News release overview
Hitachi develops mobility control infrastructure to support daily living and recovery in disaster-stricken areas
Configuring safe and efficient optimum routes by understanding and predicting the peripheral route environment in real time
Figure 1 Overview of mobility control infrastructure
Tokyo, March 18, 2024 – Hitachi Ltd. (TSE: 6501; hereafter "Hitachi") has developed a mobility control infrastructure which achieves a high degree of safety and operational efficiency in transport infrastructure. When automatically or remotely operating mobility devices, the new technology determines environmental changes along a route in real time, such as weather or status of wireless communication, manages them within a digital space to predict subsequent changes, and calculates a safe movement route, thus enabling stable operation. In this way it can provide safe and efficient automatic operation for supporting daily living and recovery activities in disaster-stricken areas. Hitachi intends to use this technology as "air route for mobility" to improve convenience in air mobility for drones and other aircrafts. Also, it can be utilized as a very safe control system for take-off and landing, thereby contributing to safe operation and further automation of transport infrastructure.
