The National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA, Director Heo Seong-wook) announced that it is pursuing the ‘2023 non-face-to-face leading service revitalization project in areas closely related to daily life.’
This project, which is being carried out to promote the spread of non-face-to-face services in areas closely related to people’s lives, such as business, daily consumption, education/assessment, and well-being/health in the endemic era, is expected to help the economy and society face the digital transformation in the post-corona era from 2021. As the non-face-to-face digital economy accelerates across the board, key investment areas will be selected and supported, focusing on services that urgently require a non-face-to-face transition.
Since last year, we have focused on supporting service advancement and overseas expansion for digital companies in the non-face-to-face service field, with the goal of concretely realizing the inclusive digital society ‘creating a safer and more comfortable place to live’ as suggested by the government’s ‘Korea Digital Strategy’. and completed verification of 17 non-face-to-face services that increase public convenience.
The biggest change in the business, now in its third year, is that it goes beyond the verification of non-face-to-face services and expands the area of commercialization support for companies that completed verification last year, establishing a growth and virtuous cycle ecosystem for the domestic non-face-to-face industry.
Among the 2022 demonstration companies, seven were selected as commercialization support companies this year, including iPixel, UFit, Inventis, Damin Robot, JCF Technology, SM Planet, and Insight.
Among these, ‘iPixel’ is a company that provides a digital healthcare platform for medical rehabilitation exercise based on artificial intelligence. Patients who need to visit medical institutions every day to undergo medical rehabilitation can receive coaching at home through a home training process using artificial intelligence. It is an innovative service that provides data and prescribes it to professional medical staff.
iPixel is pursuing a hospital cooperation project with Seoul National University Bundang Hospital and Gangnam Severance Hospital, and is deriving results from LG Electronics smart platform entry and marketing collaboration. We are expanding my data-based AI digital healthcare services based on more than 1,500 artificial intelligence exercise metadata and standard databases.
This year, the service areas that were newly promoted for verification focused on verification projects in areas that are more closely related to people’s lives in the pandemic era, such as business, daily consumption, education and evaluation, and well-being and health.
The business field is Sharp & Company, Aion Communications, Jeongpyeong E&C, and JSolution; the daily consumption field is Multics, Video Monster, C&AI, F&S Holdings, and Pleto Robotics; and the education and evaluation field is Moa Dream, On The Live, and Taesung S&. A total of 18 companies were selected in the two-block AI, wellness and health field, including Care Dream, Mindforge, Bionutrion, Arom Information Technology, and Foundation Stem.
This year, these companies focused on serving as a priming force for commercialization through systematic support by establishing a ‘one-stop support system for the entire new technology commercialization cycle’ through funding necessary for the pre-‘verification’ stage in the technology commercialization process and verification model certification support. Specific support contents include investment attraction and networking, global promotional marketing for companies to advance into the global market, and mediation to support the revitalization of non-face-to-face services that are experiencing difficulties due to difficulties such as verification of demand, technical issues, and commercialization problems in the process of commercializing non-face-to-face services. This is a follow-up support program for various incentive programs for companies subject to excellent inspection tasks.
This year’s major empirical companies include J Solution in the business field, Multics in the daily consumption field, Taesung S&E in the education and evaluation field, and Care Dream in the health and well-being field.
JSolution is a mobile-based all-in-one access security management service targeting companies that need automation and improved work efficiency, and this year, it promoted a verification service based on LG Electronics’ access security platform.
Multics is a kiosk service that provides daily information for the socially underprivileged, providing unmanned information terminals for the information-vulnerable who have difficulty accessing information during the accelerated digital transition. Demonstrated convenience and technological advancement.
Taesung S&E is a non-face-to-face online SW practice education service platform virtual class company that aims to realize two-way classes by creating a cloud-based SW practice environment without time and location restrictions through an Internet browser. A demonstration was conducted with students.
Care Dream is a company that develops products and services that resolve negative human emotions. We developed an inflatable vest, a mental healthcare product, to resolve emotions such as tension, nervousness, anxiety, and fear. Additionally, the company is developing and selling a smart vest that collects biometric information and monitors the wearer’s emotional state and stress.
Global research organizations believe that this field will continue to expand, and with the recent spread of telecommuting and remote work among companies, demand for non-face-to-face software introduction is increasing even after the pandemic.
An official from the National IT Industry Promotion Agency said, “In the next year, we will integrate and manage the projects completed this year and expand them to executing agencies participating in the project in 2024 to create a virtuous cycle ecosystem along with the promotion of industry in this field.”