The latest innovations designed to make daily living easier, ranging from medical care to driving assistance and entertainment systems, are to be showcased starting tomorrow at the annual Taipei International Invention Show and Technomart.
The exhibition is centered on four future trends — urbanization, industrialization, climate change and an aging society — and will showcase 120 innovative products and systems, the Ministry of Science and Technology said yesterday.
Among the inventions on show is a diaper sensor system developed by China University of Technology professor Wen Ming-hui (溫明輝) to assist caregivers and medical personnel taking care of the elderly.
The system features a Teflon casing containing wireless chips that can be attached to an adult diaper to detect motion, humidity and temperature, Wen said.
It can be connected to a smartphone or other operating systems to transmit data and predict timing for a diaper change, he said, adding that a single operating system can be used for multiple-applications, making it ideal for nursing homes.
Four local nursing homes have adopted the system on a trial basis, Wen said, with the product expected to be mass produced and commercialized in near future.
National Chiao Tung University researchers are to showcase an advanced driver assistance system that can alert drivers to potential collision risks, detect pedestrian and motorcycle traffic and dangerous driving behavior among others.
The technology has been transferred to 11 private companies as an example of school-business partnership, the ministry said.
A ministry-sponsored company would exhibit the world’s first interactive dartboard, which can automatically count and upload players’ scores via a camera and computing system to allow competition between multiple players in different locations, the ministry said.
The smart dartboard could give a boost to the US$250 million global electrical dartboard market, the ministry said.
A lithium-ion battery with an electrical-thermal coupling mechanism developed by National Taiwan University of Science and Technology researchers could improve battery safety for electric scooters by 30 percent while boosting the electric discharge rate by 20 percent, it said.
Four international companies have established a partnership with the university to develop further applications for the battery, the ministry said.
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