Our company is MingShin Technology Ltd., a spin-off established by "Smart Mushroom Local Nantou 4.0", a team funded by the Ministry of Education's 2019 U-start Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program. Our cooperative incubating university is Nan Kai University of Technology. Our main business item is providing information integration services to our major clients based on "mushroom house environmental control and monitoring technology", and our primary customer group consists of mushroom growers.

Under the "Smart Agriculture 4.0" promotion program of the Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, the mushroom industry has been designated as one of the 11 application development targets. With the government taking the lead to pave the way, the entrepreneurial motivation of our startup team has been strengthened. Traditional mushroom cultivation methods rely on a large amount of labor (even involving the entire family) to closely observe mushroom production and adjust environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, and carbon dioxide around the clock without sleep. In view of the weak and lacking links faced by this industry, we have identified low-cost and reliable solutions. By moving towards the development of comprehensive environmental control systems for mushroom farms and introducing professional smart agriculture 4.0 technologies, we overcome labor bottlenecks and improve quality and yield. MingShin Technology Ltd. provides cross-domain cooperation to establish an integrated system of agricultural smart physiological sensing components and production field Internet of Things (IoT).

According to statistical surveys, there are 312 greenhouse mushroom growers in Taiwan (this is the number of farms that responded to the survey conducted by the Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute; the actual number of farms is greater than this statistical figure). The average age of the main growers is between 45 and 55 years old, and they face agricultural labor shortage issues. The application of this system is designed to assist mushroom growers in facing challenges such as climate and environmental changes, the aging of the workforce, and agricultural labor shortages, with the ultimate goal of increasing farmers' income.

MingShin Technology Ltd. emphasizes closed systems to address the cultivation information security of mushroom growers (preventing any leakage of cultivation experience and information). Initially, a closed system setup is adopted. In the future, if growers have needs, we can assist them with data analysis. By utilizing our country's advanced ICT/IoT industrial technologies, we assist growers in effective management, enable effective traceability management of agricultural products, and help solve problems such as the aging of the agricultural labor population and the shortage of labor.