Kawasaki Eco Business Forum

Introduction to Efforts of theNEC Group

NEC Solution Innovator Corporation
Innovation Promotion Headquarters
General Manager Hisashi KAWAMATA

NEC aims to create a sustainable society
where everyone can fully demonstrate their
humanity by creating valuable contributions
such as safety, security, fairness and efficiency.

NEC Solution Innovator
Solves a wide range of social problems with advanced ICT and integration capabilities.

Sales Structure

Business Area
Government
officeMunicipality

Medical heathcare

Communication

Finance

Distribution
service

Manufacturing
process

Public safety

primaryindustry

Cloud baseServerSoftware

Business solution

Public service
Hospital

ServiceSmart device

Sales Structureby Business Area
(FY2029)

Key ICT theme
CloudBig data

Security

R&D

Education

Electronics,machinebase software

Traffic control / airtraffic control

Medicine, foodHotelBusiness Area

Logistics

3Firefighting, disaster prevention

Automobile
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Retailing, wholesaling

Bunk, insurance,stockSocial Value Creation Targeted by the NEC Group
Contributes to solving social issues by focusing on 7 social-solutions projects
Seven Social-Value Creation Themes

Social Issues
The Earth in 2050Energy
demandWaterdemandtimes

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AI/IoT: Interpret and Understand Real-world Data and Transform it into
Social Value
Aiming to create social value by combining multiple groups of technologies and data
Real world

Visualization
Digitalization
Data Quality
Improvement

Analysis

Identification andAuthentication
Using the Five
SensesUnderstanding ofMeaning andIntent

Analysis with
Interpretation

Dealing with

Real world

Planning andOptimization

High-level
Suggestions toPeople
Human
Judgment
Assistance
Overview
Optimization

Humans
Ideas

ThingsHigh-precision
AnalysisOverwhelming
Efficiency
Speed
Accuracy
Automatic

Identify Humans and Thingsfrom Real-world Data

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Predict, Infer and Optimally
ControlNew Normal
Digital Solutions that Multilaterally Support Solutions to Problems and New Initiatives
Arising from/Exposed by Novel Coronavirus Infections
AR/VR

Finger Gesture

Portrait Analysis Using
Images」

Training in efficient pharmaceutical

Reduce the risk of contact infection

Real-time analysis and tallying ofmanufacturing processes without

using a non-contact user interface

gender/age/whether a mask is worn todetect over-entry and unworn masks

training instructors by utilizing AR/VR6© NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd. 2021

Some Initiatives in the Environmental Field
Promotes the use of ICT (AI, IoT, and others) to improve renewable energy, garbage issues, and resource recycling

NEC's New Initiatives

Miyagi Prefecture Minami Sanriku-Cho
Case Study

Utilize decentralized power

For biogas facilities

supplyRaw garbage collection visualization

Resources
Aggregation businesses

Nara Prefecture Ikoma City Case Study

Kanagawa Prefecture Kawasaki City
CollaborationRegional Community-based
Resource Separation
and Recovery

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Kawasaki Zero Carbon
Challenge 2050

NEC's New Initiatives
Resources
aggregation
businesses

A "virtual power plant" where decentralized power sources thatchange the way renewable energy isused can be utilized without waste.
Transmission and distribution
system operator

power generation
operator

Power retailer

Provisionof energy
service

Virtualpower
plant
(VPP)

Renewable energy
generation operator

Power market

Generator
Generator

Customer(Residential area)

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Customer(Urban area)

Customer(Plant area)

Raw garbage collection
amount visualization andintervention by nudge@ Minami Sanriku-Cho

Accumulate data regarding raw garbage collection andsorted quality throughout the town
Recordedin a tablet

Garbage Sta.

Collection and Conveyance

Nudge Utilization
Intervention

Evidence-Based*Approx. 4 times
Rate ofimprovement

Non-PostGroup

Post Group

Change in sorting quality

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Separation and collection of resources with the local community @ Ikoma City, Nara Prefecture

Check-in

Point ofAppreciation10Simple IoT garbage bins

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Modification of Action

Challenge to attain a decarbonized society

NEC
Kawasaki Carbon Zero Challenge 2050

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The unforeseeable future
can be found here.
For your peace of mind, for your dreaming power, wants
to be the foundation of your life.
We will discover challenges that we have not yet seen
and will create a world where smiles are generated
through ICT.

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