EIZO will participate in a crewless autonomous ship project for social implementation, administrated by the Nippon Foundation, as a member of DFFAS+ (Designing the Future of Fully Autonomous Ships Plus) - a consortium of companies formed to develop the automated systems which will allow ships to safely function without a crew onboard. The program aims tor full-scale commercialization of fully autonomous ship technology by 2025.
EIZO's role in this project is to utilize the strengths of its "Imaging Chain" to develop a solution for capturing, transmitting, recording, and displaying video data and marine sensor information for the realization of sensor fusion technology - a core part of autonomous navigation systems. EIZO's system processes and corrects video data in real time for accurate assessment by autonomous navigation machines, which utilize image recognition and AI. Furthermore, EIZO's ultra-high sensitivity video camera is built to be robust for deployment to vessels. EIZO's integrated video system is developed to be ideal for managing video data both on board and on land.