NEC Corporation has been recognised by Frost & Sullivan as the leader in the Frost Radar™: Biometrics Authentication Solutions, 2022 benchmarking system.
This is the second year running that NEC maintains its position as the market leader, reflecting NEC’s pivot toward biometric solutions, which are providing the company with significant growth opportunities.
Frost & Sullivan indicated that NEC achieved overall Growth and Innovation Leadership on the Frost Radar™ as the result of its ongoing innovations to its extensive portfolio.
In addition, the analyst firm appraised initiatives such as the NEC Group’s AI and Human Rights Principles, as well as the company’s thought leadership on decentralised identity and self-sovereign ID.
“With its ongoing leadership throughout the biometric solutions industry, NEC’s robust biometric authentication solution emphasises how NEC’s ability to meet existing and new customer demands, empower end users to take control over their biometric data, and steer the biometric industry into the next phase of growth,” said Danielle VanZandt, Industry Manager, Commercial & Public Security Research, Frost & Sullivan.
“NEC’s biometrics solutions are known for their top-level accuracy, and based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) benchmark test* held in 2022, NEC’s iris and face recognition technologies were both ranked first in the world,” said Masato Yoshikawa, Senior Director, Biometrics & Video Analytics Platform Department, NEC Corporation. “During 2023, NEC will take full advantage of these results and launch a scalable and expandable multimodal biometric solution that uses face and iris recognition technology, which will fully contribute to improving security and convenience simultaneously.”
Installed in more than 70 countries and regions worldwide, NEC is a global leader in the field of biometric authentication. Recently, NEC’s biometric technology has been selected for major national projects in Malaysia and Vietnam, contributing to the digitalisation of existing government services.
Going forward, NEC will focus on utilising its biometric authentication technology in new areas such as web3 and more.
*NIST benchmark test results do not constitute endorsement of any particular product by the U.S. Government.