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ITOKI CORPORATION (headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President: Koji Minato) is pleased to announce that it has invested in RF Lucas Corporation (headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; President: Tomoyuki Asano), an RFID location tech company.

By attaching RFID to office furniture, we will realize IoT of furniture. We will improve the quality of "Data Trekking", a consulting service that utilizes office data. In addition, we will develop an application called "Office Asset Finder" (tentative name) that collects sensing data of office furniture, aiming to realize a new service that supports advanced asset management.

In our Workplace Business, we view Office 1.0 as the manufacture and sale of office furniture, Office 2.0 as a spatial solution provision business, and Office 3.0 as work style-based office DX through data utilization, and we are developing our business accordingly. In February 2024, we launched "Data Trekking," a consulting service that utilizes office data. In March of the same year, we started developing an "office design automatic generation AI service (tentative name)" with an AI startup company, focusing on the Office 3.0 field, where we have a strong competitive advantage.

RF Lucas has strengths in visualizing the location and movement of objects by combining its own advanced technology with "RFID," an automatic identification technology that uses radio waves to read and write information on IC tags. With the introduction of IoT in office furniture, we have strengthened the collection of office data and decided to invest in the company in order to use this data to develop new services.

The IoT implementation of office furniture will be made possible by implementing RFID technology in the furniture and pinpointing its exact location using RF Lucas' patented radio wave phase analysis technology. In the future, collected data on the location, history and usage of office furniture will be statistically accumulated on ITOKI's proprietary platform "OFFICE A/BI PLATFORM," which aggregates, consolidates and utilizes various office data, and will be combined with other office data such as space utilization data, employee activity data, and individual and organizational performance and condition data to improve the quality of "Data Trekking."

Furthermore, they will develop an application called "Office Asset Finder" (tentative name) that will utilize location identification technology and link it to Itoki's furniture database, including product information, to quickly determine the location of furniture. This will significantly reduce the amount of time and effort required for traditional analog inventory work on office furniture and other items, which previously took up a huge amount of man-hours and time during fixture and equipment management and renovation planning, and will aim to realize a new service that supports advanced asset management.