NEC uses five new solutions to strengthen IoT business

The NEC Corporation recently announced that it has developed five new solutions for strengthening its Internet of Things (IoT) business, and that it will be releasing them successively.

In addition, NEC has said that it will increase the number of core personnel engaged in IoT-related systems construction from the current level of around 100 to nearly 500 by 2020.

NEC said that it will be moving forward with the development of world-leading technologies in areas such as image processing, sensors and big data analysis, together with new solutions development and partnerships.

It aims to make positive use of IoT in extensive areas, including social infrastructure, such as water demand forecast and traffic monitoring, security management for communities and for key facilities and energy management, in addition to the corporate use of IoT by manufacturers, distributors, transport operators and others.

Information and communications technologies-related data is rapidly growing on a global scale, and as a result, huge amounts of data (big data) are expected to be generated in the near future. IoT technologies opens the way for collecting big data from many different goods that were traditionally not subject to control.

As sophisticated analyses of these digital data are conducted, extra value will be discovered.

"In the coming IoT era, the extra value of data found in the digital world will be incorporated swiftly into real society, industry and life. This will create opportunities for new social value, encourage reforms of the industrial structure and promote changes in the knowledge creation process," commented Takaaki Shimizu, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of NEC.

"NEC will capitalize on its extensive track record and its leading technologies in the software-defined networking (SDN), big data, cloud and security areas in order to construct flexible and robust IoT systems."

In addition to NEC's Industrial IoT for the manufacturing sector, NEC will be working to broaden its lineup of solutions tailored to a broad array of industries and business types.