NEC Showcases Safer Cities concept at IFSEC-2011

By siliconindia   |   Monday, 19 December 2011, 22:40 IST
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Bangalore: NEC Corporation (Nippon Denki Kabushiki Gaisha) displayed its range of public safety and security solutions focusing on the concept of 'safer cities' at IFSEC from 8th December to 10th December 2011 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. According to the Frost & Sullivan- Aerospace, Defence & Security Practice Report 2011, India is expected to be a great market for safe city solutions with 7 announced projects to be completed in the next 10 years. Fostered by the national government, a major Safe City project is expected to be implemented in 6 major states across the country from 2011-2012. As a technology partner, NEC's vision is to bring its cutting edge technologies to help government and businesses achieve/realize this safe city framework. NEC's range of security solutions on display were: METADATA ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGY - NEC is developing a metadata analysis technology that is capable of efficient extraction of specific images or information from the large amount of video collected by surveillance cameras, focusing on the characteristics of vehicles and humans to significantly improve the efficiency of safety and security services. FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION - NEC's Automated Fingerprint Identification 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 when used against database searches for identification. Law enforcement agencies can leverage on NEC's AFIS solution to perform accurate criminal authentication, and conduct effective post incident investigation and analysis. FACIAL RECOGNITION - NEOFACE - 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. INTER-AGENCY COLLABORATION - NEC's Integrated Public Safety Framework provides a framework for inter-agencies to collaborate with the aim to support prevention, assist in detection, and signal for response and aid recovery, enabling cross-agency cooperation to bring order to chaos. CYBER SECURITY - NEC and our partner's cyber 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.