NEC Corp has been crowing in the Japanese press about its success in the US with its fingerprint recognition systems. Following the successful installation of an automatic fingerprint identification system at the Texas Police Department last January, it has won orders from Pennsylvania, Indiana – the infamous Marion Prison – and from the Alabama Police Departments. In the year to March, it received orders for seven systems in the US and Canada, and the Japan Industrial Daily reports that it plans to sell around $10m of systems this year. The fingerprint recognition system is based on an ACOS mainframe with scanners, opto-magnetic disks, and EWS 4800 workstations and was originally developed in conjunction with the Police Department in Japan. The software for it was developed by NEC Security Systems.
