NEC receives new product innovation award

NEC Europe has received Frost and Sullivan’s 2012 European Vehicular Communications New Product Innovation Award for its vehicular communications systems. The 2012 Frost and Sullivan New Product Innovation Awards are based on an independent analysis of the European vehicular communication market, and the award recognises NEC’s leadership in this market throughout the past four years and its unique potential for the upcoming mass market introduction of products. Frost and Sullivan has recognised NEC’s vehicu
February 25, 2013 Read time: 2 mins
1068 NEC Europe has received Frost and Sullivan’s 2012 European Vehicular Communications New Product Innovation Award for its vehicular communications systems.

The 2012 Frost and Sullivan New Product Innovation Awards are based on an independent analysis of the European vehicular communication market, and the award recognises NEC’s leadership in this market throughout the past four years and its unique potential for the upcoming mass market introduction of products.

Frost and Sullivan has recognised NEC’s vehicular communications system, which including the LinkBird-MX communication hardware platform and NEC’s C2X-Software Development Kit. This system has been employed in cooperative projects and trials with car manufactures across Europe since 2008. It has been optimised over the years to augment interoperability and standard compliance as well as to enhance its functionalities based on trial results. Recently, the system has been enhanced to support energy-efficient driving applications in the European project eCoMove and is currently also adopted in the European large-scale trial DriveC2X.

The platform can be deployed as an On-Board Unit (OBU) or Road-Side Unit (RSU) and has achieved significant recognition in the European ITS industry, where its customers range from leading car manufactures to road equipment integrators.

The Frost and Sullivan Awards recognise companies that demonstrate best practices in their industry, commending the diligence, commitment, and innovative business strategies required to advance in the global marketplace.  According to Frost and Sullivan’s analysis, NEC’s vehicular communications system outperformed the competitors in all 5 benchmarking criteria adopted in the decision support matrix: innovative elements of the product, leveraging of leading-edge technologies in the product, value added features/benefits, increased customer ROI and customer acquisition/penetration potential.

Leveraging the technology and expertise gained with LinkBird-MX and C2X-SDK, NEC has announced the 2015 target roll-out of an evolution of LinkBird-MX into a smaller component for a wider audience reach, supporting the 7023 Car2Car Communication consortium goal of deploying cooperative systems in Europe starting from 2015.
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