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Panasonic established Taiwan’s first smart low carbon home as a result of the matchmaking resources of III
Date: 2016/06/07
Caption: With the support of MOEA IDB, TJIC has been working on facilitating collaboration between Taiwanese and Japanese businesses for years. It has helped secure a collaboration project between Panasonic of Japan and the Tainan City Government. The Panasonic Tainan smart low-carbon demonstration home was unveiled today (June 7). The group photo was taken after the ceremony, from the left: Deputy Director General of the Bureau of Economic Development of the Tainan City Government, President Chein Tai of the Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, President Yuan-Chuan Lin of Panasonic Taiwan, Chairman Richard M. Hong of Panasonic Taiwan, Panasonic Regional Head for China & Northeast Asia Hidetoshi Osawa, Deputy Mayor of Tainan Tsung-Jung Wu, IDB Section Chief Chih-Ching Yang, and TJPO CEO Cheng-Chin Lu.
The Institute for Information Industry (III) is dedicated to promoting effective applications of information technology and facilitating the development of a healthy information society. The III works hard to support the use of technology to improve the quality of life. In response to the current administration's policy to achieve a nuclear-free society by 2025, the III has created a smart green power network that incorporates emerging technologies and smart applications into households for effective use of green power technology. The Taiwan Japan Industry Center (TJIC) has been working on facilitating collaboration between Taiwanese and Japanese businesses for many years. TJIC manages the Taiwan-Japan Industrial Collaboration Promotion Office (TJPO). With the support of Industrial Development Bureau (IDB) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), TJIC has helped secure a collaboration project between Panasonic of Japan and the Tainan City Government. The first Panasonic Tainan smart low-carbon demonstration home was unveiled today (June 7) in the presence of IDB Section Chief Chih-Ching Yang, Deputy Mayor of Tainan Tsung-Jung Wu, Panasonic Regional Head for China & Northeast Asia Hidetoshi Osawa and other guests from academia and industry.
The green power industry is one of the government's focus industries. IDB Section Chief Chih-Ching Yang said in his speech today (June 7) that IDB appreciated Panasonic's contribution to better social conditions in Taiwan. The Panasonic Tainan smart low-carbon demonstration home, completed with the support of the Tainan City Government, not only embodies a success in combining smart technologies to achieve energy saving and carbon emission reduction and thereby solving Taiwan's energy problems, but also, given a balance between industrial development and environmental sustainability, establishes a model of Taiwan-Japan collaboration in Taiwan for smart city planning in the future. Experience will also be taken from related industries in order to enable Taiwanese and Japanese businesses to work together and export the success to other countries in a more timely manner.
Panasonic Regional Head for China & Northeast Asia Hidetoshi Osawa said that Panasonic was a keen advocate of the smart zero carbon living program, which promised to achieve a healthy, safe, and comfortable smart low carbon life. The Panasonic Tainan smart low-carbon demonstration home was constructed to gather empirical data in order to verify zero carbon (CO2±0) emission and the performance of Panasonic smart energy saving solutions in Taiwan. The empirical data will be provided to other cities in Taiwan looking to implement smart low carbon living.
In 2015, Panasonic used the Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town (Fujisawa SST) Project as the blueprint for a proposal of smart low carbon living to the Tainan City Government. In 2016, to verify the performance of Panasonic smart energy saving solutions in southern Taiwan, Panasonic selected as a sample a house similar to those occupied by local residents in Tainan, and installed the Panasonic Tainan smart low-carbon empirical house. The house was equipped with energy management, air quality control, and lighting solutions. The ideas behind the design were energy creation, energy storage, and energy saving. Renewable energy was implemented in order to change the energy consumption habits in Taiwan in the future while observing the philosophy of environmental friendliness. The III and Panasonic look forward to taking advantage of regional planning in Tainan and other parts of southern Taiwan to install trial regions for smart low carbon cities. It is hoped that the practice can be duplicated in a third country and create opportunities around the world for Taiwanese businesses.
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