The NTT East accelerator "Lightnic" holds a demonstration of the first batch for the first time, and 14 startups will show off a collaborative plan.

Lightnic is a startup accelerator operated by NTT East.Initially, the program was launched as a side project by volunteers in NTT East, but now the third phase has a secretariat and dedicated charge, and for the first time, startups will be gathered for the first time.Now 100 startups have entered in the batch, and 14 adopted companies have been studying collaboration (POC and marketing) for 4 months (September to December 2019), and was held in Tokyo on the 23rd.The result was performed on the demo day.

The idea of collaboration ideas with the resolution of regional issues utilizing NTT Japan's assets and resources in various parts of East Japan is that part of the idea is "Startup Factory", a startup accelerator that NTT West was held earlier.Some of them were similar to this, which was shown on the demo.NTT West seems to be held twice in 2015 and 2017, ending his STARTUP FACTORY, and currently shifts to an approach to rental transfer to employees.

In the batch, NTT East Japan recruited 500 issues from internal business departments and branches, and started up with a startup that can solve these issues on the theme of smart city and smart sosaiyti.In the demoDay, 7 minutes of pitch content was evaluated from the perspective of solving issues, newness, and synergy with the NTT Group, and one highest award, one excellent award, and one audience award.Whether the award has been selected is not directly related to whether or not the Startup will collaborate with NTT East in the future.

The judge was the judge

... everyone.The audience award was selected by the voting of general participants who saw the pitch at the venue.In this paper, we will focus on the team that won the prize.

【最優秀賞】inaho

Agricultural crops are roughly divided into those that are harvested in a batch when the harvest time comes, such as rice and potatoes, and those that only the size and the best -harvested one.In particular, the crops to be harvested are difficult to automate and have to be manually, but for farmers it is difficult to hire human resources for harvesting all year, and the percentage of harvesting work is very large."INAHO" is a robot that determines the crops one by one and harvests only those suitable for harvesting.It has begun from asparagus and is currently experimenting with tomatoes and cucumber.

INAHO provides services in the form of receiving commissions in the percentage of harvests, rather than sold out robots.Farmers can reduce initial investment and lower the hurdles to be introduced because they are cheaper than labor costs for harvesting.INAHO currently has two branches in Saga Prefecture, but due to the support system, the farmers currently provided by the service are limited to a radius of 30 km from each branch.INAHO hopes that this service base will be expanded nationwide in collaboration with NTT East.The Netherlands, which has similar issues, will also create a base and plan to enter the market.In 2019, runner -up at B Dash Camp in Sapporo.

【優秀賞】知能技術

Elderly people in the hospital are estimated to fall 2 million, of which 50,000 have experienced major injuries such as fractures, and in some cases they have died.The facility has a limit to patrols and confirmation due to labor shortage, but it is a de facto abuse, so it is not allowed to detain the elderly.Intelligence technology is an AI cloud service aimed at improving the safety of the elderly and reducing the burden on facility staff, so that small groups can efficiently watch the elderly.Collect data from sensors installed near the bed, understand the behavior of individual patients, and understand the tendency.

Interview with nursing homes during the system development process revealed that the burden on nursing staff is strongly demanded.In order to reduce the night patrol, a function that can check the position, measure body temperature, and check breathing have been added.In the past, the sensor could only confirm that it had fallen, but it improved its functions to the place where you could watch the safety.NTT East Japan is linked to cloud and network environment.In the future, he wants to find cooperation with other companies by implementing a function (for example, like an airbag) when expected to fall.

【優秀賞】DG TAKANO

DG TAKANO, which starts at the town factory of Higashi -Osaka, is a top manufacturer developed by water -saving nozzles.The company's "BUBBLE 90" of the company's "BUBBLE 90" can save up to 95 % of water saving with water pressure only by water pressure by water pressure only by water pressure.Among the water that exists on the earth, only 2 % of humans can be used by humans, and the United Nations Food Agricultural Organization (FAO) suggests that two -thirds of the world may fall into a crisis in a shortage of water in 2025.are doing.In terms of environment and economy, it has been introduced in many restaurants, hospitals, welfare facilities, supermarkets, and factories in Japan.

DG Sales, a BUBBLE 90 sales company, is operating with 150 people, but there are markets that have not reached, and one of them is hotels and dormitory markets that use more water.At DG TAKANO and DG Sales, they reach for joint maintenance of hotels and dormitory companies.With the cooperation of NTT East and Telwell East, we will expand nationwide for BUBBLE 90 hotels and dormitories in the future.In the future, he also wants to advance to Southeast Asia and Africa and contribute to solving global water problems.

【優秀賞】LUUP

Luup is a MAAS startup that tries to implement microbility in the city.We place ports where mobility equipment can be rented and returned everywhere in the city, aiming to become a mobility platformer that can be used safely and conveniently, including the elderly.From June to December 2019, the aircraft verification of mobility equipment and business verification of port -type mobility share services were conducted at 25 locations nationwide.We proposed collaboration with NTT East in the maintenance of ports and equipment implementation.

The company has searched for new business opportunities by implementing cameras and IoT equipment on ports and mobility equipment.By installing his WiFi on the mobility and a port on the port, the contents of Dorareco's recording can be integrated into the cloud via his WiFi each time the mobility is returned.In addition, the port is also equipped with a camera, and recording around the road and other vicinity is integrated in real time.Based on mobile data and video data, the company is considering marketing support for companies that utilize big data and support for security measures for local governments.

【オーディエンス賞】空

The sky offers a hotel price setting support service by dynamic pricing.The company's "MagicPrice" calculates the optimal price in machine learning based on the hotel's surrounding competitive hotels and demand forecasts based on past data.The calculated price can be automatically reflected on travel reservation sites and OTA via the site controller in addition to the company's site.The company has begun to explore the expansion of non -hotel fields about a year ago, and has just announced the entry into the retail industry about two months ago.

In the sky, with the cooperation of NTT Le Parc, the demonstration experiment to introduce dynamic pricing into the parking lot is started.After hearing to NTT Le Park's charge, we collected hints for price setting models, built a price setting model based on them, and developed a prototype for price optimization services for parking lots.When the price should be changed at a parking lot at about 400 bases in NTT Le Park, mainly in the Kanto area, monitoring the rates of a competitive parking lot within a radius of 400 meters from the company's parking by web scraping, alerts alerts.Notify.

The following were nine startups adopted in the third phase, although they did not win the following.

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