In a major security industry development, Hikvision and Milestone Systems have recently announced their strategic partnership in Mumbai, under which Prama Hikvision India will distribute Milestone video management software for the Indian market and they will collaborate in all Indian projects. This strategic partnership will also allow both companies to leverage better value to their partners in the distribution and project market. In the Indian security market, Hikvision’s partnership with Milestone System is one of the strategic wins for Prama Hikvision India. “We are very excited about the Hikvision and Milestone partnership. We were working together for the past six months on various projects. As the year 2018 is going to be very promising in terms of projects, we decided to work together on the projects as a team. Today, Hikvision is the world’s No. 1 video surveillance equipment supplier and Milestone is a leading VMS company, together we make a winning combination,” said Amit Sarkar, Country Manager, India, Milestone Systems. “As a world’s leading provider of innovative video surveillance products and solutions, we at Hikvision have always put the objective of serving our customers with best-in-class products and solutions. This strategic partnership with Milestone in India will add lots of value to our competitive edge in the market,” said Ashish P. Dhakan, CEO & Managing Director, Prama Hikvision India Pvt. Ltd. Milestone Systems is a leading provider of open platform video management software that helps the world see how to ensure safety, protect assets and increase business efficiency. Milestone enables an open platform community that drives collaboration and innovation in the development and use of network video technology, with reliable and scalable solutions that are proven in more than 150,000 sites worldwide.

Hochiki, the leading global manufacturer of life safety systems, has expanded its life safety detection portfolio in India with the launch of a brand new multisensor product line. The ACD is a cost-effective solution to cater to the country’s demanding life safety detection needs. The Indian fire safety systems and equipment market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 9% during 2017-2023. Growing consumer awareness, rise in fire incidences, stringent fire safety norms and overall growth in construction sector is expected to drive demand for fire safety systems and equipment in India. The ACD multi-criteria Smoke-Heat-CO sensor offers smoke modes that provide early warning and superior nuisance reduction technology, temperature modes that offer both fixed temperature and rate of rise alarm response to temperature increases, and CO detection modes that provide for alarm from both fixed CO concentrations as well as for CO alarming from varying CO levels over time (COHb – CO Haemoglobin poisoning). This flexibility means the ACD can be installed in a multitude of different environments. The ACD will be available both as an EN approved model (ACD-EN) with 24 EN-certified modes of operation and as a UL approved model (ACD-V) with 16 UL-certified modes. These products are the latest addition to Hochiki’s world-proven intelligent sensor range – a group of ultra-reliable products designed to be easily installed, maintained and operated, and are designed to complement the company’s flagship fire control panel, the L@titude. “Fire incidents have risen multifold across the country in recent times, endangering the life and assets of many. Reliability with simplicity is an important combination when it comes to protecting lives. With the launch of ACD, we aim to incorporate fire safety mechanism in India and are committed to do not only what is required by law but also what is expected of a market leader “             – Rohit Harjani Country Manager Indian Sub-continent, Hochiki    

Videonetics launched their state-of-the-art video software platform ‘Unified Video Center’ at the recently held Secutech India 2018 in Mumbai. Powered by its patented and awarded Indian Deep Learning Framework, Videonetics Unified Video Center encompasses powerful and enterprise class intelligent video management software, video content analytics, automatic number plate recognition (ANPR), red light violation detection (RLVD), speed detection, no helmet detection, video data visualization and dashboard. At the event, Videonetics also demonstrated most advanced technological innovations including highway traffic management system, face recognition and detection software, to name a few. Commenting on the grand success, Avinash Trivedi, VP at Videonetics said, “We are very pleased to be a part of Secutech India this year too, which has emerged as one of the most influential platforms in India to meet focused customers, connect with leading consultants, system integrators along with understanding market trends. It has repeatedly attracted the best minds of the industry, and this year was no different. Secutech India provided an excellent opportunity to launch our Unified Video Center platform which was well received and appreciated by the key consultants, end users and system integrators. We were excited to see the response and the keenness shown by them towards our platform.” Continuing to bring the indigenous innovations and technological advances to the global market, Videonetics has been setting new benchmarks in the field of security and surveillance by using their patented Indian deep learning framework.  

Dahua Technology received excellent response at the recently concluded Secutech India 2018, Mumbai. The exhibition was inaugurated by V V Laxminarayana, ADGP, Maharashtra Police and Amitesh Kumar, Joint CP, Mumbai Police along with a few top officials from across the industry. Kiren Rijiju, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs and Devendra Fadnavis, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra were among the dignitaries who participated in one of the events in Secutech India 2018. As a Lanyard and Technology Partner, Dahua along with its national distributor Aditya Infotech Ltd played a major role in the success of the exhibition. Footfall Dahau’s spacious and swish booth welcomed a record number of visitors from security professionals to VIPs including government, police, corporate and various pertinent institutions. Showcased solutions Dahua showcased its full panoply of security wares across many verticals from its vast product portfolio. They included all environmental control center, HDCVI 4.0, intrusion alarm, intelligent building, intelligent transportation, LED display & control, mobile surveillance, smart city, smart home, smart retail drone, thermal imaging, video cloud and video conference, Ultra HD, and Wi-Fi Villa. Dahua’s drone and video on control center were the star attractions and the concept of Selfie Zone installed with instant photo capturing machine and printer where visitors got their pictures in seconds pulled the crowds’ attention. The famous Dahua Mascot created its own waves and fans among the visitors. Security quiz programs were conducted at regular intervals on all three days and the winners walked away with fabulous prizes. Dahua’s dedicated marketing and technical teams were on-hand supports to explain the visitors about products and solutions, also through respective video presentations. All visitors including customers, clients, vendors, channel partners, systems integrators, corporate heads, intelligence agency’s officials, security professionals and so on had an opportunity to meet with Dahua’s top officials and exchange ideas. Dahua’s AI creates best business value Dahua’s AI applications have really enhanced business intelligence and performance in real time creating enormous value to various segments like smart retail, traffic management, intelligent transportation, logistics, video surveillance, campus security, traffic management, warehousing etc. G20 Summit in 2016 in Hangzhou, China had successfully deployed security solution developed by Dahua Technology using AI and help them prevent any untoward incident to that city. Dahua’s AI is driving benefits across the organization by boosting operations, generating insights, increasing employee productivity, reducing operational cost, engaging customers and positively influencing sales. Dahua’s noble mission has been ‘enabling a safer society and smarter living through artificial intelligence innovation.’ Customers who visited the Dahua Booth were highly elated by what they saw and experienced, and appeared to have taken away positive attitude for the Dahua products and solutions.   “ I am indeed overwhelmed by the massive turnout on all the three days. It is really incredible. This demonstrates the enthusiasm and confidence shown by countless visitors for the Dahua brand and we are committed to fulfilling their expectations and security needs. The credit for our success here goes to our dedicated team “   – Robbin Shen Managing Director, Dahua Technology India Pvt. Ltd.  

Hikvision has successfully launched and showcased their latest technology and signature products during Secutech India. The latest SECONA Shield Award wins in three categories reinforce Hikvision’s excellence in innovation and their value proposition to offer vertical solutions for hotels, hospitals and banks. SECONA also recognized three organizations with the Shield Awards under three exclusive categories – ‘Security Project Design of the Year’ for Indian Hotels Company Limited – Security System for JLT, Dubai, ‘Safe Hospital of the Year’ for Yashoda Healthcare Services Private Limited, and ‘Safe Bank of the Year’ for Mannapuram Finance Limited; which is a huge recognition for Hikvision’s vertical solutions team who executed these projects. Ashish P. Dhakan commented, “The SECONA Shield Awards is a prestigious acknowledgement of our success story in the security and safety market. The three award wins for our efficacious work in the field of hotel, hospital and banking are a testimony to our commitment to deliver best-inclass solutions and innovative nextgen technologies to our customers.” With the recently launched products including the Turbo HD 5.0 and DarkFighterX series cameras with many innovative and unique features, Hikvision reaffirms its customers’ trust as a global leader in implementing cutting-edge technology solutions. Continuing their approach to bring the international innovations and technological advances to Indian market, Hikvision realized the importance of AI as the future of surveillance and set a new benchmark in the field of security and surveillance by using artificial intelligence. At the event, Hikvision showcased a series of latest and most advanced technological innovations with AI Technologies, the signature DeepinView series IP cameras and DeepinMind series NVRs. The live demos of AI based face recognition, people tracking and perimeter protection applications evoked good response from the visitors. At Secutech India Safety and Security Conclave (SISSC) panel discussion on Artificial Intelligence in Security, Gagan Lamba, Assistant Vice President, Projects, Prama Hikvision India, emphasized using highly efficient AI enabled technology applications for even more secure and intelligent surveillance solutions to effectively meet the challenges of complex security threats and dynamic technology space. About newly launched products DarkFighterX series cameras DarkFighterX series cameras come with two distinct sensors for capturing and combining brightness and colour. They expand upon the human sense of sight by first mimicking the human eyes and then extending that ability in extremely low-light environments. The technology results in colourful, bright and accurate imaging, making night time surveillance video appear nearly as clear as daytime video. Turbo HD 5.0 series Turbo HD 5.0 series exemplifies the highest standards of security and surveillance technology. As Hikvision’s leading series of analog products, Turbo HD 5.0 includes the front-end series cameras and back-end series DVRs. Furthermore, Turbo HD 5.0 front-end cameras are equipped with an F1.0 iris, high-sensitivity image sensor, and anti-glare supplemental lighting, resulting in colourful, bright, and accurate imaging even in low illumination. The Hikvision booth at the event displayed the live demos of some of the latest technologies including Cloud Computing, Big Data, Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Hikvision partners Milestone and Seagate showcased their innovative solutions for various advanced applications at the booth. The live training programs during the show got good response from the security community. Hikvision’s exposition at Secutech India was a resounding success, with recordbreaking attendance and value added business networking with security professional community. “Being a leader in innovations and solving real-world challenges ever since its inception, Hikvision is committed to bring best-in-class technology and innovations, and to offer solutions for different verticals like smart cities, education, industrial automation, automotive electronics industries etc. Towards creating a more secure environment, we are proud to unveil the latest products and innovative technologies including Artificial Intelligence, AI Cloud, Big Data and IoT. At this year’s Secutech India, we have launched DarkFighterX and Turbo HD 5.0 product series along with latest offerings in access control, video door phone, intrusion alarm, storage, EZVIZ cameras and vertical solutions. We are confident that all the latest products and cuttingedge AI technology applications will enhance our customers’ experience and will further shape up the future of security and surveillance industry”  – Ashish P Dhakan  MD & CEO, Prama Hikvision India Pvt. Ltd.  

JK Tyre & Industries Ltd. is an automotive tyre, tubes and flaps manufacturing company based in Delhi, India. The company is the only tyre manufacturer offering the entire range of four-wheeler radials for trucks, buses and cars. JK Tyre has a worldwide customer base in over 80+ countries. With production facilities in nine plants, total production capacity is almost 20 million tyres per annum. Challenges J K Tyres has its biggest manufacturing setup in Mysore. The premise comprises a manufacturing unit as well as the administrative department. Since the plant runs 24×7 and there are numerous shifts of workers, they found it difficult to manage multiple shifts manually. Managing visitors was also a problem for thecompany. So, they required a software that would help them keep a record of visitors on time-to-time basis. Creating a visitor’s identity in the form of visitor pass and generating reports of visitors on a monthly basis was a tire some process. JK Tyres was looking for a vendor who could offer them a complete solution related to time-attendance and visitor management. Offered solution Matrix offered a time-attendance solution which centrally handles multiple shifts of workers and employees. Numerous shifts were created to manage the time-attendance of over 500+ workers. Moreover, they provided employee self service, which helped the employees view day-to-day attendance, apply for leave/ tour etc. JK Tyres further required a record of visitors so Matrix delivered visitor management software, which would help them create a visitor pass, fetch visitor records and generate reports of the same. Results Reduction in cumbersome HR tasks. Automatic maintenance of visitor records on day-to-day basis. 40% increase in productivity of employees and workers.