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SMRT to work with ABEJA for AI-powered safe transportation

SMRT to work with ABEJA for AI-powered safe transportation

Singapore’s public transport company SMRT will collaborate with AI and machine learning provider ABEJA to make it happen

ABEJA Singapore Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-based subsidiary company of ABEJA, Inc., that provides AI solutions has announced a partnership with SMRT Momentum Ventures Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of SMRT Corporation Ltd., a public transport company in Singapore.

Their collaboration will start off with research and development to pursue Deep Learning technology as a safety management area tool. It will particularly focus on aiding automated fault identification for railway maintenance.

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With the collaboration, ABEJA and SMRT aim to provide safer transportation and prevent accidents using ABEJA’s platform capability.

“Through this collaboration with SMRT, ABEJA would like to target business growth not only in the Republic of Singapore but also in the entire ASEAN,” said Naoki Tonogi, Managing Director of ABEJA Singapore.

ABEJA’s service leverages machine learning technology in data gathering, annotation, learning, deployment, inference, and relearning in a variety of fields.

ABEJA Singapore itself has been in business since April 2017. It learned its AI social implementation know-how (including deep learning) that it has developed within Japan, working with local companies, including academic institutions, the manufacturing industry, the infrastructure industry, and the healthcare industry.

ABEJA shared that its platform provides retail industry store analysis solution and ABEJA Insight for Retail to more than 100 corporate customers and in over 520 stores, primarily leading Japanese retailers and distributors.

To date, ABEJA claimed to have more than 150 companies adopting the platform.

“It is our pleasure that ABEJA’s technology can make contribution to the development of infrastructure industry, in which securing safety weighs heavily on people’s lives,” Tonogi added.

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The end goal is to contributing to the reinforcement of social infrastructure foundation, which is an issue for overall ASEAN, and will keep working on promoting industrial structure reform.

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