Society

Smart town solutions revolutionize society by enhancing healthcare and mobility experiences, ensuring safety, and promoting equitable access to smart spaces.

Residents enjoy seamless access to healthcare services, while smart transportation systems optimize mobility and reduce congestion.

Digital technologies also improve the safety of the city, and user-friendly interfaces offer convenient access to smart spaces, buildings, and parks. This transformation fosters a thriving and inclusive community, elevating the overall quality of life for all residents.

NEC capabilities

NEC’s extensive experience in enabling smart cities around the world with foundational technologies such as face recognition, IoT and sensor networks is valuable to towns seeking to deploy smart innovations to improve the living spaces and society in general for residents.

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Smart buildings

NEC’s biometrics solutions help monitor a space for people, while LiDAR sensing provides fine-grained location detection.

NEC’s biometrics solutions help monitor a space for people, while LiDAR sensing provides fine-grained location detection. From occupancy identification to fire safety management and facilities management, NEC building management solutions enable efficient and safe management through smart connectivity.

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Smart library system

NEC has worked with libraries in Southeast Asia in their digitalization efforts.

NEC has worked with libraries in Southeast Asia in their digitalization efforts, including using auto sorter robots that help staff sort books that are returned in mobile book drops. Shelf reading robots also go through shelves to find books that are misplaced and help get them back to the right shelves. These efforts lighten the load for library staff while enabling citizens to easily find their books.

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NEC offers a managed service to help private condominiums and other properties quickly set up digital services to serve residents

NEC offers a managed service to help private condominiums and other properties quickly set up digital services to serve residents, without the hassle of setting up a system from scratch. With a Web interface and a digital app, residents can easily access the system to receive regulation notifications, collect parcels, make payments and book facilities such as tennis courts.

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One-stop facility management

Aimed at commercial and industrial buildings, this solution enables building managers to add smart security.

Aimed at commercial and industrial buildings, this solution enables building managers to add smart security and access through biometrics and visitor management. With NEC, customers can also set up an online system for the booking of facilities like meeting rooms. Separately, facility managers can monitor smart lifts for predictive maintenance, along with other parts of the infrastructure, such as smart meters, smart lighting and heating, ventilation and air conditioning.

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Smart lockers

A locker network located at a high-footfall area lets consumers collect parcels at a convenient time.

A locker network located at a high-footfall area lets consumers collect parcels at a convenient time and avoid missing deliveries. It is more environmentally friendly since e-commerce operators do not need to transport each delivery door-to-door. This solution will support the needs of the public in last-mile delivery while enabling a logistics service to achieve high productivity and optimize operating costs.

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Fleet management

Buses and trains are important features of any successful town.

Buses and trains are important features of any successful town. NEC’s fleet management solution enables towns to better track, monitor and optimize bus fleets to reduce cost while delivering public transport that is always on-time. For trains, automated fare collection (AFC) gates from NEC enable accurate and reliable fare collection, preventing fraud.

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Access management

At buildings that the public frequents, such as hospitals or municipal buildings

At buildings that the public frequents, such as hospitals or municipal buildings, NEC’s access management system can automatically allow enrolled guests in through face recognition. Accurate, fast and efficient, such an access management system improves security while ensuring seamless, convenient access for visitors.

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Smart traffic control

NEC has developed an analytics engine that continuously grasps traffic conditions based on the signals from vehicle vibrations.

NEC has developed an analytics engine that continuously grasps traffic conditions based on the signals from vehicle vibrations. The system can visualize dense traffic conditions with a high level of accuracy. The AI engine converts vibration data into continuous vehicle trajectories along roads that are entirely monitored. For towns, this enhances road controls with continuous monitoring of entire roadways, enabling early detection of accidents and congestion.

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Crowd management

In busy areas or during crowded events, NEC crowd management system integrates AI with biometrics.

In busy areas or during crowded events, NEC crowd management system integrates AI with biometrics and video analytics help improve crowd management capabilities for cross-functional teams in a town. With real-time and accurate information on people and items at a location, teams can better assess a situation and take measures to ensure the smooth running of an event and ensure the safety of the public at a location.

Case Studies

In Singapore, visitors scan their faces to access a hospital

NEC partnered Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS) to deploy a face recognition automated visitor management system to ensure secure entry to hospitals, starting with SingHealth’s Outram Community Hospital. The solution allows visitors to pre-register using their smartphones and grants swift entry using face recognition, significantly streamlining the visitor experience. Benefits include:

  • Improved visitor flow during visitation hours by eliminating the need for manual ID scanning at the gantries. 
  • The contactless experience and simplified registration also enhance visitor convenience and safety. 
  • While bolstering security, the hospital can also better optimize the use of resources.

Shaping the world, one smart town at a time.

Contact an NEC representative today to learn more about our Smart Town Solution and how we can help build a brighter future together.

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