 Welcome to the ITU studio here at the World Ready Communication Conference 2023 in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. I'm very pleased to be joining the studio today by Rio Iwasa, who is the co-founder and CEO of AETA-Link. Rio, welcome to the studio. It's my pleasure to come here. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. Now I'd like to start off by asking you a little bit about your presence here. Why is this important to be here? You've come all the way from Japan and I know you've got some products here as well. We'll talk about those in a second. Sure. But why is the World Ready Communication Conference important to you? Yes, because our company is a WPT company. The wireless power transmission is our core technologies. Our company has already started exporting many products to all over the world and the other startup companies also start exporting. In the 6th generation, maybe a lot of the sensors will be connected to the internet, but it's lack of the power sources. I think the WPT technology is an essential technology for the 6th generation. That's why I came here to make the harmonization of the WPT frequency or something like that. You've decorated our studio table here with a number of your products here. Perhaps we could actually tell us a little bit about them. Yes, sure. Our company was born in Stanford University in the US and based in Tokyo. We conducted research for more than 10 years about biomedical implant devices. This is our cardiac pacemaker, which is the smallest size, 1,000 size compared to the conventional one. We insert a load of the implant devices through the catheter inside the heart and transmit from outside to inside the body. This is our origin technology history. Nowadays, we use this technology for the factory automation or building management or something like that. Excellent. What are the other products that you've been talking about? Nowadays, we use our technology for, for example, the factory automation because there's tons of sensors in the factory, manufacturing lines, which are attached to the top of the robotic hand. Of course, every sensor is powered by a cable. That's why the cable attached to the robotic hand keeps moving very quickly. That's why this cable breaks down very frequently. This is a critical problem. That's why we replace from the cable power source to the WPT power sources. Then, many factory companies can reduce the opportunity loss. This is for the factory automation use case. The other application is for the building management. The program of the building management is, for example, 80% of the complain of the building management comes from AC. People feel too hot or too cold. For some people, it's exactly too hot or too cold. What does this do exactly? We just replace from the sensor from the inset AC to the, for example, the individual seats, of course, the wireless powering. Then, people can reduce the 26% of the reduction of the CO2. That's why those applications are for, I think it's 60 applications. We can cover all of the sensors or cameras application by the WPT. Brilliant. That's excellent. Just go back a little bit on that, the pacemaker. What is the difference here? What's the standard procedure on that? Compared to the conventional one, the conventional pacemaker is like this size, because the conventional pacemaker needs the batteries. The patient has to replace the battery every six or seven years. Then this surgeon is very heavy. That's why some patients die. When we insert those of the pacemaker, you don't have the additional surgeon. That's why the patient goes to the hospital once a year and is charging. It's a very peaceful technology or a dissolution. What kind of feedback have you been getting here? I think most of the people coming here don't understand what is the WPT. Then I show those applications, people can understand what is the WPT and why the WPT is important for the 60. Then maybe I'm sure we can make a new agenda as the WRC 2023. In terms of the future, how do you see the future of these kind of technologies evolving? I believe both of the WPT technology is a very important technology for our futures. The WPT technology can save sustainable futures. WPT technology also can improve the human society. Thank you very much for joining us in the studio. Thank you very much. We look forward to catching up with you again very soon. Thank you. If you've enjoyed this interview, then do check out other interviews on our YouTube channel as well as our podcast channels on SoundCloud or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts from. For further information, please visit our website at www.itu.int. Thanks for tuning in.