2017 Generation Award Nominations Announcement

A total of 186 ideas, technologies, and issues were nominated. (In alphabetical order)

IoT Stevenson Screen

Tokyo

"WiFi-Plug": an IoT watching outlet

Aichi

Real-time sports facility sharing service using IoT

Tokyo

"Enphoto": an ICT photo sales system

Tokyo

For the stepwise development of the ICT field: How to use technology to move liquids by electricity

Tochigi

Agrinote

Niigata

Build a personalized coffee serving mechanism with "quantification of taste" & "IoT"

Tokyo

Turn hot coffee into iced coffee in one minute! Hyperchiller

Fukuoka

Dispatched medical staff that you can request with an app

Fukuoka

Walking smartphone measures disabled person approach alert

Tokyo

SkyBerryJAM, a PC for programming learning compatible with IchigoJam

Tochigi

Anytime, anywhere, one-touch: know the current location of the bus

Ibaraki

Dogs and cats resident's card

Kanagawa

Development of inbound correspondence information transmission tool, "MCCatalog +"

Tokyo

Weather coordination

Osaka

UOICHI

Tokyo

Umitron (a service that supports data acquisition and analysis to improve aquaculture production efficiency)

Tokyo

Airporter ( "same day" baggage delivery service between accommodation and airport)

Tokyo

Writing newspaper articles by AI reporters

Tokyo

A daily makeover booth near the train station

Mie

Unmanned shelter managed by remote control

Fukuoka

A corporate information analysis web application that uses open data to support corporate sales activities

Tokyo

Open Lights Urban lighting that anyone can use freely and interactively

Tokyo

Shopping and donations

Mie

Indoor location information service "TAGCAST"

Tokyo

Recommended radio station information

Hyogo

Overseas travel VR experience service for the elderly

Kanagawa

album of memories

Akita

Alternative School

Hokkaido

Scale diagnostic app

Ishikawa

“Caretaking” and “Nursing”: Patient robots whose medical conditions and caretaking conditions change depending on the method of caretaking and nursing

Fukuoka

Mars rover "Curiosity VR"

Chiba

Utilization of ICT in school libraries to support mental and physical health

Tokyo

Creating a new style of evacuations drill that connect schools and communities

Gifu

Read the customer's emotions with a camera and determine if they want to receive hospitality or not

Ishikawa

Built-in camera ball

Tokyo

Kamomezu (Activities for solving regional issues such as logistics and medical problems using drones)

Kagawa

Making the shape of a woman's feet with glass shoes

Kanagawa

Recording Memory

Iwate

Reverse Auction Cloud

Tokyo

Real-time co-star video/audio generation application, "Virtual co-star"

Ibaraki

A system in which elderly people donate to children's active learning, inspired by crowdfunding

Kanagawa

Development of smart mobility that wheelchair users can easily act on

Kanagawa

Route guidance shoes

Tokyo

Automatic evaluation system for makeup

Kanagawa

Lunar telescope

Kanagawa

Monitor technology in transportation infrastructure

Shizuoka

EncodeRing, a completely unique gift that can be made from voice waveforms

Tokyo

"Innovate the power tie to the mind."

Tokyo

KoreCow (fashion web service where you can find and buy the costumes of celebrities on TV)

Tokyo

Vegetable garden house - the ultimate eco-house that contributes to preventing global warming

Chiba

Speakers that deliver the necessary information in the event of a disaster without any major changes to the existing system, making it easier to hear far and wide.

Tokyo

Reduce redelivery! Absence/home automatic confirmation service

Tokyo

CylancePROTECT®

Tokyo

SilentLog Analytics (analysis tool to know "people" by position x range x time)

Tokyo

"Drone highway", a concept that creates a three-dimensional map and supports safe drone flight

Tokyo

360-degree evaluation support system (personal feedback tool for solving personnel issues)

Fukuoka

An application that notifies you of the location of the trash can by using GPS.

Fukuoka

Sign behind the visually impaired

Tokyo

"Zero Agri": A next-generation nutrient solution soil cultivation system

Kanagawa

Local government and radio (1)

Tokyo

Electronic tagging of bicycle security registration

Tokyo

Advice app to clean your selfie

Ibaraki

Recommendation service tailored to your reading experience

Chiba

Compete with visual field impairment! Development of "field-of-view correction glasses" that expand the viewing range

Kagoshima

On-board communication in cars

Shizuoka

A digital camera that can automatically organize photos and a digital camera that can collect information in the event of a disaster

Chiba

Car hammock system

Kanagawa

“Kōmei”, an application that trains elementary and junior high school students to give presentations

Osaka

Akisai: Food and Agriculture Cloud

Tokyo

Construction of a cloud service type cultivation environment using a plant factory

Osaka

Learning optimization system with artificial intelligence

Chiba

Mind maintenance AI robot

Chiba

An Automatic Human Body Image Correction System Based on Deep Learning - Enhancing a Person with Natural Human Body Image Correction Technology

Tokyo

Picture book app

Tokyo

Stamp application solutions

Tokyo

Stainless steel magnet pump MP series

Osaka

Space Market

Tokyo

Space Live Camera

Tokyo

Smart coordinator

Ishikawa

Easy scoring app

Fukuoka

3D CH (3D compact hologram)

Osaka

Government Social Media

Kanagawa

Customer service support CRM & ultra high-speed analysis BI "AstroBlaster for Customer Data"

Tokyo

ZEKKEI Japan (online media that sends photos of beautiful landscapes and superb views of Japan all over the world)

Tokyo

Small electric mobile vehicle that can run on snow - Cueboard

Niigata

Scent blending system using sensing data

Tokyo

The teacher and everyone look together and become one! Development of a "next-generation projector" for interactive learning

Ehime

Soine

Nagano

A next-generation funeral service based on the concept of "funeral x IT x personality"

Tokyo

Social-IN

Tokyo

Creating a social sports business frame

Hyogo

A mobile children's kindergarden

Kanagawa

"SwipeVideo": A new category of third-generation, vertical free-viewpoint video

Tokyo

Road traffic control system for safe and secure evacuation by car in the event of a large earthquake or tsunami

Hiroshima

Built-in touch-screen tablet cooking app for Android devices

Saitama

Technology to visualize bacteria that breed in food

Tokyo

TabeGORO (provisional) app that lets you know when to eat food

Tokyo

Self-repairing electrical wiring

Tokyo

Trade system for overseas development of local products

Kanagawa

A "Cognitive dress" that shines the in 5 colors according to the emotion of the tweet posted on Twitter

Tokyo

Dry cell batteries to communicate "MaBeee"

Tokyo

Time saving solution through connection

Shizuoka

Data collection platform "FASTIO"

Hokkaido

Techno Sports HADO

Tokyo

Digital guide sign for tourists "Hi-Res Nabita"

Tokyo

Free Parason: Hands-free umbrella

Tochigi

Full keyboard for PC that replaced numeric keypad with flick

Nagano

Static detection sensor requiring almost no power supply

Tokyo

Heaven now

Chiba

"Traditional Crafts x Digital Fabrication": Inheriting Tradition and Innovating with IoT

Tokyo

Solving social issues by combining effective use of radio waves, radio waves with different characteristics, and communication technologies

Kyoto

Toilet searching (Real-time toilet vacancy search service)

Tokyo

An automatic school event proposal system based on statistical predictions

Tokyo

Long Run, a softball tournament in the tsunami affected areas of Tohoku

Aichi

"Shooting through SKETOLN": Transparent human camera

Kanagawa

Tournament platform "Lobi Tournament"

Kanagawa

RTLS (Real-time positioning service)

Tokyo

Dr. Expense Manager

Tokyo

Training sharing platform "Share Training"

Ibaraki

Entertainment "virtual drone" completed by fusing drone and VR technologies

Hyogo

Disaster prevention robot that makes full use of drones

Shizuoka

A display using drones

Ishikawa

Creating an educational environment such as career education and vocational education using VR

Ehime

IoT security fully and semi-permanently guaranteed by hardware

Chiba

Payke (an application service for smartphones used by foreign tourists visiting Japan while traveling to Japan)

Tokyo

D Free: Excretion Prediction Wearable

Tokyo

Disembarkation bus stop designation panel that reduces the burden on bus drivers

Fukuoka

Bus stop search

Aomori

Control of phantom limb pain using BMI prosthesis

Osaka

Beacon Bank, an offline action platform using beacon sharing

Tokyo

Last one mile transportation and traffic reform through P2P

Fukushima

Visual M2M (High-speed sensor data analysis and analysis system)

Tokyo

No-contact vital biosensor

Kanagawa

A meal that satisfies both your stomach and your heart

Fukuoka

Apps to enjoy karaoke alone

Ibaraki

Visualization of hospital waiting times

Fukuoka

Apps that expand the community of fans, as well as the community between fans and artists

Gifu

VR battleship Yamato

Tokyo

Imaging simulation for patients using VR

Fukuoka

Foop (IoT hydroponics interior that allows you to use a hydroponics system with a smartphone)

Tokyo

"Deo Magic": A new concept deodorant technology to change unpleasant smells into good smells

Osaka

Development of "stress reduction tool" that creates a "third eye" by technology using the "overhead projection method"

Tokyo

Development of IoT Container and Web Service for Real-time Tracking of Packages in Logistics

Kanagawa

Fake brand detector

Ishikawa

FlipCast

Tokyo

BlockFARM™ (Container type on-demand next generation package farm)

Tokyo

Wearable device "Funband" to give a new baseball life for professional baseball fans

Osaka

Loss prevention tag "MAMORIO"

Tokyo

BakeryScan

Hyogo

Development of a self-contained robot based on the concept of "Realizing a future where you can meet the people you want to meet and join society while staying in the bed"

Tokyo

Deformation Lamps® (light projection technology that gives movement to photos and pictures)

Kanagawa

Development of a nursery school cloud

Chiba

Recommended for direction noise! Automatic route memory application [Chaser Map]

Fukuoka

"Nutte": Crowdsourcing for sewing

Tokyo

Restaurant reservation and payment service for foreign visitors to Japan "Japan Foodie"

Tokyo

Development of insurance card/medical ticket integrated application or insurance card with IC function

Gifu

Development of insurance card / medical ticket integrated application or insurance card with IC function

Ibaraki

MySOS (Emergency rescue app for emergencies)

Tokyo

Syrup: a service where you can have a festival anywhere, anyday

Kanagawa

Grandchild Channel

Tokyo

Queue search (a service that allows people to be counted and queueing time to be visualized without using a camera)

Tokyo

‘Money Forward’: Automatic household account book that is easy to use (automatic household account book and asset management service)

Tokyo

Glow when rolled! Paper flashlight with an electronic circuit: "PAPER TORCH"

Tokyo

3D Shape Estimation Method Using Light Absorption Characteristics of Water

Tokyo

"Compathy", your own travel plan from everyone's travel journal

Tokyo

Digital Archiving of Classes of Master Lecturers and Professors

Tokyo

Proposal on food education (communication of food information) by applying technology used in media art

Tokyo

Reversible high compression technology for mobile devices

Fukuoka

Mobi agent (contact center with an automatic response/chat system for customer support)

Tokyo

4D Japan Geographic Database - All contents of Japanese history. Love 'Cool Japan' more!

Kanagawa

A calendar app that fills up your schedule

Kanagawa

Lucky Clock App

Tokyo

A system that produces ghosts during running

Fukushima

Real-time space observation app

Fukui

Listnr (a device that recognizes and conveys emotions from infant voice)

Tokyo

"TripMakers", for travel design

Tokyo

Respon (massively multiplayer online (MMO) questionnaire app)

Tokyo

IoT ideas to improve the behavior of train passengers

Kanagawa

Bus waiting status confirmation system at route bus stops

Fukuoka

Bus location system "Bus Forecast" for route bus

Tokyo

Wi-Fi spot signal machine

Yamagata

Forgetfulness prevention app

Tokyo

“WAmazing” (smartphone application service used by foreign tourists visiting Japan during their trip to Japan)

Tokyo