As well as working with the Japanese city’s municipal government on the driverless project, Mitsubishi Corporation has been nominated as a private sector partner in Kamakura’s Super City concept.
Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) is working with the Japanese municipal government of Kamakura City on a smart city driverless vehicle pilot for healthcare services in the cities of Kamakura and Fujisawa.
MC is also in talks with Kamakura City’s municipal government about developing its urban core and surrounding region into a smart city. The company has been nominated by Kamakura City as a private partner in its Super City concept.
Project partners
Partners in the autonomous driving and healthcare services project are Shonan Health Innovation Park (Shonan iPark), Tokushukai Shonan Kamakura General Hospital (Kamakura General) and Yokohama-based semiconductors and integrated circuits specialist, Macnica, as well as Mitsubishi Electric Corporation.
Shonan iPark comprises an ecosystem of researchers, industry experts, venture start-ups, government, and academia that aim to accelerate research, transforming cutting-edge science into impactful health solutions for patients around the world.
The pilot is focused on making local medical services more convenient and accessible. MC has been working with the parties to monitor roughly 1,000 residents of Kamakura and Fujisawa in the Kanagawa prefecture and augment those cities’ various medical services with self-driving vehicles.
The pilot project will likely involve the vehicles travelling to and from healthcare facilities to perform examinations, check patients’ vital signs and take their medical histories using digital technologies.
If successful, the programme can be rolled out permanently to improve accessibility to patients’ homes and local healthcare facilities, enable those facilities to provide smoother treatments and reduce patient wait times.
The project is being funded by Kanagawa prefecture’s publicly funded programme to assist businesses that are engaged in trials of robotics technologies, as well as by the cities themselves.
In the wider Super City concept, MC plans to make full use of its global business network, as well as collaborate with its local enterprises, to explore ways to introduce a variety of municipal services aimed at improving quality of life in the city.
It said in a statement that it is committed to smart urban developments that represent the “next-generation of city management”: “we are pleased to do our part to make services in Kamakura and its surrounding region more convenient and environmentally friendly.”
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Quelle/Source: Smart Cities World, 26.11.2021
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