Japan's Fujitsu brings hand washing AI to COVID-19 fight

June 19, 2020

TOKYO - Three months after the World Health Organization suggested singing "Glad Birthday" twice during hand washing to battle the coronavirus, Japan's Fujitsu Ltd has built up a man-made brainpower screen it says will guarantee human services, inn and food industry laborers clean appropriately. 

The AI, which can perceive complex hand developments and can even recognize when individuals aren't utilizing cleanser, was a work in progress before the coronavirus episode for Japanese organizations actualizing stricter cleanliness guidelines, as indicated by Fujitsu. It depends on wrongdoing reconnaissance innovation that can distinguish dubious body developments. 

"Food industry authorities and those associated with coronavirus-related business who have seen it are anxious to utilize it, and we have had individuals asking about cost," said Genta Suzuki, a senior analyst at the Japanese data innovation organization. Fujitsu, he included, presently couldn't seem to officially choose whether to advertise the AI innovation. 

In spite of the fact that the coronavirus pandemic and resulting financial aftermath is harming organizations extending from cafés to vehicle creators, for firms ready to utilize existing innovation to tap a developing business sector for coronavirus-related items, the flare-up offers an opportunity to make new organizations. 

Fujitsu's AI checks whether individuals complete a Japanese wellbeing service six-advance hand washing strategy that like rules gave by the WHO requests that individuals clean their palms, wash their thumbs, among fingers and around their wrists, and scour their fingernails. 

The AI can't recognize individuals from their hands, yet it could be combined with personality acknowledgment innovation so organizations could monitor workers' washing propensities, said Suzuki. 

To prepare the AI, Suzuki and different designers made 2,000 hand washing designs utilizing various cleansers and wash bowls. Fujitsu workers participated in those preliminaries, with the organization likewise paying others in Japan and abroad to wash their hands to help build up the AI. 

The AI could be modified to play Happy Birthday or other music to go with hand washing, however that would be up to the clients who got it, said Suzuki.