Honeywell has recently added new capabilities to the Honeywell Vector Occupant App that give occupants more control over their experiences within a building with the swipe of a screen. The most significant new feature is indoor navigation, which uses GPSlike technology to help users find their way around complex buildings that are difficult to navigate without directions. The benefits of the indoor navigation feature have been demonstrated in the Minneapolis Skyway System, a complex interlinked network of enclosed pedestrian walkways spanning 80 city blocks. The walkways protect Minnesotans from the harsh winter elements and summer humidity, allowing them to comfortably walk between more than 30 buildings in downtown Minneapolis. “For anyone who’s not a local, and for even some who are, finding your way around the skyway system can be a big challenge,” said Steve Cramer, President and CEO, Minneapolis Downtown Council, “With our initial use of the Honeywell Vector Occupant App, we’ve seen an immediate impact. The interactive map makes it really easy and intuitive to know exactly where you’re going, and how to get there.” In addition to the indoor navigation feature, the app also now includes a location-based feature to rate spaces, allowing those within a building to highlight comfort issues to building staff for quick resolution. Both features combine the convenience of today’s mobile devices with Internet of Things (IoT) building connectivity to help improve a user’s experience inside a building. “Much of a building’s success hinges on how happy and satisfied its occupants are. They’re the lifeblood of an organization, and their experience within a building is what keeps them coming back,” said Aseem Joshi, Country General Manager, Honeywell Building Solutions, India, “The Honeywell Vector Occupant App has given users more power to shape their building experiences from their smartphones. Now, we’re adding even more features to deepen the connections between occupants and the spaces around them so they can be as comfortable as possible, and can more easily and efficiently move about a building.” Indoor navigation Enabled by strategic partner Insiteo’s indoor location solution for smart buildings, the indoor navigation feature offers accurate indoor location, mapping, routing, presence, proximity notifications and analytics – all embedded into an integrated platform. Backed by location technology installed within a facility and software, the app’s indoor navigation provides easy-to-use way finding, with turn-by-turn voice assistance and location accuracy up to five feet. The app promotes better collaboration and improved safety via its ‘share my location’ feature, which gives users a way to more easily find each other in a building. For building owners and managers, in addition to promoting occupant satisfaction, the app also provides insights into foot traffic patterns, which building personnel can use to better inform measures like messaging placement to better serve their occupants. Location based space rating The rating feature builds on the app’s original one-click hot/ cold call capability, which lets users raise comfort issues with building personnel for resolution. Building owners and managers can view ratings and feedback on dashboards to pinpoint where building spaces need attention and improvements. They can also visualize longer-term trends and space rankings to uncover patterns and improvement opportunities to promote occupant comfort, satisfaction and productivity. Vector occupant App capabilities The new capabilities build on the Honeywell Vector Occupant App’s base functionality, which includes digital identification, mobile access control and the ability to communicate temperature discomfort to prompt adjustments by facility teams. The Honeywell Vector Occupant App is part of Honeywell’s connected services portfolio, which leverages the connectivity of buildings to improve how they operate and the experiences they offer for those who visit and work within them. The Honeywell Vector Occupant App works with Apple and Android products.

In late 1970s to late 1980s, ATT offered a pure private line digital data service called Dataphone Digital Service, or DDS. Supported rates of 2.4, 4.8, 9.6, and 19.2 were standard with higher rates such as 56kbps; and nx56kbps also possible but rarely. These circuits although legacy, are still quite common today – because they really work. Specialized channel cards called OCU-DP (Office Channel Unit Data Port) are connected to standard CSU/ DSUs with datacomm interfaces. Both synchronous and asynchronous data is formatted and fit cleanly into a 64kbps time-slot (by repeating the data bits or bytes). The bit repetition had the added advantage of providing error correction and thus better performance. The channel data is then inserted into time-slots of a standard T1. In this manner many data circuits can be packed into a private line T1.” “GL supports non-intrusive monitoring and analysis of DDS frames using T1 Analyzer hardware. The captured data can be decoded and analysed by GL’s DDS Protocol Analyzer,” Vijay Kulkarni, the CEO of the company said, “Non-intrusive TAPs are used to passively duplicate the signal between two end points on a network link without disturbing the actual network activity. GL’s T1 Analyzer hardware can be used with RJ48 Y Bridge – splits one RJ48 into two complete and non-intrusively tap and capture the DDS frames on a T1 line.” He added, “The DDS data is formatted into frames separated by one or more bytes. The data channel may utilize multiple, all or a fractional timeslot of the T1 line. Also, there may be multiple data channels within the T1 line. The captured data is analyzed using GL’s DDS Protocol Analyzer.”  

India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA), the premier trade body representing the Indian electronic system design and manufacturing space in collaboration with MarketsAndMarkets launched an industry report on Indian semiconductor fabless startup ecosystem at the this year’s Vision Summit. The report was launched by Ashwini K Aggarwal, Chairman, IESA; Anilkumar Muniswamy, Director, SLN Technologies Ltd., and Jitendra Chaddah, Chair, Fabless CIG and Senior Director, Strategic Relations and Operations, Intel India. It reveals that the Indian semiconductor component market is expected to be worth USD32.35 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 10.1% between 2018 and 2025. The inaugural session was presided over by Priyank M Kharge, Honorable Minister for IT, BT and S&T, GoK. H.E. Ms. Dana Kursh, Consul General of Israel to South India and Shailendra Tyagi, Director, STPI Bangalore, were also shared the stage. The Vision Summit is a global leadership conclave for the Electronics System Design & Manufacturing (ESDM) industry. This year the theme is ‘Resurgent India: Electronics, Entrepreneurship and Economy,’ which attracted a powerful line-up of industry experts, thought leaders, policy makers, government officials, business and technology experts, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs who shared their views and vision on the future of the ESDM industry as well as the trends, challenges and opportunities shaping the Indian industry. Ashwini K Aggarwal said, “We are witnessing the rise of a new India with a stable government clearing policy logjams, taking bold decisions and ambitious targets. With digital as the growth hack and aggressive engagement from the government’s ‘Make in India’ campaign, the ESDM industry will benefit and is projected to see investment proposals over $1.5 bln over next 2 years. We believe that now is the time to build the future of design led manufacturing. The fabless report clearly highlights the opportunities for the Indian fabless ecosystem. This year’s theme at IESA Vision Summit 2018 is dedicated towards building the industry success by highlighting opportunity areas and addresses the challenges being faced.” Highlights of the Indian Semiconductor Fabless Startup report: The key trends identified in the report include smart industrial automation, defense and rural broadband. It elaborates on the Indian semiconductor design ecosystem, and highlights the various opportunities for major global semiconductor players to consider India as their global R&D destination. It revealed that India is a highly attractive destination for global R&D centers owing to the availability of talent, as well as lower cost (compared with the US and Western Europe).

Infinova’s VT210-A2-B0 series H.265 HD megapixel smart starlight WDR IP box camera allows image output resolution up to 1920×1080@30fps. The camera provides excellent resolution and color reproduction, acquires richer and more accurate details, and guarantees intelligent analysis accuracy in a more effective way, which caters for different application needs. The camera boasts of rich intelligent functions, such as wire cross detection, regional invasion detection, field of view change detection, defocus detection, too dark detection and too light detection. VT210-A2-B0 series camera is designed for safe city, rail transit and municipal construction. Particularly, it is widely used in city public security, highway, metro, station, exhibition hall etc. . ● 1/2.8” progressive scan CMOS sensor. IR-Cut removable (ICR) filter for day/ night switching. Star-grade sensitivity: 0.0015 lux. Supports frame integration WDR, with dynamic range up to 132dB (True WDR). High-resolution image signal output: 1920×1080@30fps. Auto back focus (ABF). Smart functions for perimeter protection (wire cross and regional invasion detection) and feature protection (field of view change, de-focus, too dark, and too light detection). Three simultaneous video streams: Dual H.265 & M-JPEG or dual H.264 & scalable M-JPEG. Supports built-in storage/ NAS. Support alarm recording and event recording (including broken network). Supports alarm snapshot and event snapshot. Bi-directional audio, G.711a and G.711u. 2 alarm inputs, 1 on-off output. Support multiple ways to trigger and handle alarms. Up to four definable privacy mask areas. Up to eight ROI (Region of Interest) areas. Support simultaneous access and parameter setting via Web Server from multiple clients. Compatible or able to integrate with digital video surveillance software, and other video surveillance software. ONVIF Profile S & G compliant. Standard SDK is provided for easy integration with other video surveillance software. Wide voltage design.

A network video recorder (NVR) is primarily used to record the video streams of cameras. In medium and large scale enterprises where a huge number of cameras are installed, it becomes a necessity to incorporate a network of NVRs. It provides a systematic log of various camera video recordings and the space required to store the same. However, with the advancement in technology, NVRs are now able to assist or perform many other functions which enhance the security and ease of operation. Some of these features are unique with respect to IP NVR system, while some are found in most of the NVRs produced these days. Matrix NVRs hold one of the unique features called Cascading that eliminates the need of a server to operate CMS (Centralized Management System) as it works on client-server architecture where each NVR is divided into two parts, client and server. The client of one NVR can communicate with the other one’s server and vice versa. Therefore, each network video recorder can supervise and interface with several other NVRs, bypassing the need of a server to do the same, which makes this solution very cost-effective. For example, if multiple NVRs exist in a network, they can still be governed from one of them locally. A single device can act as the server (or a master device) and can control 19 other client (or slave) NVRs. Similarly, there can be multiple master devices as well, monitoring various sets of other (slave) NVRs. Finally, the master device can be directly connected to a screen and output from all slave NVRs can be monitored. One of the major concerns of an IP NVR manufacturer is the storage space to store the recordings. Required storage capacity is determined by the number of factors such as IP cameras in the network, resolution, type of recording and retention duration. If many cameras are connected, optimizing storage becomes indispensable. To resolve this problem, following three features in a NVR come in handy: Motion based recording: There are instances when there is no motion at all but are still recorded, hogging storage space unnecessarily. With motion based recording enabled, the NVR stops recording when there is no motion. Therefore, the storage space is utilized for only those recordings in which motion has been observed. Adaptive recording: According to Indian Government policies for public areas, it is mandatory to record video streams persistently, irrespective of motion. To approach this requirement, NVRs have the option of adaptive recording, in which the number of frames per second change, adapting to the motion. This means, when there is no motion the NVR for IP cameras will still record, but with less frames as compared to when there is motion. Adaptive recording can economize storage space by as much as 50% Camera-wise recording retention: Each area in an industry fulfils a unique purpose and thus, the priority of camera recordings vary. Camera-wise recording retention provides flexibility to configure the number of days for retaining recordings based on the predominance of a camera and the area where it is installed. For example, recording retention for canteen can be set to 15 days, that of reception area, to 30 days while for the parking area recording retention can be set to 40 days. These are some of the many features that NVRs with modern technology come equipped with. There are, however, still a large amount of functions that a NVR can perform.

Smiths Detection, a leading player in threat detection and screening technologies for aviation, ports and borders, urban security and military markets, has recently been awarded a multi-million contract to boost aviation security in India. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has placed an order for multiple CTX 9800 DSi™ systems at a combined value of over USD50 million. Through a global competitive tender process conducted by AAI, Smiths Detection won the bid to install and integrate high-speed explosives detection systems (EDS) for hold-baggage screening at 11 sites across nine airports in India including Chennai International Airport and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata. the third-largest aviation market in the world by 2026, and so security is a mission-critical factor in enabling India’s airports to be futureready. Smiths Detection is honoured to partner with AAI – supporting airports to stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape with a technological solution that is fully compliant with regulatory requirements,” said Jerome de Chassey, General Manager of Smiths Detection in India. AAI manages a total of 125 airports in India and is responsible for creating, upgrading, maintaining and managing civil aviation infrastructure both on the ground and in the air. The organisation is also responsible for building new terminals for the many new small airports under development by the Government of India. Working in partnership with Smiths Detection, AAI will implement ECAC Standard 3 screening of hold baggage at Level 1 for inline systems across the country. This complies with regulations set by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS), the regulatory authority for civil aviation security in India. Powered by leading-edge computed tomography (CT) technology, CTX 9800 can be configured to deliver throughput of up to 1,800 bags per hour and can be tailored to meet the specific needs of any legacy or new baggage-handling system. Approved by the European Civil Aviation Conference as meeting Standard 3 requirements, CTX 9800 is also certified by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration and the Civil Aviation Administration of China. Smiths Detection has installed over 4000 hold baggage solution units worldwide and are located in more than 70 percent of the world’s 100 largest airports.