Furukawa Electric's drive recorder contributes to infrastructure development in Japan

Nov 19, 2021

Tokyo (Japan), Nov 19 (ANI): Japanese companies have been giving immense stress on technological innovations. Recently, Furukawa Electric Company has developed a unique service that contributes to infrastructure development using the location information and video of the drive recorder. Drive recorder is owned by most of the car users. Japanese traffic system and various facilities on the road were constructed from 1950 to 1970. It was an economically high growth period. Around 50 years ago, they were aged and some of them have the possibility of accident or collapse. Furukawa Electric provides a detecting system of aging for the municipal government and manager of road conditions. This ‘Michi-Ten’ Service will improve the efficiency of the maintenance cycle for roadside equipment while using original digital transformation technology. Roadside equipment inspection charts will identify the type and position of equipment from video using an original robotic process automation system. And it creates a formal inspection chart as the equipment digital database. Detailed information about aging materials is provided by inspectors. The information obtained is managed as data. A support tool for efficient on-site inspection work is just a tablet device. It also simplifies the editing of inspection charts by automatic sorting of the captured image. Michiten’s digital managing traffic condition is paid attention from local government and ministry that manage road condition. Furukawa Electric’s original digital transformation technology and human know-how integration service ‘Michiten’ contributes to keeping safe and sustainable traffic conditions.