Mitsui Garden Hotel Kashiwa-no-ha Park Side, a hotel supporting cancer patients, the first hotel to introduce Tellus, a monitoring sensor that detects sleep and other activities
Accommodation plans with the Tellus option will be available from November 1, 2022

October 5, 2022
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
Mitsui Fudosan Hotel Management Co., Ltd.
Tellus You Care, Inc.

Tokyo, Japan, October 5, 2022 - Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd., a leading global real estate company headquartered in Tokyo, Mitsui Fudosan Hotel Management Co., Ltd., and Tellus You Care, Inc. (“Tellus You Care’) hereby announce the introduction of Tellus, a monitoring device using millimeter-wave radar technology, at Mitsui Garden Hotel Kashiwa-no-ha Park Side, a hotel supporting cancer patients. Sales of accommodation plans with the Tellus option started from October 5. This is the first time that Tellus has made a full-scale introduction into a hotel.

Mitsui Garden Hotel Kashiwa-no-ha Park Side, which opened in July 2022, is located on the grounds of National Cancer Center Hospital East, which handles nearly 300,000 patients yearly, and provides a 24-hour supportive stay environment to patients and family members who accompany them. Going forward, the hotel will continuously devise accommodation plans that utilize advanced technologies or services from a variety of companies to enable patients and their families to use the facility with even further peace of mind. Tellus You Care will be the first company to introduce a service to the hotel since its opening with the introduction of Tellus, a monitoring device using advanced millimeter-wave radar technology that it developed and provides.

Tellus, is a health technology company, has created a monitoring device equipped with a sensor using millimeter-wave radar technology that detects sleep and activity patterns in a privacy-first manner. Unlike cameras, radars work by detecting movement and are unable to identify specific characteristics of people, such as if they are men or women, or what clothing they are wearing. By sensing the slightest of movements and combining this with advanced AI it is possible to determine activity conditions such as sleep, and a person’s vitals. Data is managed through the cloud platform and administrators can monitor it in real time. The hotel will initially only detect sleep and wake times, but from 2023 onward will move ahead on the detection of blind spots such as falls, crouching down or suchlike in washrooms or guestrooms. Any such incident will trigger a notification that is sent immediately to family members or care staff stationed in the hotel. The company aims to build a service that alleviates the anxiety of patients staying alone, and their families, and provides a safer and more secure accommodation environment.

To use the service, select the plan with the “Tellus’ option when making a reservation.

■Tellus Monitoring Sensor

Tellus was an early adopter of sensors using millimeter-wave radar technology used in automated driving and measures activity conditions in a contact-free manner that protects privacy. The palm-sized device emphasizes ease of use and installation, and can collect information on a person's sleeping, crouching down or other activities just by plugging it into an electrical outlet. By setting a shared destination for data, it can be viewed remotely by family members and notify regarding status. Tellus is being installed in facilities, mainly for the elderly, and this is the first initiative where it is being used in a hotel.
Website: https://www.tellusyoucare.com/

■ About the “Mitsui Fudosan 9BOX Infection Control Measure Standards’

The Mitsui Fudosan Group has so far carried out thorough measures against COVID-19 according to each facility. However, the Group considered the necessity for easily understood infection prevention measures based on medical and engineering knowledge so that its facilities could be used with peace of mind even if a new variant were to spread in the future, and formulated the “Mitsui Fudosan 9BOX Infection Control Measure Standards’ to be shared across the Group. The Group has developed diverse facilities such as office buildings, retail properties, hotels, resorts, logistics centers, and homes. By presenting measures that are easy to share not only within the Group but with all of society, it hopes to help solve society-wide issues.
Mitsui Fudosan will continue working to achieve a sustainable society through safe and secure neighborhood creation.

[References] https://www.mitsuifudosan.co.jp/english/corporate/news/2021/1001_01/

■ Mitsui Fudosan Group’s contribution to SDGs

https://www.mitsuifudosan.co.jp/english/esg_csr/
The Mitsui Fudosan Group aims for a society that enriches both people and the planet under the principles of coexist in harmony with society, link diverse values and achieve a sustainable society, and advances business with an awareness of the environment (E), society (S) and governance (G), thus promoting ESG management. By further accelerating its ESG management, the Group will realize Society 5.0, which the Japanese government has been advocating, and contribute significantly to achieving the SDGs. Additionally, the Group formulated the following Group guidelines related to “Realize a Decarbonized Society’ and “Diversity & Inclusion Promotion’ in November 2021. The Mitsui Fudosan Group will continue to work toward solving social issues through neighborhood creation.

References
Group Action Plan to Realize a Decarbonized Society
https://www.mitsuifudosan.co.jp/english/corporate/news/2021/1124/
Diversity & Inclusion Promotion Declaration and Initiative Policy
https://www.mitsuifudosan.co.jp/english/corporate/news/2021/1129_02/

* The initiatives covered in this press release are contributing to two of the UN’s SDGs.