Institute for Information Industry

Their core work

III is Taiwan's national ICT research institute, working on the technology layer that connects factories, machines, and mobile devices over next-generation wireless networks. Within H2020 they contributed engineering expertise on 5G systems for industrial use — private cellular networks, edge and fog computing, and the hardware/software stack needed to make smart factories actually run on 5G. They are the kind of partner European consortia bring in when they need a non-European technology bridge into the Asian ICT ecosystem and hands-on 5G testbed capability.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

III entered H2020 in 2017 with Clear5G on reliable wireless for factory machine communication. By 2019 their two new projects (5G CONNI, 5G-DIVE) had narrowed to private 5G networks with edge and fog intelligence for specific industrial verticals — a clear shift from generic factory 5G toward owned, edge-intelligent, vertical-specific deployments.

III is moving toward private, edge-intelligent 5G systems for specific industrial verticals — a useful partner for anyone building Industry 4.0 connectivity beyond public network operators.

How they like to work

III consistently joins as a participant rather than coordinator, contributing technical depth on 5G and edge systems within RIA consortia. With 32 unique partners across 11 countries from only 3 projects, each project brings a largely new set of European collaborators rather than a tight repeat circle — a flexible technical contributor rather than a consortium-builder.

32 partners across 11 countries from just 3 projects, indicating broad European reach despite being based in Taiwan. The H2020 footprint reflects EU–Taiwan ICT cooperation rather than a regional cluster.

What sets them apart

III is one of very few non-European, Taiwan-based research institutes inside H2020 ICT consortia, giving European partners a direct technical link into the Asian 5G and semiconductor ecosystem. Their H2020 work is consistently industrial — every project targets factories or vertical industry, not consumer telecom. For a consortium that needs both 5G systems engineering and an Asia-Pacific anchor, they are a natural choice.

Highlights from their portfolio

• 5G CONNI
  Direct focus on private 5G networks for connected industries — one of the early H2020 projects to treat private cellular as the default for manufacturing.
• 5G-DIVE
  Combines edge/fog intelligence with pre-commercial hardware testing across multiple vertical experiments, a rare end-to-end scope.
• Clear5G
  Their entry project into H2020, addressing reliable 5G machine-type communication for the factory-of-the-future agenda.