Year: 2018

Videonetics, the world-leading visual computing platform development company, has reached an exciting milestone as the company celebrates 10 years of business success in visual computing technology. In 2008, the company was founded by Dr. Tinku Acharya, an internationally acclaimed inventor and technologist, with a mission to develop indigenous technologies which are best-suited for tough environmental conditions. Today, Videonetics has grown to become a global company that designs, develops, and deploys new age artificial intelligence and deep learning based solutions for a wide range of verticals such as safe and smart cities, aviation and transportation, petroleum and gas, critical infrastructure, financial and legal, and healthcare and education industries. A decade of innovation & excellence Globally, Videonetics has been securing 100+ cities, 80+ airports, 100+ large enterprises, and over 7500 traffic lanes by using its video computing platform. In this journey of 10 years, Videonetics innovations and technologies were widely recognized by way of numerous awards and recognitions from prestigious institutions, bodies and organizations worldwide. Videonetics is proud to have secured patents from USA, UK, Israel, Canada, Singapore, and many more are in pipeline. Dr. Acharya said, “It’s a very satisfying feeling that Videonetics is celebrating its 10th anniversary. I feel humbled and proud that I could launch Videonetics to do my duty as a patriotic scientist and technologist to achieve this mission in my way. Innovation is in our blood and it is guiding principle of Videonetics. We are extremely excited and proud as we celebrate 10th anniversary in the industry. We are committed to keep innovating and invest in our R&D towards generation of intellectual properties resulting in cutting-edge products and solutions which could solve real life challenges and problems.” “Videonetics has been at the vanguard of visual computing innovation for over a decade. Our innovation journey has pioneered the move from first generation of IVMS and ITMS to AI & deep learning enabled visual computing platform, thereby retaining leadership position in the market. I take this opportunity to thank my deeply committed research and development and technology team for their invaluable contribution,” said Tuhin Bose, VP & CTO, Videonetics. Avinash J Trivedi, VP – Business Development, Videonetics stated, “The journey of 10 years would not have been possible without the trust and support that the system integrators, consultants, strategic partners, esteemed customers have vested in us. We are honored and thankful for their contribution to Videonetics growth and looking forward to working with them in future.” Videonetics will celebrate its 10th anniversary throughout 2018 with its anniversary theme – ‘Honouring the Past and Envisioning the Future.’  

Axis Communications, the market’s leading provider of network video; Citilog, Axis’s arm for intelligent realtime video monitoring for traffic and transportation; and Genetec, a leading technology provider of physical IP security, law enforcement, and analytics solutions, converged at Traffic Infra Tech Expo 2018 to demonstrate their nextgeneration smart and integrated technology offerings. The event brought to fore Axis, Citilog and Genetec integrated end to end solutions for incident detection and management, and effective traffic control mechanism. Axis is one of the pioneers to promote open protocol, as a part of which, Axis works with many open source software globally and locally. With Citilog in Axis portfolio, Axis has expanded its offering in the traffic segment. The solutions further integrated with Genetec’s unified platform with surveillance and audio capabilities offers city administrators and highway authorities a complete platform for their traffic and city-based needs. Video surveillance has seen a paradigm shift in India with security becoming a priority for both the Government and enterprises. With an increase in the number of traffic violations and accidents, keeping a track and identifying incident becomes a challenge. Owing to this, the Indian Government is making huge strides to implement smart solutions for making roads smarter and safer. “India’s digital transformation has opened the door of opportunities for the security and surveillance industry. Initiatives like smart cities will lead to convergence of security and operations in the coming days. India is scheduled to take a huge leap in its infrastructural growth with 92 billion dollars being allocated for the development of Traffic & Transportation in the country. Genetec develops innovations that help protect people and physical assets. We aim to aid in the growth of smart cities by providing solutions backed by analytics to make communities feel protected,” said Daniel Lee, Managing Director for Genetec APAC, “At Security Expo 2018, Genetec is showing how our solutions can incorporate data science to correlate information and convert unstructured data into actionable insights that help organisations make data-driven decisions.” The joint association of the Genetec audio surveillance integration, Citilog’s traffic management analytics and Axis’ high frame video cameras will focus on solving some of the real-time pressing issues of traffic management. For instance, the complete integrated solution can provide the authorities to automatically play a prerecorded message or make an audio announcement without any human intervention when the platform detects any traffic violation. Another important highlight of Axis and Citilog combination demonstrated at the Expo was the adaptive traffic control system that communicates with the traffic controller and helps managing the timings and relieves traffic congestions at busiest locations across the city. Axis carries a rich lineage of over 35 years in India and understands the pulse of the India market. With an estimation of 15-16% rise in the initial installation, as opposed to the low-cost offering for smart city programmes by the Government, Axis is upbeat that high-end sur veillance solutions will be the need of the hour. “The concept of intelligent traffic management is new to India. The journey of video analytics has seen a rapid shift from replaying post-mortem video to adopting pre-emptive solutions. Traffic Infra Expo is a one-of-a-kind vertical specific event that highlights the innovations in the space and demonstrates the impact of its use. At Axis, we are constantly innovating to offer segment specific solutions for the evolving market. The coming together of Axis, Citilog and Genetec has given us a platform to spread awareness on uses of deployment of complete end to end solutions to help the customer make an informed decision in terms of total cost of ownership, reliability and cybersecurity” – Sudhindra Holla Sales Director, India, and SAARC, Axis Communications  

Skybox® Security, a leading global cybersecurity management provider has recently signed an agreement with RAH Infotech, one of India’s fastest growing value-added technology distributors, to appoint the company national distributor. The software company experienced 433 percent year-over-year growth in APAC for 2017 – including 350 percent growth in India.   With security initiatives becoming increasingly difficult to manage, CISOs are seeking solutions like Skybox’s that are integrated and address multiple challenges. The Skybox® Security Suite integrates with more than 120 networking and security technologies that companies are already using to provide the comprehensive attack surface visibility and intelligence in one solution, covering on-premise, multi cloud and OT networks. The Suite also automates many core security processes in vulnerability and threat management, and firewall and security policy management such as network path analysis, attack simulation and change management. The Skybox APAC channel program enables value-added distributors (VADs), managed security service providers (MSSPs), resellers and system integrators to meet the needs of the market by deploying and offering services that leverage the Skybox Security Suite. By adding the Suite to their offerings, local partners can continue to serve as trusted cybersecurity advisors to India businesses. “We are excited to partner with RAH Infotech who have demonstrable knowledge of the India and SAARC market place with a great track record of execution for their vendor and reseller partners,” said Gerry Sillars, VP of APAC for Skybox Security, “We’re looking forward to working with them as we continue to focus on the expansion of our footprint in the region, as well as evolving the company’s channel business. Our solution continues to be a proven differentiator for our distributors and resellers, and so we’ve been able to quickly grow our partner ecosystem in rapidly expanding markets like India and SAARC.” “The Skybox platform successfully serves a huge market need across the globe and now it will be more accessible to the Indian market. These are exciting times for us at RAH Infotech to be partnering with Skybox,” said Ashok Kumar, CEO, RAH Infotech, “As a VAD focused on adding value to our partners and customers, we are constantly studying and introducing new and advanced cutting-edge technologies in India which help our customers embrace digital transformation in an effective manner. Today with networks increasing exponentially in size and getting more complex, we need new and dynamic solutions that simplify and automate dayto-day cybersecurity workflows and processes. The solution that Skybox offers gives companies a single view to their hybrid networks, and a way to easily manage and quickly address risks.” “The Skybox platform successfully serves a huge market need across the globe and now it will be more accessible to the Indian market. These are exciting times for us at RAH Infotech to be partnering with Skybox,” said Ashok Kumar, CEO, RAH Infotech, “As a VAD focused on adding value to our partners and customers, we are constantly studying and introducing new and advanced cutting-edge technologies in India which help our customers embrace digital transformation in an effective manner. Today with networks increasing exponentially in size and getting more complex, we need new and dynamic solutions that simplify and automate dayto-day cybersecurity workflows and processes. The solution that Skybox offers gives companies a single view to their hybrid networks, and a way to easily manage and quickly address risks.” RAH Infotech is India’s leading tech distribution major and solutions provider in the network and security domain, specializing in enterprise & App security and application delivery. Founded in the year 2005 and headquartered in Gurgaon, RAH Infotech has been providing world class IT solutions to a large number of channel partners and enterprises in India and SAARC countries. RAH Infotech works in close knit with its channel partners, offering solutions that cover information security solutions, telephony and video collaboration, server and storage management, backup and disaster recovery management, BCP services, data center solutions and data protection. RAH Infotech is committed to helping its partners choose, configure, and deliver the industry’s premium products across almost every vertical market in India.  

Hikvision, the world’s leading provider of innovative security products and solutions, has entered into technology partnership with Videonetics, a world-leading visual computing platform development company. The partnership includes integration of Hikvision network cameras with Videonetics’ Intelligent Video Management Software (IVMS), which will enable customers to view, record and analyse Hikvision H.265+ compressed video streams from Hikvision network cameras, both in real-time preview and playback. Customers will also benefit from reduced cost of ownership due to low storage and bandwidth requirements without compromising the video quality. Working together on intelligent video management The integration will enable advanced video management features and video analytics applications. For example, through Videonetics IVMS, users will be able to view real-time video feeds, recorded video, and navigate quickly from one camera view to another. Moreover, they can also export videos or video image snapshots from integrated Hikvision cameras for advanced video analysis such as object classification, crowd monitoring, perimeter protection, object of interest, smart urban video analytics and traffic monitoring etc. Boosted by Hikvision smart codec technology Importantly, all video streams will be compressed by Hikvision’s self-developed H.265+ smart codec technology. H.265+ significantly reduces bandwidth consumption and storage requirements. Field tests have shown that Hikvision H.265+ radically decreases the bitrate of ultra-high definition surveillance video by up to 67% compared to H.265. This is especially valuable when network conditions are unstable, bandwidth is limited, or when customers are required to store data for extended periods of time. “We are glad to be on board with Hikvision as technology partner. I am sure that our IVMS integration with Hikvision’s H.265+ compression technology will help our customers to design highly efficient surveillance solutions for both public and private sectors across the world,” said Avinash J. Trivedi, VP – Business Development of Videonetics. “Hikvision offers a Technology Partner Platform for partners to jointly develop versatile solutions needed by end-users,” said Adler Wu, Global Technology Alliance Manager at Hikvision, “Our H.265+ codec technology provides a more effective compression solution that allows our customers to achieve unhindered video transmission under limited bandwidth conditions and great savings on storage without compromising image quality.”

Reiterating its commitment to the smart city mission, Hikvision showcased its smart city solutions at the recently held Municipalika 2018 event at Bombay Exhibition Center. The products on display demonstrated a diverse range of security solutions such as smart city solutions, AI technology, intelligent traffic management solutions and mobile solutions, addressing the pressing needs of smart city projects in India. Municipalika 2018 was inaugurated by Mahendra Jain, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Urban Development Department, Government of Karnataka; and Divya Kush, President, Indian Institute of Architects. Nadir Patel, High Commissioner for Canada to India, was also present at Municipalika’s inaugural session. Commenting on the occasion Ashish P. Dhakan, MD & CEO, Prama Hikvision India Pvt. Ltd. said, “India’s future is getting redefined with Smart City Mission and Safe City projects. Municipalika has created a unique event platform to evolve, evaluate and share policies, strategies, cutting-edge technologies and innovations towards smart and sustainable living in cities. We showcased the latest security products and solutions for today’s smart cities. Our exhibits at Municipalika 2018 once again reiterate our commitment to the smart city mission objectives and help address the growing concerns around security management issues in the country.” He further added, “As the world leading provider security products and solutions, Hikvision is committed to offer best-in-class technology and innovations for vertical specific solutions related to smart cities, safe cities and smart transportation etc.” The event had participation of over 200 delegates in the conference segment, from over 300 Indian cities and towns and abroad, and professional visitors in the exhibition segment including ministers, mayors, municipal commissioners, urban local bodies, CEOs of smart cities and parastatals, along with technology providers, professionals and all urban stakeholders. Faculty and students of architecture, engineering, technology and management institutions also attended to get exposure on the latest trends. The 15th Municipalika 2018 provided a mega-networking forum for governments, experts, entrepreneurs and service providers to collectively find solutions to urban challenges. The 15th Municipalika Exhibition & Conference in Mumbai was concluded successfully with the addition of Construction, Architecture & Planning Exhibition (CAPEx) and India International Property Mart (IIPM).