We are pleased to announce that a research proposal jointly submitted by four parties, including our company, and represented by Associate Professor Tomonori Nagayama of the Graduate School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, has been selected for the "FY2020 Research Grant for International Development of Infrastructure Management Technology" by the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE).

The GLOCAL-EYEZ China Business Promotion Office has been established jointly with the Kehong New Technology Research Institute affiliated with Sichuan University and the Road Maintenance and Management Laboratory of Southwest Jiaotong University for the purpose of technological development and business promotion of the next-generation road management platform GLOCAL-EYEZ in China. In China, large-scale infrastructure investment totalling RMB 11 trillion (approximately ¥170 trillion) is planned for the period 2020-25 under the national project known as 'New Base Building'. China is also making strong efforts to utilise next-generation information technologies such as AI, 5G and IoT, and is introducing these latest technologies in the field of infrastructure maintenance and management. Against this background, road inspection technologies that utilise AI and IoT, such as GLOCAL-EYEZ, are in strong demand in China. We have developed a dedicated road inspection AI based on tens of thousands of road surface image teacher data collected locally in China. In addition, a proof-of-concept (PoC) of the large-scale road surface survey web service GLOCAL-EYEZ in China was launched in December 2020. Through this demonstration, the road management department of Sichuan Province has highly evaluated GLOCAL-EYEZ as a significant contribution towards the digital transformation (DX) of road management. With the establishment of the China Business Promotion Office, we intend to further accelerate the market development of the Chinese version of GLOCAL-EYEZ by making improvements in terms of security and user interface (UI). Ceremony to establish the China Business Promotion Office China Business Promotion Office, Kehong Technology Research Institute Trial operation of a road management system using GLOCAL-EYEZ