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NEC aims to create a “Solutions for Society” and conducts research and development activities in close collaboration with
intellectual property and standardization strategies. Researchers go out to visit customers, work through a variety of
hypotheses until they can identify the exact problem, and then strive to create potential solutions that contribute to business
and maximize value by using NEC’s No. 1 technologies and unique technologies as our sources of competitiveness.
Main Research Domains and R&D Strategy
NEC aims to provide value that will ensure the safety, security,
efficiency and equality in society by promoting the development of
“Solutions for Society” under the “Mid-term Management Plan 2015.”
R&D activities at NEC improve technology that supports current
businesses in providing the solutions. Furthermore, the R&D programs
are designed to create technologies for future businesses that can
provide added value for society. All in all, successful R&D activities
support the sustainable development of the Company.
Regarding research domains, R&D activities are set to make vital
contributions to seven themes related to social value innovation.
At NEC, we apply a process in determining R&D activities to carry on.
The process involves focusing on domains in which NEC can provide
high value; creating core competence after thoroughly refining strong
technologies; and then delivering strong solutions by collaborating
with partners and customers. We find this process important from the
viewpoint of contributing to business with greater value through R&D.
These include “data science,” which creates new values from Big Data
using visualization and analyzing technologies, and “platforms” that
are needed to respond to the large-scale, complicated issues actually
facing the world.
NEC possesses many proprietary and highly competitive
technological assets in both these areas. We continue to reinforce NEC’s
strengths in these areas, and furthermore, strengthen sources of value
provision in real-time, dynamic, remote and secure, thereby enhancing
the competitiveness of the “Solutions for Society.”
As a result, in fiscal 2015, we contributed to creating the new
“Solutions for Society,” including through solution with the Predictive
Monitoring and Diagnostics System for large-scale complex facilities
utilizing Invariant Analysis technology* and through the integrated
disaster readiness system using crowd behavior analysis technology.
* Invariant Analysis technology 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.
R&D and Intellectual Property Strategy
Face recognition Infrastructure
preventive
maintenance
Secure
distribution
Smart traffic
Optimum
water supply
High efficient
system
Securely
operate
infrastructure
Crowd behavior analysis
Invariant analysis
Heterogeneous mixture
learning
Autonomous and
adaptive control
SDN
Optical digital coherence
Ultra-small wireless HW
Light weight encryption
Protects system from
unknown attacks
Many-core parallel
processing technology
Real-time
Dynamic
Remote
Secure
Contributing to the Creation of Integrated Solutions Based on Seven Themes for Social Value Innovation and
R&D Activities Centered on Data Science and Platforms
Data Science
Integrated solutions
Seven themes for social value innovation
Platform
Computing
networking
Security
Visualization
Analyze
Control
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