DIGITAL PILLARS OF

SOCIETY 5.0

NEC

NEC has been an ICT partner with government agencies for more than a century. With expertise in biometric technology via the Bio-IDiom authentication platform and NEC the Wise (AI portfolio) and other enabling technologies, NEC’s focus on ensuring public safety, a national digital identity program, information management for agencies, and process automation-related solutions allows governments to deliver safe and secure digital services that work seamlessly across multiple departments.

To further strengthen its position, NEC made two acquisitions:
1) Northgate Public Services (NPS), a UK IT vendor specializing in providing technology solutions to police services and other government bodies and
2) KMD A/S, the largest IT vendor in Denmark with a very strong portfolio and footprint in the digital government sector. Furthermore, NEC Laboratories Singapore (NLS) collaboratively works with six other R&D bases across the globe to speed up time-to-market of new technologies that help contribute to the resolution of a broad range of business and social concerns.

The NEC Digital Finance team drives its strength from its advanced working knowledge in the enabling technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), biometric authentication & security, and wireless networks. With a focus on Open banking platforms, fraud prevention, credit scoring for loans, insurance, asset & wealth management, clients can trust NEC’s solutions and domain knowledge. NEC offers leading products for Banking and Financial services to engage customers, empower employees, and optimize business operations.

NEC has established a digital business incubation team in Singapore committed to develop, test, and deploy newer technologies in the relevant markets. To further enhance its focus in the domain, NEC added specialist expertise through multiple acquisitions of Avaloq, BanqSoft, and Northgate.

NEC has remained committed to advancing healthcare technologies for more than five decades by bringing innovative solutions to healthcare providers and caregivers and transforming the care experience that patients receive. NEC is also bringing broader technologies, such as AI, and is facilitating medical research institutes to develop reliable diagnostic tests and platforms to contact-trace and control transmission of emerging or endemic infectious diseases and to support acceleration of AI-driven drug development.

NEC has developed and delivered numerous systems to improve efficiency of various hospital departments while optimizing interdepartmental cooperation at hospitals for medical accounting, clinical laboratory testing, medication inventory, and medical imaging as well as automated dispensing systems for pharmacies. NEC Laboratories Singapore (NLS)’s Smart Patient Recovery Prediction System (STARIS) leverages healthcare predictive analytics to predict patient’s (e.g., in case of stroke patients) recovery potential, by collecting physiological and biopsychosocial data from patients and their past medical records. NEC OncoImmunity AS (NOI) offers proprietary machine learning-based software called the NEC Immune Profiler that addresses key knowledge gaps in the prediction of bona fide immunogenic neoantigens for personalized cancer immunotherapy. NEC Laboratories Europe (NLE) has experience in developing neoantigen cancer vaccines by collaborating closely with academic and industrial research groups.

Leveraging the power of ICT, NEC is able to bring a range of solutions that capture and analyse data in real-time and leverage insights to address challenges faced by the transportation industry such as road accidents, traffic congestion and crowd management, fare collection, etc. Big Data Analytics and AI-based solutions help in preventive maintenance of infrastructure, efficient traffic monitoring, reduction of road fatalities through user behaviour analysis and driver profiling, and, lastly, reduction of financial fraud. These solutions are deployed in differing areas including air, rail, road, and waterways, delivering both traditional and smart transportation services.

Across the globe, NEC has demonstrated prowess by successfully executing sophisticated projects such as multi-modal integrated ticketing, automated fare collection, passenger identification and information systems, transit management systems, smart interchange, etc.

By introducing advanced technologies, we can further comprehend our environmental challenges and discover solutions on how to combat them to create a more sustainable world.

With ongoing issues such as climate change, accumulating waste and energy consumption, and rising population, our advanced technologies like AI, big data analytics, biometrics and digital platforms, etc are crucial to analyze data and create smart solutions that will resolve these circumstances.

• Optimise entire demand and supply value chain and increase accuracy of demand forecast to reduce waste
• Optimise movement of people and goods
• Allow humans and robots to work together (address labour shortage issue in some industries)
• Ensure safety and security of citizens, especially during pandemic situations, through tracking and tracing