Hitachi’s vision for the intelligent building
Inside Hitachi’s expanded lab exploring AI-led building management and next-generation infrastructure.
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Japan, Tokyo: Hitachi is significantly expanding the exhibits at its Hitachi Building Solutions Lab in Tokyo, a research facility dedicated to collaborative creation with customers. The renewed facility will reopen on 2 March 2026, highlighting how digital technologies can transform buildings into intelligent, sustainable and people-centred systems.
The expanded exhibition reflects Hitachi Group’s Inspire 2027 management plan and focuses on addressing major social challenges, including labour shortages in building operations and the push towards carbon neutrality. Using AI, digital twins and augmented reality, Hitachi proposes next-generation building solutions delivered through its “One Hitachi” approach, centred on HMAX for Buildings: BuilMirai.
One highlight is a demonstration of building management using physical AI, where visitors can experience how AI agents analyse people flow data and operate guide robots through a digital twin of a real space. This illustrates a future vision for more efficient, automated building operations.
Energy transformation is another core theme. The lab presents air conditioning and demand control solutions aimed at accelerating Green Transformation (GX) and Net Zero Energy Buildings (ZEB). Using AR, visitors can visualise and control an actual business-use air conditioning system, showing how digital tools can reduce emissions and energy costs.
The exhibition also explores seamless movement and wellbeing within buildings, integrating elevators, mobile robots, advanced security systems and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology that can supply power to building equipment during outages.
Through these exhibits, Hitachi and Hitachi Building Systems aim to deepen co-creation with developers, owners and operators, positioning buildings as key platforms for digital innovation.
Source: Hitachi
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