RIL ventures into area of providing surveillance, security .
Oct 2, 2011
New Delhi: Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has ventured into the new area of providing surveillance and security in cities by joining hands with Siemens to offer intelligent electronic solutions to face growing terror threats.
Several state governments and local administrations have evinced keen interest in the technology to secure metropolises and cities in the wake of rising terror threats, sources said.
Besides presentations to various state and local administrations, the RIL has submitted an Expression of Interest to provide an electronic security system through fourth generation (4G) wireless networking in Mumbai, they said.
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has ventured into the new area of providing surveillance and security in cities by joining hands with Siemens to offer intelligent electronic solutions to face growing terror threats. Reuters
The role of surveillance and security has assumed greater significance with insurgency and terrorism becoming a global phenomenon, they said, adding that traditional security platforms are not able to cope with the new challenges.
"So there is an emerging need to move over to 4G wireless networking," they said.
With contiguous, pan-India Broadband Wireless Access spectrum, Reliance plans to offer 4G wireless networking services for safety, security and other advanced applications, the sources said.
They said Reliance and Siemens would "combine to leverage the 4G network for the low latency and assured Quality of Service (QoS) required for video and security applications."
RIL's new aerospace and security venture, led by its President and CEO Vivek Lall, was also in advanced discussions with global giants in the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle space.
RIL has designed and operates one of the largest integrated security automation systems in the world, consisting of over 12,000 cameras and thousands of other advanced security sensors, radars, and video analytics among others, the sources said.
It has also implemented advanced command and control centres for security of its own critical infrastructure for over a decade, they said, without elaborating any further.
Reliance has vast domain experience with hundreds of security and safety professionals having background in defence, paramilitary and police, as well as its own internally trained resources, they said.
Lall, an engineer of repute himself, was recently at the Paris Air Show where the discussions were launched. He is also making efforts to bring state-of-the-art technologies to India and create innovation capability in aerospace and security.
Latest technologies like the 4G broadband wireless enable the mobility of sensors and command and control points by giving updated Concept of Operations (Conops) in real time to all who matter in a secure manner, Lall had said recently at a FICCI homeland security conference here.
He had said that one of the most important aspects of fighting the homeland security battle was to undertake smart analysis of data and information from large data sets and diverse variety of sensors to gain knowledge.
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