NEC Corporation has combined its competitive technologies, products, and services to establish "Safer Cities," a new strategy for global expansion of its public safety business, while launching sales of globally available solutions in seven business domains.
NEC Corporation has combined its competitive technologies, products, and services to establish "Safer Cities," a new strategy for global expansion of its public safety business, while launching sales of globally available solutions in seven business domains.
Aiming to contribute to the solution of various social challenges, NEC will offer advanced social infrastructure utilizing ICT to realize a safe, secure, efficient, and equal society through this management plan.
NEC has offered a wide range of safety solutions that combine state-of-the-art technologies, such as biometrics, sensors, and big data processing technologies. In addition to these solutions, NEC is developing common solution models, to fast track the global expansion of its safety business, while enhancing its overseas system integration capabilities and global customer base.
NEC established a Global Safety Division in Singapore to promote its safety business and global deployment solutions. NEC also established the NEC Laboratories Singapore as the center of its global solutions research in Asia. Through NLS, NEC has formed flexible research collaborations with local research institutions and customers and, through active participation in field trials, is creating new solutions using its state-of-the-art technologies.
Under the new "Safer Cities" strategy, NEC has defined seven business domains, namely, Citizen Services & Immigration Control, Law Enforcement, Critical Infrastructure Management, Emergency & Disaster Management, Public Administration Services, Information Management, and Inter-Agency Collaboration. NEC will begin offering solutions in these domains through its 500-member global operation structure led by the GSD.
The following are the solutions and business domains that NEC will launch under the new Safer Cities strategy:
Citizen Services & Immigration Control Citizen services and immigration control:
A solution that leverage top-level accuracy fingerprint/facial recognition and other biometric identification, e.g. Immigrations
Law Enforcement:
Solutions that support law and order, for detection of blacklisted persons using surveillance cameras for crime prevention.
Critical Infrastructure Management:
Solutions for preventing occurrences of crime in critical infrastructure, such as airports, which pose a massive impact on society
Emergency & Disaster Management:
Solutions for preventing disasters through early detection of disaster threats, as well as for minimizing damage and facilitating recovery from natural disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, fires and typhoons
Public Administration Services:
Solutions that underpin public administration services to promote public safety and security, such as solutions for prevention of infection and manpower management through the use of IT and network technologies
Information Management:
Solutions for cyber security in an information society where hacking and other cyber-attacks pose a major threat to people's lives
Inter-Agency Collaboration:
Network infrastructure for sharing information among municipalities, government agencies, and relevant institutions; extracting useful information from big data obtained through information sharing and for analyzing and visualizing data for presentation