The launch of NC7000-3A, a user data utilisation platform software that uses facial recognition for identity confirmation with mobile services for organisations such as financial institutions and telecommunication operators has been announced by NEC.

  NEC and NEC Energy Solutions, an NEC subsidiary, have reached an agreement with Germany-based EnspireME, a fifty-fifty joint venture established between Mitsubishi Corporation and Eneco, a Netherlands-based integrated energy company, to build a large-scale battery energy storage system in Jardelund, Germany.

The development of an NB-FPGA that incorporates NanoBridge metal atom migration-type switch technology has been announced by NEC and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), which utilises TIA, an open innovation hub operated by five institutes in Tsukuba and Tokyo. This original NEC product featuring high radiation tolerance is expected to contribute to the use of LSIs in space.

NEC has announced that it received an order from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to provided cyber-attack defence for officials from governmental institutions responsible for cyber security in six members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines and Vietnam).

  Dr. Lindsay Frost, Chief Researcher at NEC Laboratories, was chosen as chairman at the first meeting of the ETSI Industry Specification Group on Context Information Management (ISG CIM), co-launched by NEC and four other companies.

Fabless IC vendor in Taiwan, Faraday Technology Corporation, has been provided with NEC Corporation's CyberWorkBench, a design tool capable of synthesising Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)/Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) circuits from the C programming language. Faraday is utilising CyberWorkBench (CWB) to design FPGA for communication control.

  A prototype of a massive-element (approximately 500 elements) Active Antenna System (AAS) for base stations that supports 28GHz band has been developed by NEC Corporation, with a view toward the application of 5G, the next-gen wireless communication standard.

The global launch of NeoFace Image data mining (NeoFace Idm) has been announced by NEC Corporation, which is specialised software that utilises Artificial Intelligence (AI) to quickly and accurately search video footage, such as content from crime prevention CCTV cameras, for specific individuals.

NEC Corporation announced the development of the "IoT Service Enabler," a platform capable of automatic network management and control which can also be used for Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), an architecture for next-gen wireless infrastructure. The IoT Service Enabler incorporates application interfaces for services, network interfaces defined by 3GPP, and interfaces for sensors and cameras defined by OneM2M, a global standards initiative fo...

Collaborating with the Kyoto Institute of Technology and a representative Japanese lacquerware artist, Dr. Yutaro Shimode, NEC Corporation have announced the development of a bioplastic using resin (cellulose resin from grasses, trees and other non-edible plant resources that features the highly regarded "Urushi black" colour of Japanese traditional lacquerware).

To integrate a complete residential security solution based on a "panic button" alert system, NEC Chile (NEC) and NEC Corporation have announced it has been selected by the Las Condes Municipality, Santiago, Chile. This system is scheduled to launch by the end of September 2016.

  Development of a ‘Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Cloud-Radio Access Network (C-RAN) Solution’ which will be built on Intel processors and enabled by software-based wireless base station functions has been announced by NEC Corporation.

  The development of the ARmKeypad Air, where 'smart glasses' are used to turn the arm of a wearer into a virtual keyboard, allowing for contact-free operation has been announced by NEC Corporation.

NEC Corporation, NEC TOKIN Corporation and TOHOKU UNIVERSITY have jointly created a thermoelectric (TE) device using thermoelectric conversion technology. The spin Seebeck effect has conversion efficiency ten times higher than the conventional method.

NEC announced the successful completion of a PoC trial with KT for a 5G wireless backhaul solution that utilizes E-Band spectrum (70-80GHz). The PoC was conducted at Phoenix Park Ski World in PyeongChang, South Korea, using KT's commercial mobile network infrastructure. KT aims to launch 5G trial services in 2018. This PoC is based on a collaboration agreement in the field of 5G networks signed between KT and NEC in August 2015.

A prototype of an A4-sized massive-element Active Antenna System (AAS) for 5G small cell base stations was demonstrated at Mobile Wold Congress by NEC. The low-SHF band-compatible AAS combines the antenna and RF components through the use of a newly developed high-density printed circuit board and an IC that integrates the high radio frequency circuit with the digital circuit, achieving the practical compact size.

A new collaboration has been announced that will see Space-Time Insight, SMUD and NEC Corporation (NEC) enter into an agreement to work together on technology and business model innovation to meet emerging energy industry needs.

Three supercomputers that have been delivered to institutes in Germany have recently begun operating and contributing to research. The SX-ACE vector supercomputers from NEC Corporation have been installed at the University of Kiel, Alfred Wegener Institute and the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart.

NEC has announced the signing of a contract with Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) and TT dotCom Sdn Bhd (TTdC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of TIME dotCom Berhad (TIME), to construct the Sistem Kabel Rakyat 1 Malaysia (SKR1M), an optical submarine cable system that will connect Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak.

NEC has announced the global launch of the VC-870 encoder and VD-870 decoder, a series of ultra-low delay codec that enable real-time compression of full HD (1,920 x 1,080 pixel) digital video. These products support High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), the latest international video coding standard, which doubles compression efficiency in comparison with the conventional H.264 standard.