# Chapter 3 New Products and Services in the IoT Era

○FinTech and the sharing economy have emerged as two new services symbolizing the IoT era. Examples are beginning to appear of these services contributing to new value creation and problem solving.

○Intention to use and actual use of these services are most advanced in the United States, by country, and among the youth, by age bracket.

Key Points

FinTech

Example of awareness, intention to use, and usage rates (FinTech asset management service)

Wearable devices

The sharing economy

Sharing economy mechanisms (vacation rentals)

Image of a room listed on a vacation rental

Promote the use of wearable devices from the services field (examples of applications in tourism and security)

ICT contributes to solving social issues

Service robots

Kibiro communication robot

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Medical care sector

HOSPI, a robot that transports medicine and samples in a hospital→

Join, a mobile app for medical practitioners

Education sector (Study Suppli)

Attention is focusing on the possibilities of blockchain and other distributed management technologies as ways of using and distributing data while ensuring security and low costs

Members can use more than 3,000 video lessons by top-notch instructors for 980 yen a month. Provides many students with opportunities to learn. Expanding overseas as well.

Distributed management of personal data by individuals

Share data with healthcare providers or other individuals when necessary

## ☐ ICT contributes to regional revitalization

## I CT Town Development Promotion Projects (FY 2012 to 2014)

• Implemented model projects (outsourced) based on plans submitted by communities for three years, starting in FY 2012

• Sequentially extended the results from the pilot projects carried out in 27 locations nationwide

Matters, Matters Provisions	Regional pilot project Project for applications coordinating Glens G-space information and ICT
Provision, Warrant Provisions	Mishkada bridge project facing booster between people and communities and creativity in the community reporting community life with resident services and ICT big data
Requirements, Solutions, Requirements	Project to build local public network platforms in Aswarattasuru
Matters, Matters Provisions	Matters ICT Risk Project to create venues for study and health support structures using ICT
Provision, Warrant Provisions	Construction of a common integrated platform for energy, health and disaster prevention for the Kathwarahya Smart City
Matters, Matters Provisions	Matka City community initiative project
Matters, Matters Provisions	Project to create a resilient disaster information circulation model using open data and ubiquitous technologies
Matters, Matters Provisions	IT some development in cooperation with industry, academia, government, and residents for reaching for positive growth for a national-town
Matters, Matters Provisions	Project to construct commerce infrastructure for the sloth industrial value that also provides relief supplies during disasters
Provision, Warrant Provisions	ICT smart town with the participation of citizens to provide convenience in normal times and safety times of sudden illness and disasters
Matters, Matters Provisions	Project to build a�ctal and digital town through the use and application of ICT
Solutions, Solutions	Project to construct a disaster resilient teleworking and�ling regional strength and cooperation through the convergence ofبلustantng and communications
Matters, Matters Provisions	Smile Manausua Project, making Manausa a healthy sightseeing town
Matters, Matters Provisions	Ecoaction and evacuation system that provides barrier-free sightseeing and reliability through the course and application of ICT