2015 current, such as the driver of the trucking business has been reduced to 80 million people and the second consecutive year as a whole. (* 1) in the lack of drivers, but traffic accident of business for the track it is on the downward trend, while the accidents caused to the health of drivers is increasing rather. As a cause, and the increase of the middle-aged and elderly drivers, are aware of the shortage and pointed out to the health management, successive health caused by the accident has a social problem. (* 2)

NTTPC, in order to help this social problem solving, began offering IoT services "Mimamori banyan".
"Mimamori banyan tree", because you can find news of the health status and whereabouts of the workers in real time, you can understand the "now" of the worker.
By that continues viewed in real-time can be aware of the "fear" of the state change, also because the whereabouts also seen it is possible to shoot the early measures.

The day-to-day vital data on an ongoing basis to get, compared with the state of "always" of every one worker. By capturing the difference from the "usual", it is possible to notice the "signs" of modulation.

IoT service "Mimamori banyan tree" of NTTPC is, can not solve the driver shortage, the aim of environmental construction that our drivers that are engaged in now is continue to work with peace of mind in good health, to our service administrator, more quickly, more accurate, more easy-to-understand, by your news, we will continue working on this social problem.

* 1: Japan Trucking Association: Japan's trucking industry present situation and problems 2016 (March 2016)

* 2: Japan Trucking Association: health caused by accident prevention manual revision for the trucking company (January 2016)