1. Session 5: Harnessing the Benefits of New Technologies
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Session 5: Harnessing the Benefits of New Technologies
ITU Asia-Pacific Regional Development Forum 2016, Manila
7 June 2016
Harin GREWAL
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore

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ICTs for Smart Sustainable Asia-Pacific

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ICTs for Smart Sustainable Asia-Pacific

4. What are the Global Challenges?

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ICTs for Smart Sustainable Asia-Pacific

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ICTs for Smart Sustainable Asia-Pacific

9. Singapore’s Vision: Towards a Smart Nation
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The President and PM during Parliament in May 2014, laid out their vision for Singapore’s Smart Nation. They shared the intent to bring new industries, new technologies, leveraging big data to enable a safer, cleaner and greener urban living, provide more transport options, offer better care for the elderly at home, create a more responsive public services and open up more opportunities for citizen engagement.
Singapore, similar to all cities, is faced with the pressure of continued growth, with adds demands for our urban infrastructure to increase and resources will become scarcer. To better manage this, it is therefore imperative to develop smart communities that can be driven by intelligence, integration and innovations.

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Singapore recognises the importance of IoT as a key enabler to our vision as a Smart Nation. At present, a wide range of industry sectors – including
automotive, healthcare, manufacturing, home and consumer electronics, and well beyond -- are considering the potential for incorporating IoT technology into their products, services, and operations.

11. Providing Pervasive Connectivity
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Providing Pervasive Connectivity
Various Trusted and Resilient Networks
Wide Area Wireless Network
(Cellular)
Local Area Network
(e.g. WiFi & ZigBee)
Wired Network
(Fiber & Ethernet)
Possible connectivity by various trusted and resilient networks

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ICTs for Smart Sustainable Asia-Pacific

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ICTs for Smart Sustainable Asia-Pacific

14. Providing Pervasive Connectivity
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Providing Pervasive Connectivity
For communications, we are working to improve connectivity at the street level, as well as to have better mobile comms through projects like the HetNet, NGNBN and Smart Nation Platform (AG Boxes) which will aggregate the roadside communications infrastructure.

15. Nationwide Broadband (Fibre) Network
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16. Non-Building Address Points
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NBN Coverage Requirements
Categories of Premises
Residential
Public housing
Private apartments
Private landed housing
Non-Residential
Commercial blocks
Industrial blocks
Institutional properties
Government offices
Schools
Hospitals
Libraries
Non-Building Address Points
Lamp-posts
Bus stops
Traffic junctions
Wireless access points
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17. IoT is a key enabler for Singapore’s vision to be a Smart Nation
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IoT is a key enabler for Singapore’s vision to be a Smart Nation
Beyond economic opportunities, IoT can also enrich the quality of life for citizens
Some of the challenges and questions related to IoT, highlighted below, need to be addressed
Data Protection
Security
Interoperability and standards
Licensing
Spectrum & Resource Allocation
Through scanning various reports and white papers from (mainly Ofcom, FCC and Internet Society) on the regulatory challenges, it is observed that there are five key consistent areas that need to be addressed to ensure the growth of IoTs.

18. Availability of network resources for IoTs
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Availability of network resources for IoTs
IPv6 will be key to support billions of IoT devices
Telephone numbers
Today, IDA allocates number access code 144XX for M2M
Ensuring ISPs support IPv6
IDA launched regulatory and industry initiatives to support IPv6 in Singapore (e.g., No-Islanding Principle)
e-SIM
Conducting trial of GSMA’s specification for the Over-The-Air (“OTA”) subscription management for M2M devices
Ofcom concluded that telephone numbers are unlikely to be required for most IoT services. Instead IoT services will likely either use bespoke addressing systems or the IPv6 standard. Given this we intend to continue to monitor the progress being made by internet service providers (ISPs) in migrating to IPv6 connectivity and the demand for telephone numbers. Nonetheless, IDA has in 2013 allocated number access code 144XX for M2M uses to address the potential surge of M2M deployments in the nearer term. The M2M number format consists of up to 13 digits, i.e., 144XX YYYYYYYY, creating a total of 100 million numbers for each access code.
IDA has implemented IP “No Islanding” Principle with effect from 1 June All ISPs servicing the residential markets have indicated that they have complied with the “No Islanding” Principle. However, the scope focused on residential and non-business end users and this might not assist the deployment of IoT devices.

19. New & Emerging Technologies
Most of these technologies are still in their developmental phase
Light Fidelity (Li-Fi) – Uses visible-light communication instead of radio-frequency spectrum - trial is able to send data at up to 1GBps.
New fibre technologies – Can increase broadband speed from 2.5Gbps to 40Gbps (XGPON and NG-PON2).
5G (IMT-2020) – Focus on consolidation of wireless networks to provide better coverage and reliability, and increase in data speeds and reduction in latency.
Evolving Technologies

20. Panel Session 5: Harnessing the Benefits of New Technologies
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