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Converging Technologies
Fujitsu is pioneering the convergence of digital technologies with insights from the humanities to help solve social issues in a borderless physical and digital world. Fujitsu is today building on existing technological developments with digital twins - digital models, usually of smaller, self-contained entities such as factories. We are broadening the ambition of these twins to embrace cities, regions, and even societies.
Federated Digital Twin technologies that can bring together companies and local governments to solve cross-sector social issues and achieve net positivity.
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Fujitsu Social Digital Twin
The World and Technology of Social Digital Twin
What is Social Digital Twin?
Fujitsu uses Converging Technologies (*), which combine humanities and social sciences like behavioral economics with computer science to accurately predict and digitally reproduce people's actions. The company also conducts research on Social Digital Twin, which uses people's behavioral characteristics as a base to visualize future actions and possible risks, supporting the establishment of various policies and measures.
(*) Converging Technologies: Technologies that combine science and technology from at least two different disciplines in order to achieve a specific goal. They involve research and development in fields that merge humanities and social sciences with computer science in order to solve diverse and increasingly complex urban challenges with the ultimate aim of realizing a sustainable society.
What is Digital Rehearsal?
Digital Rehearsal, achieved with Social Digital Twin, is the first technology in the world to enable the search for optimal policies and measures before applying them to the real world. It achieves this by reproducing the behaviors of people and society on an urban stage in a digital space, allowing users to gauge the effects and impacts of policies and measures under consideration.
Fujitsu Social Digital Twin Services
Optimal Shared Mobility Deployment
Experience digital rehearsal for mobility-related social measures.
