Panasonic Group contributes to safety, comfort, environmental consideration, and excitement at Expo 2025

Contributions to the Grand Ring, staff gates and beyond

Osaka, Japan, October 30, 2025 – Panasonic Group has played a key role in realizing a comfortable, safe and sustainable Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan (“Expo 2025”) through its products, solutions and AI technologies, including lighting, commercial air conditioning equipment and facial authentication systems deployed at the Grand Ring, supply and treatment facilities (Southeast and Northeast) that serve as the core of the venue’s cooling infrastructure, staff gates and other key locations.

Additionally, Panasonic Group supported the overall visitor experience and spatial appeal of the Expo venue by contributing to the lighting displays that illuminated Expo 2025’s iconic Grand Ring as well as the individual pavilions throughout the site.

Panasonic Group will leverage the knowledge gained through its initiatives at Expo 2025 to advance its products and solutions that contribute to solving social issues, as well as technologies that create memorable experiences, thereby contributing to the realization of a better future.

Panasonic Group installed approximately 1,600 full-color spotlights on the Grand Ring’s rooftop Sky Walk, and 2,400 spotlights on the ground floor’s Ground Walk. Additionally, approximately 700 compact floodlights were installed to illuminate the inner and outer edges of the Grand Ring, creating one of Expo 2025’s iconic symbols: a nighttime display in which the structure appears to float against the night sky. Full-color spotlights have been installed at 1.2-meter intervals along the entire two-kilometer circumference of the rooftop Sky Walk, controlled by the urban lighting cloud system "YOI-en," creating a dynamic atmosphere that evolves with the time of day and seasons.

https://www2.panasonic.biz/jp/solution/town/works/expo2025grandring.html (Japanese only)

Panasonic Group’s environmentally friendly “absorption chillers (Natural Chiller),” which do not use specific CFCs or CFC substitutes and instead use water as a natural refrigerant, were installed at the supply and treatment facilities that served as the core of the venue’s cooling infrastructure, supplying chilled water to key facilities such as the EXPO Hall and the EXPO Messe.

https://news.panasonic.com/jp/press/jn250319-3 (Japanese only)

In collaboration with Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (DNP) , Panasonic Group introduced admission credential passes (AD passes) and a facial authentication entrance system to manage the entry of Expo 2025 personnel, facilitating smooth yet strict entry management.

https://news.panasonic.com/global/stories/17789 

The IT/IP platform KAIROS was utilized in one of the world’s largest IP-based remote productions using NTT’s next-generation network technology IOWN for “Beethoven’s 9th with a cast of 10,000,” the opening event of Expo 2025 held in April 2025. KAIROS also achieved real-time 4K 3D spatial transmission for the “IOWN × Perfume” 3D live performance held by NTT in April 2025.

https://news.panasonic.com/global/topics/17799
https://news.panasonic.com/global/topics/17892

At the Osaka Healthcare Pavilion, Panasonic deployed controlled lighting across numerous fixtures to illuminate the flowing water on the large roof. Additionally, Panasonic Group’s AI technology was used to diagnose hair luster, frizz and damage from a single image to assess mental and hair health, supporting well-being in daily life.

https://www2.panasonic.biz/jp/solution/town/works/expo2025osaka-healthcare-pavilion.html (Japanese only)
https://holdings.panasonic/jp/corporate/pac/blog/electric/electric_20250619.html (Japanese only)

Panasonic Group contributed environmentally conscious water-related and building equipment to various pavilions, including specially designed toilets manufactured from recycled factory waste materials. These solutions achieved the high performance and quality required for facilities accommodating large numbers of visitors.

https://sumai.panasonic.jp/housing-biz/public/jirei-expo2025/ (Japanese only)

Panasonic Group Expo 2025 website:
https://holdings.panasonic/global/corporate/expo2025.html 

The Land of NOMO website:
https://the-land-of-nomo.panasonic/en/