NEC receives Frost & Sullivan’s 2017 Asia Pacific Integrated Biometrics Solutions for Public Safety Leadership Award

 

Tokyo, July
7, 2017 – NEC
Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced
that it has been conferred the 2017 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific
Integrated Biometrics Solutions for Public Safety Leadership Award. The award
recognizes NEC for its technical leadership and growth performance in 2016 in Asia
Pacific for the Biometrics solutions segment.

Urban
planners today are faced with greater challenges than before. While
digitization of the environment and business landscape brings enormous
benefits, there are unprecedented risks that agencies, corporations and
citizens become exposed to.

NEC
addresses their concerns with a wide and established product portfolio to
support the authorities in public safety. Its solutions have been widely
deployed in security checkpoints, police checks and border controls in many
countries across the Asia Pacific region.

Its on-going
development and advancement in biometrics have evolved to include facial
recognition technology to bring security to the next level. At the same time,
supplementing biometrics solutions with video analytics offers a lot more
information to derive meaningful insights that have not been possible before.

“NEC is a
pioneer in multimodal biometrics authentication. Its advanced facial
recognition technology solution employs one of the most cutting edge
technologies in the world. With no direct interaction with people, facial
recognition is among the least invasive method of assessing individuals. In
particular, NEC’s NeoFace® Watch Solution is instrumental in identifying
suspects in border controls and public places who have been registered as being
involved in suspicious activities by the authorities,” noted Ajay Sunder, Vice
President, ICT, Asia Pacific, Frost & Sullivan.

“The award
is recognition for our proven solutions and validates our expertise in the
public safety sector. NEC is committed to providing the best-in-class
technology to law enforcement, border security and governments globally to
create better cities and keep communities safe,” said Tan Boon Chin,
Managing Director, Global Safety Division, NEC Corporation.

As one of
the pioneers of cutting edge biometric technology, NEC has been involved in the
development of facial recognition technology for more than 30 years. NEC’s
NeoFace®, part of NEC’s suite of AI technologies, is a facial recognition
engine boasting the world’s highest* authentication accuracy for real-time
investigations. NEC’s facial recognition technology has been introduced to more
than 40 countries globally, such as Australia, India and Singapore.

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*NEC’s video facial recognition
technology has been top ranked for four consecutive times in the benchmark
testing of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
http://www.nec.com/en/press/201703/global_20170316_01.html

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