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Videonetics’ path-breaking technology ‘No Helmet Detection System’ (NHDS) has been recognized with the prestigious FIST ‘Make in India – Best Innovation award of the year’ at Fire & Safety India Expo 2018, organized by FSAI. Highly acclaimed in the industry, FIST Award recognizes extraordinary contribution of organization and individuals in the field of security, safety, firefighting and emergency response. The gala award night was attended by eminent figures from the industry fraternity. By overcoming rigorous stages of evaluation with flying colors and competing to cutting-edge products presented by other companies, the judging panel and industry experts highly voted for No Helmet Detection System which is designed and developed on ‘Indian Deep Learning’ Framework. NHDS aims to bring down road accidents and enforce traffic discipline amongst people by penalizing two-wheeler riders who do not wear helmet while driving and eventually put their lives to risk. Commenting on the achievement, Dr. Tinku Acharya, MD & Founder, Videonetics said, “We are thankful to FSAI for acknowledging and honoring our R&D efforts with the FIST award. We are committed to promote culture of innovation in India and to introduce such advanced and smart technologies that can address challenging environment for highly populated countries like India. No Helmet Detection System (NHDS) is the pioneering solution which will certainly inculcate traffic discipline amongst people, build traffic management more robust, increase road safety, eventually to make India smarter and safe.”

Zicom, one of the pioneers in the electronic security industry, is expanding its citizen-safety initiative ‘Make Your City Safe’ (MYCS) to the state of Telangana towards making the state safe. The company has recently signed an MoU to launch the citizen safety mission for Telangana in the honorable presence of Home Minister Naini Narshimha Reddy and other influential stalwarts by the name of ‘Make Telangana Safe.’ Zicom launched Mission ‘Make Your City Safe’ in 2012. It is a Zicom SaaS initiative to make housing societies, schools and hospitals more secure by equipping them with high quality CCTVs that require ‘zero investment, zero management.’ Apart from providing hardware, the company also undertakes the responsibly of monitoring the health of their security systems and offering free-of-cost services to ensure the smooth functioning of their products. With currently over 4500 buildings coming under the MYCS banner, Zicom looks forward to a safer and better urban lifestyle to become a reality. Taking this initiative to another level by extending the mission to cities across the country, Zicom SaaS has recently partnered with TITA and Digithon to create a robust digital ecosystem that not only monitors but also prevents crime in Telangana. Currently the initiative encompasses the cities of Hyderabad, Varangal, Karimnagar, Adilabad and Nalgonda. Today Zicom’s initiative has its presence across 7 cities (8th being the cities of Telangana) by the names of Make Mumbai Safe, Make Pune Safe, Make Navi Mumbai Safe, Make Thane Safe, Make Hyderabad Safe and Make Ahmedabad Safe As the part of the upcoming phase Zicom plans to cover the whole of Telangana followed by other states as well. The company is also exploring for possible associations. Under the ‘Make Your City Safe’ initiative, Zicom will offer a broad spectrum of security solutions on Security-as-a-Service model. Additionally, the company is also exploring the idea of establishing their local command center to support ‘Make Telangana Safe’ initiative and to help citizens connect all buildings for monitoring and proactive prevention of crimes. The key benefits of Make Your City Safe are mentioned below: The hardware and software costs are to be borne by Zicom – users have to pay for the services only. No worries about the functioning of the system, Zicom assures that the system will function 24×7, 365 days. No financial burden – Easy payment option that doesn’t need the society to block any funds for buying CCTV system. No annual maintenance contract – It is Zicom who maintains the CCTV system and also takes care of repairs and replacements. No confusion on what is best for customers – Free security assessment by experts that helps one choose the right security solution. Always accessible – 24×7 technical/ after sales support enables customers to stay connected.     We, at Zicom SaaS, have been committed towards the cause of citizen safety through our mission ‘Make Your City Safe’ since 2012. MYCS has earned Zicom the responsibility of providing safety and security to over one million satisfied residents across the country. With the spread of cities, and many cities turning into smart cities in the next one decade, Zicom sees a larger role for itself as a major security service provider to them. MYCS is the one step forward towards fulfilling that responsibility. We believe, through this initiative, the authorities have set an example for other states as well on how the power of technology can be used to prevent crimes and ensure the safety of citizens – Pramoud Rao Founder & Managing Director of Zicom SaaS Pvt. Ltd.  

Honeywell has introduced its latest smart building technology, Command and Control Suite release 200 (CCS R200), which connects building personnel with data analytics to help drive operational improvements and efficiencies. CCS R200 builds on the original Command and Control Suite by offering more user interfaces to bring building performance data to key personnel, when and where they need it – from building operators and managers to security incident response teams – helping to reduce operational costs, mitigate risk and enhance business continuity. CCS R200 combines intelligent automation, advanced analytics and data visualization with the contemporary user experience of consumer home and mobile electronics, bringing simple, intuitive displays to building operations to enhance facility and security management in an easy-to-understand manner. The latest release brings the holistic integration, mapbased visualization and incident workflows of CCS to the control room works t a t i o n , desktop PCs and windows tablets, extending the software’s mobile, touch-optimized experience to more interfaces. This creates a seamless hub of information pulled from IT networks, building control systems and outside sources, which allows for better incident response and operational decision-making. “The value of a building’s data is dependent on how easily the right people can access and understand it. As today’s operations become increasingly data-driven, it’s imperative for organizations to ensure they’re taking steps to make this data accessible and actionable to those who need it in order to do their jobs such as security personnel, building operators and C-suite executives,” said John Rajchert, President of Building Solutions, Honeywell Home and Building Technologies, “That’s why we chose to develop more interfaces and software mobility functions with CCS. We’re providing additional ways for key personnel to tap into key building insights so they can keep systems up and running and optimize building operations.” Building off the basic components of the original Command and Control Suite, CCS R200 is designed with the same ease of use as the Command Wall, which was designed as a collaboration and team decision-making tool, and features map-based visualization and navigation from a single intuitive touch screen. CCS R200 brings that same ease of use to core operational interfaces, the Command Station and Command Console, extending an organization’s ability to turn complex data into easy-to-implement changes to enhance overall building operations. The Command Station is a single window, single monitor interface, designed for a desktop PC, laptop and Windows tablet, and is often ideal for facility technicians, security guards and management as well as for casual use by occupants. It allows even inexperienced users to quickly understand the overall situation at a glance by pro viding unique insights in a straightforward manner, while allowing expert users the ability to drill down to technical detail and full system control. The Command Console, in contrast, is a premium multi-window, multi-monitor interface designed for engineers, control-room operators, and building mangers, and others who need to view insights from multiple systems and areas of a building simultaneously. It seamlessly integrates with Honeywell’s digital video manager console to access and provide a view of video footage and corresponding data for improved operational decision-making. In addition to new interfaces, CCS R200 includes enhancements to the original system’s incident workflow feature, which guides users through scripted responses to security incidents and other emergencies. The enhancements include map visualization to clearly locate an incident, such as a fire alarm going off, to quickly identify the exact location. Integrated with the underlying control system, workflows can be initiated by system alarms and procedure steps can include operatorinitiated control actions such as announcement, equipment start up, door release and other actions depending on the needs of the incident. Additionally, with CCS R200, organizations can issue multiple Incident Workflows, which can be managed by different people in order to promote efficiency and overall security. CCS R200 integrates with Honeywell’s flagship building management platform, Enterprise Buildings Integrator (EBI), which helps facilitate the integration of security, comfort, life safety and energy systems among other functions. CCS R200 is available now.

CP PLUS is bolstering its production in India by opening its first dedicated manufacturing plant in Andhra Pradesh, India. They are setting up the manufacturing facility under the Honorable Prime Minister’s ‘Make in India’ initiative which lays a lot of emphasis on R&D and local development of goods. Established in Chitoor, near Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, the state-of-the-art facility is equipped with world class technology for manufacturing a wide range of security and surveillance products to cater to the needs of government, defense, navel and key infrastructure projects which is ideal for Indian environment and various challenges. The facility has also indigenous R&D and Test Lab to ensure stringent quality standards and innovations of the products. With a productions capacity of 2.4 million cameras and 0.6 million recorder per year which is scalable to 6 million cameras and 2 million recorders, the new plant enables CP PLUS to upsurge its production capacity in India and to serve its consumers better and more effectively. Commenting on the launch, Aditya Khemka, Managing Director, CP PLUS India and Aditya Group said, “Security is a huge concern in India presently and CP PLUS intelligent solutions will go a long way in taking preventive steps towards a safe and secure world. This investment demonstrates our ambition to grow in the important Indian surveillance and security market. We are also designing some unique products and solutions indigenized to meet the dynamic needs of our customers.” The state-of-the-art manufacturing facility boasts of a robust R&D lab that is equipped with the latest technology to create and test breakthrough technologies and product. CP PLUS also aims to create hundreds of jobs through this initiative. Over a time, as the production expands, the demand for skilled workforce will also increase.  

Matrix has recently unveiled its indigenously designed COSEC Facial Recognition. Matrix COSEC Face Recognition is based on innovative, deep learning technology, which evolves as per regular user interaction in different conditions. It identifies a user quickly and accurately with 1:1 or 1:N identification method. The technology checks liveness of a face with 99.53% accuracy. It accepts the user’s mobile as a credential, which eliminates hardware cost and makes the verification process simple and secure. With contactless authentication, Matrix COSEC Facial Recognition technology reads the user’s face through COSEC APTA application. It ensures contactless authentication and identifies user’s face in < 1 second.  It eradicates the issues of identifying varying height of user(s) as the user needs to capture the image of their face in a smart phone for authentication process. Moreover,it works well even in low bandwidth conditions and is agnostic to changes in facial hair, angles and lighting. “Matrix Facial Recognition is a powerful tool conceived with liveness detection method. It has the ability to read beyond the surface of the skin and identifies real skin within fraction of a second. With the addition of these unique biometric technology in our range of security solutions, we want to weave our image as a company manufacturing solutions catering to different verticals for various access control and time-attendance applications,” commented Jatin Desai, Product Manager, Access Control and Time-Attendance, Matrix. Smartphone as an identity: By installing COSEC APTA application in their smartphone, users’ mobile becomes a biometric device for timeattendance and access control applications. Identification or verification is done through capturing an image of their face through the phone’s camera which in turn marks their attendance. Ease of face enrolment: The user face enrolment is done by capturing the image of a user’s face from different angles, which gets stored in COSEC CENTRA/ VYOM database. Unique enrolment: Due to unique technology of TRAIN feature in COSEC APTA, user’s face can get easily recognized in dynamic and uncontrolled environments. With TRAIN feature, user can add many images of their face for error free facial recognition. . ● Face recognition: It works on 1:N authentication method wherein, a user’s face is compared with the facial images in a database of stored records. Face detection: It works on 1:1 authentication method wherein, a user’s face is verified against the logged in ID of the user. Dual security: For strong authentication, user’s face is verified after establishing bluetooth connectivity with the assigned door for accessing the door assigned to respective user. Location tracking through GPS: To keep track of the user’s movement outside/ inside the premises, COSEC APTA sends location details to the server using GPS by taking user’s face image from the present location.

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.