Alps Present Wide-ranging Proposals for the IoT Market, from Industry and Agriculture through to Wearables and Nursing Care

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Alps Present Wide-ranging Proposals for the IoT Market, from Industry and Agriculture through to Wearables and Nursing Care

Alps offers IoT market proposals in wide-ranging fields including industry, agriculture, wearables and nursing care.

Exhibits with study association-like panel discussions

The Alps booth featured rows of poster panels illustrating IoT usage examples in all kinds of fields, with Alps staff on hand at each panel to provide descriptions. These poster sessions were just like those of academic societies. Descriptions were given from supervisors both from sales and development, and there were many native Chinese speaking staff members assigned as interpreters who had come to Japan from factories in China for training.

Just before the show, Alps announced linkage with its “IoT smart module” and the IBM cloud platform “IBM Bluemix.” The company has clarified its support for corporations in IoT market participation, and expressed enthusiasm saying ‘we will not just stop at selling devices.’

Mr. Yasuhiro Takeda, project general manager of the company’s Corporate Planning Office PR/IR Group Public Relations Group, commented saying “we intend to thoroughly explain our technologies to exhibition visitors, and keep coming back to getting visitors understanding, which is why we have rethought our exhibition style and the resources we should invest in it. To that end, it seems that show visitors and our explanation staff are exchanging conversations enthusiastically.”

Alps displays its awards in its booth.

The “Sensor network module” on show in the Alps booth is a one-pack Bluetooth and antenna module with geomagnetic and 6-axis accelerometer, air pressure, temperature and humidity and illumination sensors also built in. This module was selected for the CEATEC AWARD 2015 Grand Prix Runner-up in the Green Innovation Category.

Alp’s “OZON” ring-type wearable computing device jointly developed with tech venture 16Lab was selected for the Grand Prix in the CEATEC Innovation Awards, “As Selected by U.S. Journalists”, in the Home Entertainment category. Alps had a shining display of its awards in its booth.

Highly informative exhibits with academic society-type poster sessions

Tech venture 16Lab CEO Akira Kijima (left) and CTO Tonu Samuel (right) talk of how they tapped on Alp’s door to meet the high-performance chip and open the way to the compact ring-type device.