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Source: KaHa. The new Smart Fitness tee. KaHa , a Singapore-based Internet of Things (IoT) platform company for smart wearables, has launched a second-generation Smart Fitness t-shirt. The new t-shirt makes use of conductive yarn that extends the signal to more areas of the garment, allowing the smart module to be placed at additional places on the shirt. The t-shirt also comes with increased ergonomic functionality. “Through our partnership with A*STAR SIMTech, we have been able to evolve our offerings with the creation of the second-generation Smart Fitness t-shirt,” said Pawan Gandhi, Founder and CEO of KaHa. “As a homegrown brand with a mission to transform the local smart wearables ecosystem, we are always looking for ways to improve our existing products and services and to introduce the Internet of Things to consumers that would help elevate their everyday life.” The Smart Fitness t-shirt is connected to KaHa’s smart module and mobile app that tracks electrocardio...

Source: Cisco ebook. The Cisco APAC SMB Digital Maturity Index measures digital maturity along four dimensions. · SMBs in Singapore ranked No. 1 on Cisco APAC SMB Digital Maturity Index* · Cybersecurity is the top technology that SMBs in Singapore are investing in, followed by cloud and analytics · Lack of digital skills and talent within the organisation and lack of insight into operational and customer data listed as the top challenge by SMBs across the country Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Singapore are the most digitally mature across the Asia Pacific region, according to the APAC SMB Digital Maturity Index released by Cisco in mid-April. The index highlights that more than 60% of SMBs in Asia-Pacific have started to embrace digitalisation, driven by improved Internet access and growing smartphone ownership. These SMBs are redefining customer experience and expectations, disrupting sectors and in some cases creating entire new ones, while capturing i...

Huawei and NGO Rainforest Connection (RFCx) are working together to refine a rainforest research platform that includes equipment collection, storage services, and intelligent analytics. The news was shared during HUAWEI CLOUD SUMMIT 2019 in Singapore last week. US-based RFCx was founded in 2014 to help protect the world from illegal deforestation and illegal poaching. The organisation has projects in Indonesia among other countries. RFCx creates solar-powered audio monitoring systems called Guardians which are powered by old Huawei cellphones. Huawei's mobile phones can work around the clock for two years, collecting audio and uploading it to the cloud in real-time. Huawei's big data service then stores and manages the data. With help from telco towers and the cloud, the phones make a call every second to artificial intelligence (AI)-equipped servers so that the complex sounds of the rainforest can be captured throughout the day, and in all weather conditions. If any ...