News amnimo Inc. signs a capital and business alliance agreement with ITEC Hankyu Hanshin Co., Ltd.

amnimo Inc. (headquarters: Musashino-shi, Tokyo; President and CEO: Chiharu Nakabayashi; “amnimo”) has signed a business alliance agreement with ITEC Hankyu Hanshin Co., Ltd. (headquarters: Fukushima-ku, Osaka; President: Yoshinobu Mizumoto; “ITEC Hankyu Hanshin”). amnimo will also carry out a third-party allotment of new shares to ITEC Hankyu Hanshin’s corporate venture capital.

As surveillance cameras spread, there is demand for video solutions that let you install many cameras over a wide area and manage and monitor their video centrally and remotely, even over low-bandwidth networks such as mobile networks. AI video analysis is also starting to spread. Uses go beyond crime prevention to checking site conditions through remote monitoring and designing facilities based on visitor behavior analysis, and demand for practical use is growing.

amnimo is a venture company that started as a new business of Yokogawa Electric Corporation. It offers a unique gateway that records camera video at the edge stably even in harsh environments and sends data to the cloud over LTE or fiber, and a hybrid video management solution with the cloud that greatly reduces operating costs. These are already used in ITEC Hankyu Hanshin’s security camera solutions. amnimo also plans to offer soon a service that runs AI image processing at the edge with an AI chip in the edge gateway.

As surveillance cameras spread, there is demand for video solutions that let you install many cameras over a wide area and manage and monitor their video centrally and remotely, even over low-bandwidth networks such as mobile networks. AI video analysis is also starting to spread. Uses go beyond crime prevention to checking site conditions through remote monitoring and designing facilities based on visitor behavior analysis, and demand for practical use is growing.

ITEC Hankyu Hanshin is the system integrator of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. It is developing AI image processing technology for use in many types of facilities, such as security cameras for local governments and anomaly detection at railway facilities (on platforms and at railroad crossings).

With this investment, amnimo will work with ITEC Hankyu Hanshin to offer new services, including not only video monitoring solutions with advanced technology but also communication devices and AI solutions with edge AI.

■ About amnimo
Company name: amnimo Inc.
Head office: 2-9-32 Nakacho, Musashino-shi, Tokyo, Japan
Representative: Chiharu Nakabayashi, President and CEO
Established: May 2018
Business: amnimo provides video solutions, IoT solutions, and AI solutions that combine IoT devices and cloud services. With edge computing and cloud technology, we create new value from video and contribute to a world connected by IoT and AI.
URL: https://amnimo.com/

■ About ITEC Hankyu Hanshin
Company name: ITEC Hankyu Hanshin Co., Ltd.
Head office: Hanshin Noda Center Building, 1-1-31 Ebie, Fukushima-ku, Osaka
Representative: Yoshinobu Mizumoto, President
Established: July 1987
Business: Transportation systems, enterprise solutions, internet solutions, medical systems, building systems, regional BWA (Broadband Wireless Access), safety and security services, network infrastructure solutions, contract system development, and call centers
URL: https://itec.hankyu-hanshin.co.jp/

Wide-area video monitoring with amnimo’s edge gateway and cloud video management solution

Uses of video from many sites over a wide area

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