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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Holistic Emissions Management through a Product-based CO2e Footprint

Reducing greenhouse gases in industries – this is the goal of the project ‘climate neutral business in Ostwestfalen-Lippe (climate bOWL)’. A tracking and assistance system allocates emissions to the emitter and suggests avoidance and optimization measures. We are developing this system together with experts from industry and research showing the benefits of IT adaptions on sustainable processes along the entire value chain and how innovation potentials can be identified and used at the same time. Our goal is to advise companies on tracking, reducing or even avoiding and offsetting CO2e emissions as well as on the measurability of sustainability efforts along the entire value chain – from the raw material producer to the end customer. Only through holistic and targeted emissions management can a company’s CO2e footprint really be improved.

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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The GreenScore App Motivates End Users to Make the Energy Transition

Making sustainability attractive and interactive – end users often lack transparency when it comes to the energy transition, thus hardly anyone knows where the electricity from the socket really comes from. The GreenScore app shows in real time how much energy is available from wind, solar and hydro power and combines transparency with gamification: households that base their energy consumption on actual availability will be rewarded with GreenScore points, which they can count towards their electricity bill or donate to charity. The project emerged from a ‘Thinkaton’ competition in Germany together with a regional energy supplier and SAP.

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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The FarmBot-Network Turns Urban Land into Agricultural Land

Re-thinking the agriculture of tomorrow – back in 2017, we developed an innovative concept for combating against future food shortages and nutritional instability in the course of the NTT DATA Hackathon. The core idea is to increase the efficiency and productivity of smart agricultural robots, so-called FarmBots, by means of networking via a smart farming platform and the use of innovative technologies such as AI, IoT or blockchain. In view of climate change, the growing world population and the trend towards urbanisation, the project received the First Prize of the NTT Group Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Conference in 2019.

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Optimization of Medical Supply Chains to Improve and Save People’s Lives

Innovative IT soar to new heights – the start-up Wingcopter, which was already named a technology pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2020, focuses on optimizing supply chains of medical goods. Their future plans include the delivery of packages, tools and spare parts, and food and groceries. Wingcopter pursues an emerging business model and has to meet complex requirements regarding the production process. In the successful collaboration, we have built an intelligent SAP cloud ERP landscape with ‘RISE with SAP’, which gives the innovative start-up a boost for its business processes.

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.