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In each region, NEC will establish competence
centers, led by these regional management
companies, in various fields. By creating optimal
solutions within each region, building up expertise,
and applying these resources across the Group,
NEC aims to accelerate global business expansion.
Concrete measures include developing “C&C Cloud
Strategy” related businesses for telecom carriers
around the world and public safety businesses for
governments and enterprises.
For example, in the public safety business, NEC
provides immigration control, national ID and other
systems that utilize biometrics authentication
technologies such as fingerprint and face
authentication. These products and services play a
key role in maintaining public safety and security. In
this business, NEC has already delivered more than
200 systems to 30 countries around the world, and
its technological expertise has been highly
applauded worldwide.
In order to step up the global expansion of the
public safety business, we established the “NEC
Biometrics Excellence Center” in Bangalore, India
in May 2010. As a competence center in the
biometrics authentication field, the center will
support operations not only in the Asia-Pacific
region, but also in other regions globally.
Given that public security and safety needs are
expected to continue increasing going forward,
NEC is targeting net sales of ¥100 billion from the
public safety business over the medium term.
(3) Create new businesses
In addition to driving the “C&C Cloud Strategy”
and expanding global business, creating new
businesses that will accelerate our future growth is
a key theme. In this area, by combining various
NEC Group assets, including products, services
and technologies, we intend to develop new
services and products that satisfy customer needs
under the “One NEC” concept.
One example of an area where we are already
active is the Smart Energy and Green business.
Together with Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., NEC is
currently promoting the electrode business.
Electrodes are core components of lithium-ion
rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles. In fiscal
2013, NEC is targeting net sales of ¥100 billion from
this business.
In future, we aim to create new businesses by
fusing power storage technology developed in our
battery business with IT and network technologies.
Specifically, we are targeting smart meters and
home energy management systems, both of which
feature communications functions and the ability to
control other devices. We also aim to enter the
smart grid market. Smart grids are attracting
attention as power distribution networks capable
of optimizing the supply of electricity.
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