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National ID system The president of NEC Africa meets with his staff
The wireless system control room of the Huichen Senior
Service Group
NEC Africa Established to Develop Business in Africa in Earnest
Helping China’s Elderly Lead Graceful Lives
People aged 65 or over account for 8.5% of China’s
population. Estimates suggest that they will represent 11.7%
of the total by 2020, making China an aging nation. There is
an urgent need therefore to ensure safe and secure lifestyles
for elderly citizens.
NEC is supplying comprehensive administrative solutions
to the Huichen Senior Service Group, a leading elderly care
entity in China. The solutions are designed to improve the
efficiency of facilities management and nursing care
operations drawing on ICT, sensors, and tablets and provide
high-quality elderly care services.
Nursing home residents use an all-purpose card (a card
key incorporating a contactless IC chip) to access all services
and facilities. The card can be used for entry and exit
management, location checks, and facility service guide
displays, and facility usage records. Caregivers can use
tablets to check resident medical records and prescription
information, manage diets, and place orders. Goals down the
track include providing remote diagnoses by checking
digitized medical information.
NEC will continue helping to create improved lifestyles for
China’s elderly in the digital society.
NEC sees Africa as an important market and is thus
strengthening business development there. NEC also took
part in the Tokyo International Conference on African
Development (TICAD), which was held in Yokohama, Japan,
in June 2013 and was attended by more than 50 African
nations. This is one way in which NEC is working to raise its
presence in Africa.
NEC’s activities in Africa date back to the 1960s, when
it delivered phone exchange equipment, microwave
communications facilities, and broadcasting equipment.
From the 1990s, NEC began supplying national ID systems
employing fingerprint identification technologies. In recent
years, NEC has been using monitoring and access control
systems employing facial
recognition techniques
and other new
technologies to
contribute to safety in
African nations.
NEC established NEC Africa (Pty) Ltd. in the Republic of
South Africa to oversee sub-Saharan businesses, and this
company began operations in December 2011. In fiscal 2013,
NEC set up the NEC Nairobi branch office in Kenya and NEC
West Africa Limited in Nigeria to reinforce business
development throughout the sub-Saharan region.
Africa is ethnically and linguistically diverse, making it
important to ensure mutual understanding. NEC will focus
on helping build communications infrastructure that will
promote this communication, and on building secure and
safe social foundations such as biometrics identification. In
addition, NEC will contribute to the region by fostering local
human resources.
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Sustainable Development