Summary
This project focuses on network infrastructure — most notably mobile networks as the closest and most essential communication medium in daily life — along with sensor data and AI technologies, conducting research and development of advanced technologies and next-generation services to pioneer the future information space. The future information space must become deeply intertwined with people's lives by seamlessly integrating with physical spaces such as campuses, offices, and city streets, creating services that blend naturally into everyday life. Initiatives including the AI-RAN deployed at SFC are steadily advancing the realization of a new information space in which networks and AI work in unison to embrace and support people's living environments.
In this project, we promote research and development not only of fundamental technologies but also with an eye toward real-world deployment, using the university campus as a testbed for research on 5G and 6G mobile communication technologies as network infrastructure, mashup platforms incorporating sensor data, video recognition, and spatial sensing as technologies for digitizing physical space, and three-dimensional high-definition mapping and self-localization technologies. In 2026, we will further advance these efforts while also addressing the emerging challenge of ensuring the trustworthiness of information circulating on the internet, against the backdrop of the rapid proliferation of AI technologies. We will conduct research on privacy and security challenges in handling such information, and contribute to activities that lay the groundwork for creating a new information society over the coming decades, with an awareness of standardization and international norm-setting.
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