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Music drone against workaholics

14.12.2017

In many countries, it is not customary to stay at the workplace for a long time after the end of the working day. However, in Japan, the situation is quite different, statistics indicate that in 25 percent of Japanese companies, some workers can work up to 80 hours of overtime per month. Naturally, this negatively affects the mental abilities of a person and harms his health. At the same time, this problem is so acute that the term "karoshi" - "sudden death from overtime work", in literal translation, was introduced to describe it.

To combat this harmful phenomenon, the enterprising Japanese came up with a rather original way - a small unmanned aerial vehicle that flies around the office and, having found an employee at the workplace after hours, scares him with loud music.

The idea of using the drone for such unusual purposes was born by the management of the Japanese construction company Taisei, and the drone itself, called T-FREND, was developed and manufactured by Blue Innovations. This small device is able to move inside office and industrial premises without the use of GPS or any other navigation system, the time and route of movement are laid down in the drone in advance. And during a given period of time, the T-FREND machine moves around the office, turning on a traditional Japanese song called "Hotaru no Hikari" at full volume at random times. The choice of this song is far from accidental, it is very often played in schools after lessons are over and in shops before they close.

In addition to influencing workaholic employees, the T-FREND drone also performs security functions. It is equipped with a camera and has a connection to the cloud service. Everything captured by the camera of the device is stored on the SD card and transferred to the cloud service as far as possible. This, in turn, reduces the workload of security personnel, who are also at risk of "overtime" overtime.

Taisei plans to start using T-FREND drones in April 2018. In addition, there are plans to rent out such devices to other companies for a fixed monthly fee, which will be quite high, about 500 Japanese yen (4 US dollars). One can only hope that the idea of using T-FREND drones will work, because in this case it will help to literally save more than one human life.

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