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NEC is promoting R&D activities that are closely linked to intellectual property and standardization strategies with
the aim of creating an ongoing stream of innovation to significantly develop current businesses alongside fresh
innovation as the source of future businesses.
Targeting R&D Domains to Support Business Development
R&D฀AND฀INTELLECTUAL฀PROPERTY฀STRATEGY
NEC aims to realize a society that is safe, secure,
efficient and fair by promoting the development of
“Solutions for Society” under the “Mid-term
Management Plan 2015.” R&D activities at NEC
focus not only on generating technical innovation to
help current businesses supply “Solutions for
Society,” but also on creating original, innovative
technologies for future businesses that can provide
new social value. Success in R&D helps support the
sustainable development of NEC.
NEC is working to accelerate those R&D activities
that can make vital contributions in business
domains related to “Solutions for Society,” including
Big Data analysis, SDN, safety and smart energy.
Efforts are also focusing on reinforcing the originality
and competitive edge provided through R&D
programs involving technical assets such as Big
Data analytics technologies (such as Invariant
Analyzer*, heterogeneous mixture learning and text
mining), network virtualization technologies, and
sensing technologies for environments from the
deep sea to space. In addition to developing these
technical assets, NEC’s R&D activities also seek to
create highly innovative technologies that push the
envelope and redefine the state of the art.
From a strategic perspective, NEC aims to
maximize the commercial potential of R&D activities
focusing on such domains by seeking to create new
value through the active promotion of programs
directed at expanding the range of applications for
technologies already developed in-house.
For instance, NEC is developing ways of improving
the performance of corporate systems or carrier
networks by combining security technologies with
Targeted R&D
domains
Big Data analytics
Processing and analysis of
large-scale complex information
Text mining, entailment recognition
Creation of customer value through predictions and forecasts
Heterogeneous mixture learning,
System Invariant Analysis Technology (SIAT)
SDN
(Software-Defined
Networking)
Developing more efficient corporate ICT infrastructure
OpenFlow
Advanced enterprise systems and carrier networks
ExpEther+SDN, Broadband Remote Access Server (BRAS)
Real-world data and
processing
Real-world information sensing and recognition
Facial recognition, subject recognition
Real world optimization based on
deep understanding and actuation
Behavioral analysis, large-scale video surveilance
Security Minimization of system security risks
Encryption technology, autonomous security
Value maximization via safe data usage
Data anonymity, concealment process
Smart energy
Efficient use of electric power
Lithium-ion rechargeable batteries,
energy฀management฀systems฀(BMU,฀PCS)
Combining energy efficiency and quality of life
Power/heat-integrated฀EMS,฀
energy usage prediction and control
Smart business More efficient system integration
Model-based systems integration
Analytics-based customer business optimization
Data store sizing, battery capacity optimization
Main Research Domains and R&D Strategy
R&D directly connected to business R&D for new business creation
* Invariant Analyzer is an analytics-based technology that extracts and models the relationships within large amounts of data to enable the detection of behavior that is anomalous with the
model, thus allowing discovery of potential performance issues.
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Annual Report 2013