Adoption of IoT in Thailand gains momentum in the consumer and business sectors | OpenGovAsia
The significance of IoT lies in its being an emerging global technology that enables digital transformation, according to Mr Panutat Tejasen. Mr Panutat is a pioneer in the maker community who observed that the adoption of IoT will happen much faster than the time it took for personal computers or mobile phones to be adopted.
Moreover, the declining prices of IoT-related components such as sensors, processors, and IoT gateways contributes to the scaling up of the implementation of IoT. There is also a community of software developers and hardware makers who are stimulating the growth of IoT.
Precision farming is a strong real sector base for the country and that is what Thailand should focus its IoT adoption on. Tourism, especially smart cities, can also benefit as technology can be applied to sustainable development that gives visitors a better experience.
In line with that, Mr Panutat furthered that IoT can be maximised too for environmental monitoring and waste management, bike sharing, city monitoring, indoor mapping navigation, smart bus stops and a whole lot more.