OREANDA-NEWS. Fujitsu announced the launch of a new initiative called "Human-Centric IoT" which is designed to facilitate the creation with customers of valuable new businesses that, based on an understanding of customers and consumer needs, employ all kinds of digital information, with the goal of spurring new business and social innovation. To bring about Human-Centric IoT, Fujitsu is building a global ecosystem with business partners and launching an IoT platform to serve as a venue for generating innovation with customers.

The IoT platform, which enables access to an easy-to-use cloud-based application development environment, is a comprehensive systems environment that, for IoT models whose feasibility has been validated, can bring together a variety of products from Fujitsu, including sensors and devices, networks, middleware, and applications. Use of these resources makes it easy and inexpensive for customers to quickly create new business models.

The IoT platform is also designed to be widely used, not only by customers, but as a platform where vendors providing products and services can verify technologies that can be used by customers when creating new business models, with the aim of forming a global ecosystem.

Fujitsu has received support for this initiative from business partners and a multitude of companies, and plans to validate businesses with over 100 enterprise customers in the next year.

Fujitsu has already systematized product and services initiatives in such high-growth areas as cloud computing, big data, mobile, and security to support innovation on the part of enterprises and society. By combining these initiatives with Human-Centric IoT, Fujitsu aims to further broaden and accelerate the scope of business and social innovation.