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Key Features and Differentiation:
Enabling the acquisition of clear and detailed data in murky waters,
previously difficult, contributing to the solution of various social issues from the sea.
Key Business Benefits:
For example, it can be used in a wide range of fields, such as quantification (collection, measurement, and modeling to calculate CO2 absorption and visualization of this information) and crediting of CO2 absorption through blue carbon, bay safety management, and efficient utilization of aquatic resources.
Technical Overview:
Target Industry/Users:
Companies and municipalities undertaking blue carbon initiatives - Companies and municipalities undertaking blue carbon initiatives - Municipalities: Organizations working on blue carbon credit circulation and regional revitalization (tourism, education, fisheries)
Challenges in Target Industry and Operations:
- Measuring and understanding the state of the ocean has previously required specialized personnel such as divers and oceanographers, resulting in high costs.
- Human measurement is limited in quality and time due to the harsh environment of turbidity, waves, and currents.
Technical Challenges:
Cost of ocean data collection:
Ocean data collection often relies on manual labor. This is time-consuming and labor-intensive, resulting in high costs.
Accuracy Limits in Ocean Data Collection:
Due to the complex and ever-changing environment caused by turbidity and waves, and sensor resolution, current technologies (acoustic sonar, etc.) have a resolution of about 10 cm. Therefore, it is difficult to grasp the high-resolution state of things like seaweed species, volume, and shape.
Dependence on Experts for Ocean Data Analysis:
Utilizing ocean data requires advanced expertise, often relying on specialists such as oceanographers and marine environmental scientists, or specialized businesses with long experience in ocean surveys, making timely utilization difficult.
Value Provided by Ocean Digital Twins:
Automatic, high-precision digitization of the entire ocean, quantifying blue carbon (CO2 absorption) at an extremely low cost, contributing to carbon neutrality, etc.
Fujitsu's Technological Advantage:
Automatic Control Technology:
While other companies mainly control underwater/surface drones through remote operation by humans, Fujitsu utilizes control technology cultivated through the development of robots and HDDs, enabling autonomous navigation of underwater drones without being affected by currents or swaying from complex terrain, ensuring stable collection of underwater data.
Ocean Measurement Technology:
While other companies only perform area extraction based on the color identification of objects such as seaweed, Fujitsu applies real-time sensing technology cultivated through the development of the world's first gymnastics scoring support system to the ocean, accurately restoring and measuring the color and shape of objects in the presence of turbidity and swaying specific to the ocean.
Seaweed Bed AI Model:
While other companies estimate CO2 absorption from the area of seaweed, making it difficult to meet standards for crediting, etc., Fujitsu enables estimation of seaweed volume and CO2 absorption from data obtained through ocean measurement technology, allowing for high-precision quantification of CO2 absorption.
Use Cases:
- Blue carbon initiatives
- Blue carbon quantification
- Seaweed cultivation
Technical Trial:
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