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and experience in this field. The asteroid explorer will be
the successor to the original “Hayabusa” asteroid explorer,
which returned to Earth in June 2010.
FOR FURTHER GROWTH
The social infrastructure business should continue to
expand as earthquake recovery-related projects get fully
under way. Expansion should also be driven by continuing
demand for digital communications in the fire and disaster
prevention, broadcasting and transportation systems fields.
In light of this business environment, NEC’s first priority
will be to build a stable operating base by ensuring that it
seizes business opportunities. Opportunities will include
replacement demand driven by regional enlargement and
digitization of wireless communications networks of fire and
disaster prevention systems, upgrades to the second
generation of ETC systems, and renovation of broadcasting
studio facilities. Another opportunity will be overseas
demand for TV transmitters.
Furthermore, NEC aims to launch new businesses by
developing technologies related to telematics systems,
intelligent transportation system (ITS) communications
(vehicle-to-vehicle and road-to-vehicle communications)
and smart grids (control of energy).
NEC is also focused on expanding business globally by
utilizing the business assets it owns. NEC has a strong
track record in projects such as astronomical observation
satellites and the “Hayabusa” asteroid explorer. Leveraging
this strength, NEC will develop compact Earth observation
satellites with a low cost and short delivery time utilizing the
NEXTAR small standard satellite bus module system*3.
*3 Bus system: Structurally, artificial satellites consist of a mission-specific component for performing communications, Earth observation and other tasks, and a bus
component that provides functions common to all satellites, such as attitude control and power supply. NEC is working on standardizing the bus component of satellites.
*4 Terahertz waves: These electromagnetic waves are situated between visible light / infrared radiation and radio waves. Because they can be transmitted through
paper, plastic, fabrics, smoke and other substances, terahertz waves are attracting high hopes for applications in various fields, such as non-destructive inspection,
healthcare and drug discovery and detection of illegal substances.
“Hayabusa 2”
(Image provided by Akihiro Ikeshita)
High-performance fire-fighting command center
(Fire and disaster prevention systems)
NEC plans to market this satellite to emerging countries
primarily in Asia, where there are growing needs for owning
satellites for disaster prevention and other purposes. NEC
also intends to create new businesses in the safety domain,
including surveillance of critical facilities and disaster
prevention systems, with the view to develop the safety
business globally. This effort will comprehensively utilize
NEC’s strengths in various technologies such as sensor,
network and information processing technologies.
NEC has other unique products, such as the X-info Table
(read “Cross-info Table”), a large tablet device that enables
the rapid gathering and analysis of information by multiple
people, and terahertz imagers, which has sensitivity in
terahertz waves*4 and can find out something from terahertz
images that cannot be observed with visible light or infrared
radiation. By proposing unique solutions harnessing these
sorts of products, NEC will strive to win new customers.
Digital terrestrial TV transmitters
installed on “TOKYO SKYTREE®”
(Broadcasting and video distribution systems)
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