[finished] I. TOP Yokohama Lab "Creating Comfortable Homes with New Technology"

As a result of the examination, the following eight proposals were adopted as demonstration candidates, and efforts were implemented on each proposal.
※Some implementation entities have been changed.

Yokohama City is working on the ITOP Yokohama Lab, which aims to create new projects by providing a demonstration field. This time, in collaboration with Yokohama City Housing Supply Corporation, we are offering apartment owned by the company as a demonstration field to respond to the "new lifestyle" that will prevent the spread of COVID-19, and propose new IoT products and services that provide comfortable housing.

・Proposals for new IoT products and IoT services that contribute to the effective use of existing stock housing and longer life.

・Proposals for new IoT products and IoT services that contribute to the provision of comfortable housing

・Proposals that contribute to the future "new lifestyle"

・Proposals for new IoT products and IoT services that are expected to be deployed horizontally in apartment and other cities in Yokohama after the demonstration experiment.

※For details, please refer to the following website.

・You have already participated in I.TOP Yokohama. You must apply for participation at the same time as the application.

・Ideas for products and services have been embodied, and prototypes for immediate implementation of demonstration experiments have already been completed.

・Products and services currently under concept that have not yet been sold (commercialized) by the applicant entity. (However, if you are planning a new business targeting customers in other fields that are different from existing products and services that have already been launched, you will be deemed eligible to apply if the theme of the new business under concept and the second “I.TOP Yokohama Lab” matches the theme of the project.)

※For details, please refer to the following website.

Yokohama City has launched IoT Open Innovation Partners (I.TOP Yokohama), a place for exchange and cooperation, project promotion, and human resource development to create businesses utilizing IoT and other technologies. In collaboration with various companies and institutions in Japan and overseas, I. TOP Yokohama is working to develop high value-added products and services, create new businesses, and solve social issues utilizing new technologies through open innovation.

Yokohama is facing social issues such as a declining birthrate and aging population, a decline in the working-age population, and aging urban infrastructure, especially in suburban areas. On the other hand, various international events are held in Yokohama, and it is also a city that has opportunities for the future leap, such as communicating the appeal of the city and revitalizing the economy. Under these circumstances, I.TOP Yokohama has established the I.TOP Yokohama Lab as a new framework to help companies create projects and commercialize projects, as well as to solve social issues, in order to resolve issues and possibilities facing Yokohama through IoT, and to develop and satisfy needs through IoT.