Approaches to Creating Human-Centric Solutions
Shin-ichi Wakana, Yoshinori Yaginuma · 2012
Fujitsu Laboratories is developing several new solutions to social problems that help enhance information and communications technology (ICT) capability using mobile terminals, to establish a Human-Centric Society. Each solution consists of the following three steps: 1) sensing to acquire real-world information, 2) analyzing that information, 3) actuating people or circumstances at a proper timing and according to the situation. These three solution steps seem to be applicable for other solutions. Also each solution is targeting new areas where ICT has yet to reach for several reasons. In this paper, we describe the research and development status of the above three steps for solutions in three areas: energy management in office buildings, agriculture, and healthcare. The solutions are still being developed.