Water treatment
Our focus is on water treatment equipment and on monitoring, diagnostic and optimization technologies for water and wastewater infrastructure. Advances in these areas enhance water quality management, realize stable facility operation, address labor shortages, and facilitate early recovery from disasters. Our work on AI and IoT-based automatic control promotes energy and labor savings, and contributes to the development of a safe, sustainable and secure water supply system.
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Pretreatment System for OD Method Using Rotating Fiber Bodies Habuki™ | Social Systems Business | Toshiba
Railways
The key to ensuring safe, comfortable rail transport over the long-term is automated train operations. Our contributions include integrated models of highly accurate train dynamics, calculating interstation running plans that make extensive use of coasting, and analyzing footage from forward-facing cameras to detect tracks and any obstacles along them. Together, these technologies maintain passenger comfort while boosting energy-efficient operation and ensuring the safety of the train’s travel path.
Highways
Data analysis technologies for accident prediction on highways utilize driving data and weather information to assess risk in advance.
They provide drivers and administrators with advance warning, help to prevent accidents, and enable swift responses when they do occur. Overall, these technologies contribute to improved traffic safety, reduced congestion, and more efficient emergency and recovery operations, supporting the development of safe and secure social infrastructure.
Mail and Logistics
As populations age in many countries, we are taking on the challenge of ever-smaller workforces by automating logistics and postal operations. We have developed technologies the read mail and parcel addressed and rapidly sort them by destination, plus systems that analyze past and current warehouse data to simulate efficient operations and optimize overall logistics, even as warehouse conditions change. By leveraging these and other advanced automation technologies, we provide systems that bring new levels of efficiency to daily life.
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Warehouse Execution System:Robotics Systems & Solutions | Security & Automation Systems | Toshiba
Communications & Broadcasting
Wireless mesh networks and local 5G technologies ensure communication in disasters and depopulated areas, and achieve stable and high-speed communication in factories and facilities. A secure communication environment using dedicated bands such as local 5G will contribute to solving social issues in various fields such as telemedicine, smart infrastructure, and IoT utilization, and support the construction of a sustainable, safe, and secure society.
Industrial Systems
To support a carbon-neutral society, we develop core and applied technologies for eco-friendly power systems and high-efficiency, reliable inverters and motors used in railways, elevators, and automobiles, etc. As part of our digital infrastructure solutions, we’ve created diagnostic technologies that detect early signs of equipment degradation and predict failures, enhancing industrial safety through insulation and deterioration analysis using acoustic and vibration methods.
AE Infrastructure Monitoring
As infrastructure ages, ensuring its safety becomes increasingly important.
Bridges present a particular challenge, but we have developed health monitoring technology that detects and visualizes internal structural damage using the minute vibrations generated by passing vehicles.
Acoustic emission sensors detect the vibrations, and analysis determines their source location and transmission path to reveal hidden secrets. Once the internal structure is understood, maintenance and repair plans can be developed, a capability that makes maintenance more efficient and can extend the lifespan of the structure. We will continue to bring digitization to management of aging infrastructure.
Detection of internal damage using AE sensors
Soundness map
Evaluation of Resilience to Power Outages
We have evaluated the risk of power outages from natural disasters, such as earthquakes and typhoons, plus the effectiveness of distributed energy resources--such as solar power and storage batteries--in reducing damage from outage. Visualizing the added value (resilience value) of distributed energy resources also promotes their introduction, and technologies contribute to solving the social issue of maintaining infrastructure functions during disasters.
