Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province Released "Identification Measures for Internet of Things Enterprises"

Recently, the office of Wuxi Municipal People's Government issued the "Measures for the Identification of Wuxi Municipal IoT Enterprises" (hereinafter referred to as "Measures"). The "Measures" clearly defined the standards for identifying IOT companies in Wuxi City, and gave the identification procedures and annual review of the Internet of Things enterprises. The procedures will further strengthen the support, service, and management of Wuxi IOT companies in terms of policies to promote the sound and rapid development of the Wuxi IOT industry.

The "Measures" pointed out that the Internet of Things (IoT) companies are within the scope defined in the "Reference Catalogue for IoT Products (Technology) Supported by the Major Support of Wuxi Municipality" (see Annex), and are capable of conducting research and development and possessing the company's core independent intellectual property rights. This is an enterprise or institution that carries out business activities based on the actual product (technical) R&D or production behavior or technical services registered in Wuxi City (including Yixing and Jiangyin) for more than one year.

The “Measures” stipulates that Internet of Things enterprises need to be enterprises and institutions in Wuxi City, and they need to have more than one product (technology) with independent intellectual property rights of the company. The proportion of R&D personnel of the enterprise needs to account for 30% of the total number of employees. Academic qualifications, corporate sales revenue, and R&D expenses are also strictly required.

In the IoT enterprise identification rules, the main responsibilities of the Planning and Construction Leading Group of Wuxi National Sensor Network Innovation Demonstration Zone (National Sensing Information Center) were clarified, mainly to guide and manage the identification of Internet of Things companies, and to coordinate and solve the Internet of Things. The major issues in the implementation of corporate policies, the approval of the list of Internet of Things companies, the issuance of certificates.

The “Measures” also clarified the five major IoT products (techniques) supported by Wuxi, mainly including sensor node technology, sensor node networking and co-processing technologies, sensor network system products (technology), and sensor network applications. Abstraction and standardization technologies, common support technologies.