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Mapxus and Kawasaki Drive Smart Factory Transformation with Unified Indoor Intelligence at CEATEC 2025
December 8, 2025
TOKYO, Japan – At CEATEC 2025 (Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies), the future of smart factory safety and automation was on display, highlighting a powerful trend: the move towards integrated technology ecosystems. This advancement saw "mapxus Driven by Kawasaki,"*1 our advanced indoor map solution in partnership with Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., featured as part of LBMA Japan’s collaborative showcase on cohesive Indoor intelligence.
The Smart Factory Challenge
In a modern automated factory, a single collision between a forklift and a low-profile AGV can halt production for hours and result in significant financial and safety consequences. As automation accelerates across Japan's industrial landscape, this collision risk has become one of the most pressing operational challenges facing facility managers today.
The traditional approach—deploying a single positioning technology across an entire facility—has proven inadequate. Different operational zones require different levels of precision, and the cost of deploying high-accuracy systems site-wide is often prohibitive.
Unifying Indoor Intelligence: The Foundational Role of "mapxus Driven by Kawasaki™"
The CEATEC showcase collectively illustrated the practicality of combining specialized positioning technologies within a centralized ecosystem. The event featured complementary systems working together, including ZeroKey's ultrasonic solution (presented by Nexty Electronics), which provides centimeter-level accuracy for high-risk collision avoidance in specific zones.
This is where the strategic value of "mapxus Driven by Kawasaki™" becomes clear. Our platform, leveraging Wi-Fi fingerprinting technology, provides cost-effective indoor mapping and positioning across large-scale areas—entire factory floors, warehouses, and adjacent office spaces. This wide-area coverage serves as the fundamental layer for facility-wide visibility.
The strategic vision is to create a unified operational dashboard. This multi-layer approach combines the strengths of different technologies:
- mapxus Driven by Kawasaki™: Provides scalable, cost-effective digital mapping and base-layer positioning coverage across the entire facility for tracking assets and personnel.
- Specialized High-Precision Systems: ZeroKey's centimeter-level ultrasonic tracking provides critical collision avoidance in designated high-risk zones.
The ultimate goal is operational integration: viewing, managing, and analyzing positioning data from both wide-area and zonal systems on the same central platform, enabling facility managers to maintain comprehensive situational awareness without switching between multiple systems.
A New Era for Industrial Operations
Rather than choosing between cost and precision, facilities can now deploy the appropriate technology for each zone while maintaining unified visibility.
"mapxus Driven by Kawasaki™" serves as an integration-ready foundation designed to connect and harmonize indoor, outdoor, and specialized zonal data—essential infrastructure for building the next generation of safe, efficient, and data-driven smart factories.
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