What is Fujitsu's World No. 1 Continuous Authentication Technology that Realizes 'Life in 2030'?!

Recreating a space in collaboration with Misawa Homes where your favorite music plays automatically and cooking recipes are suggested

Hello! I'm Caroline from Fujitsu Public Relations!

Well, today I would like to introduce Fujitsu's continuous authentication technology.

Highlights of this article

• Achieved World No. 1

• Demonstration experiment scheduled until January '24. What are the current results!?

• You can experience this technology!

I'm tooting my own horn here, but this continuous authentication technology is super, super, super amazing!! It's super, super, super amazing!! (I wrote it twice because I really want you to read this article to the end)

This is a field where companies are developing and announcing new technologies every day, but Fujitsu's continuous authentication technology has achieved World No. 1 in a global benchmark for person tracking (*1).

With conventional technology, tracking ends when the target hides behind an object, but the amazing thing about this technology is that it enables tracking of a person across multiple cameras... well, if I start talking about it, it might get long, so in short, it has realized a technology that can resume tracking when a person who was hidden and lost from sight reappears from behind an object!

You might be wondering,
"Isn't that kind of scary!? What about privacy!?"

We are currently working on addressing such concerns, and are exploring mechanisms to protect privacy, such as using sensors that collect point cloud data formed by the position and color information of objects instead of regular cameras.

And currently, this technology is in the midst of a demonstration experiment to improve the accuracy of authentication.

With the cooperation of Misawa Homes Co., Ltd., we started a demonstration experiment in June 2023 at the model house "Misawa Park Tokyo" in Suginami Ward, Tokyo. In September, we began an interim report on the demonstration experiment and opened the demonstration site to the media.
(It's not often that we show the site of a demonstration experiment, so please come!)

So far, we have achieved a 90% authentication success rate, and we are continuing experiments to correctly distinguish even when people are wearing similar clothing, such as uniforms.

When I asked Yamada, Senior Project Director of Privacy-ID CPJ at Fujitsu Research's Data & Security Research Institute, about the practical application of this technology, he said, "I think it will start in small spaces, but then it will expand to larger areas such as commercial facilities and airports, and eventually I hope it will spread to the entire city.".

Also, regarding the intent and benefits of the collaboration with Misawa Homes, Izumi (*2) said, "We want to embody cross-industry. In Japan, private services like housing and public services like fire and emergency are not yet that connected, but I believe there is definitely a world that can be connected by using this kind of technology." expressing the potential of the technology.

The demonstration experiment is scheduled to be conducted until January 2024, and the results are updated from time to time, so if you are interested, please contact Caroline, and I will guide you through the venue together with the Misawa Homes PR team and provide you with the latest information! And we also welcome media coverage of the demonstration experiment site!

(*1) Achieved world top tracking accuracy in Multiple Object Tracking Benchmark: MOT-17 (Jan '23), MOT-20 (Oct '23)
(*2) Senior Director, Trusted Society G/P&Safety Division, Social Solution Business Unit