Vietnamese startup tMonitor (formerly ThinkLABs) JSC, an Indoor Air Quality Monitoring (IAQM) solution leveraging machine learning with IoT to prevent air pollution and improve health conditions, was named Asia Pacific Champion of IBM Watson Build 2018 at Think Conference 2019 in San Francisco on February 11.
Prior to that, in early January, tMonitor was proud to be announced by IBM Watson Build as the only Vietnamese company on the shortlist for Asia Pacific Champion.
tMonitor brought an Indoor Air Quality Monitoring (tMonitor) solution to IBM Watson Build 2018. tMonitor device is an IoT device that delivers simultaneous real-time, accurate, and precise measurements of Particles (PM 1, PM 2.5, and PM 10), Gases (VOCs, SO2, CO, O3, CO2, and NH3), and Environmental Conditions (Temperature, Humidity, and Light).
tMonitor wins regional crown with tMonitor Indoor Air Quality Monitoring solution.
tMonitor is powered by the IBM IoT Platform and IBM Cloud for edge device lifecycle management, a hardened end-to-end security solution that ensures the highest standards of security, reliability, and scalability of the network. This enables the rapid deployment of devices in any indoor environment regardless of the infrastructure of the building.
Enabling the Watson-based IoT Indoor Air Quality Monitoring System ensures the safest environment and most energy efficient use of systems, with access to data anytime anywhere for building managers, employees, and residents via a mobile phone or the web.
“Passing the very first phase of sending a solution idea (the Think phase), we advanced to the Build phase, which offered us $7,000 worth of Watson and Cloud services to build our solution in three months,” said Mr. Vu Hai Nam, Chief Operating Officer at tMonitor. “With a successful result in the Build phase, we took steps into the ASEAN and then the Asia-Pacific rounds. In early January, we were over the moon to hear that tMonitor was the Watson Build Asia Pacific Champion. We have spent ‘many months and long nights’ finding a solution that worked, and it felt great to receive that validation from IBM.”
“In every phase and round, our solution was technically proven by IBM experts and we gave a 20-minute pitch about it.”
“AI is in the news every day. I regularly hear businesses discuss how they’re using AI, not when they’ll start using it,” said Ms. Catherine Solazzo, Vice President, IBM Partner Ecosystem Marketing. “Every partner in Watson Build is positioning its business to capture the AI opportunity that is growing by the day. Naming this year’s global champion is not going to be easy. Each finalist has brought forward strong solutions.”
IBM launched Watson Build in February 2017. The program has reached over 1,700 business partner executives from 80+ countries, received 650 AI-based concepts, supported 100+ partners to develop an AI solution on IBM Cloud, and enabled partners to take their solutions to market.
This year, over 400 IBM Business Partners around the world joined Watson Build and more than 250 prototypes were submitted; a new record. There were finalists within seven geographies: Asia-Pacific, Europe, Greater China Group, Japan, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.
