With support from Tokyo’s Be Smart Tokyo, we implemented the spatial information management system IndooAR at Shimizu Corporation’s NOVARE

Nefront, Inc. was selected for Be Smart Tokyo, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s smart service implementation project, and has implemented the spatial information management system IndooAR at NOVARE, the open innovation hub of Shimizu Corporation. Repair information now builds up and can be shared, tied to the place it belongs to, which makes maintenance work lighter. We aim to extend this to related facilities and to other companies.

Nefront, Inc. (Representative Director: Shota Imamura; “Nefront”) was selected for Be Smart Tokyo, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s smart service implementation project, which CIC Institute runs as the smart service implementation operator. So that repair information builds up and can be shared, tied to the place it belongs to, we implemented the spatial information management system IndooAR at NOVARE, the open innovation hub of Shimizu Corporation (President: Tatsuya Shinmura; “Shimizu Corporation”).
Labor shortages have become serious in the maintenance of cities — buildings and infrastructure alike — and taking effort out of that work is now urgent. Acquiring inspection skills and reporting inspection results in particular take a great deal of time, and there is a real need to reduce the effort involved. Nefront addresses this with the spatial information management system and image recognition technology it has been building. The aim is to make inspection know-how visible and inspection records simpler, and so take effort out of maintaining a city.

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■ About Be Smart Tokyo, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s smart service implementation project

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is working toward Smart Tokyo, raising residents’ quality of life through digital technology. As a program for implementing services that make life in Tokyo more convenient and richer, it launched Be Smart Tokyo, its smart service implementation project, in fiscal 2022. The aim is to deploy across Tokyo the varied smart services that startups build, and in doing so raise both convenience and quality of life for residents.
Tokyo Metropolitan Government project page: https://www.be-smarttokyo.metro.tokyo.lg.jp

■ About CIC Institute

CIC Institute is the specialist team of CIC, which operates innovation centers and related programs in countries around the world. Drawing on its experience supporting deep-tech startups and building innovation ecosystems, it drives many projects in partnership with industry, academia, government and the public, and so promotes the creation of innovation.

■ About Nefront

Nefront uses AI and AR to make the information in a building easy to see and use.
IndooAR, our spatial information management system, uses image recognition to work out where you are — even indoors, where GPS barely reaches. From there it can guide you, show you AR content, and keep track of information and equipment.
We also offer Filefront, an AI drawing search service. It finds the sheet you need out of a large set of PDF drawings, by drawing type or by keyword.

■ Company profile

· Company name: Nefront, Inc.

· Address: Shibuya Dogenzaka Tokyu Building 2F-C, 1-10-8 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

· Representative: Shota Imamura

· Founded: June 2021