The following is a summary of our focus areas categorized by industry and service segments. In each area, the main theme is how to best apply IT and Electronics in each business and lifestyle setting. Renewable Energy Development, Environment Management Today there are much activities in new energy development and the infrastructure for that (Smart Grid). Also environmental management, water, waste product recycling and conversion to renewable resources are big issues too. For example, the application of tag sensor to environmental issues is gaining considerable attention and has reached the stage where specific implementation methods are being tested. By combining the advanced experience of waste collection businesses with new types of equipment for environmental protection, various business models and specific solutions have been presented. Categories Medical & Healthcare Services Infra It is a next-generation support infrastructure, instruments and devices, and personnel development for hospitals, other medical facilities, and in-home care. For example, through the use of "tele-health home servers" placed in patient homes, the need for expensive direct home visits by clinical physicians (and the resulting travel time) can be reduced or eliminated. Further, because patients, by regularly communicating with the medical treatment staff, come to better understand their own physical condition, this contributes to maintaining and improving the effectiveness of patient treatment. Issues are: what about the required equipment? ...what about the local welfare system? ...what about training of care-provider personnel? IT Services, Data center The market has grown at nearly 30-40% in these 10 years even as mergers, acquisitions, and new service delivery models evolved and reshaped the supply-side landscape. A recent study by McKinsey & Co. predicted that data centers will surpass the airline industry as the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 and called for data centers to double their energy efficiency by 2012. According to analyst firm IDC, roughly 50 cents is spent on energy for every $1 of Internet Data Centers cost. We will investigate "Green-IT" fields for such situations. The following is a summary of our focus areas categorized according to the degree to which commercializable applications and products exist. The areas relate more to infrastructure technology and basic research themes. Clean Technology, Smart IT For example, Global Industry Analysts (GIS) forecasts the global fuel cells market is projected to reach US$2.6 billion by the year 2015. The proton exchange membrane fuel cells market is the largest market segment, with 63.9% market share in 2009. The molten carbonate fuel cells market will grow about 29% annually from 2007 to 2015. Developed markets accounted for 85% of revenues in 2009 and are expected to retain their position as major driving forces for the market, through 2015. The total power supply could be unstable along to the introducing such new energy. The necessity to the information technology for environmental energy field would rise more and more, and the applied field will extend. Digital Data Communication, Mobile Computing Recently, various medical imaging modality technologies were being combined to create sophisticated diagnostic tools. For example, CT/CAT Scans, MRIs, e-rays and various forms of x-rays in nuclear settings (e.g. PET). Nuclear scans are combined with information from an anatomical x-ray. This combining information from different medical device modalities; the images are combined within medical image analysis (MIA) software to allow doctors to (1) Create better diagnostics; (2) Plan better for surgery; and (3) Teach in medical settings. Also, mobile devices, computing in the medical, healthcare services could be more & more important too. Cloud Computing As the Internet and telecommunications infrastructure becomes more developed, there will be a continuing demand, particularly from the business sector, for greater sophistication in the information transmitted (data, media-based content, etc.). This trend is causing companies and organizations to embark on thorough reviews of their business processes, with a view toward taking full advantage of new infrastructure technologies such as workflow, collaboration, and even "web service". Of course security infrastructure is also essential. Silicon Valley, in particular, is a Mecca for new software technologies in these fields and answer for these needs is Cloud now. Copyright © 2002-2011 SBF All Rights Reserved.