Fujitsu and TOTO launch trial for AI-powered restroom security options

Fujitsu Restricted and TOTO Ltd. have collaborated on a trial to reinforce the protection of restrooms for aged people and people with disabilities in business services and prepare stations. This trial utilises a privacy-conscious, millimetre wave-sensing expertise, that has been utilized by Fujitsu earlier than. The answer incorporates Fujitsu’s Actlyzer, an AI-based evaluation expertise, to offer a safer and extra inclusive expertise for numerous customers.

Innovation to assist numerous customers in all features of their each day lives

Within the Sixties, TOTO first launched its efforts to accommodate the wants of individuals with disabilities and within the 2000s, embraced common design initiatives to enhance the person expertise in compliance with nationwide rules in addition to the calls for of accessibility.

Fujitsu’s proprietary, human-centric AI expertise makes it doable to analyse data obtained from millimetre wave sensing expertise and estimate features like posture with excessive accuracy primarily based on the place and top of the topic. This enables directors to detect with out cameras when customers expertise difficulties or accidents within the restroom together with falls, or to carry out wellness checks when spending a very long time within the house whereas guaranteeing that their privateness is strictly revered.

The 2 firms goal to make use of these respective strengths to collectively conduct a trial to confirm the effectiveness of the answer utilizing TOTO’s data of making barrier-free restroom bogs which can be simpler to make use of for all individuals and Fujitsu’s millimetre wave sensing expertise.

Particulars of the trial are as follows:

Trial of monitoring expertise utilizing millimetre-wave sensors in restrooms

1. Implementation interval: From Monday, January 15, 2024, to the tip of December 2024
2. Location: TOTO UD Laboratory (R&D Centre) (Chigasaki Metropolis, Kanagawa Prefecture) and Fujitsu F3rdLab (Kawasaki Metropolis, Kanagawa Prefecture)
3. Trial content material: The millimetre-wave sensor within the barrier-free rest room put in on a trial foundation senses the person’s standing as mirrored wave data and level cloud knowledge and the effectiveness of the detection of lengthy stays within the room, falls, and many others., will likely be verified to judge the answer’s viability and enhance the outcomes.

Roles of the 2 firms

• TOTO: Know-how analysis utilizing in depth data of designing numerous barrier-free bogs and restrooms and proposing instructions for expertise enchancment
• Fujitsu: Provision of sensing expertise, knowledge assortment and evaluation and expertise enchancment primarily based on expertise evaluation

Consideration of commercialisation of privacy-friendly sensing expertise

Primarily based on the analysis outcomes of the trial, the 2 firms will additional enhance their privacy-friendly expertise to create and repair public restroom areas which can be protected and safe for customers of barrier-free bogs together with the aged, individuals with disabilities and customers with young children or infants.

Future Plans

TOTO will proceed to make proposals that deal with social points by integrating current applied sciences with digital applied sciences and can actively collaborate with numerous firms to create new worth for society and prospects.

Primarily based on the analysis outcomes, Fujitsu will additional enhance its monitoring expertise and goal to develop a privacy-friendly monitoring expertise service in Japan by the tip of fiscal 2024.

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