Microsoft’s “How Old Do I Look” has gone viral for users are self-replicating and sharing the website on social networking websites, which gained 1 million clicks within 48 hours. As a result, Microsoft’s IoT and Big Data become an overnight sensation. Strike while the iron is hot, Microsoft held “Azure IoT Partner Showcase” to demonstrate its arrangement.

According to Microsoft, Taiwan is perfect and ideal to create IoT. “Especially the popularized front-end devices and the mature sensor technologies.” said Kang Rong, the IoT Project Manager of Microsoft Greater China.

For instance, Microsoft teamed up with Wistron in managing the Azure IoT Solutions Open Lab in a bid to help partners plan their own IoT service and architecture. More than that, Azure IoT Solutions Open Lab also offers applications development, cloud layout, platform management, and supervisor service. Aiming at providing the total solution in IoT industry.

Based on the report by the McKinsey Global Institute released in 2013, by 2025, Internet of Things applications could have an economic impact of $900 billion to $2.3 trillion a year in manufacturing alone. This estimate is based on potential savings of 2.5 to 5 percent in operating costs.

In addition, using sensors in the power grid (smart-grid applications) could drive value of $200 billion to $500 billion annually, and applications in public-sector services (water systems and the like) could cut waste by ten to 20 percent annually, which could save $20 billion to $40 billion a year.