming to become a service provider and ecosystem builder rather than a product supplier.