In the construction industry, which is shifting from an era of “building” to an era of “protecting,” infrastructure maintenance and management is a serious issue in an environment where manpower is in short supply due to the declining birthrate and aging population.
In particular, in non-urban areas, it is difficult to allocate manpower to structural surveys themselves due to the limited manpower available for such a large area.
A group led by Prof. Akira Yoshikawa, Associate Prof. Yuji Ohashi and Prof. Ichiro Iwaki and Lecturer Taku Maejima (Nihon University) together with Mr. Hiroshi Kato (Evident Corporation), Deputy General Manager Tsuyoshi Iidoi (Fukken Technical Consultants) Masaya Omote (Cross-material Corporation, Tohoku University venture company) to solve the above issues.
They have now succeeded in developing a novel technology for measuring concrete salinity by combining X-ray fluorescence analysis and augmented reality technology, and their technology has been registered with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism’s New Technology Information System (NETIS).
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