IT Social Systems 13 re cation infor- cation involv- cation of changes of Gas Toho 4 Register Register change-of-address using information residence-related information 7 Gas Osaka Register Register residence-related upon information permission services services information Infrastructural Infrastructural a consortium e aim is to establish of com- related related Residence- information Apply for occupancy Apply for Apply for related services services related Apply for using all at once residence-related information Further collaborative creation between the com- between creation collaborative Further 6 son concerned) to administrative procedures for fi procedures son concerned) to administrative examination (vetting) to the signing of the lease to the signing of the lease examination (vetting) of the per- contract and linking it (with the consent commencement, suspension, or termination of such suspension, commencement, companies and organizations into the scheme to an ecosystem for both ordinary that has value create open consumers and companies and to accelerate as applications for new or services; the products and the notifi arrangements; using the identity by verifi address and earthquake insurance and energy infrastructure. launched into lease contract simplifi real estate leasing entering in operation real commercial mation that has been passed on from preliminarymation that has been passed on from panies involved is planned in preparation forpanies involved in preparation is planned the panies in 2020 with the aim of recruiting further ing an inter-enterprise sharing information plat- inter-enterprise information sharing platform for innovation. joined the project in October 2019, a study was 2019, in October joined the project form that includes simplifying such procedures form that includes simplifying such procedures KDDI 2020. Th 2020. platform Inter-enterprise Inter-enterprise information sharing information ts e Personal ID Personal verification verification Sumitomo Insurance Company Insurance Mitsui Sumitomo information Apply for occupancyApply for in moving needed for services Apply for Issue smart key Issue smart key when preliminary is examination passed Hitachi Review Vol. 69, No. 3 266–267 69, No. Vol. Review Hitachi 5 Insurance information Register the Register personal principal’s upon information permission Holdings Tokio 3 Apply to view Apply to Look for apartment for Look Register the principal’s the principal’s Register information personal upon permission 1

Sompo Nipponkoa Insurance Nipponkoa Sompo Japan Permission for data data for Permission the disclosure to disclosure destination and management data of the accumulated

Information Sharing of Real Estate Rental Contracts Blockchain-based Inter-enterprise Inter-enterprise Blockchain-based 2 suited to the secure is well with, cult to tamper Sekisui House, Ltd., KDDI Corporation, and Corporation, KDDI Ltd., Sekisui House, Working in partnership with Sompo Japan Working ID: identification Overview of inter-enterprise information sharing platform information Overview of inter-enterprise 1 sharing of information companies. between sharing of information companies. between of its characteristicshigh availability of and being calls for the establishment of platforms that utilize digital technology and data to enable the coordina- the another through that from complemented by diffi ates as an intermediary between companies. Th ates as an intermediary companies. between and enhanced convenience for users, the Society 5.0 for users, and enhanced convenience building an information sharing platform that oper- platform uses blockchain technology that, becauseplatform uses blockchain technology that, Co., Ltd., and Toho Gas Co., Ltd., who Ltd., Gas Co., Toho and Ltd., Osaka Gas Co., 1 tion of services one industry and for data from to be vision being promoted by the Japanese government the Japanese government by vision being promoted Inc., Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, Ltd., Ltd., Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, Inc., Nipponkoa Insurance Inc., Tokio Marine Holdings, Marine Holdings, Tokio Insurance Inc., Nipponkoa Hitachi have since April 2019 been working on since AprilHitachi have 2019 been working With the aim of delivering enhanced new benefi Social Systems Social VTN operator Hitachi Virtual Power Plant Solution users

• Package supply AC operators Supplied to 13 companies

• Supplied as SaaS (VTN service) RA operators Supplied to one company

(as of 2019)

OpenADR communications Other communications

2 Users of Hitachi Virtual Power Plant Solution

2 Joint Solution Service for VPPs Aimed at automation server (DRAS), including communica- Electricity Companies, and Aggregation tions using OpenADR, an international protocol for Coordinators automated demand response (ADR). In the above demonstration project and elsewhere, Hitachi Virtual Virtual power plants (VPPs) are a way of using Power Plant Solution is used in the DRASs of the information and communication technology (ICT) companies that operate as virtual top nodes (VTNs), to control and utilize distributed energy sources aggregation coordinators (ACs), and resource aggre- such as batteries and photovoltaic power generation gator (RAs). A software-as-a-service (SaaS) based on as if they were a traditional power generation plant. the package was also made available in 2019 and is A trial of their use to balance the supply and demand being used in the DRAS of a VTN company. for electric power is already underway in Japan in the form of the Virtual Power Plant Construction Demonstration Project of the Ministry of Economy, 3 ICT Solution for the Community-based Trade and Industry. Integrated Care System In 2017, Hitachi developed Hitachi Virtual Power Plant Solution as a joint solution package for VPPs Japan is confronting a variety of challenges associ- that provides the core functions of a demand response ated with the simultaneous shrinking and aging

• Real-time sharing between different professions of information on elderly • Use of data held by local government in the provision of in-home care Family doctor • Efficient delivery of care services and workload PC reduction Hospital or clinic Nurse Care worker Care manager

PC Information sharing system Tablet Facilities Cloud Outcalls Basic In-home personal care Notice- … information information board Details of elderly people in need of support Local residents, Visiting nurse Visiting care remote family worker Smartphone Tablet Cloud service for regional IoT integration* Home Local community, Administrative distant locations data Details of Social certification of … Residents’ security need for records information long-term care Local government

IoT: Internet of Things * A service that provides access to cloud services from local government business systems on the Local Government Wide Area Network (LGWAN) 3 Overview of information sharing system, an ICT solution for a community-based integrated care system

14 IT of its population, including rising health care and sharing, and encourages use of information held by nursing care costs and a shortage of support staff . In local government in providing care. An information response, the government is encouraging the local sharing system was launched in March 2019 in the and regional government entities that act as social form of an application for local governments and is security providers to establish a community-based being marketed widely. Social Systems integrated care system that suits the characteristics Th ere has been interest from a wide range of of their communities on the basis of local autonomy industries in the community-based integrated care and initiative. system and ways of solving community issues. It is To provide ICT support for the development believed that greater use of new technologies such of this system, work is being done on providing an as artifi cial intelligence (AI) and the provision of ICT solution for the community-based integrated services through cross-industry collaboration will care system that uses analysis to highlight com- contribute to new ways of providing places to live munity issues, strengthens coordination between that push the boundaries at a time when people diff erent professions (including care managers, care routinely live to 100 years of age. workers, and family doctors) through information

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