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Y Interview oichi Daikin Undergoes Transformation C o n t e n t s ……22 Group Leader and Senior Engineer Technology and Innovation Center IAQ Technology Defining the Researcher ③ Tomohiro Yabu Conventional air conditioners will become ……26 Vol. 03 systems that maintain temperature while 2018 stimulating the senses Key Technology ③ “Advancement” ……30 of analysis/evaluation technology ……33 O A Science Dream Created by People ……01 Introducing future of air conditioner Daikin thinks of Technology and Innovation Center Heating, Ventilating, Vol.03 8 201 Head of the Digital Nature Group, May. A Science Dream Created by People University of Tsukuba Air-conditioning and Refrigerating Technologytion andCenter va CarvingSpecial Article out Daikin’s Future with AI and IoT Inno Expo Report Special Feature Interview Carving out Recent External Presentations Daikin’s Future Yoichi Ochiai ……04 with AI and IoT Yoichi Ochiai Challenge Interview The digital nature society The digital nature society that is just around the corner. About How should the future that is just around the corner. look for technology? Professor, Open and Transdisciplinary If you remove the letters “lle” from the word Research Initiatives, Osaka University How should the future look for technology? “challenge” it leaves “change.” TIC seeks collaborative partners with whom to generate new value. For further inquiries, please contact: [email protected] Published by Technology Phone. and Innovation +81-6-6195-7051 Center, Daikin (switchboard) Industries, Ltd. 1-1, Nishi-Hitotsuya, Settsu, Osaka 566-8585, Japan (within Yodogawa Plant) Date of publication: May 1, 2018 (Volume 03) Special Interview The title of this publication reflects the changehttp://www.daikin.com/about/corporate/tic/index.html which comes about through challenge, which is the aim of TIC and the heart of our corporate culture. Minoru Etoh (value creation), Cover design:Photography: Akane Sakagawa(krran) Masatoshi Uenaka Hoping to link the “corporate plants”kotozukuri and “university knowledge” organizations together, to advance together ……08 (manufacturing) for Chief editor ● Kenichi Azuma Group leaders engage in passionate discussions Planning and editing ● Jun Kobayashi (Technology and Innovation Monozukuri Center, Daikin Industries, Ltd.), Shigeru Otsuki (Strategic Public Relation Daikin Undergoes Transformation but our strengths lie in mechanisms Institute), Tamiwa Office Co., Ltd. Writers ● Shigeru Otsuki, Osamu Tamamura, Megumi Tamiwa, Carving out Daikin’s Future ……13 Ichiro Erokumae, Kurumi Kamimura, Kurumi Sekine Photography ● Masatoshi Uenaka, Yasutaka Hoshino, Yuta Fukitsuka, with AI and IoT Yoshiko Yoda ” Minoru Etoh × Yoshihisa Toshima × Naotake Shimozu Photography cooperation ● Aflo Co., Ltd., Photolibrary Storing Printer ● Sanshodo Co., Ltd. Special Feature ……20 Human Knowledge: Human beings have succeeded Challenge in storing invisible things Ei-ichi Negishi × Ichiro Sakata Dialogue ▼Please visit our web site at : Yoichi Ochiai 1 Head of the Digital Nature Group, University of Tsukuba https://www.daikin.com/about/ corporate/tic/magazine/ Please send your questions, He studied media arts at University of Tsukuba and Invitation to Web “ ・ received a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary information studies comments and feedback from the University of Tokyo. He researches the possibilities of multimedia beyond images. 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Technology and Innovation Center Special Feature reated by Peopl after your registration A Science Dream Taking on challenges in new fields C Created by People Human Knowledge tion Center Technologyva and Collaborative A world-first system through collaboration with NEC Dream Building an indoor environmental control system Providing new values for Inno Sleep = a state of a that improves intellectual productivity air and space nce Special e Sleep Feature Control that matches the person's various states Human Kn ②Spatial control tailored Innovation at T I C pparent death owledge: Sleep to eachSci individual Did Ancient People Wander① Estimating the Facial Since opening in 2015, the Technology and Innovation Center (TIC) has engaged in various types image Using an AI engine ・Introduction to Events person’s state In modern times, people have str to analyze the Aperson Utilizing Daikin’s technologies and space of collaboration with other industries and fields as the control tower for Daikin’s technological Biometric for controlling such charac- Utilizing sensing Voice from the natural human instinctdevelopment. In particular, the collaborative innovation featured in this issue represents major information teristics as air conditioning, through a Mystical World means in which the We need advancements Concentrating aroma, and lighting, together challenges focused on state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI), in anticipation of future needs. two companies excel Pulse wave Tired with NEC’s AI forecasting and to take on the chal- ayed Sleepy, etc. control technologies to take lenge of estimating a Temperature, Each Night? humidity, and on the challenge of achieving in the scientific approach to slee person’s intellectual of sleep. environmental a space that maintains a high productivity. information level of intellectual produc- T I C tivity. NEC× Collection of human and environmental information We will provide you with Special Using AI to create highly productive spaces The Sleeping Ca Collaborative innovation p. Why do humans sleep? The answer Nikko Toshogu S Technology and Innovation Center Feature related to comfort and intellectual productivity to this question is clear: sleep is t carved into ● Environmentalis condition a symbol 3: Temperature of p kept constant at managers and researchers in architecture and brain science instinctive and is indispensable hrine For people who spend most of their time indoors each day, ● Environmental condition 1: Temperature inside the room 27℃, no aroma → aroma → no aroma. Aroma was sprayed fields. This research will cover such subjects as on-site the restoration of the body’s fuC The Sleeping C eace Sleepachieving a healthy indoor environment can be considered a kept constant at 27℃, no aroma. for 30 minutes startingShrine, in at T the atstart carved of the i second set and verification with the simulated tasks replaced by real tasks, tions. Sleep is essential for humanfor key theme for maintaining health and improving intellectual ● Environmental condition 2: 27℃→ 20℃→ 27℃, no ending before thebeen start carved of ochigitheb fifth Pref set. nto Nikko Tosho and improvement in the completeness of automated control life. However, in ancient times, sleepnc- protecting Toky Hidari Jingoecture, is said to productivity. However, since the ideal space varies depend- aroma. Temperature setting was changed at the start of the This experiment produced results showing that providinggu through the use of AI and IoT. This type of research is a was considered closer to death than tion rests ugawa Ieyasu ro, in the hopehave on the premise tha ing on individuals’ physical and emotional states, as well as second and fifthto life, sets. and was general thought of the test subjectpeace, with in environmental control. Another (temperature explanof new genre for the world, and the project team members, that the reign the type of work they perform, conventional one-size-fits-all as a state of apparent death. This stimulus andwas aroma said stimulus)to b that stimulatedt sleep repres the fivea -senses including Toru Nishino, are energetically continuing with could sleep. e “so peaceful of the Edo Sho ented environmental control cannot easily create spaces that are theme is also apparent in Hypnos, between this world and the hea changed his alertness, which in turn can improve his work experiments in the hope of completing new indexes for air ” that even catsgunate information on TIC guided Example of an experiment to test the relationship conducive to maintaining health and improving intellectual the Greek god of sleep, who is The things that the spirit experiencedefficiency. The plan for the future is to carry out further and space that can be utilized in a variety of fields, accord- productivity. But what if we combined Daikin’s technologies, betweeners with environmental Oneiros, the god control of dreams, and alertness there became dreams, and if the spiritvens.research while incorporating the opinions of company ing to need. D which adjust air to the most comfortable level, as well as broth Experimeas wellnt protoco as Thanatosl and Moros, gods - did not return, this was interprete remain unknown. Daikin's knowledge of the effects that air and space have of death. During0 10 sleep,20 the spirit30 was40 50 ha60 (Min)mean death. For example, it is said that beds on people, with NEC Corporation’s technologies related to believedSet to leave1 the2 body,3 roaming4 5 6 7 d to were invented in ancient Egypt (M) (R) (M) (R) (M) (R) (M) (R) (M) (R) (M) (R) (M)Although sleep was the state AI and the Internet of Things (IoT)? Would it be possible to however, it is not clear how they later New air-related service (Environmental condition) (M)=Mental arithme tic (R)=Restof rest shared by everyone, T I C solve these issues and achieve air and space characteristics NTTspread. West In Japan, there× is evidenc; 1. Constant Set to 27℃ people partook of it under temperature that bed-like furniture made from tree based on LPWA technology that suit individual needs? With this goal in mind, the two different conditions. ork companies embarked on a joint collaborativeNegishi project in 2. Temperature Set to 27℃ Set to 20℃ Set to 27℃ logs was once used.