Our “ALIS” won the Excellence Award and the award ceremony was held in Tokyo. This image was provided by Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun.



Our “ALIS” won the Excellence Award and the award ceremony was held in Tokyo. This image was provided by Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun.
ALIS” won the ‘Excellence Award’ in the 37th Small and Medium Enterprise New Technology and New Product Awards [ Sponsor: Resona Foundation for Small and Medium Enterprise Promotion / The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd.
ALIS (Advanced Landmine Imaging System), a combination of a metal detector and GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar), is a small landmine detection sensor that is hand-held and scanned by the operator. While a metal detector is a sensor that detects buried metal underground, GPR uses radio wave reflection to image the shape of the plastic container of an anti-personnel landmine, allowing the operator to determine whether the metal detector response is due to a landmine or other piece of metal without excavation. Thus, the GPR can dramatically improve work efficiency compared to using a metal detector alone.
Click here to see the detail page of the SMEs Excellent New Technology and New Product Award. Click here to go to the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun’s award-winning works page.
Motoyuki SATO (President of ALISys, Professor Emeritus of Tohoku University) received the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Prize for Science and Technology (Development Category).
The “Miyagi Ambassador Summit” was held in and around Sendai City for three days from January 23, 2025. In the “Introduction of Prefectural Companies with High Technological Capabilities, Representative Sato gave a lecture on ALISys’ technologies in front of ambassadors invited from various countries.
On November 24, the Parliamentary Secretary delivered a speech at an event co-hosted with CMAC at the Mine Action Peace Museum.
On the 26th, Japanese companies (NEC, ALISys, IOS) and CMAC co-hosted a side event to introduce Japanese technologies in mine countermeasures, such as a mine burial location prediction system using artificial intelligence (AI), mine detectors, and demining robots.
Click here to read the article in Japanese from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan