ITOKI CORPORATION (Head office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President: Koji Minato) has signed a joint development agreement for generative AI with AI startup company Tou Co., Ltd. (Head office: Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Yuki Noro) and will begin developing applications related to office design auto-generative AI as part of the ITOKI OFFICE A/BI SERVICE initiative. By using Tou's spatial scanning technology to rapidly build a digital twin of the office and utilizing the office data accumulated by the company, we aim to create an application that can instantly simulate office designs.

In our Workplace Business, we are developing our business with Office 1.0 as the manufacturing and sales of office furniture, Office 2.0 as a space-based solution provision business, and Office 3.0 as office DX based on work styles using data. . In February 2024, we are working to strengthen our business in the Office 3.0 area, including the launch of the consulting service "Data Trekking," the first of "ITOKI OFFICE A/BI SERVICE."

In order to further accelerate business in this field, we have entered into a joint development agreement with Toru Co., Ltd., which has strengths in BIM* automatic generation technology and digital twin technology, which utilizes AI to convert information about the building itself into advanced data. It has come to this. By combining Toki's cutting-edge technology with our company's know-how to collect, integrate, and utilize data on office layouts and furniture inside buildings, activity data on office workers and organizations, etc., we have created "ITOKI OFFICE A/BI SERVICE." By updating this, we will be able to propose higher quality and speedier office designs that take into account the relationship between space and people.
*BIM: Abbreviation for Building Information Modeling

The office design automatic generation AI that is being jointly developed is a generation AI that can automatically design various office patterns based on data such as office layouts accumulated in "ITOKI OFFICE A/BI PLATFORM"*. . Additionally, by utilizing Tomai's space scanning technology and establishing technology to quickly build a digital twin, we will develop an application that can instantly simulate office design. As a result, analog work such as measuring dimensions inside an office, which previously took a huge amount of man-hours and time, can be significantly reduced by taking pictures using this application, making initial proposal activities for office design even faster. We will help our customers achieve faster and more flexible renovations, which is required for agile office construction, which is the key to human capital management.
* ITOKI OFFICE A/BI PLATFORM: A unique platform that can collect, integrate, and utilize ITOKI office data.

We have positioned the three years of our new medium-term management plan, which started this year, as the expansion and creation phase. This joint development with Toru aims to strengthen the "Office 3.0" area, which uses IoT in office furniture and spatial sensing to develop data-driven services that provide optimal working styles and office spaces. is. Leveraging the strength of ITOKI OFFICE A/BI PLATFORM, which enables analysis of approximately 10,000 pieces of office layout data per year, we will continue to support our customers in promoting their human capital management with greater agility. Please stay tuned.

Until now, Toru has been involved in providing many solutions in the construction industry using spatial recognition technology and simulation technology for factories, warehouses, buildings, etc., and has accumulated technology. In this AI joint development, we will utilize Toru's accumulated technology to develop generative AI with Itoki that automatically recognizes office layouts and proposes optimal layouts. Going forward, we would like to continue to use our unique light technology as a starting point to create value for improving the productivity of office workers, which is a major issue common to all industries.

The first new service "Data Trekking" that continues to improve "work style x work environment" in a data-driven manner is born.
https://www.itoki.jp/company/news/2024/2402_datatrekking.html