The fourth SSPP (Sustainable Smart City Partner Program) Forum convened in Tokyo’s Harajuku district this October at With Harajuku Hall, an open space fostering informal, energetic dialogue.
Launched in 2020, SSPP supports community-building centered on maximizing residents’ well-being, with communities as the main players. The program creates spaces where municipal governments, local businesses, educational institutions and residents cooperate across traditional boundaries.
Weiterlesen: JP: Tokyo: Smart city forum focuses on communities building the future
Digital tools launched in a Japanese smart city that can send disaster alerts to safeguard residents are part of an optional technology push aiming to overcome social and economic challenges, while also allaying privacy fears.
The smartphone alerts were introduced in Aizuwakamatsu city, Fukushima prefecture, last week by consultancy firm Accenture, which has worked with researchers to revitalise the city using technology since a devastating earthquake in 2011.
Weiterlesen: Japanese smart city Aizuwakamatsu offers residents quake, privacy protection
After announcing it in 2020, the first residents and partner companies of Toyota Woven City are starting to move in. This marks the first step of it transforming into a real-world test course for mobility and a key driver of Toyota’s transformation from a traditional carmaker into a mobility company.
Located at the base of Mt. Fuji and at the former site of Toyota Motor East Japan’s Higashi-Fuji Plant in Susono City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Toyota Woven City spans 708,200 square meters. The first phase, completed in October of last year, includes space for around 360 residents (47,000 square meters), growing to a full population of 2,000 people once everything is completed.
Weiterlesen: JP: Toyota's Smart City, Woven City, Is Now Open To Residents
New smart city to serve as a test site for innovative technology
Toyota Group employees have been welcomed to a new mini city recently launched by the automotive manufacturer that acts as a real-world test course for innovative technology.
The city, called Toyota Woven City, was developed alongside Woven by Toyota, Inc. (WbyT) and officially launched in late September, two years after it was first unveiled.
Weiterlesen: JP: Woven-City: Toyota takes employees to new smart city for tech testing
Toyota Motor Corp on Thursday launched an experimental "city” in central Japan where self-driving vehicles, delivery robots and personal transporters operate to provide services to residents, marking a rare urban initiative by an automaker.
In the first phase of the Woven City project on about 47,000 square meters of land at the foot of Mount Fuji in Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture, a few households have moved in. Around 300 more people linked to Toyota are expected to live there.
Weiterlesen: JP: Toyota unveils ‘woven city’ as living lab for future mobility