Naver Exports 1784 Smart Building Technology for the First Time... Adopted in Major Japanese Building

Deployment of Robotics and Digital Twin Technologies at Tokyo Midtown Yaesu

Naver will export its smart building management technology, which has been operated at its headquarters '1784', to an overseas market for the first time.

On July 23, Naver announced that it will deploy the smart building operation technology solutions from its 1784 headquarters at the Tokyo Midtown Yaesu building, located in the heart of Tokyo's commercial district, in partnership with NTT East Japan and Mitsui Fudosan.

The indoor autonomous driving robot 'Lookie' is delivering food at Tokyo Midtown Yaesu. Naver

This marks the first time that Naver's smart building model, developed and operated at 1784, will be commercialized and implemented externally. Naver explained that the significance lies in optimizing the technology so that robot services can be provided even in standard buildings without dedicated facilities such as robot-only elevators or specialized cloud environments.

The three companies will launch a cloud-based autonomous robot delivery service at Tokyo Midtown Yaesu. As Tokyo Midtown Yaesu is a complex space where office and commercial facilities coexist, the operational expertise and accumulated data from Naver's 1784 robot services will be leveraged.

Naver will deliver an integrated suite of technological infrastructure, including autonomous robots, a cloud-based robot control system, and digital twin solutions, as utilized in 1784. Mitsui Fudosan will provide and manage the integration of the robot delivery service within Tokyo Midtown Yaesu's facilities. NTT East Japan will be responsible for establishing the digital twin environment and operating as well as maintaining the delivery robots.

Through its robot delivery services at 1784, Naver has been accumulating robot sensor data, spatial data, and operational service data. By utilizing actual operational data such as optimal routes by time of day and recurring exceptional situations, Naver has continuously enhanced the robots' mobility and service execution capabilities.

At the Tokyo Midtown Yaesu building, several technologies will be implemented: the indoor autonomous robot 'Lookie', the multi-robot control system 'ArcBrain', digital twin solutions, and vision-based positioning technology 'ArcEye'. Of these, ArcBrain acts as an 'orchestration platform' that integrates and manages multiple robots’ routes and roles, enabling robots to interact with users in daily spaces by linking with building facilities such as elevators.

Going forward, Naver, Mitsui Fudosan, and NTT East Japan plan to expand the scale of robot delivery services and broaden their collaboration into the field of Physical AI, including indoor augmented reality (AR) navigation and digital twin-based building management.

Naver also intends to further advance its core technology so that robot services can be offered in a variety of buildings regardless of facility environments, and to apply the 1784 model to both domestic and international sites in the future.

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