Abko wins 2.3 billion KRW order from Padbank... "Smart School project officially launched"

[Asia Economy Reporter Jang Hyowon] Abko, a new life platform specialist company centered on gaming gear Abko, is accelerating its smart school business by successfully winning consecutive orders in the smart device charging cabinet project for local education offices.

On the 10th, Abko announced that it was selected as the supplier of charging cabinets worth 2 billion KRW for the Daejeon Metropolitan Office of Education's '2021 School Smart Device Distribution Project.' This follows the achievement of being selected in the Chungcheongbuk-do region for 300 million KRW last September.

The smart school project is one of the five major tasks of the Korean New Deal policy. The government announced that it will invest 15.3 trillion KRW in the green smart school sector by 2025. The main project contents include installing Wi-Fi within classrooms and supplying educational tablet PCs to create a digital education environment. Smart device charging cabinets are necessary products to simultaneously charge and safely store tablet PCs in classrooms.

Since 2014, Abko has supplied its own smart device charging cabinet brand 'PadBank' to some schools, securing a competitive edge in the market with its unique technology, patents, and references. It was selected as the sole supplier of smart device charging cabinets for the 1st to 4th pilot projects of the smart school initiative, completing the supply of 9,347 PadBanks to 5,577 schools nationwide.

An Abko official stated, “From the first half of next year, orders for the smart school project centered on local education offices are expected to become more active. Abko possesses overwhelming competitiveness in the smart school business with proven technology, close cooperation with consortium partners, and abundant references, so we plan to focus on bidding for local education office smart school projects in the future.”

He added, “Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the main market of PC bangs has deteriorated, and the surge in Bitcoin prices and cryptocurrency mining since early this year, along with the shortage of graphics cards and the global semiconductor supply shortage, continue to greatly affect the stagnation of the gaming PC and peripheral market. While preparing for market recovery, we will secure additional growth potential based on Abko’s inherent competitiveness.”

Abko’s PadBank is a solution equipped with both content synchronization and automatic charging solutions. It provides an integrated synchronization function that allows simultaneous installation and removal of apps or content on multiple tablets from a master PC, and switches to automatic charging mode to maximize user convenience. Additionally, it supports a safe educational environment by applying the country’s only ‘FDA medical device grade registered COVID-19 sterilizer,’ receiving high evaluations from related organizations and frontline personnel.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.