When addressing Internet of Things [IoT], two strategies are available: open and closed. Home appliances to be key devices on IoT have adopted a closed strategy for many years. However, we can observe the new aspects that 1) home appliances with the open interface named ECHONET Lite make up Home Energy Management System [HEMS] which enables peak demand control of energy usage and 2) industry-academic cooperation in ASEAN plays the important role of spreading the open technologies such as ECHONET Lite through providing the platform which facilitates the engineers at the higher educational institutions in ASEAN.
In driving open technology, the role of university which educates engineers, makes feasibility study to ensure interoperability of the entire system, and creates regulations for social deployment of new technology, is important. The case of the internet innovation in 1990s told that education and empirical study in university were mandatory of increasing awareness to open technology such as TCP/IP and HTML.
EBA Business Fieldwork that we discuss on this paper has created the platform which enables of cooperating among four different parties who are motivated by IoT: student, university, company, and government. Through reviewing EBA Business Fieldwork, we highlight the embryonic movement in which 1) universities support to deploy open technology on IoT and 2) companies provide students with field work opportunities as same as scholarships.

特集 高等教育の国際展開 : EBAプロジェクトの挑戦
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