We would like to thank you for visiting our booth during the symposium despite the pandemic situation. We successfully exhibited our products and services including Smart Building IoT Platform, IoT-Engine Development Kit, UCT µT-Kernel 2.0, µT-Kernel 3.0 conforming to IEEE 2050-2018, and kokosil®.

As for Smart Buildings, we demonstrated our newly developed non-contact switch, “4 Directions + 1 Non-Contact Switch,” applied for Venetian blind operations.

Please feel free to contact us for further details regarding our products and services.

We also would like to thank you for joining the following sessions Tatsushi Morokuma, our CEO and President, participated in:

• “Latest Development of ‘µT-Kernel,’ Global Standard RTOS for IoT Edge Nodes ― Support for Heterogeneous Multi-Core Processors”
• “Technology Session: Technologies that Use Location/Position Information and the Latest Application Examples.”

These sessions and other sessions held during the symposium are pre-recorded and will be available for you to view on the “2021 TRON Symposium -TRONSHOW-” website from late January 2022. For details, please visit the symposium home page.

The 37th annual TRON Symposium will feature exhibitions and technical presentations from companies and research groups at the forefront of the IoT, embedded systems, and AI. We will exhibit Smart Building-related products/services and case studies, IoT-Engine Development Kit compatible with microcomputers from multiple sources, and UCT µT-Kernel 2.0. Additionally, applications for tourism and regional information utilizing our platform, “kokosil,” will be displayed.

On December 9 (Thu.), Tatsushi Morokuma, CEO and President of UCT, will give a presentation at a session, “Latest Development of ‘µT-Kernel,’ Global Standard RTOS for IoT Edge Nodes ― Support for Heterogeneous Multi-Core Processors.” The session will discuss asymmetric multiprocessing then explore the application and potential use for the latest µT-Kernel and IoT technology. Morokuma will talk about the application and possible services for Smart Buildings.

On the final day (December 10, Fri.), Tatsushi Morokuma (CEO and President of UCT), Acting Chair of TRON Forum Quasi-Zenith Satellite WG, will serve as a coordinator for the session, “Technology Session: Technologies that Use Location/Position Information and the Latest Application Examples.” Here, the latest technologies of positioning and location-based information systems will be introduced primarily in the three areas. These technologies are currently being used for the Aerospace, Smart Buildings, and Regional Information service fields:

Aerospace: Quasi-Zenith Satellite System, “Michibiki”
This is a highly accurate satellite positioning technology with centimeter-level augmentation.
Smart Buildings: They can utilize these applications of positioning information.
Regional Information Platform: Our platform, “kokosil,” applies location information.

The sessions introduced here will be conducted in Japanese. You can find other sessions with simultaneous translation in English on the “2021 TRON Symposium -TRONSHOW-” website.
Join us at the symposium by visiting the venue or online (pre-registration is required for your visit and live video stream).

2021 TRON Symposium -TRONSHOW-

Dates: December 8 (Wed.)~December 10 (Fri.), 2021
Venue: Tokyo Midtown Hall [Access]
Admission: Pre-registration is required to visit the venue. Online participation needs registration.
Please find the details on the “2021 TRON Symposium -TRON SHOW-” website.

The Culture Information Platform is an online platform that compiles culture programs across Japan, launched in May 2017. This is the program established by Agency of Cultural Affairs Government of Japan to assemble all national cultural information to transmit globally and to energize all forms of Japanese culture toward 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games with the ultimate goal of Japan to be a nation that will thrive on its art and culture. The assembled culture programs are introduced in the portal site “Culture NIPPON (culture-nippon.go.jp)”. Ubiquitous Computing Technology Corporation assists Agency of Cultural Affairs for the deployment and the maintenance of the platform and the portal site.

The platform is approached by Dr. Ken Sakamura, the former professor of the University of Tokyo and currently Dean of the Faculty of Information Networking for Innovation and Design at Toyo University, Japan and Director of YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory. The platform uses a cloud information system to assemble the large volume and all forms of Japanese culture information, which can be transmitted as open-data if the registrants prefer for their activity to be widely recognized. This approach can help various Japanese culture events to be known not only globally but domestically, as well as supporting the ultimate goal of the Agency.

Currently small to large organizations are actively registering their culture event information in the Culture Information Platform. Ubiquitous Computing Technology continues to assist the Agency to realize its goal and support any organizations which wish to register their culture events.

Contact

• Koji Minegishi and Kayo Nakamura, Ubiquitous Computing Technology Corporation
  Tel: +81-3-5437-2323
  E-mail： press@uctec.com

Ubiquitous Computing Technology Corporation (UCT, Location: Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, President: Tatsushi Morokuma)^［１］ has started the operation of smartphone app “Wa! Shinagawa Tourist Spots (kokosil Shinagawa)” today. The app lets you enjoy visiting the appealing spots in Shinagawa City such as the Hundred Views in Shinagawa^［２］ that started operation by Shinagawa City on the same day.

“Wa! Shinagawa Tourist Spots (kokosil Shinagawa)” is a tourist information service with full of functions that add to the enjoyable visit to the spots of Shinagawa. It has many functions;-

• allowing users to learn the details of “the Hundred Views in Shinagawa” by turning their smartphone cameras to towns or placing them over the booklets,
• tour courses that take you to the spots related to TV dramas and movies,
• a stamp rally that takes you to the Hundred Views in Shinagawa and Seven Dieties of Fortune,
• picture frames that let you have your photos taken with animation characters such as lovely Cinnamoroll, etc.

We hope you can appreciate Shinagawa deeply during your fun walk by using the service.

The features of “Wa! Shinagawa Tourist Spots (kokosil Shinagawa)”

Augmented Reality (AR) camera (GPS）

By turning your smartphone camera to the view in the town, appealing spots such as the cultural assets registered in the Hundred Views of Shinagawa, etc. will be displayed. You can see the details on the spot by touching the pin on the screen.

AR camera （image recognition）

By turning your smartphone camera to the photos of the spot in the booklets such as the brochure of the Hundred Views in Shinagawa, the information on the spot is provided. You can receive a picture frame by turning the camera to the logo of “Wa! ShinagawaTourist Spots.”

Tour courses

Twelve tour courses are available. There are courses with themes for

• history and arts,
• visit to spots where famous TV dramas and movies were filmed,
• visit to beautifule waterfront, etc.

You can find new attractive sides of Shinagawa through the tours.

Picture frame library

You can have your photos taken with the picture frames obtained via visiting the Hundred Views of Shinagawa, visiting Seven Deities of Fortune, etc. Your photos taken with Cinnamoroll, a lovely character and Shinagawa tourism ambassador, can be stored in your smartphone, and can be shared via SNS.

Visiting the Hundred Views in Shinagawa

A stamp rally lets you obtain stamps by visiting the Hundred Views of Shinagawa. You can obtain picture frames such as Cinnamoroll, etc. by collecting specified number of stamps.

Visiting Seven Dieties of Fortune (in Shinto shrines, Buddhism temples, etc.)

A stamp rally in which you can obtain stamps by visiting the Seven Deities of Fortune along Tokaido and Seven Deities of Fortune in Ebara. If you collect all the seven stamps for a stamp book (御朱印帳, Goshuincho) for each course, you receive a nice picture frame.

Overview

Start date

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Fee

Free of charge (The service is available by installing “kokosil” app.)

kokosil

kokosil^［３］ is a platform service which provides the information via smartphone apps and/or websites on tourist spots, towns, commercial facilities, museums, art museums, etc. which are collectively described as “town” (region).

Services are built for and operated by each town (region) so that this service can help the region to provide detailed information special to it ( e.g., tourist spot, town, or museum).
Ubiquitous Computing Technology Corporation has been promoting the adoption and deployment of kokosil platform so that it can provide information such as tourist information of each region. “kokosil” smartphone app can be used in the regions, museums, etc. where the service is operated by using kokosil platform. Users can download “kokosil” app and select the services of each region and facility on the region selection screen (kokosil select).

1. Ubiquitous Computing Technology Corporation (UCT)
   https://www.uctec.com/en/
   UCT offers “kokosil” that provides information on tourist spots and towns, and solutions for the IoT (Internet of Things) and M2M fields applying ubiquitous computing technology.
   We also provide various technologies and services applicable to basic embedded systems to system integration and content creation.

2. The Hundred Views of Shinagawa
   For selecting the spots, the aspects of “lifestyle,” “history” and “climate” of “Our Town Shinagawa” were nominated by the citizens of Shinagawa, and the popular ones were adopted by vote in 1987. In the same year, the 40th anniversary of the municipal government and the fifth anniversary of the establishment of the citizen charter were commemorated. In 2017, 30 years after the original selection, “The Hundred Views of Shinagawa” were updated by adding the sceneries that appeared in the last 30 years.
   For details, please visit the website of Shinagawa City. https://www.city.shinagawa.tokyo.jp/hyakkei/

3. kokosil
   “kokosil®” is the registered trademark of UCT.
   kokosil portal site： https://kokosil.net/index.en.html
   “kokosil” smartphone app can be downloaded at the followings;
   Android版： https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uctec.ucdroid&hl=en
   iOS版： https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/kokoshiru/id558488145?mt=8

Contact

• Koji Minegishi and Atsushi Nakamura, Ubiquitous Computing Technology Corporation
  Tel: +81-3-5437-2323
  E-mail： press@uctec.com

TOKYO, JAPAN –(UCT) – Ubiquitous Computing Technology Corporation (UCT)^［１］ announces the launch of a development kit for a new “IoT Engine”^［２］ product. “IoT-Engine” is a universal platform for open IoT (Internet of Things), standardized by TRON forum and promoted by 7 world-wide semiconductor manufacturers. The development kit exploits brand-new “Nano120 IoT-Engine” from Nuvoton Technology Corporation (Nuvoton^［３］), which is based on the Nano120 ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller. The price of the development kit is 198,000 yen (excluding sales tax), and the kit is available from July 31, 2017.

The development kit includes an evaluation board for developing IoT devices, an integrated development environment, software libraries, and the UCT 6LoWPAN^［４］ Border Router that seamlessly bridges wireless PAN and wireless LAN. A low-power 920 MHz wireless module is pre-mounted to the IoT-Engine, which allows the IoT-Engine to connect to the Internet directly by connecting to the UCT 6LoWPAN Border Router. The application model realized by the IoT-Engine development kit inspires developers to quickly develop IoT applications that sensor/actuator devices collaborate with the Internet and computing resources on the cloud.

The NuMicro^® Nano120 microcontroller series based on ARM^® Cortex^® -M0 Core operates at a wide voltage range from 1.8V to 3.6V and runs up to 42 MHz frequency, with 32/64/128 Kbytes embedded Flash and 8/16 Kbytes SRAM. When the Nano120 operates in power-down mode, the standby current can be lowered to less than 1uA with RAM retention function. The operating current can be less than 100uA/MHz during idle mode. The ultra-low-power consumption features makes the Nano120 widely applicable to battery-powered devices – especially IoT related applications such as the smart door locks, smart card readers, healthcare products, as well as metering products. To further enhance its functions, the Nano120 has integrated USB full speed interface for data communication, ISO-7816 interface for CPU card communications and EBI (External Bus Interface) for external memory-mapped device access. The diversified peripherals also include 2xUART, 3xSPI, 2xI2C, I2S, GPIOs, etc. Nuvoton offers the Nano series, including Nano100, Nano102, Nano110, Nano112, Nano120 and Nan130, to target the market’s huge demand for ultra-low power applications.

The “IoT-Engine” is the standard platform for developing open-IoT-devices that realizes the “Aggregate Computing” (Figure 1), advocated by Ken Sakamura who is the chairman of the TRON Forum. The TRON Forum is currently working on the standardization of the “IoT-Aggregator” which is the collaborative cloud-based environment. IoT-Engine nodes from various manufacturers cooperates with each other by establishing connections to the “IoT-Aggregator”, which provides an inter-cloud collaborative function.

Along with the development and the sales of IoT-Engine related products for various microcontroller manufacturers, UCT offers consulting services for the “IoT-Aggregator” and the cloud-service development.

”’IoT-Engine’ is the standard platform environment for open IoT paradigm, to realize the ‘Aggregate Computing’.” said Ken Sakamura, the chairman of the TRON Forum. “Since UCT has developed and released ‘The Nano120 IoT-Engine Starter Kit’ targeted for ‘Nano120 IoT-Engine’ from Nuvoton and microcontrollers of Nuvoton are widely used in embedded systems, I expect that ‘IoT-Engine’ is acknowledged and accepted worldwide by IoT researchers and developers.”

Mr. Jason Lin, the Vice President of Microcontroller Application Business Group at Nuvoton Technology says that “Nuvoton is glad to work with UC Technology in providing the Nano120 IoT-Engine Starter Kit for the new emerging aggregate computing. This Starter Kit provides a low-power, high security IoT engine with a 6LoWPAN connectivity module to connect to the server with IoT aggregator for data intelligence processing. It serves the light-weight edge nodes requirement for the present and the future of smart world.”

“Nano120 IoT-Engine” Key Features

Nuvoton Nano120 Microcontroller

• The exceptional ultra-low power consumption less than 1uA under Power-down mode
• Supports 6LoWPAN 802.15.4 low-powered and secure communication
• Rich peripherals available

Standardized connector

• A 100 pin connector with 0.4 mm pitch
• Signal pin assignment that has degrees of freedom to support various microcontrollers
• Signal pin assignment that supports Arduino compatible I/O, effective for low-cost and short-term development

Real time operating system (RTOS) “UCT μT-Kernel 2.0”

• The “UCT μT-Kernel 2.0” based on the low-power RTOS distributed by the TRON Forum is installed to the “Nano120 IoT-Engine”, which facilitates implementation of high-level control logics by exploiting the multi-task programming feature.

IoT-Aggregator ready

• Connectable to the cloud environment “IoT-Aggregator” which is in the standardization process by the TRON Forum.

“Nano120 IoT-Engine Starter Kit” Key Features

Small and low power Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) radio module

• The radio module conforms to the ARIB STD-T108 standard (which supports IEEE 802.15.4g standard) that exploits 920 MHz frequency band

Integrated package including hardware and software necessary for the IoT device development

• Allows developers to work on IoT-Engine to develop IoT devices
• Rich sensors and actuators mounted on the Starter Board
• Includes an integrated development environment (IDE) and GNU GCC development tools

UCT μT-Kernel 2.0 RTOS, 6LoWPAN protocol sets, and CoAP for bridging WPAN and the Internet seamlessly and for supporting Web-based API.

• Connect IoT-Engine nodes directly to the cloud via the 6LoWPAN border router
• Control IoT-Engine nodes from the cloud using ready-to-use CoAP/UDP API sets

Price

• 198,000 yen (excluding tax)

Available on

• July 31, 2017

Nano120 IoT-Engine Starter Kit overview

Hardware

• Nano120 IoT-Engine
  • Nano120(NANO120KE3BN) (ARM Cortex-M0 base) from Nuvoton Technology
• RF module
  • Supports 920 MHz frequency band (conforms to IEEE 802.15.4g)
  • Fully controllable by the UCT 6LoWPAN protocol stack
• IoT-Engine Starter Board
  • Equipped with Arduino I/F, temperature sensor, optical sensor, motion sensor, joystick, RC servo motor I/F, USB serial, LEDs, and switches
• 6LoWPAN border router
  • Seamlessly bridges WLAN and wireless PAN

Software

• GCC/Eclipse development environment
  • GCC compiler and Eclipse IDE
  • Pre-configured and ready-to-use development environment
• UCT μT-Kernel 2.0 real-time operating system
• UCT 6LoWPAN protocol stack API library
  • 6LoWPAN HCI/UDP/CoAP
  • CoAP Server/Client Sample
• Packet sniffer
• Periphery I/O driver (T-Kernel driver interface compliant)
  • I2C driver, analog to digital convertor, GPIO, serial, Arduino I/F, analog joystick, LED, and environment sensor
• Sample software for the cloud connection
• Software development license for IoT-Engine
  • 3 months of free technical support
  • Technical support is extendable every 6 months with additional fee

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1. Ubiquitous Computing Technology Corporation
   Ubiquitous Computing Technology Corporation (UCT) offers solutions for the IoT (Internet of Things) and M2M (machine-to-machine) field, by applying the most advanced ubiquitous computing technology and proven experiences in embedded systems and location based services. UCT provides wide varieties of technologies and services including embedded systems, system integration, and content production. For more details, please visit http://www.uctec.com/en/.

2. IoT-Engine
   IoT-Engine is the standard platform for developing open-IoT-devices that realizes the “Aggregate Computing”, advocated by Ken Sakamura who is the chairman of the TRON Forum. The IoT-Engine standard specification specifies an on-board connector and a real-time operating system (RTOS) installed to a target MPU. In addition, the standard requires an IoT-Engine node to be able to connect to the Internet. The RTOS specified by the standard is the μT-Kernel, which is an open-source RTOS distributed by the TRON Forum. IoT-Engine nodes act as a component constituting the next-generation information processing system based on the “Aggregate Computing” model, which envisions seamless connections of edge nodes via the cloud. As of December 2016, seven semiconductor manufacturers announce to participate the IoT-Engine projects, namely Toshiba Microelectronics, Cypress, Imagination Technologies, Nuvoton Technology, NXP Semiconductors, and STMicroelectronics.

3. Nuvoton Technology Corporation
   Nuvoton Technology Corporation (NTC) was founded to bring innovative semiconductor solutions to the market. NTC was spun-off as a Winbond Electronics affiliate in July 2008 and became public in September 2010 on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE). Nuvoton Technology focuses on development of analog/mixed signal, microcontroller, cloud and computing products and has strong market share in Industrial, Consumer and Computer markets. Nuvoton owns a wafer fab, featuring customized processes for analog, power and MCU products. Besides in-house IC products, the wafer fab also provides part of its capacity for foundry services. Nuvoton Technology provides products with a high performance/cost ratio for its customers by leveraging flexible technology, advanced design capability and integration of digital and analog technologies. Nuvoton values long term relationships with its partners and customers and is dedicated to continuous innovation of its products, processes and services. The company has established subsidiaries in the USA, China, Israel and India to strengthen regional customer support and global management. For more information, please visit https://www.nuvoton.com

4. 6LoWPAN
   6LoWPAN is an acronym of IPv6 over Low-power Wireless Personal Area Network. 6LoWPAN is a set of communication specifications for utilizing IPv6 over a network consisting of low power wireless modules with limited computing capabilities. To reduce a communication overhead caused by using IPv6 on this type of network, specification sets on 6LoWPAN technology are standardized by IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). 6LoWPAN is a key technology to let low power wireless devices to participate the Internet of Things (IoT). 6LoWPAN exploits wireless communication protocol specified by the IEEE 802.15.4 standard.

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Contact

• Hiroyuki Yamada and Tatsushi Morokuma, Ubiquitous Computing Technology Corporation
  Tel: +81-3-5437-2323
  E-mail： press@uctec.com

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