In recent years, information communication systems tend to be large and complex ones composed of clouds, the Internet, many kinds of sensors, edge networks, hand-held devices, etc. Within such systems, a great deal of data is shared and advanced data services are provided. Our Laboratories are engaged in research to support such systems and services.

Nakamura Laboratory is conducting research and development targeting data platforms that support data-driven science and research data management. The data platforms consist of a data lake infrastructure for collecting and storing data, a data analysis infrastructure for analyzing the collected data, and a research data management infrastructure for managing the generated research results, etc. Currently, research is being conducted on technologies that can safely protect data even in the event of a large-scale disaster or component failure, and on technologies that enable efficient data analysis, such as machine learning, even for large data sets that exceed the size of the main memory of computers.

Abe Laboratory is promoting research and development to establish communication environments where each entity in human societies and environments performs high level mutual collaboration. To utilize many kinds of entities such as computers, devices, networks, software components, etc, we have proposed methods for acquiring the states of users / environments from images and introducing them into the entities. The human-harmonic information communication infrastructure can be constructed with the cooperative behavior of the entities. Based on these methods, we are developing the design methodology and middleware for cyber-physical integration systems, the advanced multimedia information processing technologies, and also investigating several application systems such as cyber-real integrated spaces, disaster-resistant information communication systems, smart city, etc.