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Symbiotic Autonomous Decentralized Platforms for Faster Fusion of Control and Information

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New uses for IT are leading to growing activity in initiatives aimed at innovation in manufacturing and other parts of the social infrastructure. Drawing on the strength of its experience in control systems for social infrastructure and other industries, Hitachi is also working on fusing these with information systems. The symbiotic autonomous decentralization concept is the key to creating new value through interoperation between different systems. Hitachi intends to pursue further advances in social infrastructure and industrial systems by expanding, into a wider range of industries, the platforms it offers that are based on this concept and built using associated technologies.

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Attendee introduction

Hidehiko Tanaka, Dr. Eng.

President Institute of Information Security
Graduated in electrical engineering from the Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. Following appointments as head of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at The University of Tokyo and head and lecturer at the Graduate School of Information Security at the Institute of Information Security, he took up his current position in April 2012. His fields of expertise include computing architectures, parallel processing, artificial intelligence, distributed processing, and media processing. He is a professor emeritus at The University of Tokyo.

Soichi Aragane

General Manager, Electrical Equipment Information & Control Systems Division, Control System Platform Division, Services & Platforms Business Unit, Hitachi, Ltd.
Joined Hitachi, Ltd. in 1987. Having worked in the past on the design of monitoring and control systems for the water industry and at Beijing Hitachi Control Systems Co., Ltd., he took up his current position in 2014.

Takeshi Kobayashi

General Manager, Transportation Information & Control Systems Division, Control System Platform Division, Services & Platforms Business Unit, Hitachi, Ltd.
Joined Hitachi, Ltd. in 1986. He is currently engaged in the design and development of information and control systems for the defense, public sector, and railway industries. Having worked in the quality assurance division, he took up his current position in 2015.

Naohiko Irie, Dr. Eng.

General Manager, Center for Technology Innovation – Controls, Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd.
Joined Hitachi, Ltd. in 1990. Having worked at Hitachi’s Central Research Laboratory in the past on research and development in such fields as mainframe, server, and system LSI architectures, he is currently engaged in the research and development on IoT products and platform. Dr. Irie is a member of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ).

Hiromitsu Kato, Ph.D.

Department Manager, Infrastructure Systems Research Department, Center for Technology Innovation – Systems Engineering, Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd.
Joined Hitachi, Ltd. in 1995. Having worked on research and development into new services and the operation, monitoring, and control of information and control systems for the water, automotive, railway, and other industries, he is currently engaged in the research and development of autonomous decentralized systems technology for the Social Innovation Business. Dr. Kato is a member of the IEEE.

Takashi Hotta, Dr. Eng.

Chief Engineer, Control System Platform Division, Services & Platforms Business Unit, Hitachi, Ltd.
Joined Hitachi, Ltd. in 1983. He is currently engaged in managing research into information and control systems and power electronics at the Hitachi Research Laboratory. Having previously headed Hitachi’s Yokohama Research Laboratory, he took up his current position in 2013. Dr. Hotta is a member of the IEEE, The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ), The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), the IPSJ, and the Society of Project Management.