Hsinchu City's Anxin Smart Retail Platform launches, love goods available around the clock

Taiwan's first love donation platform based on the Internet of Things and smart retail officially went online in Hsinchu City yesterday (27th). The Hsinchu City Government worked together with Taiwan Fixed Network Co., Ltd., Yide Technology Co., Ltd., and Deloitte & Touche to use a "smart vending machine" model, integrating multiple payment methods, the love card, and the EasyCard, so that recipient households can quickly obtain love goods in the most natural innovative way and at more convenient locations of all kinds. Deputy Mayor Shen Hui-hung said that since Mayor Lin Chih-chien took office, he has valued the effective use of social welfare resources. Through the Anxin Smart Retail Platform this time, love can be delivered more effectively, and it can also help open up new channels for local agricultural products.

Deputy Mayor Shen Hui-hung said that the collection and distribution of love goods has long been an issue the city government values. How to let recipients obtain donated love goods in the most convenient and most natural way, while also being able to know in real time the most needed, most popular and most suitable donated goods for recipients, and at the same time not raising the government's management costs, requires cooperation between the city government and the private sector to achieve these goals.

Wu Chia-tien, Director-General of the Hsinchu City Department of Economic Development, said that smart retail has been developing in Taiwan for several years, with most of it focused on applications in smart stores. This platform introduces the model of a self-service love donation platform based on the architecture of smart retail. It is not only the first of its kind in Taiwan, making the methods and locations of love goods distribution more flexible and convenient; at the same time, by introducing Internet of Things technology, the real-time information platform allows the Hsinchu City Government to grasp more quickly the distribution status of love goods and understand which items are most favored and most needed by recipient households in different areas and of different ages, so as to better care for recipient households.