OREANDA-NEWS. NEC Corporation has established a Global Safety Division in Singapore as the Global Strategic Headquarters for NEC's Public Safety Business.

The Global Safety Division will focus on growing and developing the company's expertise in public safety, an area which has attracted a great deal of attention and investment by governments around the world. The new division will devise global business strategy, develop new technologies and solutions and provide training and technical support for subsidiaries and partners worldwide. Mr. Tan Boon Chin, Managing Director of the Regional Competency Centre for Public Safety in NEC Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., has been appointed to lead the new division.

NEC is known globally for its biometrics identity technologies, which have been provided to a wide range of customers in 30 countries around the world. This includes solutions for immigration control, national identification, law enforcement, urban surveillance, cyber security, and emergency and disaster management. One of NEC's primary missions is to realize a rich and innovative Smart Society by utilizing ICT technologies in the areas of security and smart energy solutions.

The new division was established in Singapore in order to conveniently access important markets, to capitalize on the business experience and capabilities of the public safety team, and to further enhance its capabilities, as Singapore is an open ground for attracting global talent.

The solutions delivered in the region span across various domains, such as national ID, automated border control, finance, biometric security, critical facilities, transportation, food safety and cyber security. NEC aims to optimize its global development, sales, and marketing efforts with the establishment of the new division. Members of the new division will be based in Singapore, Tokyo and other major metropolitan areas of the world.

One of the projects that the Global Safety Division will be involved in is the recently announced Singapore Safe City Test Bed project, where NEC Asia Pacific was appointed as leader of one of the four consortia managing the test beds. The project is spearheaded by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) to promote the Safety and Security industry in Singapore.

Working through its regional team, the Division will fully support this project by building an end-to-end inter-agency collaboration infrastructure that can help a wide range of government agencies to integrate and analyze data collected from various networks. Through the innovative use of technologies, multiple agencies can understand and correlate information from various sources and optimize the resources used to handle this information.