Use Cases

Inside stories of projects and businesses

Defying the Drone Threat: What Sets Toshiba’s Drone Detection System Apart?

Defying the Drone Threat: What Sets Toshiba’s Drone Detection System Apart?

Drones are now in widespread use. And it’s no great surprise that they are, considering how incredibly effective and convenient they can be. From recreational drones for things such as aerial photogra…

2020/10/15
A Beacon of Light, a Dream Come True in Fukushima: The Front Lines of Hydrogen Energy

A Beacon of Light, a Dream Come True in Fukushima: The Front Lines of Hydrogen Energy

Hydrogen energy may seem like a dream, but it’s the future. A new form of energy that’s environmentally friendly and available in steady supplies, it’s now being developed and implemented throughout t…

2020/09/23
Technology and Grit, Facilitating Modern Infrastructure for Rapidly Urbanizing India

Technology and Grit, Facilitating Modern Infrastructure for Rapidly Urbanizing India

Elevating urbanization India, though still predominantly an agrarian economy, is today experiencing a process of rapid industrialization that is shaping India’s economic journey. Today, India is ranke…

2020/08/26
Creating the Dream Energy Source of the Future–The Reality of the Megastructures and Millimeters of Fusion Power

Creating the Dream Energy Source of the Future–The Reality of the Megastructures and Millimeters of Fusion Power

Electricity is an absolute necessity for modern life, which explains why there are so many different kinds of infrastructure to provide it. Thermal power, hydroelectric power, nuclear power, renewable…

2020/08/12
So Your Child Wouldn’t Focus on Eating? Toshiba’s New Creative Foray into Food Technology

So Your Child Wouldn’t Focus on Eating? Toshiba’s New Creative Foray into Food Technology

What is the one thing that many people struggle with? And how could Toshiba help solve it? Well, one thing that everybody does is eat. And as any parent would know, it’s sometimes hard to have childr…

2020/06/10
Welcome to the World’s First “Hydrogen Hotel”: Energy from Waste Plastics Recycling

Welcome to the World’s First “Hydrogen Hotel”: Energy from Waste Plastics Recycling

Plastic is destroying our oceans. Indeed, marine pollution is now a global issue, and was even taken up as one of the major issues for the G20 Summit in 2019. Maybe you’ve also noticed some of the mor…

2020/04/08
Will Virtual Power Plants Herald a New Era of Business?

Will Virtual Power Plants Herald a New Era of Business?

Virtual Power plants (VPPs): What lies beyond the frontier You may have heard of virtual reality, but what about virtual power plants, or VPPs? A recent buzzword in the energy industry,they function, …

2020/01/29
IT for IP: Japan Patent Office’s Advanced Machine Translation System Supports Companies in Promoting Intellectual Property Strategy

IT for IP: Japan Patent Office’s Advanced Machine Translation System Supports Companies in Promoting Intellectual Property Strategy

In our highly competitive globalized economy, a successful intellectual property (IP) strategy rests on making sure that other countries know what patents you have approved, and getting information on…

2020/01/08
Introducing AI into Electricity Load Forecasting: Deep Learning Optimizes Power Plants’ Operation

Introducing AI into Electricity Load Forecasting: Deep Learning Optimizes Power Plants’ Operation

In 2017, Toshiba Corporate RD Center’s system engineering laboratory won the top prize in the 1st Electricity Load Forecasting Technology Contest organized by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc…

2019/11/13
Exploring the Secrets of Engineering and Maestro through Motion Capture

Exploring the Secrets of Engineering and Maestro through Motion Capture

“I think I’ve become pretty good, but there’s always someone better. I want to see how high I can go.” At the National Skills Competition held in Japan, young people working in all kinds of skilled j…

2019/10/02