Fujitsu and NPO SEEDS Asia in AR-Enabled Mobile App Trial to Measure Indian Flood Waters, Visualize Urban Flooding
(WorldNews Environment)

Tokyo and Kobe, Japan, July 23, 2018 Fujitsu Limited and NPO SEEDS Asia(1) today announced that they will conduct a field trial in India that utilizes a smartphone application, including augmented reality (AR) technology(2) , to counter flooding and to raise citizens` disaster awareness. The field trial seeks to measure flood water levels and to map out and visualize conditions of urban flooding. The trial will be conducted in India`s Varanasi, an urban area prone to flooding damage, between July and September 2018 when localized and torrential rains are frequent. In India, flood damage in cities due to sudden rain storms has become increasingly serious, demanding measures to accurately...