NEC Supports Texas County's Safety Initiatives With Integrated Fingerprint and Palm Print Identification System.Bexar County Sheriff Department Deploys NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. AFIS AFIS Automated Fingerprint Identification System AFIS Aerodrome Flight Information Service AFIS Armed Forces Radio and Television Service AFIS Airborne Flight Information System AFIS Automated Fingerprinting Identification System (Pakistan) Software for Criminal Investigation RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. -- NEC Corporation of America, a premier provider of IT, network and telephony solutions, today announced the continued expansion of its North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. customer base with the installation of a biometric identification system for the sheriff's office of Bexar County, Texas Bexar County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2000, the population was 1,392,931. Its county seat is San Antonio6. In Spanish, "Béxar" is pronounced [ˈbehaɾ] . Bexar County is being equipped with NEC's state-of-the-art Automated Fingerprint Identification System Automated Fingerprint Identification System (or AFIS) is a system to automatically match one or many unknown fingerprints against a database of known prints. This is done for various reasons, not the least of which is because the person has committed a crime. (AFIS), including palm and wireless mobile identification to vastly streamline record retrieval processes and strengthen local crime-fighting efforts. "In choosing identification systems we carefully considered the major AFIS vendors, but quickly discovered that NEC's solution fully encompassed our expectations for this type of technology," said David Dunbar, AFIS Manager, Bexar County Sheriff's Office. "The goal is to implement an identification solution with superior accuracy in order to improve our crime-fighting productivity and demonstrate that Bexar County is dedicated to protecting the safety of our residents. We look forward to meeting these goals with the help of NEC advanced AFIS technology." NEC's AFIS software affords superior recognition capabilities for the enterprise with advanced fingerprint and palm print identification systems, recognized globally for superior tenprint search accuracy, high capacity for information storage and expansion, maximum productivity support, and ease of integration into existing systems. Administrator costs and the need to invest in long-term expansion are significantly reduced, offering a reliable solution with an attractive total cost of ownership. With sophisticated AFIS technology at the Bexar County office, users can easily leverage NEC's exclusive product features to electronically search county records against other shared Texas Department of Public Safety The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is a department of the government of the state of Texas. The DPS is responsible for statewide law enforcement and vehicle regulation. The department is headed by the three member Public Safety Commission. (DPS Minicomputer series from Bull HN. 1. (language, text) DPS - Display PostScript. 2. (language) DPS - A real-time language with direct expression of timing requests. ["Language Constructs for Distributed Real-Time PRogramming", I. ) identification databases. The AFIS configuration will consist of a core site AFIS with remote and local input devices. The system is fully integrated, supporting tenprint and latent transactions, palm print and slap matching in addition to a National Institute of Standards and Technology National Institute of Standards and Technology, governmental agency within the U.S. Dept. of Commerce with the mission of "working with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards" in the national interest. (NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. ) archive system, mobile ID, FAST ID, latent searching of the Texas DPS AFIS, and searching NIST tenprint submissions on the Texas DPS AFIS. Project completion is slated for June 2007. "We are extremely pleased that the sheriff's office of Bexar County selected NEC for its automated identification initiative," said Chuck Thomas, client solutions manager, Identification Solutions Division, NEC Corporation of America. "The deployment of NEC's AFIS will provide Bexar County law enforcement with accurate readings for quick record searches and improved workflow performance enabling them to do their job faster and more precisely, contributing to the overall safety of its residents." NEC AFIS technology has been widely recognized for its technical excellence and has received top-ranking in prominent U.S. Government-sponsored studies sponsored by the Justice Management Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. About NEC Corporation of America NEC Corporation of America is a leading technology provider of IT, network and visual display solutions. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, NEC Corporation of America is the North America subsidiary of NEC Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :NIPNY). NEC Corporation of America delivers technology and professional services ranging from server and storage solutions, digital presentation and visual display systems to biometric identification, IP voice and data solutions, optical network and microwave radio communications. NEC Corporation of America serves carrier, SMB (1) (Small to Medium-sized Business) Also called "SME" (small to medium-sized enterprise), it refers to companies that are larger than the small office/home office (SOHO), but not huge. and large enterprise clients across multiple vertical industries. For more information, please visit www.necam.com. NEC is a registered trademark of NEC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Other product or service marks mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. [c] 2006 NEC Corporation of America. |
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