

Invoices passed through many hands. The team spent hours on tasks a system completes in minutes, and managers lacked a clear trail for each purchase.




NTT DATA targeted routine equipment inspection and moved the work to autonomous patrol robots. The work draws on NTT DATA’s operation of one of the three largest data center platforms in the world outside China, and appears in NTT DATA public announcements from 2022 and 2023.
The robot’s cameras read the meters along each inspection route.
The robot verifies status lamps on equipment panels during the patrol.
Cameras and sensors flag abnormal appearances and strange odors.
Inspection results arrive as data, so specialists review them without walking the floor.
Robots reduce the 1 to 2 hours of daily inspection work, and specialists move to higher-value tasks. Remote checks over secure networks prepare the operation for IOWN, and fewer site visits support the energy goals of next-generation data centers. The know-how of skilled workers becomes visible through data.