Singapore
Areas of Research
NLS creates new value by leveraging on NEC's advanced technologies. It also actively seeks out joint research projects with locally-based partners and regularly participates in a variety of field trials.
NLS also contributes to the NEC the WISE AI technologies portfolio by creating practical and potent AI-based solutions together with government and enterprise customers.
Focus Areas of Research
Public Safety
Transportation
Healthcare
Current Areas of Research
Smart Command Center for Public Safety
The Smart Command Center for Public Safety brings together multiple AI technologies such as facial recognition, abandoned object detection and top appearance ranking into a single platform.
The Smart Command Center's Tag and Track system provides a 360-degree view of every suspicious person detected, allowing for incident correlation and a deeper understanding of suspicious activity.
Searching for faces in historical video footage can be done automatically, using the People Search function. In addition, looking for secondary or related subjects directly from footage becomes a quick and easy task, because there is no longer the need to spend countless hours manually identifying faces in video footage.
Adaptive Video Streaming Technology for Enterprise Safety
Adaptive Video Streaming Technology (AVST) is used to process video footage captured by body-worn and drone-mounted cameras, providing high quality livestreaming over a 4G network to the Smart Command Center.
Voice commands may also be used by the Operator in the Command Center to navigate maps, communicate with Officers on the ground, and view streams from multiple sources.
Crowd Analytics
Using fixed cameras, PTZ cameras, and even drones, our Crowd Analytics solution is capable of counting crowds of various sizes.
Using drones, video footage may be captured and processed with Crowd Analytics in real-time, from an aerial position.
Gaze Analytics
AI technology is used to read the gaze direction of subjects, which can be used in a variety of scenarios.
For example, it can be used as a secondary sensor for behavior detection (shifty-eyes, constant looking at surveillance cameras), or as a means for hands-free interacting with a screens (navigating an interface using only gaze).
Vehicle Analytics
A suite of AI solutions that analyze vehicles and traffic to help enforce traffic laws, and gather data on traffic conditions that can help optimize traffic flow.
This suite includes technologies such as size & speed recognition, traffic counting, and license plate recognition.
Risk-free Driver Management
By collecting telematic data on the driving behavior of bus drivers, our AI engine is able to generate a list of the drivers at the greatest risk of getting into accidents. At-risk drivers can then be sent for corrective training courses.
This proactive approach is favorable over the traditional reactive method of sending bus drivers for corrective training after an accident occurs, and serves to provide smoother and safer journeys for passengers.
Public Transport Operations
Leveraging on predictive analytics and optimization techniques, NEC Laboratories Singapore’s Smart Command Center for Public Transport is able to provide alerts on trends, and suggest potential improvements.
By providing accurate predicted arrival times and fast schedule optimization, the passengers enjoy smoother and safer rides.
Stroke Patient Recovery Prediction System
NLS’ Smart Patient Recovery Prediction System (STARIS) works towards predicting patient recovery potential, enabling clinicians to provide more personalized treatment and rehabilitation plans. This serves to improve patient quality of life, and enhance the operational efficiency of hospitals.