Prophecy of the Internet of Things (IoT)

Prophecy of the Internet of Things (IoT)

Written by Li-Chang Kuo

For resolving the jobless problem, we’d done many efforts to develop ‘RF Transmitter’ to attain the concept of ‘EPS, ESD, ESS, VAM’ to be ‘Global Channel-TES’ and later be called as ‘internet of things’ that was often reported by the newspapers. In 1990, I accepted The Newspapers to write an article on the ‘Electrical Yearbook’ which published by the ‘Commercial Times’ as well as ‘Economic Daily News’ for ‘October Electronic Expo’ in Taipei. In which there was a paragraph as following:

In the era of future ‘Information Economy’, person to person, consumer to business, or business to business—the transactions or dealings among them such as ‘Place the Purchasing Orders, Quotation of merchandise, Content Introduction and Payment’ that all can be via VAN (value-added net) or ISDN (integrated service digital network) to manage the things. To that era, it’s really ‘Knows Everything at Home’. When you miss those loved ones, even separated by the vast ocean, just a phone call that can communicate each other through network and be visible in addition to talk. All of these, we need a series of the electronic machines to integrate, the electronic machines include HDTV, VCR, Camera, Satellite Receiving System, Stereo, Computer, Telecommunication and the related facilities to combine together, in order to produce the satisfactory results. Of course, there will be sophisticated electronic components among the machines required for connection, and then be able to transmit the signals accurately. Therefore, the potential market of these electronic components infinitely.

Above published concept in 1990 contained the transactions of ‘Business-to-Business’ (B-B), ‘Business-to-Consumer’ (B-C) and ‘Person-to-Person’ (P-P or C-C, consumer-to-consumer), preliminary construction of a model to achieve a practical framework for common acceptance, and fully consistent with conventional online shopping patterns of people today. Because wherein ‘TV, VCR, Camera and Stereo’ belong to the category of ‘Consumer Electronics’ which is the first ‘C’, that integrate with second ‘C’ of ‘Computer’ and third ‘C’ of ‘Communication’ to be ‘3C’; the most important component is ‘RF Transmitter’ among them. ‘EPS’ means electronic payment system, ‘ESD’ means entry security device, ‘ESS’ means electronic shopping system, and ‘VAM’ means vending automation manager, they all required ‘RF Transmitter’ for calculating –communicating -computing to construct a multilateral trading system—‘Global Channel-TES’ an international best practice officially presented by Linda Din of Panhornic ComMec Hoding Company at APEC 2003.

In 1993, U.S. President Bill Clinton took office and then singed an executive order to untie the cross-industry operation for telecommunication and television in addition to the release of internet from military to civilian usage, and to attain the dream for integration of 3C. Moreover, ‘Telecommunication Satellite System’—GPS also gradually opened to the civil use. During the 1990s of Bill Clinton in power, the world truly entered the information society; the result was a strong tie related with Taiwan’s civil advocacy—at RSA, Smart Card Alliance and APEC to gain the consensus, form the bills and policies, and action plan to promote the infrastructures for implementing internet of things in the era of ‘Information Economy’.

References:

Commercial Times (Ed.) (1990: 109-117). 1990 Electrical Yearbook. Taipei: Commercial Times.

Economic Daily News (Ed.) (1990). 1990 Taipei International Electronics Show Special Publication. Taipei: Economic Daily News.

Din, Linda (2001: 70-71). National Defense Employee’s Daughter—A Lady of Rich Taiwan. Taichung: Panhornic.

Kuo, Li-Chang, (2014:114-115). Analysis of Development of the Information Society in Taiwan’s Third Sector. Taichung: Tunghai University.