Product Development Success, NEC Corporation of America, and the Year That Was [Year in Review 2013]

January 20, 2014 – by the findBIOMETRICS Team

As part of the findBIOMETRICS annual Year in Review survey, we don’t only ask experts to participate in our biometrics industry polls, we also provide everyone participating a chance to personally divulge their opinions on the year that was and preview what’s to come over the next twelve months.

Today we will take a look how 2013 was for NEC Corporation of America, a company involved in some of the world’s the largest identification infrastructure projects. Representing NEC in our Year in Review was the corporation’s vice president of its biometrics division, Raffie Beroukhim. Here is what he had to say about the year that was and what we can expect moving forward.

findBIOMETRICS: Was 2013 a good year for NEC Corporation of America? What were some of the highlights?

Raffie Beroukhim: 2013 was a great year for NECAM Biometrics. On April 8, 2013, we launched the multifaceted NeoFace® Product Suite; consisting of NeoFace®Match for basic facial recognition capabilities, NeoFace®Reveal for latent face investigation, NeoFace®Smart ID for mobile identification and investigation, and NeoFace®Watch for real time video surveillance with identification. The product suite is rooted in the most advanced and accurate facial matching technology available as tested by NIST and an independent test done by Michigan State University (MSU). This new product suite provides four distinct solutions targeted at specific users. Addressing forensic, security, in the field and appliance requirements, NeoFace supports the need of our existing and future clients seeking optimal performance, accuracy and reliability in their identification systems. Extraordinary tolerance for poor quality images (as low as 2,000 bytes and inter-eye distance of as low as 24 pixels) from highly compressed surveillance videos or photographs results in higher rate of positive identification and unparalleled accuracy. NECAM Biometrics is winning major competitive awards and contracts from state and local government agency customers as well as contract purchases from enterprise commercial customers!

NECAM Biometrics continues to excel in AFIS product development and deliveries. We successfully developed and certified Integra-ID with big data and cloud technologies in order to successfully complete the Western Identification Network Factory Acceptance Test. NECAM has also delivered new and major AFIS system upgrades based Integra-ID to Indiana, Georgia, Texas and Virginia.

findBIOMETRICS: What will 2014 hold for your corporation?

Raffie Beroukhim: NECAM Biometrics plans to build upon the product development success of 2013 and deliver this technology and innovation to more government and commercial customers in 2014. First, NECAM will rollout and expand the WIN Integra-ID Identity as a Service to eight member states and more in 2014. Also, several AFIS contracts awarded in the final quarter of 2013 will be configured and deployed. Last but not least, NECAM Biometrics anticipates growing business and orders from the enterprise commercial marketplace for NeoFace facial recognition products in and finance, healthcare, hotels and entertainment parks, public security venues, retail businesses and social media. NECAM will be working on furthering improving our accuracy on facial recognition and incorporating video analytics.

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