Vietnam AI Ecosystem

AI is used at Quang Trung Software City in apartment building management. 

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Following the global trend, the Vietnamese Government aims to turn AI into a driving force of development and make it a top priority in growth policies.

Ministry of Planning and Investment had set up a digital ecosystem for innovation and start-ups. The ministry had proposed to the Prime Minister a national innovation center, which supports technological breakthroughs and creative ideas of Vietnamese entrepreneurs.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment and Ministry of Science and Technology would accompany the AI community to help them address challenges in the process of studying and developing AI in Vietnam.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment had created favorable conditions to attract domestic and international investment in AI. At the Vietnam Venture Summit in June this year, 18 local and foreign investment funds committed investment of US$425 million for Vietnamese start-ups in the next three years.

Putting human resource development at the core of the AI industry, the Vietnamese innovation network had attracted technological experts.

The Ministry planned to expand the network of Vietnamese AI experts in other countries and establish a global fund to train high-quality human resources for the industry.

According to a head of Information Technology Institute of Hanoi University of Science and Technology the Vietnamese AI community is young and has potential to grow quickly. Three years ago, overseas Vietnamese who were experts in the technology sector started to come back to Vietnam to develop AI and help the local community interact more with international counterparts.

The Vietnamese AI community so far involves foreign investors, associations, connecting specialists with State agencies and the market.

An alliance of AI communities in Vietnam debuted last month, including the Digital Transformation community, Machine Learning community, Google Developer community and Business Intelligence community.

Source: Vietnam News (https://vietnamnews.vn/society/534918/viet-nam-puts-priority-on-artificial-intelligence-development.html)

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IoT network covered fully Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnam

All of HCM City’s 24 districts had Internet of Things (IoT) broadcasting stations installed in September 2019, made the city the first place in Viet Nam to be fully covered with an IoT network.

IoT is a system of interrelated computing devices and machines with the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.

Connected devices, smart devices and others are embedded with electronic components, software, and sensors with computer network connection capability, making it possible for them to collect and transmit data.

According to domestic newspapers, a military telecom giant group in Vietnam is set to announce the completion of IoT and 5G infrastructure helping HCM City become a smart city.

Around 1,000 Narrow Band – Internet of Things (NB-IoT) broadcasting stations have been activated, covering the whole city, the media reported.

NB-IoT technology is capable of disconnecting a device when it is inactive. Thus, the contact time of the terminal is extended to five years without the need for changing the battery.

The group is also accelerating the process of developing a platform using NB-IoT technology-related services for its customers.

It will perform services like smart parking, air quality monitoring, location tracking, and metering devices.

IoT boom

With IoT technology developing strongly, other provinces and cities in the country will also have full NB-IoT coverage soon.

The group was quoted on Thoi Bao Kinh Te Viet Nam (Vietnam Economic Times) as saying that after HCM City it would cover Ha Noi. Nearly 500 NB-IoT broadcasting stations have been installed and activated in Cau Giay District and some suburban districts.

A deputy general director of the group, said the company planned to take IoTtechnology to every province and city in the country.

Talking about IoT trends, telecom experts say with industry 4.0, the concept of customers has been expanded from just people to things.

The number of customers would thus run into the billions and the demand for connecting is huge, they said.

There are various estimates, with one saying that by 2020, globally, around 20 billion devices will be fitted with sensors and controllers via NB-IoT technology, accounting for 74 per cent of all devices.

By 2025 about 40 billion smart devices will be used in the world with a total of around 100 billion connections in sectors like transportation, manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, and finance.

   

In a press release on Thursday, the military-owned telecom giant said it had set up 5G base stations in Ward 12 in the city’s District 10.

The trial is meant to be a comprehensive evaluation of the band, coverage and application of 5G before commercialization in 2020.

The official broadcast of 5G in HCM City is an important milestone in to make Viet Nam one of the first countries in the world to commercialize 5G services. With 5G, Viet Nam will go along with the world.

Source: https://english.mic.gov.vn/Pages/TinTuc/139695/HCM-City-to-be-first-city-in-VN-to-be-fully-covered-by-IoT-network.html

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The number of 5G subscriptions in Vietnam could hit 6.3 million by 2025

Vietnam 5G subscriptions predicted to top 6.3 million by 2025 or 6 percent of its total’s mobile subscriptions, a US technology conglomerate said.

The total number of 5G subscriptions in Southeast Asia is expected to reach 227 million by then, the U.S firm said at an event in Hanoi Thursday. The firm was citing figures from a report prepared by American global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney.

According to the report, Indonesia will take the lead in 5G subscriptions by 2025 with over 100 million subscribers, followed by Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Singapore, Cambodia, Laos and Brunei.

By 2025, Vietnam will be placed sixth in Southeast Asia for the number of 5G subscriptions. 

Graphics by A.T. Kearney

A President of the US firm in Southeast Asia, said Vietnamese telecommunication firms could raise their revenue by up to $300 million each year starting 2025, thanks to the 5G service. However, the country would have to invest $1.5-2.5 billion in infrastructure in the 2020-2025 period for launching and operating the 5G service.

According to A.T. Kearney, 5G "is expected to be a step change from earlier generations."

With high throughput, ultra-low latency and low power connectivity, 5G promises speeds up to 50 times faster, 10 times more responsiveness, and much lower power connectivity than 4G, it said, adding that the time is right for developing 5G service as it arrives at a time when "consumers are using immense amounts of cellular data."

A General Director of the US firm in Vietnam, said: "Vietnam so far has been attractive for low-cost labor, especially in key sectors like manufacturing and processing. But this will no longer a strong point in the age of Industry 4.0 and Vietnamese firms should be aware of this and make good use of new technologies, including applying the 5G service."

In Vietnam, a telecom giant broadcast its first 5G network in September from its network of 5G base stations in the nation's economic hub Ho Chi Minh City.

The 10 stations will be used by the telecom corporation, to comprehensively check and assess its 5G service before launching it commercially next year.

The corpration installed the first 5G station in Hanoi early this year and made the first 5G phone call in May. It was the first firm in the country to receive permission to trial 5G services in January.

Last November, the Information and Communication Minister in Vietnam said at a conference that Vietnam should test 5G in 2019 and ensure nationwide coverage by 2020.

"Vietnam should be one of the first countries to launch the network, at least in Hanoi and HCMC," he said. The country had been one of the last in Southeast Asia to roll out 4G services.

5G is said to offer speeds 100 times faster than 4G, primarily used for smartphones and other similar devices. 5G is also expected to support new applications like remote medical procedures and autonomous driving.

Source: https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/vietnam-5g-subscriptions-predicted-to-top-6-3-million-by-2025-3999086.html

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Vietnam seeks AI training and investment

Hanoi — Vietnam, like many other countries, is in a bid to spur economic innovation with Artificial Intelligence (AI), but experts say the country is starting from at a low point and needs to make a huge effort to catch up with the global trend.

Such efforts would include focusing investment on training skilled workers and building an open-source database.

A researcher from Google DeepMind (USA), said the AI advances of the past decade could create comprehensive changes in global industries and services, from healthcare to energy. He believes the AI laboratories established so far in Vietnam.

Most AI companies in Vietnam are in the first stage of development.

In the past five years, many start-ups have developed projects related to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, and are willing to pay an AI engineer as much as US$1,678 a month, or $22,000 a year. (By an IT recruitment platform report)

Open-source database

Because AI devices learn how humans think and act through the collection of massive data sets, they work best when more data are available.

Vietnam’s weakness is in data and information.

However, experts said they are optimistic about Vietnam’s AI future.

“We have become more serious on this matter; what Vietnam can do now is to strengthen its program data engineering, data mining, and databases,” 

“But most of all, we have to create a community for AI and nurture it,” he said.

According to a survey on 500 Vietnamese firms conducted in 2018 by Vietnam Report, only 13.6 percent have invested in AI in production and business; 18.2 percent are studying the model and 18.2 percent have plans for investment in the coming two to three years. Almost 50 percent of the surveyed companies do not have plans for AI investment yet. 

Source: Vietnam News 

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