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TTA AT CES
Taiwan Tech Arena Takes Record 2 Startups

to CES 2020

By Nitin Dahad

or the third year in a row, Taiwan had a significant
presence at one of the biggest electronics trade
fairs in the world CES 2020. A delegation of 2
F startups, led by the Taiwan Tech Arena (TTA), came
to Las egas to present technologies and scout investment
partners. It was TTA’s largest delegation to date, and col-
lectively, the startups signed more than US$226 million in
business opportunities, the trade group said.
“We have 2 startup teams covering three areas
artificial intelligence, smart technologies, and health
care,” Yu-Chin su, deputy minister for Taiwan’s Ministry
of Science and Technology, told EE Times Europe in an
interview at CES. su emphasized the need for Taiwan and
its startups to be connected to the global tech ecosystem
in all key markets and applications, which is why an inter-
national trade fair like CES is a valuable platform for these
companies. “We believe that in the future in the AI age,
there will be a lot of our startups that become important.” The Taiwan Tech Arena is building connections with global organizations to
In addition to promoting its leading startups over- help their own startups with international expansion and growth. (Image: TTA)
seas and connecting them to the global tech ecosystem,
Taiwan’s government works hard to ensure strong
collaboration between academia and industry, given that so much ere, we highlight some of the companies that we spoke to while
leading-edge research is carried out at Taiwan’s research insti- visiting the TTA booth at CES 2020.
tutes. Chiou Chyou- uey, director general of the Department of
Academia-Industry Collaboration and Science Park Affairs for the HIPPOSCREEN NEUROTECH
Ministry of Science and Technology, told us at CES that the ministry A rapid, objective depression diagnosis system
encourages industry-academia collaboration “by providing incentives, ipposcreen Neurotech has developed a diagnostic tool to rapidly pro-
mentors, mature business models, and business plan support.” vide an objective indicator of a patient’s mental health. Its brain health
Support for academics sometimes extends to funding “to take their assessment system combines an electroencephalogram (EEG) record-
scientific research to more mature products or services,” he added. ing system and AI algorithm to provide doctors with a way of rapidly
“Taiwan Tech Arena is a good hub to connect to the international measuring key indicators. Using eight EEG electrodes to capture brain
market or international resources. Taiwan is very competitive in waves as input signals to an EEG amplifier, it uses an AI algorithm in
terms of talent and technology. That’s the reason why we bring a the cloud to perform feature extraction and data analysis. Doctors can
large delegation to CES.” then view the results via a web portal within about two minutes.
TTA supports startups by providing funding and a platform to grow “We built this system to help doctors to carry out depression diag-
their businesses. At CES, for example, it gave startups in the health- nosis, to save time, and the doctor can also use this report to explain
care industry the opportunity to highlight how AI will improve quality matters to the patient more easily and provide more accurate assess-
of life. The startups that presented at CES 2020 are trying to disrupt ment results,” a company rep told us at CES. The stress EEG assessment
current markets and push the boundaries of innovation. (SEA) system addresses the growing prevalence of major depressive
disorder (MDD) and is expected to be used as an indicator of the
volume of MDD cases. The SEA system can achieve accuracy of higher
than 0 on the EEG datasets collected as a result of collaboration
between the department of psychiatry at National Taiwan University
ospital and arvard Medical School (McLean ospital).

ENOSIM BIO-TECH
An ‘electronic nose’ chip to detect disease
Enosim Bio-Tech has developed a real-time monitoring breath detection
and analysis system to identify the presence of biomarkers for ventila-
tor-associated pneumonia ( AP) and other diseases. The core technology
is a low-power-consumption nose-on-a-chip with software, integrated
sensors, interface circuits, processors, and memory. The system analyzes
data from a patient’s breath via the electronic nose to detect markers for
known diseases within its dataset. It overcomes environmental interfer-
Hipposcreen’s AI-based SEA system assesses mental health. ence using a neuromorphic recognition algorithm.
(Image: Hipposcreen Neurotech) Whereas traditional gas-sensing solutions are single-sensor systems,

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