Toshiba Corporation launched its new 'Smart Community Center' with the corporation of Kawasaki-city on October 31.
With this building as the anchor, Toshiba will contribute to smart community demonstrations that Kawasaki City is promoting in the station district.
It is the showcase of business concept and work style which Toshiba aims to realize - saving energy, comfortableness, and counter-measure against any disaster.
7,800 Toshiba employees work in the center.
President Hisao Tanaka declared that "Smart Community Center" was launched based on cooperation agreement between Kawasaki-city in which Toshiba originated.
It will work as a base of mutual exchange of culture with Asia, especially India.
Toshiba focuses to main four business fields, including increasing of population, big data information society, natural resource and energy and global environment.
Under this center investigation and development of social infrastructure, smart community solution and health care, cloud computing are carried out. Top technology of air condition, illumination and elevator is prepared. Saving energy effect marked 7 percent rise.
Image sensing illumination which lit and cut the illumination automatically enabled 11 percent rising of energy saving. Elevator which installs camera enabled to move to crowded area with priority.
When disaster occurs blackout generator can provide electricity for three days. At that time elevator can move two hours continuously. It is the first introduction in the world.
The world biggest wall screen at the center shows clear and exciting images.
Employee can experience advanced health care facility. Result of measurement about weight and fat, eyesight check, stress check, check of blood vessel, blood pressure and skin age is showed on PC tablet which owned by each employee.
Toshiba's 'Smart Community Center' is the most comfortable and safe work place, also impressive "hypocenter" of top technology.
