NEC Corporation has developed five new IoT solutions and plans to successively release them. The company will also increase the number of core personnel engaging in IoT-related systems construction from around 100 today to nearly 500 by 2020.
NEC said it will be moving forward with the development of technologies in areas such as image processing, sensors and big data analysis, together with new solutions development and partnerships.
The vendor aims to make positive use of IoT in extensive areas including social infrastructure, such as water demand forecast and traffic monitoring, security management for communities and for key facilities and energy management, in addition to the corporate use of IoT by manufacturers, distributors, transport operators and others.
NEC's upcoming new IoT products and services include separate landslide and water demand prediction solutions for government offices, an electric power demand forecasting system for utilities, image and weight-based goods inspection systems for distributors and a facial recognition based VIP detection solution for retailers and the service industry.
“In the coming IoT era, the extra value of data found in the digital world will be incorporated swiftly into real society, industry and life,” NEC EVP and CMO Takaaki Shimizu commented.
“NEC will capitalize on its technologies in the software-defined networking (SDN), big data, cloud and security areas in order to construct flexible and robust IoT systems.”