OREANDA-NEWS. NEC Corporation and NEC Taiwan announced the receipt of an order from the National Fire Agency of Taiwan's Ministry of the Interior for a cloud-based disaster and emergency information system based on Taiwan's Disaster-prevention and Rescue Cloud Plan.

This project is part of the development of an information service platform for disaster prevention and rescue by Taiwan's Ministry of the Interior. NEC is in charge of applications (SaaS) that will be used for cloud platforms installed in the Ministry's data centers.

Until now, the servers and software used for uploading data to Taiwan's central disaster information system were installed and operated by each municipality. This new cloud-based system will make it possible to integrate these disaster-prevention systems, thereby providing coverage throughout Taiwan.

This project is aimed at streamlining maintenance and other operating expenses as well as providing advanced, highly convenient disaster-prevention systems and services that will enable the utilization and linkage of geographic information systems (GIS) offering coverage throughout Taiwan. The project will also enhance the sharing of central and regional disaster information, facilitate rapid decision-making and on-site support for disaster countermeasures, and allow residents to provide government and municipal agencies with disaster information via the Internet.

NEC boasts one of Japan's most proven track records in the field of crisis management thanks to its experience developing and providing fire department command systems, wireless communications networks for disaster prevention systems and others. This is the first system of its kind that NEC is providing internationally. In the future, NEC aims to provide similar crisis management-related systems to customers throughout the Asia-Pacific region.