Hitachi launches 'Facility monitoring service'

October 30, 2013 | 21:00

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At the two-day Hitachi Innovation Forum in Tokyo, Japan's Hitachi Group today announced that it would enhance and expand services in the area of smart information as an initiative for improving social infrastructure via the use of IT in its Social Innovation Business.

Through a smart information platform named Intelligent Operations Suite, Hitachi will deliver a comprehensive range of products and services, which it has dubbed 'Intelligent Operations' for use in energy and facility infrastructure.

On November 1, Hitachi will launch Facility Monitoring Service, a range of SaaS cloud services that will realise the life cycle management of social infrastructure facilities such as roads, railway tunnels and bridges.

The suite of services, which uses M2M (machine to machine) technology to collect data for sensor, and a predictive diagnosis service for analysing data, will enable early detection of abnormal conditions in facilities and preventive maintenance of aging facilities.

Keiichi Shiotsuka, chief executive official of Services Business of Hitachi's Informations and Telecommunication Systems Company said that the new service would help in the life cycle management of social infrastructure facilities and would reduce the overall facility maintenance costs.

He also said that Hitachi intended to expand the market of this suite of service not only in Japan but also at the global level.

By By Hoang Anh

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