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【2021 Solutions】 Hyson Technology uses AI to help fishermen farm fish

編輯群2021-12-12

Lien Wei-Cheng, the founder and CEO of Hyson Technology, was once an IC design engineer in the semiconductor industry, working in front of a computer all day long in Hsinchu Science Park. Although he was busy, he still had a sense of uncertainty and felt anxious about his life goals. He couldn’t help but think about whether the technological capabilities he learned can directly connect with people and the land, solve various social issues, improve human life, and further change the world.

He took the plunge and left the semiconductor industry, a job that everyone envied, and founded Hyson Technology. He stayed at the fish farms in Qigu, Tainan, his hometown for a long time, and built relationships with the fishermen. He was eventually able to talk about "fishing knowledge" and gained the trust of the fishermen. The "Aquaculture Monitoring and Rearing System" was developed by Hyson Technology by combining artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and mechanism design. The system uses a method friendly to fish, shrimp, and the environment to reduce risk and increase yield, achieving sustainable farming production.

Schematic diagram of the AIoT aquaculture rearing management system of Hyson Technology

▲ Schematic diagram of the AIoT aquaculture rearing management system of Hyson Technology

Lien Wei-Cheng, who was wearing a sun hat and walking among the fish ponds under the scorching sun, was asked: Why did you make the change from the tech worker to an entrepreneur who helps fishermen farm fish? He answered shyly with a smile: The chairman of a certain semiconductor company also asked him the same question. "I want to have more contact with people, directly understand people's needs, and find places where technology is needed to improve people's lives," he said, so he resolutely left his envied job in the semiconductor industry and became "half tech worker, half fisherman."

The annual output value of Taiwanese fishermen is relatively low, but there is great potential to increase output value through technology

Why did you choose aquaculture for entrepreneurship? Citing a report in "CommonWealth Magazine", he pointed out that to show the value of an industry, we can observe whether the industry has prospects based on the per capita annual output value of employees. For example, Qualcomm has a per capita annual output value of NT$23 million, and Microsoft is NT$23 million. The per capita annual output value of Norwegian fishermen reaches approximately NT$24 million, which is three times the per capital annual output value of Taiwan's electronics industry (NT$8 million). The current average of Taiwan's aquaculture industry is only about NT$400,000. There is considerable room for growth from NT$400,000 to NT$24 million.

Thinking about it from another perspective, Taiwan’s electronic hardware and IoT equipment technology lead the world. If these technologies can be combined to give smart aquaculture full play, the average annual output value of fishermen is expected to increase significantly. The expertise of Hyson Technology’s team is AI image processing technology and data analysis technology. They use these technologies to solve the risks and labor problems caused by not being able to see fish and shrimp underwater. The team sets out from being able to see, to measure, and to control, and allows fishermen to quickly monitor the growth status of fish and shrimp using their mobile phones. It can also be combined with automated equipment to reduce labor and risks.

When Lien Wei-Cheng was a student in the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, he loved raising ornamental fish and watching birds, often going to Qigu to watch birds. He observed the environment and found that more and more fish farms in Qigu were being abandoned. This was mainly due to two major factors, one is that it is difficult for young people to enter the industry without experience. The other is that the older generation did not keep records and it is difficult to pass on experience. This has resulted in an aging population in Taiwan’s fishing villages and prevented an increase in output volume. The most effective way to solve the problems above is to introduce an automated system to assist with fish farming.

Hyson Technology's fish farming system uses self-designed IoT underwater cameras to monitor fish in the farms. It also uses Edge-AI image defogging technology to make the images of fish in ponds clearer, allowing fishermen to use their mobile phones to see fish activities and feeding, and determine if the fish are sick. The images are synchronized to the cloud, and Cloud-AI automatically identifies, samples, and measures biological information, such as the length and weight of each fish, automatically recording and compiling statistics of the growth status of the fish. The information is visualized in reports and images. It can also analyze the feed conversion ratio in different farming stages. The AI expert system can also predict harvest dates based on growth data, control sales and shipment schedules, and ensure stable and sufficient supply.

The fish farming system is like a ruler, taking into account every detail of fish farming

The fish farming system creates an objective ruler for the fish farming industry. Using this ruler, fishermen can measure and compare the effects of different farming methods, see parts that they have not paid attention to before, and create more usages and value. In the past, the traditional approach of manually catching fish samples was labor-intensive and time-consuming. It usually took two people an hour to sample only 30-40 fish, and often caused accidental fish casualties. Field verification results show that Hyson Technology’s fish farming system can automatically sample and measure the biological information of 300 fish in 5 minutes without disturbing the activities of the fish. It is extremely efficient and can ensure zero damage to the fish.

Fish farmers use the system’s AI growth statistics as the basis for decision-making in determining the size of fish entering the pond and shipping. It replaces the original traditional method of manually catching and measuring 30 fish, which can save about 75% of manual work time. In the fish farming industry with extremely scarce manpower, the benefits of saving manpower are very significant. Hyson Technology is gradually expanding the AI technology it developed to other fields. For example, Hyson Technology participated in the AI+ New Talent Selection of the Ministry of Economic Affairs Industrial Development Bureau’s AI Program, in which “major companies provide problems and startups provide solutions.” The company combined its proprietary fully automatic AI underwater image defogging algorithm with an AI model, and applied it to the solution of an optoelectronics company for removing rainbow film from LED panels. The company thus won the biggest award for meeting all technical thresholds.

Lien Wei-Cheng pointed out that the defogging technology can automatically estimate the degree of color distortion in water and automatically adjust the contrast of each area to improve image quality. Compared with AI models that consider underwater physics and methods based on adversarial network model, the method proposed by Hyson Technology provides clearer image details, and also received better scores in multiple objective image quality evaluation standards, such as NIQE and PSNR.

Underwater image defogging algorithm favored by major companies due to its superiority

This defogging technology combined with AI technology can effectively improve the accuracy of fish recognition. For groupers with colors similar to the background and difficult to distinguish, the accuracy can be significantly increased by more than 3%. For batfish with clear features and high recognition accuracy already reaching 98% and above, the accuracy can be further increased by nearly 1%. Using this technology to make the images of farmed fish clearer, it can be used as the basis for determining fish diseases. If the technology for underwater defogging is built into the AI model recognition layer, it can also be used to solve the problem of rainbow patterns appearing when taking photos of screens, which prevents panel defects from being detected. This will effectively solve the problem of AUO with rainbow pattern interference during panel inspection.

What are the challenges of Hyson Technology in business promotion? Lien Wei-Cheng believes that the biggest difficulty is how to expand into a new industry. Hyson Technology often faces customers from traditional industries. When recommending or cooperating with traditional industry customers on a new technology product, the key is gaining the trust of customers and achieving the goal of customers are partners. Frequent visits are needed to gradually build trust and understand customer needs. Only then will the company have the opportunity to further assist customers in solving their pain points.

Hyson Technology's excellent image recognition and AI technologies have gradually gained recognition from customers. It has built relationships with major companies in verification, and it will continue to gain a foothold in the market in the short term with its own image processing products, such as the fish farming system. In the medium term, it hopes to expand the scope of products and business services, and provide one-stop production and marketing services from underwater to on land, and from the production end to the consumer end. In the long term, Hyson Technology will duplicate its successful experiences in Taiwan and integrate resources of partners to expand into the international market.

Lian Wei-Cheng, founder and CEO of Hyson Technology, working in a fish farm

▲Lien Wei-Cheng, founder and CEO of Hyson Technology, working in a fish farm

Lian Wei-Cheng and Chiu Yu-Shao join the ranks of smart aquaculture with their technological expertise

▲Lien Wei-Cheng and Chiu Yu-Shao join the ranks of smart aquaculture with their technological expertise

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With the advent of the post-epidemic era, the development of global telemedicine is in the ascendant, which has greatly increased the demand for smart medical technology in decentralized medicine Among them, if mobile medical devices can provide real-world at home or outside the hospital data for use in hospitals, it is believed that it will reduce the burden of diagnosis and treatment on doctors or medical personnel and reduce health insurance expenses To this end, Singular Wings Medical has launched a comprehensive telemedicine solution, which combines excellent wearable mobile medical device design, innovative software development, AI algorithms and cloud platform services, and will become the last piece of telemedicine puzzle David Lee, the founder and general manager of Qiyi Medical Electronics, said that his original intention to start the business was because he witnessed Taiwan's long-term pursuit of low-cost mass production, which led to the continuous decline in the value of the industry For example, in the past thirty years, The output value of the former Silicon Valley was similar to that of Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park, but thirty years later, the output value of Silicon Valley reached US14 trillion at the end of 2020, while the output value of Hsinchu Science Park was less than NT15 trillion at the end of 2021 Seeing Silicon Valley's sensitivity to industry needs and disruptive innovations such as Uber, Airbnb, industry trends and the post-epidemic era have driven a surge in telemedicine services, thereby creating high industry value, so I started a business at the age of 45 and conceived how to combine it with Taiwan After more than ten years of accumulated industrial advantages and Silicon Valley's innovative model, we decided to help Taiwan's industry upgrade and find a new path through the integration of the medical industry, ICT technology industry and innovative business models Seeing that Taiwan has always been a gathering place for the most elite talents in the medical industry and electronics and electrical industry, I believe that through the combination of the two and innovative business models, we can have the opportunity to follow Silicon Valley and create a different business According to Taiwan’s Communication Diagnosis and Treatment Methods, Taiwan’s market demand for telemedicine is divided into two situations emergency such as COVID-19 and special necessity such as special geographical locations such as outlying islands or mountains It is allowed Carry out communication medical diagnosis In fact, the development of global telemedicine decentralized medicine is in the ascendant, but the demand for smart medical technology to meet decentralized medicine still needs to be realized In addition to the medical technology gap, it also includes medical treatment flow, patient identification, remote Remote consultation and collection are fueling the push for smart medical technology Li Weizhong observed that for telemedicine decentralized medicine to be successfully implemented, it is best to use telemedicine devices that are used outside the hospital or at home and are easily available in daily life Among them, the data of the device is the key It can provide doctors with out-of-hospital real-world data Real World Data or Real World Evidence that they can trust and apply, so that they can improve their diagnosis and treatment methods In fact, this type of telemedicine device is not popular, making remote medical care difficult to complete In addition, as the number of wearable devices such as bracelets and watches increases, most of the data that these devices can truly provide is insufficient for medical purposes and is not easy to validate and verify Li Weizhong said that people are paying more and more attention to health awareness, which is a positive encouragement for telemedicine devices He believes that as long as there is an appropriate business model and the right way to cooperate with hospitals and doctors can reduce the burden on doctors or medical personnel and reduce health insurance expenditures, Qi Yi Medical Electronics will definitely have the opportunity to become the last piece of the puzzle in telemedicine Founded in 2015, Qiyi Medical Electronics’ core team consists of 22 diversified professionals, including young engineers with medical, engineering and information backgrounds and experienced entrepreneurs, working together to create an overall solution for remote healthcare The solution includes hardware design, software development and backend cloud platform services for the mobile medical device Beatinfor Health electrocardiogram sensor Electrocardiogram ECG is one of the most important vital signs body temperature, pulse, respiration and physiological data of the human body, which can reflect various physiological changes in the human body, such as cardiovascular health, inflammation, infection, bleeding, injury or anxiety index changes For this core concept, Qiyi Medical is committed to using wearable electrocardiograms as its core technology, while collecting important vital signs and environmental parameters such as electrocardiograms, and building AI algorithm systems and backend cloud platform services based on big data and machine learning to help solve remote problems Specific chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, sleep problems, and metabolic diseases are the most important in medical treatment Electrocardiogram sensor continuous physiological data monitoring reduces the risk of death in acute heart failure patients by 11 within 30 days after discharge In order to realize remote medical services, Qiyi Medical Electronics has launched a complete set of remote medical care solutions, including wearable mobile medical devices-electrocardiogram sensor BEATINFO ECG, BEATINFO HEALTH APP, and AI algorithms , web pages and BEATINFO HEALTH cloud service platform The BEATINFO ECG sensor is an exclusive device for the BEATINFO HEALTH APP health cloud platform It can be used continuously for 40 hours when fully charged The device is only 15g This sensor can collect the user's electrocardiogram, respiration, and skin temperature through a patch or chest strap , body movements, postures and environmental parameters Currently, BEATINFO ECG sensor has 8 patents in the United States and Taiwan, and won 2 German iF Design Awards in 2017 Mobile medical device-electrocardiogram sensor can provide continuous physiological data monitoring In terms of overall technical features, the BEATINFO HEALTH cloud service platform has four key physiological data detection characteristics continuity, long-range, real-time and dynamic In terms of operation, users can download the BEATINFO HEALTH APP on Android or iOS systems Its interface can provide physiological data status, order health assessment reports such as one-day sleep assessment report or cardiovascular health assessment report, and high-intensity exercise test Cardiovascular assessment reports, third-party remote medical consultation services and other functions Users use patch-type or chest-strap ECG sensors paired with end-to-cloud platforms for continuous physiological detection Before being transmitted to the cloud for further calculations, all data will be de-identified and made available to professionals Data reports are provided for physician judgment The BEATINFO HEALTH cloud service platform has powerful noise filtering processing capabilities, fast waveform recognition and judgment, as well as highly complex cloud architecture and communication technology Why is the noise filter processing capability so important Because medical equipment in general hospitals must require users to complete short-term measurements under static conditions Usually, data in life situations outside the hospital cannot be collected by the hospital, and this data is very important to doctors It is increasingly important to understand the progression of the disease and the condition of patients leaving the hospital Therefore, if we continue to record very weak ECG signals in daily life, we actually need to overcome a very high technical threshold After these signals are processed by the noise, they will first be judged by the AI algorithm before preliminary and rapid conclusions can be made Users can instantly avoid certain fatal risks The cloud architecture provides a deeper level of second-order computing and also covers the business model architecture It provides service models such as user management, automatic report generation, record keeping, alarm notifications, and connection with more services such as third-party alarms Emergency rescue, third-party medical consultation, doctor and patient docking, medical treatment cash flow and other functions In terms of competitive advantages in the industry, compared with the industry's braceletwatch products, Qiyi Medical's electrocardiogram sensor BEATINFO ECG provides accurate medical-level measurements, and can continuously record and collect physiological data, improving any Sudden or sporadic symptoms may occur Compared with the electrocardiogram patch of its peers, it provides real-time data return and web-based management tools, and can produce various reports for managers to remotely manage a large number of users on the web According to statistics from Beijing Medical University, the mortality rate of patients with acute heart failure within 30 days after discharge is as high as 11 If an electrocardiogram sensor is installed on the patient for continuous and real-time monitoring for 30 days, it is possible to reduce part of the risk of death, and at the same time, it can Significantly reduce health insurance costs Additionally, in the case of cardiovascular disease, if the user wears the device for a period of time, regular cardiovascular assessment reports can be obtained and provided for follow-up in-depth examinations by doctors In addition to the measurement of cardiovascular diseases, the ECG sensor configuration can provide home assessment of sleep apnea OSA During the measurement, patients can discover potential and easily overlooked cardiovascular diseases, and users do not need to stay in the sleep ward for treatment After a boring night, through the ECG sensor patch and AI algorithm, patients only need to sleep at home for one night to receive an OSA test report If needed, doctors can access patient status remotely and instantly via any internet browser Therefore, through the ECG sensor wearable service, users can discover hidden and unknown cardiovascular diseases such as arrhythmias related to sudden death from the measurement process to avoid unnecessary regrets Qiyi Medical Electronics’ business model is mainly B2B2C, hoping to assist individuals, hospitals, enterprises, care services and other units to create a win-win situation Li Weizhong analyzed that the business cooperation model is quite flexible, whether it is leasing or buying out wearable measurement devices, or providing annual report subscriptions to reduce the cost of purchasing devices for users, such as including 2-minute electrocardiogram, Flexible subscription package including 7-day cardiovascular health assessment, exercise cardiovascular health assessment, sleep health assessment report, etc Group cardiovascular monitoring system solution creates a many-to-many real-time physiological information monitoring platform to replace diagnosis with prevention In addition to providing individual users with remote mobile physiological data measurement, the BEATINFO cloud platform provides a "group cardiovascular monitoring system" solution that can create many-to-many real-time physiological information monitoring through network technology Based on the platform, patients only need to wear a lightweight monitoring patch, and the back-end system can grasp the changes in their physiological information, so that prevention can replace diagnosis and reduce the chance of sudden cardiovascular death This platform provides 3 functions, including the ability to manage different users into groups and hierarchically, and the number of users can reach tens of thousands it can display users’ basic physiological information in real time on web tools, and can be used under certain preset conditions When triggered, this platform will immediately send out an alarm historical data can also be reviewed on the platform, which is very suitable for doctors to check the patient's disease progression outside the hospital during consultation For the application of the "Group Cardiovascular Monitoring System" solution, taking high-intensity exercise as an example, such as long-distance running and cycling, mountain climbing activities or traveling abroad, a prior cardiovascular health assessment is required activities, and corresponding evaluation reports This report allows users to share it with doctors, so that participants can make assessments before the event or test their training effectiveness, which can significantly reduce the risk of accidents during the event beforehand During the activity, the group cardiovascular monitoring system also provides real-time on-site monitoring of a large number of participants It can be monitored in real time by the AI in the background at the moment of exercise Once an accident occurs, the platform can immediately issue an alarm and even report the accident GPS positioning of the location, and continuously transmits back the user's physiological information during search and rescue, striving for golden rescue time In sports monitoring applications, taking golf as an example, how to improve golfers' puttinghitting performance A player's performance and concentration are usually directly related to personal emotional stability Li Weizhong said that through HRV analysis of Qiyi Medical's electrocardiogram device, it can help determine the player's emotional and stress index performance, and at the same time help golf coaches select and train players The group cardiovascular monitoring system can create a many-to-many real-time physiological information monitoring platform Establish a firm foothold in Taiwan, move towards the US and European markets, and move towards the goal of a data company Faced with the challenges of technology research and development and market promotion, Qiyi Medical Electronics’ automatic identification of electrocardiograms requires a large amount of data for AI calculation development For this reason, Qiyi Medical Electronics must cooperate with hospitals and develop jointly Finish At present, the company has established good cooperative relations with many medical centers and research units, and has overcome these technical bottlenecks one by one In terms of market promotion, Li Weizhong said that the biggest challenge facing Qiyi Medical Electronics is to communicate with the market and let the public understand the differences between competitors' bracelet and watch products and the company's mobile device-electrocardiogram sensor Compared with the common bracelet and watch products on the market that collect electrocardiogram data in a discontinuous manner, it may take a long time to collect discontinuous data before potential cardiovascular problems can be discovered by luck Qiyi Medical Electronics actively promotes electrocardiogram to the public in a continuous manner The competitive functional characteristics of sexual detection data and emphasize that it is a very important means to assist in the detection of many potential diseases, replacing diagnosis with prevention and reducing the occurrence of unnecessary cardiovascular diseases In addition, in terms of business promotion, we also hope to create more opportunities for business matching and new venture capital raising with the assistance of the Corporate Resource Strategy Council Looking to the future, Li Wei and Xu Qiyi Medical Electric Energy will become the last piece of the telemedicine puzzle in the health wearable device-electrocardiogram service Li Weizhong said that in the short term, Qiyi Medical hopes to gain a firm foothold in Taiwan and become a common medical device in everyone's home, just like thermometers and blood pressure monitors The company is also constantly developing new indications Starting from electrocardiogram, coupled with AI and big data, it can deal with more chronic diseases In addition to cardiovascular diseases, we have also successively developed sleep apnea and other more special diseases The applications are aimed at the problems of elderly chronic diseases that modern people are very likely to encounter With a mid- to long-term plan, Qiyi Medical will enter the US and EU markets, become an international company, and continue to aim to become a data company, making good use of the company's long-term collection of data applications to provide services in diverse fields such as new drug development and vaccine development application to create business opportunities and profits 「Translated content is generated by ChatGPT and is for reference only Translation date：2024-05-19」

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