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Saturday, Jan 26, 2002
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Software Corporate - Alliances & Joint Ventures Software for tracking vehicles -- Shapre Global MoU with Canadian co Our Bureau
CHENNAI, Jan. 25 THE city-based Shapre Global Info Services Ltd and the Ottawa, Canada-based MaxSys Engineering Solutions Inc signed an MoU to design, develop, supply and maintain a virtual (web-based) infrastructure for tracking the emergency vehicles and personnel in disaster management. The MoU was signed in the presence of the visiting Canadian Deputy Prime Minister, Mr John Manley. Addressing presspersons, Mr Nagaraj Sharma, Chairman and Managing Director, Shapre Global, said the tool, to be jointly developed for the global market, would help the law enforcing authorities combat terrorism by tracking the movement of vehicles and other items involved in terrorist activities. The technology, to be used in the joint venture, consists of MaxSys' wireless data transmission and emergency vehicle tracking system and Shapre's Internet-based global services, he said. Shapre provides software solutions for mission critical business applications across industries including media and entertainment, healthcare, manufacturing, while MaxSys provides tools in wireless for transmitting GPS (global positioning system) coordinates, images and text files. According to Mr Frank Hegyi, Principal, Maxsys Engineering, both the companies propose to manufacture the hardware units in Chennai, develop the integration software as a joint effort between the two companies and market it on a global scale. The potential of this technology was estimated at over $100 million in the next five years. The intellectual property rights would rest with the joint venture and the revenue would be share equally between the two countries, says a media release. Mr Hegyi said the viability study to create a joint venture company started with the financial contribution from the Canadian International Development Agency of the Canadian Government. The virtual infrastructure for disaster management would consist of two high-speed Internet services, one at Shapre in Chennai and other at MaxSys in Ottawa. Both the servers would have identical roles and they create redundancy for each other, an important requirement for disaster management, he said. According to Mr Sharma, the emergency vehicles and personnel using a range of GPS tracking units and wireless data transmission hardware, would be able to connect from anywhere in the world to the proposed virtual infrastructure through Internet.
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