2018 Vol. 03 Daikin Undergoes Transformation Interview

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Defining the Researcher ③ Group Leader and Senior Engineer Technology A Science Dream Created by People Tomohiro Yabu and Innovation Center IAQ Technology ……22 Technology and Innovation Center Conventional air conditioners will become systems that maintain temperature while stimulating the senses CarvingSpecial Article out Daikin’s Future with AI and IoT oichi Interview Key Technology ③ Head of the Digital Nature Group, University of Tsukuba ……01 “Advancement” Yoichi Ochiai of analysis/evaluation technology ……26 The digital nature society that is just around the corner. Introducing future of air conditioner Daikin thinks of How should the future look for technology? Heating, Ventilating, Special Interview Air-conditioning and Refrigerating Professor, Open and Transdisciplinary ……30 Minoru Etoh Research Initiatives, Osaka University ……04 Expo Report Hoping to link the “corporate plants” Recent External Presentations ……33 and “university knowledge” organizations together, to advance together About Challenge A Science Dream Created by People Vol.03 Group leaders engage in passionate discussions If you remove the letters “lle” from the word Technology and May.2018 Innova tion Center Monozukuri (manufacturing) for kotozukuri (value creation), “challenge” it leaves “change.” Special Daikin Undergoes Transformation but our strengths lie in mechanisms The title of this publication reflects the change Feature which comes about through challenge, which is the Carving out Daikin’s Future aim of TIC and the heart of our corporate culture. Carving out Daikin’s Future with AI and IoT

……08 Interview Yoichi Ochiai with AI and IoT The digital nature society Cover design: Akane Sakagawa（krran） that is just around the corner. TIC seeks collaborative partners with whom to generate new value. How should the future For further inquiries, please contact: [email protected] look for technology? Date of publication: May 1, 2018 (Volume 03) Published by Technology and Innovation Center, Daikin Industries, Ltd. 1-1, Nishi-Hitotsuya, Settsu, Osaka 566-8585, Japan (within Yodogawa Plant) Minoru Etoh × Yoshihisa Toshima × Naotake Shimozu Photography: Masatoshihttp://www.daikin.com/about/corporate/tic/index.html Uenaka Phone. +81-6-6195-7051 (switchboard) Chief editor ● Kenichi Azuma Special Feature Planning and editing ● Jun Kobayashi (Technology and Innovation Center, Daikin Industries, Ltd.), Shigeru Otsuki (Strategic Public Relation Human Knowledge：Storing ……13 Institute), Tamiwa Office Co., Ltd. Human beings have succeeded Writers ● Shigeru Otsuki, Osamu Tamamura, Megumi Tamiwa, in storing invisible things Ichiro Erokumae, Kurumi Kamimura, Kurumi Sekine Photography ● Masatoshi Uenaka, Yasutaka Hoshino, Yuta Fukitsuka, Yoshiko Yoda Ei-ichi Negishi × Ichiro Sakata Photography cooperation ● Aflo Co., Ltd., Photolibrary O Dialogue ……20 Printer ● Sanshodo Co., Ltd. Invitation to Web “Challenge” chiai ▼Please visit our web site at : https://www.daikin.com/about/ corporate/tic/magazine/

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Technology and Special 2017 Vol. 02 va tion Center Feature Inno Human Knowledge Taking on challenges in new fields ・Please send your questions, ha Sleep We need advancementsIn modern times, people have str Collaborative from the natural human instinctInnovation at T I C A Science Dream Created by People Since opening in 2015, the Technology and Innovation Center (TIC) has engaged in various types Vol.02 of collaboration with other industries and fields as the control tower for Daikin’s technological Special Human Knowledgedevelopment. In particular, the collaborative innovation featured in this issue represents major comments and feedback Feature in the scientificchallenges approach focused onto state-of-the-artslee artificial intelligence (AI), in anticipation of future needs. A Science Dream Created by People Technology and Innovation Center Sleep = a state of a Sep.2017 ayed of sleep. Technology and Innovation Center l NEC Did Ancient People Wander A world-first system through collabor related to comfortCollaborative and× intellectual innovationT I C productivity Sleep pparent death through a Mystical World For people who spend most of their time indoors each day, Building an indoor environmental control system l achieving a healthy indoor environment can be considered a key theme for maintaining health and improving intellectualp. Using AI to create highlyEach productive Night? spaces that improves intellectual productivity ・We are looking for subscribers productivity. However, since the ideal space varies depend- ation with NEC ing on individuals’ physical and emotional states, as well as ① Estimating the e Special the type of work they perform, conventional one-size-fits-all person’s st Feature environmental control cannot easily create spaces that are HumanControl Kn that ma Why do humans sleep? The answer Utilizing sensing ate conducive to maintaining health and improving intellectual ● Environmental conditionto this question 1: Temperature is clear: sleep inside is the room means in which the owledge: tches the person's vario productivity. But what if we combined Daikin’s technologies, kept constant at 27℃,instinctive no aroma. and is indispensable two companies excel Providing new values for to take on the chal which adjust air to the most comfortable level, as well as ● Environmentalthe condition restoration 2: 27℃→of the body’s 20℃→ fu 27℃, no Sleep lenge of estimating a us states aroma. Temperaturetions. setting Sleep is was essential changed for human at the start of the air and space Daikin's knowledge of the effects that air and space have person’s intellectual - Facial life. However, in ancient times, sleep on people, with NEC Corporation’s technologies related to second and fifth sets. productivity. image was considered closer to death than AI and the Internet of Things (IoT)? Would it be possible to Voice Using an AI eng to life, and was general thought of Biometr to analyze the perso ②Spatial control tailored nge solve these issues and achieve air and space characteristics for informat as a state of apparent death. This ic and space ine to each individual nc Pulse ion A Science Dream Created by People that suit individual needs? With this goal in mind, the two - wave The aesthetic of “sleep” depicted in paint Exampletheme of isan also experiment apparent in Hypnos, to test the relationship The Sleeping Ca n to our free magazine ● Environmental condition 3: Temperature kept constant at Utilizing Daikin’s technologies In ancient times, sleep was consi companies embarked on a joint collaborative project in betweenthe Greekenvironmental god of sleep, who control is and alertness Nikko Toshogu S Temperature, Concentrating 27℃, no aroma → aroma → no aroma. Aroma was sprayed humidity, and Tired for controlling such charac October 2016. ers with Oneiros, the god of dreams, is a symbol of p Collection of hu The history of sleep research is still sh Experime environmental Sleepy, etc. teristics as air conditioning, as well as Thanatos and Moros, gods for 30 minutes starting at the start of the second set and information aroma, and lighting, together Edward Coley Burne-Jones is a vivid nt protoco man and environmental Stimuli to the five senses, of death. 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This type of research is a ant temthe drowsine that even cats a Challenge” environmental control system that will help improve people’s “ how to independently identify Set to 27℃ remain unknown. - (Fully alert) perature different conditions. ented new genre for the world, and the project team members, intellectual productivity. ss evaluat d to gunate vs. temp For example, it is said that beds including Toru Nishino, are energetically continuing with eratur ion result o were invented in ancient Egypt The figurenew at the toptopics of page 3 shows to part challenge, of the experi 1.0 e stimulus The ancient Greek philosopher - Aristotle already developed a physi NTT West experiments in the hope of completing new indexes for air ment that has been conducted so far. Biometric sensors, ) ver time however, it is not clear how they later With constant ological explanation for sleep, and space that can be utilized in a variety of fields, accord cameras, and avoidingenvironmental sensors attachment were positioned inside to the past”2.0 spread. In Japan, there is evidenc Yoichi Ochiai With temperat temperaturesidering it a periodic phenomeno Collaborationthat relatedbed-like furniture to air-conditioning made from tree netw ing to need. a room to collect data on a regular basis. The collected data 3.0 ure recuperationstimulus from fatigue that was logs was once used. The covering was used to analyze the relationship between the alertness of ×T I C D only seen in animals. Aristotle sa used also differed from that used in 4.0 In order to satisfy the changing needs of social; infrastruc the person present inside the room and the environment there. that sleep was time allotted to all the West. Tatami culture was bor - ture, a collaborative project to create a new air-related value New air-related service The test subject was a male in his thirties who was asked Drowsiness5.0 evaluation result people. But sleep environments, the con- - the Nara Period (710 – 794A.D.), with whom to generate new value..jp (Drowsy) started last autumn. This project utilizes IoT and capitalizesork to do mental arithmetic (with each set consisting of 50 places and bedding used for sleeping while during the Heian Period (794 – e based on LPWA technology - ustries, Ltd. 1 n for on Daikin’s air-conditioning technology and NTT West’s lease contact: [email protected] mental arithmetic addition problems). The test was repeated Change i 2 have varied considerably through t 1185A.D.), multiple tatami mats would TIC seeks collaborative partners (with ar Many extravagn the drowsine 3 ages, in each country, and depending LPWA technology (general term for low-power wireless For further inquiries, p y and Innovation Center,a Plant) Daikin Ind a total of seven times with approximately five minutes of rest oma sti be stacked up to make a bed. (Fully alert) mulus 4 We will send you every issue ard) have been excavat upon social status, and many detai id communication technology that enables km-range Published by Technolog in between. ) ss evaluat 5 However, this was limited to the royal tombs1.0 suc 6 communication).Imperial and aristocratic families, n in - ber 29, 2017 (Volume 02) su, Osaka 566-8585, JapanPhone. (within +81-6-6195-7051 Yodogaw (switchbo ion result o that of Tutankh 7 Set ant beds ver time In whilethe trial, farmers air conditionersusually wrapped located them in western Japan, Date of publication: Septem 1-1, Nishi-Hitotsuya, Settt/corporate/tic/index.html 2 Challenge 20 2.0 selves in straw to sleep. For centuries, Ancient Egyptia , where TIC is located, are connected to NTT West’s LPWA System configuration of the tr http://www.daikin.com/abou possibly be the ed from With aroma stimulus he the sleeping environment for people of 17 Vol. 02 3.0 h as network in order to constantly monitor their operating today—ma lower social status did not improve. It ing simple be amun. statuses, as well as indoor and outdoor air-conditioning Daikin Industries Head of the Digital Nature Group, University of Tsukuba n beds are 4.0 It could be said thatls for washalf not untilof theour Meiji lives, Period (1868 – leaves, as w ny have model been for fo the information. 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This is l carvings. 4 Furthermore, there is a great expectation that the project Indoor unit LPWA hotograph rom the tomb 5 because all of us sleep might lead to the creation of new services that flexibly after your registration 6 tively decorat utilize various types of information sensed by the air condi for half7 Set of our life. Outdoor unit tioner, such as temperature, humidity, windD velocity, and ed Aristotle cleanliness of the inside and outside air. 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To demonstrate a new relationship between computers and people known visits and interactive meetings as digital nature, he also engages in exhibition activities as a media artist by mainly using media art expressions that combine real world-oriented computer graphics, human TIC seeks collaborative partners with whom to generate new value. For further inquiries, computation, and analog and digital technologies. please contact : [email protected]

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