Toshiba plans to use Osaka Factory site to build smart Community

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time of August 11, Toshiba company said 10th, is studying in Dabanfu city, the site of the factory built to strive to achieve energy efficient use of intelligent community.　　Toshiba will work with real estate companies and residential firms in 2013, planning to build homes, commercial facilities and solar power facilities.　　According to the plan, the "smart community" covers an area of about 185,000 square meters, Toshiba will make full use of the 2008 closure of the refrigerator factory site, hundreds of homes will be equipped with the next generation of communication functions of intelligent meters, energy-saving appliances, solar power systems and batteries. Toshiba hopes to reach 900 billion yen (about 75 billion yuan) for the smart community-related business by fiscal year 2015, about 3 times times the 2010 fiscal year. In addition, Panasonic is planning to build an environmental model city in Kanagawa-ken Fujisawa. (Wood)