Inspection of distribution facilities using tablet computers

In Japan, we have constructed a huge amount of distribution facilities from 60's to 80's, the period of high economic growth. After this period, the economic growth became going down, so it is with the increment pace of our facilities. This means that we had been losing the opportunities to replace our facilities, and we will face a huge amount of aged facilities in near future. For this issue, we need to predict the remaining lifetime of our facilities, and in order to achieve it, more quantitative, more extensive, and more detailed data will be required. For this purpose, we have developed the system which can be called the system supporting “maintenance-oriented” operation, by utilizing tablet computers.