NEC Corporation announced the opening of the NEC Mobility Test Center, a demonstration facility in Japan.
NEC Mobility Test Center utilizes advanced technologies such as private 5G and video analysis for evaluating automated driving technologies, coordinating infrastructure, and co-creating solutions with partner companies.
The NEC Mobility Test Center, based in Gotemba City in central Japan, will contribute to the creation of people-friendly cities through infrastructure-coordinated mobility services and the use of data obtained from sensors installed within a city’s infrastructure.
The NEC Mobility Test Center is equipped with road equipment, such as traffic lights and pedestrian crossings, as well as edge-computing terminals, such as private 5G base stations and C-V2X roadside units.
NEC said this is in addition to edge-computing equipment, including roadside cameras and edge-processing devices for AI. Moreover, the center features vehicles such as buses and passenger cars, as well as important pedestrian equipment, including electric wheelchairs.
The NEC Mobility Test Center combines advanced technologies such as NEC’s private 5G, video analytics, and AI/IoT with the technologies and know-how of partner organizations to promote technological development and system verification of next-generation mobility services, with the aim of creating new value and solving social issues.
NEC will also conduct experiments for assisting with traffic management and urban development, such as identifying the number of inflowing vehicles from outside a region and recognizing changes in the amount of vehicles and pedestrians in an area depending on the time of day.
NEC will conduct experiments by using 5G stations for road maintenance and understanding of conditions following accidents and disasters.
“NEC aims to contribute to the creation of safe, secure, and people-friendly cities by utilizing this NEC Mobility Center as a place for co-creation with partner companies,” said Yuji Onoda, general manager of Cross-Industry Unit, Cross-Industry Business Development Division, NEC Corporation.
