We Received the Fighting Spirit Award at the Chubu DX Award in 2024
PACIFIC CONSULTANTS CO., LTD. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Representative Director, President Executive Officer: Osamu OMOTO) was awarded the Fighting Spirit Award at the 2024 Chubu Digital Transformation Award sponsored by the Chubu Regional Development Bureau of Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism for its efforts to reduce the labor required for flood response using a "Flood Disaster Prevention Business Support System."
■What is the Chubu DX Award?
The Chubu Digital Transformation Award were established with the aim of promoting and accelerating digital transformation in the infrastructure sector in the Chubu region by encouraging outstanding technologies and efforts to actively introduce and disseminate them in the field.
Please see the official website for details.
https://www.cbr.mlit.go.jp/kikaku/dx/infrastructure_dx.html
■ About labor saving in response to floods using the "Flood Disaster Prevention Business Support System"
The Flood Disaster Prevention Business Support System is a system that has functions to grasp flood conditions and support decision-making, and is intended for use primarily by river managers during floods.
The flood situation assessment function consolidates information scattered across various data and documents, such as river water levels, data from river cameras, and damage estimates, and processes the information into information that is easy for river managers to understand the flood situation before providing it to them.
The decision-making support function allows river managers to manage whether the necessary measures to be taken in accordance with the river's water levels are being taken as planned, and makes it possible to check the progress of measures and prevent forgetting to take action.
Utilizing a flood disaster prevention operations support system with these functions will lead to more efficient and labor-saving responses by river managers in the event of flooding.
■ Selection criteria
The Chubu DX Award Selection Committee will score and select the initiatives based on effectiveness, advanced technology, and impact, and will award the top 10 companies.
■ Future outlook
The flood disaster prevention operation support system has already been built and is being operated by several river offices and other organizations, and we will continue to make proposals that will lead to greater efficiency and labor savings.
In addition, to make the system more accessible to a wide range of users, we will utilize the know-how we have gained from our experience to prepare plans that will enable us to build and operate the system more cheaply, such as by packaging the system and operational support for some of the most useful functions.
Left: Mr. Hisanobu SATO, Director General of the Chubu Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Center: Ms. Yuriko ASAMI, General Manager of Rivers Sec., Chubu Land and Infrastructure Dept., Chubu Branch Office
Right: Mr. Takashi MATSUI, Technology Development Coordination Officer, Chubu Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism