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Invariant Analyzer software, which analyzes system
performance for large-scale cloud systems. Leveraging
achievements originating from NEC Central Research
Laboratories, NEC’s R&D activities also contributed to the
development of products such as a cloud-based recharging
system and small-scale energy storage system.
Going forward, by continuing to implement market-
oriented R&D activities, NEC will work to continuously drive
innovation to support the NEC Group with an emphasis on
enhancing R&D efficiency and accelerating the
commercialization of new technologies.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STRATEGY
The NEC Group owns approximately 64,000 patents
worldwide, including approximately 22,000 patents in
Japan (as of March 2012). NEC positions intellectual
property as “the foundation for the NEC Group’s business
competitiveness and stability,” and is working to strengthen
its intellectual property from both quality and quantity
standpoints. Specifically, NEC is concentrating on
establishing a global patent network, to support achieving
an overseas sales ratio of 50% as targeted in the NEC
Group Vision 2017. In the “C&C Cloud Strategy” and the
Smart Energy domains in particular, NEC is carrying out
Group-wide strategic patent projects on a global basis to
obtain strong patents and patents that are being utilized.
Furthermore, NEC believes that participating in standards
initiatives will help create and expand businesses, and will
also contribute to the stable offering of products and
services. In addition to pursuing a business model that
utilizes standardization, NEC is engaged strategically in
standardization activities by actively participating in
standardization entities both in Japan and overseas. Also, as
part of external engagements with intellectual property, NEC
is actively pursuing licensing activities to reduce business
risks and expand business opportunities.
As a variety of digital information has
become available, the amount of information
accessible to society using sensors, mobile
terminals and other devices has exploded. In
this era of big data, it is crucial to create
value by identifying useful data from the
massive amount of information available. It is
then important to process and analyze that
data, so that it can be promptly fed back to
the real world. NEC is focusing R&D efforts
on data processing platform technology. This
technology is set to become a wellspring of
competitiveness for enterprises seeking to
create value using big data.
In fiscal 2012, NEC developed stream
processing technologies that can process
big data gathered from numerous sensors
and mobile terminals at high speeds and
provide information in real time according to
user conditions. Previously, the technique for
performing this type of data processing was
to first gather all the data into a database
and then process it all at once. This made it
difficult to provide information in real time.
The latest technology developed by NEC
processes only data that satisfy certain
conditions based on a high-speed
comparison of data gathered by sensors
against predetermined conditions for
required data. Through this approach, NEC
has achieved the world’s fastest processing
speed of approximately 2.5 million events
per second. This system has adequate
processing power, for example, to smoothly
process data updated every minute from all
of the roughly 80 million vehicles owned in
Japan, enabling users to monitor ever-
changing information on traffic congestion
and other parameters in real time.
NEC possesses the world’s fastest data
processing platform technologies and
advanced data analysis technologies.
Leveraging these strengths, NEC will strive
to create new added value utilizing big data.
Development of High-Speed and Real-Time Stream Processing Technologies
for Big Data Enabling Processing Speeds of 2.5 Million Events per Second
Sensors, terminals, IT systems (mobile phones, POS systems, automobiles, cameras, etc.)
Latest technology developed by NEC
Rapidly detect changes in
the real world and take action
Extract useful insight and laws
from big stored data
Real-time processing
of big data
High-speed processing
of big stored data
Achieved world’s fastest processing speed of
approximately 2.50 million events per second
Insights and laws
Process without
storing Store
Rules
Big stored data
Big data processing platform
27 NEC Corporation
Annual Report 2012