Cover Story: Moving beyond awareness to adoption of IoT
In 2015, the National IoT Strategic Roadmap was rolled out by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Mosti), with national applied R&D centre Mimos Bhd as the implementation secretariat. The road map aimed to make Malaysia the premier regional hub for Internet of Things (IoT) development and to leverage the industrialisation of IoT as a new source of growth for the economy. According to the road map, the new industry was expected to contribute RM9.5 billion to the gross national income and create more than 14,000 highly skilled employment opportunities by 2020. Has this been ac...