Forecasting Population Flow for New Visibility: KDDI has Developed Demographic Movement Analysis/Forecasting Technology

KDDI CORPORATION (Headquarters: Chiyoda, Tokyo, President: Makoto Takahashi) and KDDI Research Inc. (Headquarters: Fujimino, Saitama, President: Yasuyuki Nakajima) have announced the development of demographic movement analysis and forecasting technology that enables near real-time [1] estimates and forecasting of population movement within arbitrarily selected areas of Japan using Big Data based on position information [2]. The new technology is based on behavior analysis technology developed at KDDI Research, that estimates traveling means and routes from a series of position information. By utilizing the accumulated Big Data such as GPS, the technology can go beyond estimating population distribution within a given area. It provides highly detailed near real-time estimates and forecasting [3] of numbers of people moving and remaining in place, as well as numbers of those moving along railways and roads. Click here for more.

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