We will continue to contribute to a sustainable society through providing new value for people, building systems, and society.
Since we started research and development of elevators in the 1920s, we have been a member of the Hitachi Group dedicated to establishing a safe, secure and comfortable society. This commitment has been realized through the provision of high-quality products and services supporting many aspects of buildings, including elevators, escalators, air conditioning systems and an array of building equipment and solutions.
In recent years, diverse social challenges and needs have emerged against the backdrop of a dynamic shift in economic conditions, including soaring costs of raw materials and energy, increases in labor costs, lack of workforce and the pressing issue of climate change due to global warming. In the field of building, there is growing interest in the creation of new value centered around changing office demand, more efficient building management, enhanced disaster resilience and green (environmentally friendly) initiatives, such as the net zero energy building (ZEB) initiative, to achieve carbon neutrality.
We continuously and globally provide maintenance services utilizing digital technologies including IoT and AI for over one million building facilities such as elevators and escalators, based on our more than 2,000 offices. By providing Lumada* solution leveraging these strengths, we will contribute to make the buildings greener and smarter. We provide the building IoT solution as a core platform for green and smart buildings, and by connecting various building facilities and systems to it, we can centrally manage and analyze data and reflect in control, thereby achieving more efficient building management operations, maintaining and improving operational quality, and improving user comfort. In the future, we will leverage the technology, experience and know-how we have cultivated through the development and provision of our building IoT solution for large buildings to develop solutions for small and medium-sized buildings, and respond to the needs for GX (Green Transformation) / DX (Digital Transformation) for buildings of all sizes and uses.
We will continue to leverage the transformative drivers of digital, green and connective to expand our social innovation initiatives, contributing to a sustainable society and realization of well-being.
- *Lumada:
- Hitachi's advanced digital solutions and services for turning data into insights that drive the digital transformation of social infrastructure.
Vice President and Executive Officer,
CEO of Building Systems Business Unit, Hitachi, Ltd.
Noriharu Amiya
