• What Budget 2017 Meant for Malaysia’s IOT and Smart Cities

    When the  Malaysia Budget 2017, tabled by Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak on Friday 21 October 2016, many local ICT players questioned whether the allocations for the ICT industry go far enough to continue the drive to the high-income developed nation status goal by the year 2020. It’s just three… Read More ⇢

  • Citizen Engagement Can Make a Difference for Your Cities

    Regardless whether we make tons of money or not a single cent, our vision remained the same i.e. making a “Better City • Better World“. We hoped that one day our CitiAct app can be the “Waze for Cities“, it will be your everyday app to capture and report any issues… Read More ⇢

  • Critical Success Factors for IOT

    Q. From your experience, what have been operators’ biggest concerns regarding IoT, specifically with: Building out the infrastructure? Operators have invested millions and even billions of dollars on their existing 2G, 3G and 4G infrastructures. Should they just continue on in their connectivity businesses, or enter into solutions businesses which… Read More ⇢

  • ​IoT is Here: Where do Service Providers Stand in the Age of IoT?

    Current service providers evolved from two “camps” – (i) Traditional telco (ii) Internet SP. Just like WiMAX, the industry has seen the IT sector enter the broadband service provider market. We saw the 4G battle between WiMAX and LTE. Finally, LTE won the 4G battle when WiMAX lost the two-year window… Read More ⇢

  • Developing Interconnectedness of Citizens

      My next upcoming Smart Cities Asia 2016, Kuala Lumpur (Oct. 18-19, 2016) is entitled “Developing Interconnectedness of Citizens” The content of the presentation will be: Focusing o citizens who essentially make cities function Social equity & community building Identifying community trends Make use of new technologies in acquiring citizens’… Read More ⇢

  • The Road to Smart Cities and Connected Citizens: Are We There Yet?

      (Article published in TM Forum Live! Asia)   Ahead of his presentation at TM Forum Live! Asia (December 7-8, Singapore), Dr. Mazlan Abbas, CEO of IoT, REDtone, looks at the barriers to smart cities and connected citizens. The smart city seems to be one of most hyped topics around, and this looks set… Read More ⇢

  • How IoT Can Detect Corruption

    The Internet of Things (IoT) has many benefits – (1) Reducing costs, (2) Increasing efficiency, (3) Increasing loyalty, (4) New products and business models (5) Increasing revenue streams. But can it detect corruption? An interesting question that I believe can be a controversy and dilemma for many organizations depending on… Read More ⇢

    How IoT Can Detect Corruption

  • IOT in Malaysia – Current & Future Trends

        I received this invitation quite some time ago and the title is given to me with the intention to introduce Internet of Things and the what Malaysia have done so far in regards to the implementation. I might not be able to give the best answers to what… Read More ⇢

  • List of Top 3 IoT Applications That “Should” Be in Malaysia​

      There are four primary benefits of IoT: (1) Improve performance or productivity (2) Reduce costs (3) Create new and innovative products differentiation (4) Create the new source of revenue growth. And if there is ONE thing that we should focus NOW in Malaysia would be “reduce costs”. Once we… Read More ⇢