Driving Sustainability through Innovations

Drones and Machine Learning Help against Invasive Species

Bringing nature conversation and AI together – Giant hogweed, a man-sized plant from Kazakhstan, is spreading rapidly around the globe and competing with other plants for their habitat. Moreover, contact with the plant can cause severe burns. Together with Prodrone and NTT DATA Japan, we have already been using automated image recognition and AI in drone hardware since 2019 to facilitate the mapping of giant hogweed, which in Denmark for example must be reported to the authorities by law, and to relieve the pressure on tight budgets for nature conservation and environmental protection.

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Reducing CO2 and particle emissions from transportation with RGS Nordic

RGS Nordic handles enormous amounts of waste, soil and debris from building and construction sites. It cleans the materials, which are then re- or upcycled in other building or construction projects. RGS Nordic was worried about the many empty trucks/lorries arriving at or leaving their sites every day. Independent transportation providers would either unload materials at an RGS Nordic site or arrive to pick up recycled materials but most often driving empty either coming or going. This is wasteful both in terms of CO2 emissions but also a health issue with particle emissions from unnecessary “empty kilometers”.

NTT DATA Business Solutions developed a POC with RGS Nordic, which uses blockchain and AI to ensure that when a truck arrives with waste, soil or debris at an RGS Nordic site, it is matched with an outgoing order. This means a better fuel economy and optimized order schedules for the transportation providers.

Smart Island Rømø Showcases the Future of Holidays

Digitalizing sustainable tourism – in collaboration with Copenhagen Business School and Aalborg University, we have taken on the digitalization of the entire island of Rømø, Denmark. As the island is primarily a popular holiday destination, the objective of the project was to optimize processes for tourists. For example, to reduce waiting times in restaurants or retail outlets, to avoid traffic jams and to make the island’s water and energy supply more effective and sustainable. With cloud-based data collection and evaluation, we have helped tourism across the island to now function much more efficiently.

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Digital Avatars Support Pupils and Teachers

Virtual AI buddy helps kids learn to read – through AI technologies digital avatars can become real educational helpers: Learning to read through the personalized play-out of content and vocabulary and pronunciation and comprehension trained with a playful approach. Concurrent teachers can view the learning progress via a learning assistant dashboard. If the virtual assistant is used systematically, homeschooling costs can be halved and overall school costs reduced by 5%. Also, the lives of children, teachers and parents worldwide can be positively impacted.

The “AI Learning Helper” is the result of an international collaboration between NTT DATA Business Solutions Denmark, NTT DATA UK and NTT DATA Romania and was recently awarded with the “SAP Innovation Award 2022“.

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Reducing water consumption with Aguardio

Aguardio has built an innovate solution to change to how people use water. It nudges end users to save water thus turning ordinary people in private homes, building complexes, and public housing into water-saving champions.

Aguardio needed a scalable data platform for the second generation of their water measuring IoT device. The device monitors water usage in households and, through a water usage dashboard, encourages users to save water. NTT DATA Business Solutions used its it.titan platform to set up custom interfaces to manage devices, data, users and customers on the platform, which handles millions of records in real time. it.titan manages and autoconfigures IoT devices as well as manages end user data access.

In addition to reducing over-consumption of water, one of the most important scarce resources on earth, the platform also monitors temperature and humidity to limit fungus and algae growth, thus improving the health of buildings and those living in them. Besides helping private households, Aguardio enables water companies to engage their end users and transform the way they communicate. Hotels, camp sites and other tourist sites can also monitor water usage by their guest and create reward programs to reduce water consumption in water-scarce contexts.

AI Makes Telephone Care for Danish Children more Efficient

A virtual assistant supports Børns Vilkår – the Danish children’s aid organization Børns Vilkår communicates with children seeking help not only via telephone calls, but also via SMS and chat. A virtual assistant, developed by NTT DATA Business Solutions Denmark, supports the Børns Vilkår team and continuously learns to better understand the language of children and young people. The AI-based solution helps more than 500 volunteer counselors who receive more than 220,000 calls from children in Denmark every year. As a result, the number of enquiries handled has been significantly increased.