NEC launches its first 'NEC Biometrics Excellence Center' in India

NEC India has launched its first 'NEC
Biometrics Excellence Center' (N-BEC) in Bangalore. The excellence
center will provide world class engineering competency to cater to
the company's global chain engaged in development, deployment and
support of identity solutions for the international market. The
center is also aimed at accelerating the expansion of NEC's global
multimodal identification solutions and integrated security solutions
business, including its renowned automated fingerprint identification
solutions and face recognition solutions. NEC has been developing
fingerprint matching technologies for more than three decades and its
technological superiority in biometrics identification has been
proven by several accuracy tests conducted by the National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the U.S.2.

Commenting on the occasion, Koji Oda,
MD, NEC India said, “The public safety market in India has huge
potential and the setting up of this biometric centre, is indicative
of our commitment to the India market. We foresee greater adoption of
biometric solutions in India, particularly in civic amenities and
various social schemes.”

“The setup of this NEC Biometrics
Excellence Center is to showcase NEC's capabilities in the
biometrics field, and by capitalizing on all our resources and
engineering, geographic and technological expertise in this area, we
will be able to strengthen our core competencies and bring our
biometrics technologies to greater heights,” stated Takaya
Kobayashi, GM, Government and Public Global Solutions Division, NEC
Corporation.

The centre initially employs around 50
people and will ramp-up its operations to meet the market demands in
future. NEC will capitalize on its central competencies in
engineering, geographic and technological expertise to drive the
development of N-BEC.

“We are well positioned to target
this segment because of our long standing leadership in biometrics
and our experience in showcasing our capabilities in this field.
Setting up N-BEC enables us to play an important role in reforming
identity lifecycle and bringing about reforms at every level from
education, land records, hospitals to being a part of social schemes
rolled out by the Government,” said, Kris Ranganath, CTO,
Government and Public Global Solutions Division, NEC Corporation.

NEC's biometrics solutions have been
utilized in more than 200 applications by over 30 countries
throughout the world, including law enforcement and border control
agencies, as well as in civil identification and national election
systems that require large-scale, highly accurate and rapid data
processing.