Hexagon and Fujitsu are collaborating to jointly develop digital twin applications for predicting and mitigating natural disasters and traffic accidents.
Hexagon’s Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial division and Fujitsu Limited are jointly developing digital twin applications for predicting and mitigating natural disasters and traffic accidents.
The solutions reflect the two companies’ ongoing efforts to realise resilient, disaster-resistant cities based on a business alliance formed last year.
Disaster mitigation
To support disaster mitigation, the two companies are developing a prediction model that calculates the extent and impact of flooding from precipitation data, visualises the extent of flooding and performs damage prediction analysis. Based on the analysis, cities can develop disaster response plans.
To support traffic safety, the companies have focused on an application that identifies areas where heavy traffic and road design heighten the risk of accidents and proposes measures for improvement. The application would allow city planners and road administrators to develop safer, more resilient transportation networks.
Going forwards, Fujitsu and Hexagon will continue conducting field trials with customers in the administrative, municipal and transportation sectors to support decision-making for urban environmental optimisation, with an aim to develop solutions globally by the end of fiscal 2023 ending March 2024.
“Hexagon is proud to work with Fujitsu to provide cities with tools to take control of their futures,” said Mladen Stojic, president of government, transportation, defence and security for Hexagon’s Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial division.
“By monitoring and mitigating factors that have negative impacts on society, from pollution to traffic congestion to flooding, our partnership is helping to make urban areas more sustainable and liveable.”
Use case 1: Protecting cities and regions from natural disasters
Leveraging Fujitsu’s computing-as-a-service (CaaS) platform, which offers users a suite of services based on Fujitsu’s advanced computing and software technologies, alongside Hexagon’s M.App Enterprise real-time geospatial application, the two companies will use ‘digital rehearsal’ technology that can predict changes in people’s behaviour on the digital twin and verify the effects of measures in advance. It will analyse and verify disaster threats and optimal disaster preparedness in advance on a digital twin that replicates real-world conditions.
The combined solution uses flood forecasting models and precipitation data to perform sophisticated calculations and visualise flooding, as well as to address challenges and use cases in the medical, financial, public and distribution industries, such as infrastructure damage forecasting, formulation of disaster response plans and estimation of damage amounts.
In addition, it aims to secure safe evacuation routes and support infrastructure protection in the event of abnormal weather and natural disasters by leveraging weather IoT sensors and weather forecast services that monitor temperature and rainfall.
Use case 2: Contributing to the reduction of traffic accidents
Through a combination of Hexagon’s geospatial visualisation tool M.App Enterprise and Fujitsu’s infrastructure services, the companies have developed an application that visualises areas with high levels of traffic accidents, analyses traffic volumes, road design, signs and other factors and provides recommendations for reducing traffic accidents in accordance with the Road Safety Toolkit of the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP).
For example, in a spot where traffic volume is low but accidents frequently occur, several improvement measures, such as speed control, installation of warning signs and separation of traffic routes between pedestrians and vehicles by guardrails, are presented together for a cost effective solution. These proposals for city planners, road administrators, local governments and consulting services contribute to the reduction of traffic accidents and the creation of safe and secure communities.
Yoshinami Takahashi, SEVP, head of Global Business Solutions of Fujitsu said: “We are very pleased to report on the progress of our partnership with Hexagon, which represents a big step towards realising Fujitsu’s Trusted Society for Fujitsu Uvance. This new global offering promotes sustainability transformation, combining the strengths of both companies to address many complex issues facing society that cannot be solved through existing means.”
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Quelle/Source: Smart Cities World, 14.06.2023
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