Faced with the rapid development of information technologies such as 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and large language models (LLMs), these technologies are spreading to all walks of life and government governance. Whether it is smart manufacturing, smart energy, smart transportation, smart healthcare, smart buildings, smart energy saving, smart cities, or net-zero emissions, these innovative information technologies play an indispensable role.
Especially the digital twin concept, which shone at NVIDIA's annual GTC event, will not only accelerate the digital transformation of monitoring, production manufacturing, and applications, but also enhance the ability to predict various future situations. It can be said to be an important technology that changes the operating models of various industries, and many Taiwanese companies have invested a lot of resources in its development to achieve long-term intelligent and big data applications.
S-Link System Inc., as a subsidiary of HWACOM, participated in this year's Malaysian Smart Manufacturing Exhibition with one of its themes being "Digital Twin," which is implemented through a system-based management architecture and applied in different fields. Because the company started with information and communication technology (ICT) as its core business, it can better leverage the characteristics of Digital Twin in network management, thereby targeting highly customized system configurations.
Mr. Chen Jun-Cheng, Vice President of S-Link System Inc., stated that, for example, new buildings now have BIM models. Making good use of BIM models and integrating them into Digital Twin applications can improve network, equipment, or energy management. HWACOM integrates real-time equipment data read by its self-developed AOSCADA into BIM, which can be used to manage 3D building and internal drawing pipeline configurations and equipment. At the same time, it is combined with its own network management software, Cyber monitor, to monitor and manage whether IoT connected devices are connected or network traffic, accelerating the advancement of digital transformation.
As more and more IoT connected devices are deployed in various fields, dynamic data can be added to the Digital Twin, thereby using a unified interface to adjust optimized parameters, including the ambient temperature, humidity, or dust in manufacturing sites or server rooms, simulating and predicting various behaviors, performing physical phenomena analysis, predictive diagnostics, and training AI models, which are used to improve large-scale field management data and improve efficiency. Especially in today's AI server rooms, in order to support high-speed and massive computing power, which causes energy consumption and heat dissipation problems, it is even more necessary to achieve more efficient management through Digital Twin and improve the reliability of calculating carbon emission data!
In addition, "In the future, no matter what field AI applications are introduced into, the most important thing is to have a sufficient and usable database!" said Vice President Chen Jun-cheng. Currently, users can also use S-Link System's Digital Twin model to remotely manage information collected from IoT devices, such as being on the scene, to respond to the current situation in various Southeast Asian countries. For example, some countries have labor shortages and unstable power supply, which requires long-term monitoring and adaptation of the manufacturing process. S-Link System also launched a complete solution through this exhibition to help local SI system integrators or Taiwanese engineers stationed there quickly complete production deployment. In addition, Digital Twin can also help companies effectively survey energy consumption, thereby improving energy management efficiency and achieving ESG and NetZero goals.
Chen further pointed out that, in addition to Digital Twin, S-Link System's other theme at this year's exhibition is the "Smart Transportation" hardware and software solution, which is also a key project actively promoted by its parent company HWACOM in recent years. A large number of IoT connected devices such as IP cameras on the road can also be managed through Digital Twin. The application fields of Digital Twin are numerous, especially suitable for large enterprises or large-scale fields that cannot be effectively managed by manpower. Using its technology can enable enterprises to achieve sustainability and comply with global trends, because in the future, enterprises that do not implement ESG will face threats in competitiveness and be eliminated by the supply chain. This is worthy of attention from large enterprises or government agencies.
