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More than half the world lives in urban areas, but in Japan 92% does. This creates challenges in terms of sustainability, but Japan has found a solution: It s using the innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to create new kinds of cities, smart cities.
You don’t need to be a megacity to be a smart city. In Japan, smaller communities are also using ground-breaking technology, like the Internet of Things and big ideas like the sharing economy to become more sustainable.
Two Japanese eco-towns
Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town was built on the site of an old Panasonic factory. This new community is home to about 2000 people. Every house is equipped with solar panels and smart monitoring systems. They enable residents to track their energy consumption both at home and on a community-wide level.
29 December 2020, 2:05 pm EST By
Due to the pandemic this 2020, services are trying to find ways to limit human to human contact to provide safety for their customers and employees, so it wasn t surprising when shops began delivering almost anything from food to necessities right at their customer s doorsteps.
Nevertheless, Panasonic wanted to take things a step further with a self-driving robot to do deliveries.
Trials at Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town
(Photo : Panasonic)
The autonomous delivery vehicle is being tested in the Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town in Japan.
According to the Japan Times, the company has announced on Monday, December 28, that trials for the self-driving delivery robot will start in February at a residential area in the Kanagawa Prefecture.