The Singapore Government has taken a significant initiative to advance the industrial IoT, otherwise known as Industry 4.0, announcing an alliance with 13 companies to develop IoT solutions for industry.
The alliance takes the form of a memorandum of understanding signed by the Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) with the 13 companies. The list includes include Cisco Systems, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft, Rohde and Schwarz Asia, and Rolls-Royce Singapore, telcos Singtel and StarHub, and a number of local small and mid-sized businesses and startups.
It was announced by the senior parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Low Yen Ling, in a speech to the Asian leg of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) World Tour 2017, held in Singapore. The tour has been organised by the two leading bodies promoting the industrial internet: the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and Germany’s Plattform Industrie 4.0.