KUCHING: Wangi Lai PLT, a Sarawak-grown IoT startup, came in at second place between two Taiwan-based startups at the recent Selangor International Pitch competition, a press release stated yesterday. The Selangor International Pitch, held at the Malays i a International Trade and Exhibition Centre (MITEC), was part of the Selangor Smart City & Digital Economy Convent ion 2018, which was co-organised by the Selangor Information Technology & E-Commerce Council (SITEC), Menter i Besar Incorporated Selangor (MBI), Smart Selangor Delivery Unit (SSDU), and Invest Selangor Berhad. Wangi Lai PLT competed by pitching to a panel of judges against a highly competitive lineup of 29 other top startups from the Asia Pacific region, such as Taiwan, Korea, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore as well as Malaysia.
Their innovation, BAWA Cane (www.bawa.tech), wowed the judges, a clip-on IoT device for white canes to help and empower the visually-impaired to better perceive their environment. The BAWA Cane helps users with mobility and navigation by using an IoT sensor to improve obstacle detection and avoidance, giving foresight of the surrounding environment through Big Data Analytics. This information is then transmitted to a cloud server, and then to the user via audio, allowing them to navigate safely around. BAWA Cane is available on Indiegogo during the campaign period at https://igg. me/at/getbawacane.
“We are proud and grateful to be one of the winners of the 2018 Selangor lnternational Pitch. This will go a long way in helping us take the necessary steps to empower millions with technologies that may change their mobility and access to get what they want to achieve,” says Daniel Vong, co-founder of Wangi Lai PLT. “We believe that our startups have the talent, skills and ambition to succeed in today’s digital economy. Wangi Lai’s achievement at the Selangor International Pitch proves this.
Together with our partners in Sarawak, we look forward to providing continued support to take BAWA Cane to the next level,” says Dr Zaidi Razak, General Manager of Sarawak Multimedia Authority (SMA) Wangi Lai PLT is one of the winners of the inaugural TEGAS Pre- Accelerator Bootcamp, a two-week bootcamp designed to kick-start early-stage startups from having validated ideas into creating a minimum viable product (MVP) and a go-to-market strategy. Wangi Lai PLT is invited to speak at Naidex, Europe’s Largest and Most Established Event for the Disability Sector, this upcoming 26 & 27 March 2019 at NEC Birmingham, UK.
Feel free to visit Wangi Lai PLT at Stand No.: N5112 at Naidex. Tickets for Naidex 2019 are completely FREE (https://bit. ly/2KNsk92), the press release concluded.
