Goals and Strategies
The enterprise IoT market will continue to grow in the next five years, and will reach US$525 billion by 2027. By this time, there will be a global talent gap of more than 10 million people in the IoT industry. Advantech, as an international benchmark company in industrial computers and IoT, sees IoT talent cultivation as a key focus for corporate competitiveness and corporate sustainability. Therefore, with the vision of popularizing and deepening IoT education, we promote three major themes and five learning projects to cultivate IoT talents.
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Learning & Field: Co-Creation ecosystem is promoted to improve industrial growth and employment opportunities.
Industry-University Proposition Projects of University Co-Creation (see Chapter 3 for details )
Doctoral and Graduate Students on the Industry-University Interface ( see Chapter 3 for details )
IoT Career Opportunities: Elite 100 IoT Internship Program
The Elite100 Internship Program focuses on forward-looking issues in different application fields. Advantech instructors lead students through user scenario analysis and field interviews to understand actual needs and industry pain points, and then propose innovative concept designs.- Advantech investing units: human resources, internal business units, Advantech Foundations
- Main beneficiaries: Students, schools
- External collaboration: Advantech partners provide field resources
Since the launch of the IoT Industry Internship Program in 2018, more than 100 students have participated in the program. Through mid-term and final results presentations, senior supervisors are invited to provide guidance and feedback to the students and gain valuable workplace experience; at the same time, over the years, the themes and projects generated by the interns were also promoted and implemented within Advantech.
In 2023, a total of 59 students in Taiwan participated in the Elite Internship Program, yielding over 30 project outcomes. 21 students continued their internship after the summer (two of them have turned full-time); in 2023, 30 interns in China were recruited, and 1 student stayed on and is expected to become a regular in July 2024.
Open innovation: Students' cross-field co-creation is guided to promote industrial innovation
InnoWorks Developer Project Competition
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Mechanism: AIoT Innoworks is a project-based competition focused on IoT applications for students and developers around the world.. Based on Advantech‘s WISE-IoTSuite IoT cloud platform, the participants learn to develop innovative IoT application solutions in various industries and domains, as well as solve social and environmental problems challenge and get rich rewards.
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Continuous development mechanism:
- Students from excellent teams are invited to join Advantech Elite 100 Internship Program.
- Students participating in the competition are invited to join Advantech WISE-IoTSuite ambassador program to support the implementation of WISE-IoTSuite cooperation projects in Advantech's various campuses, serve as lecturers in on-campus training workshops, provide AIoT InnoWorks technical support, and answer advanced development questions in technical forums .
- We support the team's continuous development of topics that are in line with Advantech's product road map or have continuation significance. Advantech's internal product department also forms an IndustryUniversity plan to be connected according to demand.
- Quantitative achievements: Since its establishment in 2019, it is in its fifth year, and a total of 74 schools from 8 countries have participated, including: Taiwan, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brazil, Indonesia, South Korea and other countries. In 2023, a total of 850 students from 224 student teams from 7 countries participated.
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Project highlightNTUST Campus Seed Program
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Internal investment units
Technical support departments, foundations, emerging business development departments -
Main beneficiaries
Students, schools, and the general public interested in popularizing education through IoT -
External collaboration
Experts and scholars in the field of IoT
Project description
Three students from the Department of Industrial Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology participated in
the 2022 Innoworks developer program competition. After the selection, the three students became Advantech's WISE-IoTSuite campus
seeds to implement Advantech's WISE-IoTSuite campus promotion projects. Including: WISE-IoTSuite workshop, production of teaching
video for the smart water dispenser project, and support the front-line studnets' technical questions and inquries form Innoworks.
Description of the smart water dispenser project
The ambassadors compiled and recorded a set of instructional videos based on the smart water dispenser project at
NTUST. In this project, data such as water intake and temperature on campus were collected and an IoT system was
built to monitor students' drinking water conditions with the WISE-IoT Suite data visualization tool, showcasing the
applications on campus.
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Case study 1China_Deepen Industry-academia collaboration to build China's Industryacademia ecosystemThrough the University-Industry Collaborative Education Program of Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Advantech supported 9 universities in 2023 to implement IoT laboratories, teacher training, IoT courses, teaching materials, and IoT projects to popularize IoT technology and applications. Advantech provides free access to Advantech industrial cloud platforms, technical training, and technical support for colleges and universities teachers and students. During the collaboration between the two parties, Advantech leverages its hardware and software resources to help integrate teaching into the industry and provide a stage for students to implement IoT application development.
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Case study 2South Korea signed an MOU with Inha University to launch medium and longterm cooperation projects with the goal of cultivating talentsSigned a memorandum of understanding with Inha University as the first step for Advantech to promote industry-academia collaboration projects in South Korea. In addition to the Innoworks developer competition, two participating students were also recruited to serve as interns at Advantech Korea. The goal is to support Advantech Korea in WISE projects by building on the experience and technical power in IoT project development accumulated during the competition. In 2024, Inha University will expand the recruitment of students from nontechnical backgrounds to participate in the activities, hoping to create a richer IoT competition with diverse backgrounds and majors.
Case study 3
Indonesia_Proposal to work with industry
partners to mentor students
Advantech Indonesia and its strategic partner Eforel
have signed an industry-academia memorandum
of understanding with the Institute of Technology
and Engineering in Surabaya, Indonesia, to actively
promote IoT education. Mentors from Advantech
and Eforel provide students with industry-specific
application development experience and guide
students in project development from the business
and technical aspects. In 2024, we will further expand
the scope of the event to other regions in Indonesia
and connect target schools to build an industrial
ecosystem in Indonesia.
Popular Education: The gap between industry and education in higher education is shortened through extended training for summer internships → long-term internships → full-time jobs.
Online Learning Platform for IoT [IoT Higher Education Courses & Certification of AIoT Academy]
- Advantech's training and certification official website: https://academy.advantech.com/
- As an online platform for global learners to develop cloud-related skills, Advantech provides free user accounts, training courses, and usage space. Therefore, more learners can explore industrial cloud applications, including course consultation, technology transfer, co-teaching by industry instructors, and obtaining certificates through examinations.
- In-house investment units: technical support department, foundation, emerging business development department
- Main beneficiary unit: students, schools, and general public who are interested in popular education on the IoT
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External collaboration: experts and scholars in the field of IoT
- From 2018 to 2023, we collaborated with more than 14 universities and universities of science and technology.
- From 2018 to 2023, 35 IoT internship courses were offered, covering a range of topics such as comprehensive smart manufacturing experiment courses, industrial APP development using WISE-IoTSuite, equipment and production line intelligent maintenance, industrial IoT, cloud data platforms, AI, and others. These courses combined theory with practical industry solutions and were taught by industry experts for 6 to 30 hours each.
- In 2021-2023, a total of more than 1000 technical certificates for WISEIoT Suite were issued in campus collaboration.
| Schools with which the program is offered | |
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| Country | Schools |
| Taiwan | National Taiwan University, Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (formerly Chiao Tung University), National Cheng Kung University, Tunghai University, Chang Gung University, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, National Taipei University of Technology, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, National Formosa University, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology |
| China | Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Henan University of Technology, National Dong Hwa University, Beijing University of Technology |
| Creation of IoT and software engineering teaching materials | |
| Taiwan | National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Tunghai University |
| China | Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Henan University of Technology |
| Schools with which the program is offered |
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Country:Taiwan National Taiwan University, Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (formerly Chiao Tung University), National Cheng Kung University, Tunghai University, Chang Gung University, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, National Taipei University of Technology, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, National Formosa University, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology |
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Country:China Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Henan University of Technology, National Dong Hwa University, Beijing University of Technology |
| Creation of IoT and software engineering teaching materials |
| Country:Taiwan National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Tunghai University |
| Country:China Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Henan University of Technology |
2023 Achievements in Industry–academia Collaboration
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Project highlightAIoT Academy Higher Education Courses and Certification
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Internal investment units
Technical support departments, foundations, emerging business development departments -
Main beneficiaries
Students, schools, and the general public interested in popularizing education through IoT -
External collaboration
Experts and scholars in the field of IoT
Project description
This project has invited Professor Chou Shuo-Yen, the director of the IoT Center at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, to gather professors in the field to focus on the basics of
IoT. Through the sharing of practical application experiences, the project aims to provide students with the core competencies needed for IoT-related practical skills and professional talent.
Learning Path of WISE-IoTSuite's Certification Courses
Case study | China_Nanjing University of Science and Technology to build industry-academia benchmark
In 2023, Advantech and Nanjing University of Science and Technology cooperated to establish an Industrial IoT training base, which entered the operational phase. The collaboration focused
on areas such as digital twin systems, edge computing, industrial big data, industrial mechanism models, digital twin and industrial apps. They developed a deep and diverse industry-academia
cooperation model including jointly designed courses, lecture materials, practical projects, and graduation designs. So far, 2 sets of lecture materials have been produced, and more than 100
students have covered the IoT popularization course. In the future, we will also develop the possibility of bilateral cooperation in more aspects.