NEC to expand its public safety solutions

Technology company NEC is combining 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.

Under the new strategy, NEC will begin offering solutions in its seven key business domains through its 500-member global operation structure. The key domains include; citizen services and immigration control, law enforcement, critical infrastructure management, emergency and disaster management, public administration services, information management, and inter-agency collaboration.

“As technologies and infrastructure continue to advance, it is increasingly important to ensure the security and reliability of vital social resources,” said Kunio Kondo, Executive Vice President at NEC Corporation. “NEC’s products and services contribute to the protection of communities throughout the world through sophisticated solutions that cover a broad range of interests, including cyber defence, immigration control and disaster prevention.”

The new strategy follows a shift of the company’s business focus to Solutions for Society in its 2015 Mid-term Management Plan announced in April this year. An NEC spokesman told Cities Today that as urbanisation continues to advance throughout emerging markets, these solutions and products are taking on a more central role in the company’s portfolio.

Products available to cities within the seven domains include biometrics, facial recognition technology, portable DNA analysers, sensors, and large data processing technologies. In addition to these solutions, the company is currently developing common solution models, to fast track the global expansion of its safety business.