OWARE AI AND IOT PLATFORM IN COLLABORATION WITH SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT (PUB & ESG)

SINGAPORE - Meanwhile, local IoT start-up Nextan led a consortium to develop a solution to help national water agency PUB reduce resources required for maintenance, troubleshooting and monitoring of water treatment plants.

Developing the Oware System Architecture meant partnering with different firms, almost all of which operate at a larger scale than Nextan. This gave the company the opportunity to pick up best practices and industry know-how, said operations lead Justin Low.

"We find that open innovation calls allow us to discover specific gaps in the market which we might not be aware of, by stringing together the common requirements that we observe across different companies, we have discovered certain gaps in the market that are not industry-specific," he noted.
 

Mr Low added that innovation calls force solutions providers like Nextan to take a good look at their offerings and identify what sets them apart.

Its experience in the PUB collaboration helped it build a track record and expand its solution into other undertakings, including a government development in Africa, he added.