NEC Helps Law Enforcement Agencies Worldwide to Build Safer CitiesDebut of World’s First Portable DNA Analyzer in Asia at 80th INTERPOL General Assembly

HANOI, 31 October, 2011 – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) announced today that it is showcasing its cutting-edge technologies and solutions at the 80th INTERPOL General Assembly held in Hanoi, Vietnam from 31 October – 03 November 2011. Several NEC innovations aimed at assisting law enforcement agencies worldwide to safeguard lives and property through innovation and capabilities building will be demonstrated, including:

 

1. DNA IDENTIFICATION – World’s first Portable DNA Analyzer analyses DNA in 25 minutes at crime scene

This world's first fully integrated portable DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) analyzer developed by NEC helps speed up criminal investigations and aid crime prevention efforts on site. Portable enough to be carried to crime scenes, it integrates all five important steps of the DNA analysis process: cell collection, DNA extraction, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), electrophoresis and STR analysis. Traditional DNA analysis requires an entire day to complete, which makes it difficult to produce quick shortlists of suspects, but with NEC's new portable DNA analyzer, the entire DNA analysis process can be quickly completed at the crime scene and produces results in 25 minutes. This is the first time this NEC Portable DNA Analyzer is showcased in Asia, at the 80th INTERPOL General Assembly.

 

2. INTELLIGENT VIDEO SURVEILLANCE – Meta Object Search

NEC is developing a metadata analysis technology that is capable of the efficient extraction of specific images or information from the large amount of video collected by surveillance cameras. This technology focuses on the characteristics of vehicles and humans, including license plate recognition, super-resolution processing, vehicle features model matching, human face/clothing feature extraction and human feature model matching. Applying the metadata analysis technology to a huge video archive of vehicles and persons is expected to significantly improve the efficiency of safety and security services.

 

3. FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION – Latent Fingerprint Matching

NEC’s fingerprint algorithm, including automated latent processing, has been proven to be one of the most accurate according to several benchmark tests performed by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. NEC's high accuracy rate is achieved by the integration of improved matching technologies, such as a low-confidence minutiae adaptive matching algorithm, a zone matching algorithm, and recently developed image processing technologies specialized for latent fingerprints, such as a latent background noise removal algorithm and a low-quality fingerprint ridge recognition algorithm. NEC’s Automated Fingerprint System (AFIS) is the first AFIS that uses ridge counts and relationships between minutiae in its matching algorithm and delivers unparalleled accuracy, speed and flexibility demanded by law enforcement agencies to do their jobs more efficiently.

 

4. FACIAL RECOGNITION – Facial Recognition System with CCTV

NEC’s facial surveillance strengthens security and criminal investigations by warning security personnel whenever travelers are identified as individuals registered on watch lists. NEC's facial surveillance system utilizes advanced surveillance cameras, face recognition technology, and facial image databases to deliver accurate verification regardless of age differences, race, face angle or lighting. It helps identify the target person using facial features matched against CCTV video clips.

 

5. INTER-AGENCY COLLABORATION

Integrated Public Safety Framework provides a framework for inter-agency to collaborate with the power of complex event processing. It aims to support prevention, assist in detection, and signal for response and aid recovery, enabling cross-agency cooperation to bring order to chaos.

 

6. INTERNET SECURITY – Integrated Web Security Solution

NEC and our partner’s internet security solutions offer the world’s first dedicated outbound monitoring solution for cloud and web services, ensuring internet and online security and protects against incoming threats, data leakage and viral attacks.

 

Tan Boon Chin, Managing Director at NEC Asia Pacific’s Regional Competency Centre for Public Safety remarked, “NEC is a global leader in biometric technologies, where we deliver the most advanced identification, security and public safety solutions for law enforcement, public sector, and commercial applications. Leveraging on NEC’s avant-garde technologies in identity solutions, some of which are ranked as the world’s most accurate systems, NEC’s Regional Competency Centre for Public Safety has a strong and experienced team of sales and technical staff with in-depth knowledge in serving the needs of the global public safety market. In line with our concept of “making cities safer”, we look forward to bring our best-of-breed and most efficient security technologies and solutions to law enforcement agencies worldwide to help them safeguard both the physical and virtual world.”

 

NEC’s integrated security solutions and technologies such as its cutting-edge biometrics authentication technologies are amongst the world’s best, as demonstrated by its leading position in biometrics authentication accredited by the NIST . Over the last 30 years, NEC has installed its biometric identification systems for more than 480 customers in more than 30 countries, making it one of the most renowned biometric specialists and the world’s leading technology supplier of fingerprint biometrics for both law enforcement and identity management applications.

 

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[1] NEC’s press release : NEC Fingerprint Matching Technology Ranked No. 1 by the NIST - Automatic processing returns 97.2% accuracy from latent prints and NIST’s “NISTIR 7577-ELFT Phase II - An Evaluation of Automated Latent Fingerprint Identification Technologies”.

 

[2] Notable NIST test results: Finger Print

-FpVTE2003 (Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation 2003) - 1st Rank

-SlapSeg04 (Slap Fingerprint Segmentation Evaluation 2004) - 1st Rank

-SDK Study (Software Development Kit Study for Fingerprint 2004 - 1st Rank

-PFT Study (Proprietary Fingerprint Template Testing) - 1st Rank in 2007

-ELFT07 Phase II (Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technology) - 1st Rank in 2009 Face recognition

-Ranked No.1 in Still Face Challenge Problem of MBGC (Multiple Biometric Grand Challenge) held by NIST in 2008-2009

(NIST test results do not constitute endorsement of any particular system by the government. For more information, visit www.nist.gov.)

 

About NEC Corporation

NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world. By providing a combination of products and solutions that cross utilize the company’s experience and global resources, NEC’s advanced technologies meet the complex and ever-changing needs of its customers. NEC brings more than 100 years of expertise in technological innovation to empower people, businesses and society. For more information, visit NEC at http://www.nec.com.

 

About NEC Asia Pacific Pte Ltd (NEC APAC)

Singapore-based NEC Asia Pacific is the regional headquarters for NEC Corporation (HQ: Japan) in the Asia Pacific region (South and Southeast Asia, and Oceania). As a leading infocomm technology provider and systems integrator offering regional sales and services support and consultancy, NEC APAC develops solutions on carrier network, global identity, RFID, enterprise server, unified communications, multimedia display, and contact centre, as well as provide outsourcing and managed services.

 

To leverage on its technological expertise, NEC APAC has established regional competency centres for public safety and display solutions to expand its capabilities and expertise to support businesses in the Asia Pacific region.

 

In line with the NEC Group Vision to realize an information society friendly to humans and the earth, NEC embarks on corporate social responsibilities initiatives to support the Nature (environment), Education and Community. For more information, please visit www.nec.com.sg.

 

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