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hether yours is a multinational conglomerate, small business, a local authority or government department, you can bank on two things: a lot of information will be geographically referenced, and the additional information you have, the harder it becomes to manage and interpret.

With the transformation taking place, businesses, schools, hospitals, goverments all are taking advantage of it. Information that was constrained to spreadsheets and databases, is now being unleashed in a new exciting way- using geography with an extension of business intelligence.

Linking location to data is a process which applies many facets of decision making in business. It simply helps a business decide where it should be opened which serve as analytical tool. It also helps a business to seek where their potential customers come from. Choosing a site, aiming a market segment, designing a distribution network, allocating resources, zoning a neighborhood and responding to emergencies- all these help in better GIS which given birth to the term Location Analytics.

Geography Matters in Virtually Every Organization and Industry

Location analytics is the intersection of IT and Business Analytics which help business for compelling insight and understanding of various sectors.

One of which is, Urban planning. It involves many layers of detail on a single map, and one of the important features of a GIS is multilayered mapping. A planning committee can utilize GIS to grasp a variety of different things, including prime agricultural land, surface water, high flood frequency, and highly erodible land.

GISDATA allows wireless telecommunication organizations to include geographic data in to the complex network design, optimization, planning, maintenance and activities. This has far-reaching advantage to both society and environment, ushering in a new era of the intellectual world.

Talking about GIS being job-giver, because GIS is not run by computers, but rather by individuals who have been particularly trained and received their degree in the field, as there are large amount of modeling, analytics and a variety of additional skills that need to be taught. Using a GIS is not just significant for developing any industry but, it has become almost necessary in today’s fast-moving and exceedingly technological landscape.

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Cover Story

DigitalIndian: Creating Roadmap for Skill Development with Digitalization

40 18 FORTHCOMING ADVANCEMENTS Virtual Systems Advancing the Enterprise Resource Planning Magnificantly

EXPERTS VIEW GIS Boom on the Planet Earth

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INDUSTRY PATTERNS Patent Trends in filing of Standard-Essential Patents (SEP s) in India: Telecommunication Sector

Proď€ le Adapt Technologies: An Itinerary to Spatial Development

20 Fervent Software Solutions: A Custom Software Solution turning GIS into Digital Mapping

36 Arianrhod GeoSpatial Solutions: Structured Solutions for Transforming GIS in India

Data Collection InfoTech India Pvt Ltd: An Expertise in Infrastructure Data Analysis

Excel Geomatics: Offering Excellence with Unique Consultancy & Services

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Spinds Engineering: Building the Futuristic Engineering Ecosystem

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eographic Information System (GIS), is ingrained in intellectual practices, settled by data and driven by mathematical analysis. A survey that is conducted currently suggests that the main use of GIS is for visualization, spatial analysis, predictive modelling, and cartography. In fact, many routine operations of government and business are knotted to a location and count on the use of geographic information to undertake their goals.

GIS with its better decision-making, being delved for better geographic planning has valued Indian Industry, noting the significance we have categorized companies to feature in our special issue of “The 10 Most Valuable GIS Solution Providers”.

We have chosen ADAPT Technologies Consultancy Services India Pvt Ltd which offers Urban and Regional Planning and Infrastructure Development. Arianrhod GeoSpatial Solutions which offers all types of GIS services like Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing, Aviation GIS, GIS Application Development with Web GIS and Mobile GIS, Urban planning with Urban Monitoring system and Urban resource management with smart cities design with 3D modeling, Cloud GIS and Health GIS, Carbon GIS and Fiber mapping. Data Collection InfoTech India Pvt Ltd is a top-notch GIS company and has provides full-service geospatial solutions, including Land survey, Aerial survey, Scanning, Mobile mapping, Remote sensing, LiDAR mapping, Records management, and Application development.. Excel Geomatics provides consultancy and value Added Services using Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry and LiDAR in areas such as Agriculture, Forestry, Telecom, Urban Mapping, Sustainable Development, Mineral Exploration and Mining, Hazard Zonation & Mapping, Environment, Defence and GeoMarketing etc. Fervent Software Solutions offers services in Navigational & Transit GIS, eCommerce, Open Source, Mobile Applications, Desktop Applications and Big Data & Cloud. Spinds Engineering is engaged in BIM, Geospatial and Multidiscipline Engineering services providing impeccable solution in advance GIS and comprehensive Multidisciplinary Solutions for the civil engineering industry with in house software solutions.

Dazeworks Technologies, Nascent Info Technologies and Ridings Consulting Engineers are also shortlisted for their exceptional services.

We have DigitalIndian Business Solution Pvt. Ltd. as our Cover Story which is a leading skills and talent development company offering multi-disciplinary learning management and training delivery solutions to corporations, institutions, and individuals throughout the country. It is Santanu Das, Founder & CEO of DigitalIndian, whose vision made the company to grow from a small business unit to a 200 crores company in a short span of time.

You could get glimpse of latest trends with these articles written by our editors, “Fraternization of Technology and Agriculture”, “Gospel about Textiles”and “A Successful Organization is the Key Essence of Development”, and some expert views on “GIS Boom on the Planet Earth” by Abhishek Rathod, “Patent Trends in filing of StandardEssential Patents (SEP s) in India: Telecommunication Sector” by Gaurav Singhal, “Virtual Systems Advancing the Enterprise Resource Planning Magnificently” by Harish Kumar Saraf.

So, navigate from one story to another as you flip through the folios of this special issue.

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eoinformatics represented by its most powerful technologyGeographic Information Systems (GIS) has become an important part of many disciplines and cuts across all areas of modern information society. Geoinformation industry has seen in the last few years a huge boom. The geospatial industry has been expanding at a breakneck speed with ‘geo’ getting embedded into more and more workflows. The geospatial industry is quickly evolving because the capabilities of digital connectedness and collaboration are moving ahead exponentially.

Innovative and leading player like DigitalIndian which is having IT and engineering infrastructure, centers the market with their traditional business model serving various projects with Government and Corporate.

DigitalIndian is a professionally managed company based in Kolkata which believes in providing enhanced expertise including engineering services, GIS solutions, consultancy services, IT and ITES and profitability to build long term relationships with their customers and clients.

Technology Derivatives of DigitalIndian DigitalIndian strive to keep abreast of the latest in technology through constant technology up gradation, training and development.

They strive to exploit new technologies towards achieving better quality and productivity in their solutions and operations. They provide solutions to business, industrial, government and scientific problems through advanced technology applications, knowledge engineering, information systems, and consultancy services.

DigitalIndian is passionate about empowering the disadvantaged sections of the society with Skilling Opportunities and creating a roadmap for inclusive and sustainable growth

Their core competency is GIS services and the key activities which they provide are as follows: • GIS is a sophisticated system that

allows you to map, search, compare and analyze real world data. By placing household, business, topographic or any preferred data accurately on a map, you grasp the greater picture and spatial context of your information. GIS is a valuable asset to any business, organization, market, and industry or government operation. GIS allows you to effectively deal with issues such as productivity, demographics, site selection, conservation, risk

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management, tourism planning, market research, real estate development, environmental analysis, economic forecasting, retail marketing, industrial analysis, recreation or urban studies.

• Types of GIS Services, DigitalIndian offers are: Raster registration, Georeferencing & Mosaicking, Conversion, Contouring and creation of DEM / DTM, Query generation, Cartograms & thematic mapping, Geometric Corrections to Satellite Imagery, Noise Removal and Enhancement of Imageries, Imagery Interpretation and Classification, Land Cover Map generation from Remote Sensing Data, Map based applications such as Route Navigation, Optimum Distance Calculation, Capacity Planning (for Dams), Customized solutions.

Training and CAD Services DigitalIndian provides a wide range of CAD related services like CAD conversion, CAD drafting, Conversion of manual drawings to CAD, GIS mapping services, Architectural drafting, etc. They offer GIS mapping services to go along with their CAD drafting services. They can perform digitization/data extraction & attachment to all types of maps with the help of CAD. Their range of CAD related services include: • CAD consultancy services – Their staff support the use of CAD solutions in your organization according to your valuable need.

• Paper to CAD - They offer complete Paper-to-CAD Conversions and CAD Drafting Services at competitive prices with the precision and quality on which you can depend

on. method, Santanu has pioneered the art • CAD and GIS – CAD may be of disruptive technology usage in the effectively used in Vectorisation and field. With a far-sighted vision and a Digitization of Structural, penchant for technology, he has Architectural, Engineering, Civil, successfully implemented the idea of Construction etc. using DRONE for GIS mapping. With DigitalIndian training activities an aim to organic and inorganic growth include: Basic Training on Standard for the company, he has made strategic GIS Software Package, Concepts of collaboration with foreign partner GPS / DGPS Survey, Advanced GIS companies in this field.

Training on Web GIS and GIS Development, Training on Remote Success is about Clustering Potent Sensing concepts and Standard Image Processing Software, Basic We provide skill Training on CAD Software, In House development programs in Training Facility various sectors, ensuring and Corporate Training at that the skills imparted are Customer.

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Pioneer of relevant. The programs are Disruptive Technology in job oriented or GIS entrepreneurship related, Santanu Das, Founder & CEO ensuring creation of of DigitalIndian, is a highly sustainable livelihoods that qualified impact communities technocrat with vast knowledge in industry. He started this company with an Factors All Together urge to provide earning opportunity for Simply hard work and dedicated the vast rural population of India. The workforce has kept DigitalIndian alive. company was started with a meager Addition to this, high end technology 25,000 rupees as working capital and and the right usage of latest gadgets within a short span of time it has has tremendously helped them to touched a substantial turnover maintain the accuracy and timely engaging more than 1100 direct delivery of the projects. employee and 3000 associates and contractual workforce. With innovative ideas and tremendous implementation

A Team of Expertise DigitalIndian has a strong team of surveyors proficient in handling instruments like GPS, Differential GPS and Total Stations. They are in association with various sub agencies which provide efficient service in the field of Total Station survey.

We strive to empower communities through skill education

GPS provides an accurate three dimensional positioning information of features that may be displayed on maps. GPS is unaffected by rain, wind or reduced sunlight and provides accurate surveying and mapping results. All these accurate geographically-referenced data are vital to effective planning, mapping and development. DigitalIndian’s state of art equipments provide high degree of accuracy, Development of Base Map through GPS Survey, Collection of Ground Control Points, Mapping of district, village, Mouza boundaries with the help of GPS systems and Topographical Survey.

Considers Client as Partner which Retain them for Long-term DigitalIndian considers their clients as partners. Since this type of job needs high precision and a lot of public

relations apart from ground clearances and departmental sanctions, DigitalIndian always keeps their client on the loop to work smoothly. They are reasonable in their approach towards revenue and always stand by the clients.

Productivity and Quality.

• They provide cost effective solutions directed towards efficient use of digital mapping for solving specific business problems for meeting desired goals of the organization.

DigitalIndian professionals work extensively with emerging technologies for improving their processes for meeting client requirements, increasing productivity and delivering Quality. They work with their clients as partners for building success solutions for them.

DigitalIndian’s mission for their clients is to provide a full range of consulting services in the information systems field; to provide highest quality performance & reliability; and provide their services in the most cost effective way possible.

• They assist their clients in understanding the full potential of GIS. With their deep understanding of GIS technology, they help clients in harnessing the power of GIS for enhancing their

How GIS is becoming Important part of Web Industry There was a time when GIS was used for telecommunications, utilities, and oil & gas sectors. However, we are entering an era where GIS has become service-based. This means the GIS

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professional connects with consumers directly through web-based applications. This helps businesses to access and analyze data across different network.

Spatial analysis is important to any business that values location as a variable to success. Site selection is a crucial function that is dependent on geospatial analysis. Data can be overlaid onto a map to perform statistical analysis in order to make better decision now-a-days. This has also evolved in integration of big data operations into spatial analysis which gives companies huge data to work with.

Internet of Things (IoT) also plays a huge role in modern era where it is directly integrated into a GIS layer stack, where the data is analyzed,

visualized, and reintegrated into online applications.

Special application for iPhones or Android devices has been designed to collect geospatial data or explore it visually, anywhere and at any time.

Professionals in the field can use these apps for data collection or as observational data, which they can then bring directly into an enterprise services environment in the cloud.

Strategies to Overcome the Upcoming Challenges DigitalIndian is primarily focusing on the following challenges: Keeping up with the market: Their marketing and business development team continuously monitors the market.

Planning ahead: As your business grows, your strategy needs to evolve to suit the changed circumstances.

DigitalIndian try to keep themselves updated with new market opportunities. Following the same business model, but bigger, is not the only route to growth. There are other strategic options such as outsourcing or franchising that might provide better growth opportunities.

Problem solving: Every day brings new challenge that on urgent basis needs resolving, for which DigitalIndian’s management specifically works for troubleshooting.

Identifying the key drivers of growth is a good way of understanding what to prioritize. Giving priority to their customers and maintaining the financial goal is the key.

Welcoming change: Regularly revisiting and updating your business plan can help remind you of the changing market conditions and the need to respond to them. DigitalIndian try to keep up-to-date plan to identify what action needs to be taken to change their business and the way it operates.

Don’t Compete Instead Collaborate with Competitors Since GIS has very vast and wider scope, DigitalIndian tries to augment their expertise by collaborating with competitions. So, they don't treat other companies as competition rather they try to work jointly with them.

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Company Name ADAPT Technologies Consultancy Services India Pvt Ltd consultadapt.com

Arianrhod GeoSpatial Solutions arianrhod.co.in

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Maheep Singh Thapar MD & Principal Consultant

ADAPT Technologies offers Urban and Regional Planning and Infrastructure Development.

Abhishek Rathod Founder

Arianrhod offers all types of GIS services like Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing, Aviation GIS, GIS Application Development with Web GIS and Mobile GIS, Urban planning with Urban Monitoring system and Urban resource management with smart cities design with 3D modeling, Cloud GIS and Health GIS, Carbon GIS and Fiber mapping.

Data Collection InfoTech Mr. A. Lakshmi Narasimhan Director India Pvt Ltd Mr. P. V. Balaji datacollectionindia.co.in Director

Data Collection InfoTech India Pvt Ltd is an expertise in delivering top-notch geospatial solutions, including Land Survey, Aerial Survey, Scanning, Mobile mapping, Remote sensing, LiDAR mapping, Records management and Application development.

Dazeworks Technologies dazeworks.com

Shivanath Devinarayanan Founder

Dazeworks offers a gamut of services ranging from Salesforce development and implementation to Appexchange and the Salesforce1 mobile app development.

DigitalIndian Business Solution Pvt. Ltd. digitalindian.org

Santanu Das Founder & CEO

Digital Indian is a leading skills and talent development company offering multi-disciplinary learning management and training delivery solutions to corporations, institutions, and individuals throughout the country.

Excel Geomatics Pvt Ltd excelgeomatics.com

Rajesh Solomon Paul Divya Sarawat Paul Director and Co-owners

Excel Geomatics provides consultancy and value Added Services using Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry and LiDAR in areas such as Agriculture, Forestry, Telecom, Urban Mapping, Sustainable Development, Mineral Exploration and Mining, Hazard Zonation & Mapping, Environment, Defence and Geo-Marketing etc.

Fervent Software Solutions ferventsoft.com

Sanjeev Kumar Founder

Fervent Software Solutions offers services in Navigational & Transit GIS, eCommerce, Open Source, Mobile Applications, Desktop Applications and Big Data & Cloud.

Nascent Info Technologies nascentinfo.com

Pillappan Karuppiah Vice President Marketing

Nascent Info offers mapping solutions - one of the most advanced and meaningful information system, Dashboards that empower the decision makers, innovative mobile applications for better and richer citizen engagements,Digital Road-maps and Creative Social Media Marketing campaigns.

Ridings Consulting Engineers ridingsindia.com

Praveen Kumar CEO

Ridings India generate intelligent Geospatial content & data (Both below & above surface) using state of art technologies and we provide Geospatial services, solutions & consultancy

Spinds Engineering spindsengineering.com

Sandeep Sharman MD

Spinds is engaged in BIM, Geospatial and Multidiscipline Engineering services providing impeccable solution in advance GIS and comprehensive Multidisciplinary Solutions for the civil engineering industry with in house software solutions.

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Virtual Systems Advancing the Enterprise Resource Planning Magnicantly

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RP solutions have drastically evolved over the course of ten years in the wake of smartphones, big data, cloud computing and the like. The virtual systems have given a plethora of opportunities to the ERP world.

Today, ERP system has advanced so far that they have removed themselves completely from the constraints of physical storage and analog based business processes.

The cloud in particular has been a vital asset for the ERP industry as it has revolutionized the way businesses function and ERP systems which are now hosted in the cloud enable businesses to go the extra mile and push boundaries.

ERP vanquishes the old standalone computer systems in finance, HR, manufacturing and the warehouse, and replaces them with a single unified software program divided into software modules that roughly approximate the old standalone systems. Finance, manufacturing and the warehouse all still get their own software, except now the software is linked together so that someone in finance can look into the warehouse software to see if an order has been shipped. Most vendors’ ERP software is flexible enough that you can install some modules without buying the whole package. Many companies, for example, will just install an ERP finance or HR module and leave the rest of the functions for another day.

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Nippon Data is a provider of IT enabled business solutions headquartered in Delhi which provide clients’ competitive business advantage. Harish Saraf, CEO of the company adds “We partner with customers to deliver business solutions to their satisfaction and help them ‘Live Your Enterprise Potential’™ ”. We take pride in conducting business with the highest degree of ethics and treat each transaction with fairness and honesty. For us client satisfaction is our ONLY measure of success”.

Enterprise resource planning software, or ERP, doesn’t live up to its acronym. Forget about planning-it doesn’t do much of that-and forget about resource, a throwaway term.

It attempts to integrate all departments and functions across a company into a single computer system that can serve all those different department’s particular needs.

Harish adds, with every single project, we have been credited for finding innovative ways to meet our clients Industry specific business requirements, providing cost effective solutions, shortening timelines, reducing risks, and lowering the total cost of ownership. We have done this through our product NEWTON ERP which covers end-toend functionality of a Manufacturing or Service business across different Industries. A high-level view of key business indicators facilitates faster and more accurate management decisions and NEWTON puts all of that at your fingertips.

Harish further explains as how NEWTON seamlessly integrates in a hybrid environment comprising of both on premise and cloud deployments. The investment in it ensures that businesses recuperate their investments in shortest possible time. In addition, NEWTON mobile deployments provide App based access and functions while retaining the web based controls. One aspect of ERP which stymied its usage in SMBs was that small organizations require only some of the functionalities offered by a fullfledged ERP software. Except the core functions, others remained idle, which reduced the overall productivity of the purchase. The current trend is need based sales of the ERP software.

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When ERP software was introduced, vendors were concentrating almost entirely on making specialized systems.

However, as time went on, they started favoring generic ERP systems. It appears that the clock has turned back as specialized ERP software is being favored by organization nowadays. Companies are focusing on making better predictions by using the ERP software with specialized business intelligence. Decision making processes have markedly improved if the right ERP system is in place.

Harish concluded that due to the increase in specialized ERP software, the focus of the ERP consultants has shifted more towards providing better integration architecture for competent ERP solutions.

The big players are either merging with or acquiring bigger companies. Of course, there are newer players in the market, but the big fishes seems to become more and more dominant. Enterprises prefer ERP delivered as SaaS. Ramco’s ERP on Cloud is a prime example of such a service.

While ERP has been in general successful, companies aren’t blindly implementing them anymore. They have become very sensitive to the ROI. Companies are investing on ERP solutions accessible from mobile devices like tablets and smartphones.

Since the time Nippon Data was established in 1994, It has built a solid foundation of success which is growing continuously. Specialized in solving business problems by harnessing technology and applying them for developing and implementing customized and standard information systems.

Over the years the professionals have encountered and conquered complex problems relating to various business needs.

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Mr. Harish Kumar Saraf Founder & CEO Nippon Data Systems

About Mr. Harish Kumar Saraf Mr. Harish Kumar Saraf, Founder and CEO of Nippon Data Systems, hailing from New Delhi as Gold Medalist in B.Tech, Computer Science, started his career as Software Trainee at DCM Data Systems for 1 year and System Analyst at Tata Unisys for 1year.

He did consulting for some leading clients in the USA. Then he returned back from USA and nally founded Nippon Data Systems. From last 21 years as CEO, he built NEWTON ERP with his hard-working team and took it to the market achieving great success.

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he geospatial industry is rapidly evolving because the capabilities of digital collaboration and connectedness in real time are moving ahead exponentially.

Manifestation of how the Digital Mesh is driving GIS is the attention over the past few years on building GIS Development and Applications, ADAPT Technologies Consultancy Services enriching this experience, is uniquely operating in the niche field of Urban and Regional Planning and GIS Development and Applications. It has been providing quality consulting services for around two decades to various government agencies and international agencies. It has relevant experience in delivering plans and projects on time which are successful and implementable. ADAPT has the expertise and the experience in the field of GIS Development and Applications. Its strength is in concepts, structure, development and application of GIS. An Urban Expert on Smart-Green Cities and Townships Maheep Singh Thapar, Managing Director and Principal Consultant at ADAPT, graduated from SPA, Delhi followed by Post Graduation CEPT, Ahmedabad in Urban & Regional Planning, where he was also awarded a gold medal for the “Distinguished Student”award. With more than 17 years of experience, he has led numerous urban planning assignments including the Master Plan for Hyderabad Core City, Master Plan for Hyderabad International Airport City 20

(HADA)- Green field city planned around the Hyderabad International Airport. Other projects include Urban land development/ real estate linked resource mobilisation- Technical Support to the Hyderabad Metro Rail Project, planning advisory for large Integrated Townships, has helped provide Urban GIS inputs on Climate Change issues with respect to Hyderabad Metropolitan Region.

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and GIS development of more than 30 towns in Telangana State as part of overall state urbanisation strategy and also working on the Revised Master Plan for Bangalore (Metropolitan Area). He is also an Urban Expert on Green Cities & Green Townships.

Maheep’s firm uses latest satellite image remote sensing techniques, and GIS development for city planning. He is also a regular speaker at various national and international conferences & visiting faculty, jury member for various colleges of architecture and planning. It has also national level and global publications on urban planning and development issues.

Fitting in every space ADAPT pursues the planning profession vigorously and aims to deliver better services every time. Well versed in the skills of project formulation and master planning, ADAPT’s forte includes consultancy regarding preparation of large master plans, zoning regulations and rules, urban infrastructure development, urban management, urban real estate, integrated townships resource mobilisation strategies (by making optimum use of land) and advisory regarding urban development policies, urban and regional environmental strategies and project conceptualisation and formulation. ADAPT has an established track record in delivering high quality work and services.

ADAPT has wide ranging experience in GIS development. It has developed GIS for urban infrastructure projects in the North Eastern Parts of India and for urban master planning of cities in cities like Hyderabad and Bangalore.

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Campus planning and design, Urban Infrastructure Planning for Shillong and Gangtok.

Integration of GIS in Urban Planning From the year 2000 onwards, GIS awareness has just started picking up. Penetration of the technology, software, applications and customisation was not yet advanced.

Urban planning field was also experimenting with the use of this new mapping and spatial data technology. Initially, it was a challenge to convince the clients for using the technology, then the challenge was to convince them to spend buying the software, using it, develop applications, create human resource for developing GIS based systems and updating them. Lastly, the challenge was to convince the clients to invest in consulting services in this regard as the consultants would add value to the work process of the organisation. In the last two decades, awareness about GIS development and its usage has increased drastically.

GIS, critical tool for Geo-spatial Solutions Fast growing cities face tremendous challenges in providing a good quality of life for all its citizens and visitors. Today’s cities need innovative planning and project formulation techniques which are futuristic, realistic, flexible, comprehensible, participative and implementable. With the advent of the private sector as partners in development and growing success stories in Public Private Partnerships (PPP), there is a need for technical expertise for undertaking the planning process and assisting the governments as well as the private sector in undertaking specific planning and development initiatives/tasks and that too within short periods of time keeping in view the dynamic socio-economic environment.

With the maximisation of satellite technology and integration with the ICT, GIS is becoming a critical tool for planning and management of natural resources, urban and regional planning and urban management. GIS multiple uses include property tax assessment and upgradation, infrastructure and utility management, intelligent systems for transportation/mobility, heritage and tourism, asset management, urban planning and environmental management.

Maheep Singh Thapar Managing Director & Principal Consultant

and infrastructure development.

Amalgamating Urban Planning with GIS Development Expertise Upgrading themselves to new trends and technologies and continuous improvement is the key factor that drives them ahead. ADAPT has the right combination of urban planning skill along with in-house GIS development expertise. It has a successful track record in delivering master planning projects. Its hallmarks being: Ÿ Understanding the objectives of the project Ÿ Understanding the needs of the client Ÿ Precise & High quality content Ÿ Efficiency in process/methodology Ÿ Timely delivery

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hether moving in a driverless car or deliver an e-commerce product at customers doorstep. “Location” plays an important role. There is a significant dimension of “Location” in every business transactions. Location can be an address, a service boundary, a sales territory, or a delivery route. Therefore location-specific data and its analytics are high in demand among various enterprises. Analytics of location-based data helps an organization to earn more profit and also contribute in making operational activities much more efficient and faster. Enterprises from different domains, therefore, now started using location-based data analytics application. “Spatial Intelligence” is one of them.

Spatial Intelligence Spatial Intelligence (SI) is an application of GIS and is also known as Location Intelligence. Spatial Intelligence is the process of deriving meaningful insights from geospatial data captured by GIS. With many different observations, patterns get 22

discovered which help a business to take better decisions, optimize their business operations and increase their profits.

Eminence of GIS GIS stands for Geographic Information System. GIS is a system, which is designed to capture, store, manipulate, manage and present “Location” specific data to its end users in graphical format. It is a system which comprises of software, hardware, people, data, and methods.

GIS software lets an organization to produce maps and other graphic displays of geographic information for analysis and presentation. GIS is much more than a container of maps in digital form. GIS hardware helps to capture an image and other digital data for a particular location. People are the end users of GIS; it can be GIS technicians, managers, administrators, etc.

Spatial Intelligence for Businesses Transformation

It is generally known fact that more than 80% of all data has a location element to it and that location directly affects the kind of insights that you might draw from many sets of information. By carrying out a spatial analysis of this data using varied business intelligence (BI) tools, decision makers will able to better understand the past, current and forthcoming aspects of business operations to derive valuable insights and make most effective decisions for their businesses.

Most of the time enterprises require customer’s data related to specific locations to know income levels, educational background, buying habits of persons residing in a specific area which helps a business to find a probable location where that particular business get flourished.

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areas where a company needs to focus immediate attention? There is a series of many important questions related to a business growth. Spatial intelligence has the potential to derive meaningful answers to these questions.

Spatial relationships, patterns and trends reveal priceless business intelligence and bring easy-tounderstand visualization to business applications. The power of location intelligence enables companies to identify and increase where business performs stronger and cut down on failing assets.

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Spatial Intelligence is Getting Recognition among Different Enterprises Companies from different verticals are taking Spatial Intelligence very seriously and investing huge money on it. Traditional players of the geospatial industry like Esri, Hexagon and Pitney Bowes are working with spatial data on a large scale. Apart from these companies many hard-core IT corporations like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM are also venturing into spatial analytics at full throttle. For instance, by integrating Esri’s technologies into Azure IoT Suite's preconďŹ gured

solutions, Microsoft is empowering customers to gain valuable insights about where their assets are and what they are doing at all times, anywhere in the world.

Which sectors are gaining from Spatial Intelligence?

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comprises of the group of users who not essentially use geospatial data on an everyday basis but they still depend on it for better performance. These would be retailers, insurance companies and banks.

Let's enlighten how these sectors are gaining with Spatial Intelligence: Logistics: To check the consumption rate of a particular product on a particular location help warehouse management to determine, which stock is needed on a priority basis? Thus it helps a logistic company to maintain demand-supply ratio without any caveat. Companies like United Parcel Service and FedEx are augmenting delivery routes using spatial analytics.

Transport: To determine the shortest and fastest transportation routes for delivery, SI is very helpful. Apart from this, it also provides direction to travellers while driving.

Real State: Many people buy a house based on the location. People prefer a location which is near to a hospital, a railway station, schools etc. Spatial analytics provides research, analysis, and presentation of each prospective site. It helps in determining ideal sites for development.

Telecommunication: In analyzing rivals network coverage, actual bandwidth, potential area to tap new business opportunity, SI is really helpful for telecommunication.

Energy: Spatial Intelligence is helping energy industry to identify the potential location for energy exploration.

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delivery, store management, inventory management, marketing and sales.

Advertisement Industry: SI helps Advertisement and PR agency in order to find potential location, to install billboard so that it gets maximum views.

Healthcare: To identifying those locations, which are more prone to a certain disease, SI provides valuable inputs to the health officials to make policy and administrative decisions to control epidemic diseases.

Airports and airlines: Air traffic control use SI to track flight operations with greater accuracy and efficiency. SI helps airlines to reroute flight path in case of an emergency. It also helps in optimizing fuel and staff cost.

Drought and hailstorm have become a common phenomenon since last few decades. Drought and hailstorm contribute to large-scale crop damages.

Crop insurance has gained popularity due to drought and hailstorm. SI helps insurance company to predict in advance about future climate behaviors for a particular location and helps them in making crop insurance policy and promotion as well.

Humans think visually, therefore spatially. Due to visual decoding, comparison of data and invaluable business insights, SI has already made inroads across various enterprises.

With many emerging technologies like crowdsourcing, human geography and visual analytics, dominance of Spatial Intelligence will only grow further.

Government agencies: Not only private companies but many government agencies are also using SI. Defense agencies, town planning department or public distribution system all are using SI for better administration and efficient operations.

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he growth of the global GIS (Geographical Information System) market is being driven by increasing availability of spatial data and cloud technology. In addition, the development of smart cities in India has driven demand for 3D GIS. Acceptance by commercial enterprises especially in the real estate, journalistic, and retail industries continues to expand greatly. But government continues to be the dominant adopter of GIS. GIS, even being a developing industry, some of the individual agencies may have staff freezes or layoffs, still the rate of acceptance of geospatial technology by new agencies keeps arising. At present, there is a strong consulting segment that continues to grow in order to supply supporting GIS to those agencies. Arianrhod GeoSpatial Solutions, a firm amending assistance to GIS with GIS and Remote Sensing services and consultancy where hydrographic and land surveying, 3D mapping for smart cities and sub-sea basins, Application Development of the urban and rural real time data mapping, Climatology, detailed Environment and analytical research is carried out with the use of world class GIS software, Total Stations, Differential Global Positioning Systems and High Resolution Satellite Aerial Data.

Contribution of Abhishek for GIS Abhishek Rathod is the Founder of Arianrhod. He has a rich work 26

experience of more than 8 years, where he worked with NIO (National Institute of Oceanography), Jammu and Kashmir tourism, NTL (NASA Tournament Lab), Tomtom India and Hexagon Metrology for Asia region.

He has established a private limited firm which provides Geographical Information System and Remote Sensing consultancy. The solutions Arianrhod offers help effective and accurate decision making strategies in GIS.

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which helps user to understand the potentiality and importance of the GIS technologies. Now, Arianrhod has become one of the leading companies in India, which provides products to Indian as well as International Government. Their products help for effective urban governance and statistical management tools.

Moreover, Arianrhod also provide solutions for critical GIS application development and data integration; right from data acquiring to data release.

Now, they have expertise in integrating GIS with exhaustive client requirements.

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Steadily, Arianrhod is understanding the market conditions in India compared with the other countries. The company holds vivid range of products

Road to success is very difficult for a GIS startup company in India. At times, it is easy to achieve success but it is more difficult to maintain that success rate. It is essential to spread GIS awareness in society as well as in the system but at the same time, it is also an undeniable fact that GIS industry is at boom in India. As this is an expensive technology, this can only be used by government agencies or big private players.

Challenges are queued up in GIS Industry. As documentation is the prime aspect, without documentation, it is not safe to step in GIS world because Data plays critical role in GIS applications. It has become mandatory to complete atleast three years for a company to be able to participate in bidding the GIS tenders. The first three years of a company is all about making | OCTOBER 2017

strong network with reliable team, saving good amount of money in the bank and waiting readily for the perfect time to launch your idea on right platform with sustainable long term technology.

Luminating the worth of Data Storage The Future of GIS is very much spatially advanced and more technologically strong. If a company wants to survive in GIS market, then that company has to work more on application development. As previously mentioned, the data is a primary objective for any GIS application. Data server should also be one of the key factors for the company, where data can be stored and then sold to other agencies.

GIS data banks are cloud based, therefore; data security is also a very big responsibility for us. Setting up GIS data server, data maintenance, application development for eradicating social problems in day to day life and integrating Artificial Intelligence with GIS are some of the preparations made by Arainrhod to sustain in GIS market.

Drive of GIS throughout India Indian Government is now focusing and understanding the vital use of GIS technology for India. The fact that India has a great and stronger market for GIS technologies is well-received. The trend of implementing GIS in India started from land surveying; Location Based Services and Remote Sensing.

Abhishek Rathod Founder

targeted tenure of the project completion; are some of the working values and factors Arianrhod work with to drive their company ahead slowly and steadily.

In India GIS is used in a number of sectors such as Oceanography for tracing carbon secretion/ fluids for very high mineral natural resource in deep sea of 4500M, for Urban and Rural development such as Digital India which helps to connect all the villages and every state of India digitally, GIS for education sector where universities and private agencies provides training to youth and also government officials.

Clients being Centre of Attention Arianrhods always believes in giving fast track solutions and pin point consultation. Understanding client requirement thoroughly, explaining the client, the technology which will be used for the construction of their GIS applications or project, making the client understand which GIS technology will be beneficial for them, in an order to achieve their desired output while maintaining the OCTOBER 2017 |

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very new day comes with a new challenge. In this era, the most important factor stands to be data and its storage, security and maintenance. It often becomes troublesome for enterprises to manage such huge amount of data in proper coordination. In these times of change, GIS seems to one of the sector which has seen a major reformation in its process, usage and availability. To help industry cope up with this enormous amount of data and develop GIS sector, Data Collection InfoTech India Pvt Ltd (DCIL), ISO 9001:2008 certified company, enters the market to provide top notch geospatial solutions, including Land Survey, Aerial Survey, Scanning, Mobile mapping, Remote sensing, LiDAR mapping, Records Management, and Application development.

Specializing in highway asset and pavement management, aerial image analysis, LiDAR cloud data analysis, topography drawings, 3D & DEM creation, & other IT enabled services, DCIL has helped businesses all over the globe to be benefitted hugely with their extraordinary services. While providing cutting edge and economical design solutions that augment the profitability of their customers’ business, the company is developing GIS web, Mobile and Desktop applications using various technologies and platforms. DCIL provides a huge range of customized products for various purposes including field asset data collection, survey management, 28

asset management services, and spatial visualization of data.

Provides Solutions which Help GIS industry Perform Better DCIL aides the industry with an enormous amount of solutions, one of which is Smart City Solution. To provide the solution to the cities the company does extensive planning by combining geospatial data with strong analytical approach to improve its

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sustainability and resilience. It enhances the way it engages society, application of collaborative leadership methods, working across discipline and transforms quality of life of those who are involved with the city. DCIL has a team of experts providing the advisory

and solution development services in the areas of land-use planning, infrastructure planning and utility planning and management through their Infrastructure and Urban Utilities Planning solution.

DCIL is a Geospatial company playing a prominent role in the building smart cities with their City Planning solutions. With the Urban Planning solution from the team of DCIL, leaders can transform vision into implementation. The company is a proud pioneer in the field of urban master planning for smart cities and they help enterprises from strategic city landscape planning to detailed local area planning while ensuring that all perspective for topographical assessment are captured accurately.

This GIS Company clearly mentions that the assessment is made based on the various factors like transportation plan, strategic land use and optimal disbursing of public services.

Likewise, while making such assessments, they are also known to consider population density and industrial fields.

The Leaders Who are Giving a New Shape to the GIS Industry DCIL is a private limited organization lead by two directors with a strong engineering background. The company holds an extremely high position in the industry with the Directors namely; Mr. A.Lakshmi Narasimhan and Mr. P.V.Balaji. Mr. A. Narasimhan, one of | OCTOBER 2017

the founders of the company, is a man full of knowledge and excellence. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, and a Master’s Degree in Tool Engineering; was also a part of GTTC for a period of two years. While working in various industries including VTV Industries, Arvind Exports, Customised Technologies, Mr. A. Narasimhan has earned a vast experience of over 15 years in numerous sectors including product development, robotics, IT and automation technology.

Mr. Balaji, on the other hand, is the promoter of DCIL. Being a man with a wealth of immense knowledge, skills and expertise, he has hands on experience in printing, packaging, and specialized product development. This man of excellence holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology and a Master's degree in Tool Engineering. He was also a part of GTTC for two years and has a rich experience of almost two decades.

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Helping Industries with Satisfactory GIS Solutions for more than a decade DCIL is known to have an extensive experience in GIS services for more than a decade. They are quite popular among the enterprises for maintaining best-in-class quality standards and their efforts in making continuous improvement to stay ahead of the industry. The immensely skilled team of professionals at DCIL is known for their unparalleled experience and technical expertise. In this sector, data is not just gathered-but assembled, assessed and analyzed by feeding into intelligent information systems.

The developments of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been playing a critical role in the process of developing online maps, augmented reality and other incredible tools. With the recent advancements taking place in the industry, the technology has achieved tremendous growth in the recent decades. While talking about the collaboration of modern technology and the DCIL, the company says, “GIS and 3D are the two technologies that allow us to create impressive solutions already.” The company is using technology to improve the world through Geospatial solutions and Analytical services. DCIL maintains and promotes a proper balance between accuracy, quality and financial performance while keeping their highest concern as the people and the environment.

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Mr. A.Lakshmi Narasimhan Director

Harnessing the Potential of Geospatial realm With a mission to ensure that DCIL is the preferred destination to harness the potential of Geospatial realm around the world, and an aim to enhance productivity, lower costs and decrease inefficiencies across the focus sectors, DCIL offers solutions that are comprehensive, highly intelligent and are built for the industrial requirements. The company keep themselves updated, yet strictly following their values of integrity, commitment, teamwork, innovation and professionalism.

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INDUSTRY PATTERNS

Patent Trends in filing of StandardEssential Patents (SEP s) in India:

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ecent infringement suits filed by Ericsson over the patent issues have brought into focus the importance of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) in India. For instance, quite a few suits have been started by Ericsson against home grown and Chinese mobile handset makers, namely Micromax, Xiaomi, and Intex. Ericsson is claiming that these defendants have been infringing on certain standard essential patents of Ericsson.

STANDARD ESSENTIAL PATENTS (SEPs): An essential patent or standard-essential patent is a patent that claims an invention that must be used to comply with a technical standard. In telecommunication sector, the SEPs include some of the following technologies: • Cellular Base-band chip • 3G, 4G • Memory and multimedia cards • DRAM • WiFi • Bluetooth • GPS • NFC • Battery, Audio, MP3, Camera, JPEG • OS related Standards Thus, in order to manufacture standard compliant mobile phones, tablets and other electronic devices, manufacturers will have to use technologies that are covered by one or more SEPs. Also, it is essential that the patent owners complies with, and endorses, terms that are fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) for its patent licensing programs that make standard-essential patents widely available.

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Gaurav Singhal Director & Co-founder Patracode

About the Author: Mr. Gaurav Singhal, Principal IP Attorney, Director & Co-founder of Patracode, founded the company with a vision of providing world class IPR Solutions to every individual, irrespective of the size of the service seeker, whether it is for individual persons, SMB’s or Large Corporates. The Co-Founders Mrs. Kavita Poddar and Mr. Gaurav Singhal, together have worked on business strategies and models that have proved to be the most efcient and have helped them secure the distinction of being a name to reckon with among the great IPR Solutions Providers in India. | OCTOBER 2017

SEPs in India: Telecommunication sector The concept of SEPs evolved in India when Ericsson in 2011 objected to the importation of handsets by Kingtech Electronics (India), claiming that the handsets infringed several of their SEPs in AMR Codec (Adaptive Multi-Rate) technology. This was the starting point for SEP litigation in India.

In December 2014, Ericsson had filed a suit against Xiaomi in India for the alleged infringement of the 8 Standard-Essential Patents (SEPs). The Delhi High Court granted an injunction against Xiaomi on the sale, manufacture, advertisement, and import of Xiaomi’s devices. Xiaomi claimed that its latest devices in the Indian market (as of December 2014) the Mi3, Redmi1S and Redmi Note 4G, contained Qualcomm chipsets, which implemented technologies licensed by Ericsson.

Later, Xiaomi entered into a Patent licensing agreement that covered Qualcomm’s 3G, 4G patents including 3-mode (LTETDD, TD-SCDMA and GSM) to avoid any injunctions on its latest launched smartphones in India.

The maximum number of Standard patent applications owned by leading telecom players in India falls under IPC Subclass H04W which in general relates to wireless communication networks, followed by H04L which in general relates to transmission of digital information that covers data transmission, telegraphic communication, and methods or arrangements

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• The graph clearly shows the dominance of Qualcomm in all the mobile communication technology domains in India, followed by LG, Samsung, Nokia Ericsson and NTT Docomo.

• Qualcomm capitalized not only on its research but also on its influence in standardization to become a clear central force when 4G was rolled out. By the time, other players caught on, Qualcomm already owned the bulk of intellectual property that enabled 4G operating speeds, especially around baseband processors.

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technology areas in which the maximum number of SEPs have been filed in India are User Equipment Uplink, UES, Shared Channel, PDCCH, OFDMA, Modulation Symbol, GPP, Downlink, 3rd Generation Partner Further drilling down the analysis in the direction of analyzing some important patents that are most cited standard patents of key players, following list of patents are obtained. These patents are filed in India and are most sought after or important standard patent references.

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List of top five patent/applications of key players that are most cited are depicted in the table below: Conclusion: The patent filing trend of SEPs in India is on the increasing level and will increase further with the fast growing Indian telecommunication sector. The introduction of 4G technology saw several standard patents being filed or granted in India. Thus, there may be more enforcement actions coming up in the Indian High Court with the smartphone giants, for example, Qualcomm, Ericsson and Samsung.

As the future of mobile technology is heading towards 5G technology, which includes World Wide Wireless Web (WWWW), Dynamic Adhoc Wireless Networks (DAWN) and Real Wireless Communication, companies like Apple, Samsung and Intel are already working hard to ensure they stay ahead of the curve on 5G research and development.

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Patent/Application No. US2010080125A1

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Title Edge Continued Evolution, Improved Channel Request Method And System Wireless communication systems & methods Data transmission in carrier aggregation with different carrier configurations Enhanced highspeed downlink shared channel serving cell change procedures

Network node and method related to buffer estimation

Technology domain EDGE

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roviding consultancy and value Added Services using Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry and LiDAR in areas such as Agriculture, Forestry, Telecom, Urban Mapping, Sustainable Development, Mineral Exploration and Mining, Hazard Zonation & Mapping, Environment, Defence and Geo-Marketing etc, Excel Geomatics is the best solution for those who are in search of excellence.

Post Graduate professional staffs of Excel Geomatics with educational background like geology, geography, environment, life sciences and forestry, combined with experience of working on numerous projects in their past jobs enable the company to take up projects in different domains and deliver it successfully.

In the past 6 years Excel Geomatics has acquired clients in 16 countries and has done project in all the domains.

Wide Range of Solutions offered Solely by Excel Geomatics Excel Geomatics provides Consultancy and Services in more than 12 domains.

In India, no other company of this size is currently providing such a wide range of Consultancy and Services in these many domains. An ISMS certified Consultancy Company, Excel Geomatics specializes in the exploitation of Earth Observation Data and delivering geographic information solutions to private and public organizations worldwide.

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Excel Geomatics provide Consultancy and Value Added Services in the fastest-growing technology sectors using the tools and techniques such as Satellite Remote Sensing, LiDAR, Photogrammetry, GIS, and Survey (Ground and Airborne), that can help clients to address problems and opportunities in concern areas.

Duo behind the Successful Venture There are two growth enablers behind Excel Geomatics, who are working

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hard to take it towards the glorious future ahead.

Rajesh Solomon Paul, Director and Co-owner of Excel Geomatics is one of the hardworking duos of the company. Rajesh is having 20 years of experience in the geo-spatial industry.

He is currently leading Excel Geomatics to emerge as a reliable Consultant and Value Added Service provider based on geo-spatial technologies.

A Ph.D. Degree holder in Ground Water Potential Mapping Using Remote Sensing and GIS, Rajesh has done Masters in Applied Geology.

Rajesh was University Topper both during his B.Sc. Geology (Honours) and M.Sc. (Applied Geology). He qualified ‘National Eligibility Test for Lecturer-ship in India and secured Research Fellowship by Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India’. He was also awarded ‘Research Fellowship by Defence Research & Development Organization, (DRDO), Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India’ where he got trained on various defence related projects. He also qualified the joint exam of Geologist and Hydro-geologist conducted by UPSC, Govt. of India.

Rajesh has worked-on and managed, hundreds of project related to telecom, agriculture, environment, forestry, geology, sustainable development, natural resource mapping, including mineral potential mapping, livelihood development, tourism, urban planning, watershed development, flood zone management, and Power sector etc.

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include processing of optical & radar satellite image, aerial photographs, stereo-pairs, LiDAR, hyper-spectral and thermal data for various applications and also preparation of related Reports.

Rajesh has provided consultancy on various international projects. He has been instrumental in Capacity Building of resources in various countries, including training on Erdas Imagine as International Trainer. He has also Co-guided dissertation work for the completion of M.Sc. and M.Sc. (Tech) degrees for more than 25 students.

Rajesh says, “In the current Indian scenario, GIS has already found its place in almost all the projects like Smart Cities, AMRUT Cities, Infrastructure Projects such Highways, Railways, Irrigation or Renewable Energy. The newer liberalized policy related to UAS (Unmanned Aerial Survey) has also eased and enhanced the applicability of GIS in different projects. The use of LiDAR technology has also increased much in the past 1-2 years.”

Divya Sarawat Paul, one of the Directors and co-owner of Excel Geomatics Pvt. Ltd. is the second most important persona of the company, who has more than 12 years of experience in research.

Qualified as an Environmental Biologist, Divya got engaged in Physiological research, and is currently pursuing her doctoral research from Delhi University.

Divya was University Topper in M.Sc. (Environmental Biology). She was awarded research Fellowship by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India and also Defence Research and Development Organization, (DRDO), Ministry of Defence, and Govt. of India’ Divya had to forsake her career in research and become home-maker for the upbringing of her two lovely kids. Now since the children are little grown up, she is on-board as coowner and Director of Excel Geomatics. Blessed with good financial visibility she takes care of the Finance and Administration of the company.

Rajesh Solomon Paul Director and Co-owner

Biodervsity in any forest, Excel Geomatics is geared up for the challenges. Rajesh adds, “I feel this will keep us afloat in coming future.”

Rajesh thinks that the future of GIS solutions is very bright not only in India but world-wide. Newer platforms, newer sensors like hyperspectral-, lidar-, & thermal sensors, mobile applications, GIS web applications are the buzz in the town.

To cope up with these challenges and to provide world class quality data, Excel Geomatics has signed MoUs with many companies and research organizations worldwide and has also started developing in-house capabilities in these fields.

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he Geographic Information System (GIS)-based maps and visualization is the go-to technology to better know the locations. GIS has greatly assisted in understanding geographic space so that optimization in maintaining schedules and daily fleet movements can take place. To better serve the spatial information, a call for evolution has come upon from distinct software market into supporting technology that fulfills industry-specific business process requirements. Fervent Software Solutions (Fervent) assaying the same, works for many international and national agencies and clients in delivering both ArcGIS and Open Source GIS solutions. Fervent has a vast experience in implementing GIS in various domains for multiple clients viz. airport, transportation, agriculture and US Government departments. Right now, they have the capability to implement medium to small projects in these domains and they are continuously endeavoring to deliver even larger projects in these as well as in other domains.

and developing Open Source software.

Now, Sanjeev has the vision of taking Fervent to the next level and helping to develop India by utilizing GIS.

developments; that was another challenge, but not any more. Now technologies do not challenge Fervent any more.

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Technical and Functional experience distinguishes Fervent

Fervent Software Solutions has grown from strength to strength in its decade long existence. During this journey, like most of the companies Fervent has also faced a lot of challenges not only technical but also financial and others.

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Fervent Software Solutions was founded by Sanjeev Kumar in 2006.

He has vast technical experience of 17 plus years in different domains. He founded another successful startup prior to starting Fervent. He has worked with small to very big companies in different roles. His domain experience includes ERP, eCommerce portals, desktop utilities

to explore new and latest technologies but it always did not work. Initially, it was challenging to get good projects but their perseverance rendered this fact to overcome. Since technologies are changing very fast and one needs to update oneself with the latest

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Fervent has its own client base and target market, but they overarch expansion and wider vision. Standing by versatile domain knowledge, agility, quick adoption of the latest technologies, dedication to their clients’ success and a highly motivated team are the factors that distinguish them from others. Most companies have experience in a particular domain (say one or two); but Fervent Software Solutions has worked in multiple domains and with various categories of clients. Fervent has experience in domains like agriculture, transport, airport etc. Ability to work with national and international clients using offsite or onsite model and in any domain makes them unique in this segment. Apart from GIS, they also have experience in eCommerce, ERP and other web based applications.

Fervent works on both the commercial and open source environments for GIS development. Their vast technical and functional experience in GIS sets them apart from other players.

Manifold Opportunities in GIS Fervent Software Solutions is cognizant of the huge potential and the rising growth rate in global GIS market and has been constantly working to | OCTOBER 2017

build a team skilled with latest technologies and tools, especially in the Open Source GIS domain. The GIS market in India, too, offers a great opportunity. However, in India, this still is the domain of Government and PSU agencies primarily. Fervent keeps an eye on the opportunities that might become available at enterprise and retail levels in the times to come. In India, GIS has a great opportunity in all fields, say, agriculture, transportation, government departments, security agencies, real estate, business houses (e.g. marketing, finding and targeting audience) etc.

Endeavoring Digitalisation of India for GIS GIS services in India will definitely be growing, given the digital push by the government and the advantage that LBS and GIS offers to not only the Government and organizations but also to the end users to a large extent.

Fervent Software Solutions is aligned to this growth and will work further to target some of the enterprise and retail customers.

As for Fervent’s preparations, whatever experience they have gained in working with international clients, they would want to implement and deliver the same in India to a large extent. The company wants to see India as a giant for GIS services market. They want to help Indians to get the best out of what they have now. By digitalizing India in GIS, they can minimize the costs of operations, achieve better coordination with different interest groups and help Indians in getting better information which is useful for them, e.g. providing information to farmers about weather, soil, best climate for their crops and to commuters about traffic updates. Fervent wants to achieve this quickly in a short span of time.

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meet our clients’ business objectives, requirements & expectations; employ maximum state-of-the-art technology at minimum delivery costs to our clients; drive collaborative and positive engagement with our clients; cherish motivated, ethical, happy and productive employees; and aim for a healthy and lasting social impact.”

Idolatory for Employees Fervent Software Solutions is an agile startup which has always been at the forefront in adopting the latest state-ofthe-art technologies. Their core expertise remains in GIS, Analytics, Cloud and Mobile segments.

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o you know the feeling, when a word is lurking right on the tip of your tongue, but however hard you try to remember it, it just won’t come to you? It might be a word, a phrase, a name or a song. In fact, the harder you try to cajole it, the further it seems to move away into the dark. And the, hours, or maybe days later, it leaps into your head.

If so, you’re not alone with such experience. The “tip of the tongue” phenomenon is very common, very real and a subject of interest to science too. Researchers confirm that there is a pattern of remembering when you stop trying, but they also suggest a paradox tactically: if you can’t find a word, quit looking for it – it’ll come to you in time.

The Voyage of Self-Discovery People often travel in search of something; neither a word nor a phrase, but to find themselves. The “voyage of selfdiscovery” is a time-tested travel literature trope that still moves books off shelves. Whether you’re walking, surfing, eating, praying, or loving your way around the world, giving yourself up to the wild, or discovering a new life under the faraway sun, “go seek yourself out there” seems to be the take-home message from many popular travel memoirs.

We’ve been hearing such messages and suggestions from various sources. They do sound compelling. But, if you ask a room full of experienced travellers, a clearer picture appears: all will be able to point to at least one transformative experience while travelling, but in almost every case it comes out to be that they have the transformative experience when they were least expecting it.

The books on travel comprehend countless such stories, and not just in regards to self-discovery: expeditions that succeed just as they’re abandoned; love that blossoms when the protagonist decides to stop seeking it.

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Did you nd yourself?

While all of these quests including the search for a tip-ofthe-tongue word, the pursuit of happiness, and a voyage of self-discovery are fundamentally different, there’s a pattern that seems to speak to the fluke in our wiring: when we search too keenly for something, we’re bound to get stuck.

We subconsciously block ourselves and our minds to the light.

‘The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others,’ goes the quote commonly, and probably mistakenly, attributed to Gandhi. Service is a wonderful way to lose yourself, but it’s just one of the many ways.

Losing oneself into the wonders of nature is one of them.

Many lost themselves in art, in a near-death experience, in religion, or even in pursuit of a perfect meal. I would like to say that the best way to find yourself is to stop trying and to simply lose yourself in the world.

A Mind’s Horizon dissolves into the Lost World Though, the career of a “travel blogger” sovereignties high in the court of cool; there’s some in-built irony in the fact that the best-selling travel book of all time is nearly 150 years old.

Mark Twain’s Innocents Abroad, which humorously archives Twain’s experience traveling with a group of American tourists, was first published in 1869. It was the best-selling of Twain’s works during his lifetime, and it remains the inspiration for wanderlust till date.

Further than inspiring generations of readers with his signature humor, the book suggests that one should consider traveling to expand their own horizons. Losing yourself into the wild and while breaking boundaries on the world map, you won’t even realize when the horizons of your mind got dissolved and diffused.

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Enlightening Yourself through Expedition One of the most famous quotes from the Mark Twain’s book goes: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s life.”

It’s ravishing to see travelers fall head over heels in love with new places. And, while they spend time tucked faraway, in magical little communities, they are concurrently expanding their hearts and minds to acknowledge the different ways that people on our planet live. It’s a humbling part of travelling off-the-beaten-path, the facet of sharing experiences with people that lead such immensely different lives from us.

The impact of travelling is amplified when you’re able to spend time in places that we may never have known about, understood, or valued. If you are an ardent traveler, you optimistically soak up new and interesting information everywhere you go. But as an average adult, there are seemingly few probabilities to push yourself out of your comfort zone and try a hand at something totally foreign and exceptional.

People, Friendships and Learning When a bunch of travelers from around the world collaborate with a community they’re visiting as guests, the number of experiences they share with locals increases massively. Real bonds of friendship are ought to be formed since everyone is sight-seeing, working, eating, and hanging out together. This is rare to experience back at home even if your best buddy from college lives a few blocks away. These beautiful new friendships are based on mutual respect and understanding of one another’s similarities and differences. It’s evident from our experiences that a person’s views could be altered vividly by a shared experience with someone different from themselves.

You might come across people who have had pivotal life experiences that differ from your own. This recognition is so splendid and powerful when you’re a traveler at a new land.

Mostly because people often incorrectly assume that the other beings we meet while traveling are more different than similar to us.

Share, Care and Break the Boundaries By sharing your proficiencies, engaging in real and honest conversations, and working together towards a common goal with people around you, travelers are able to move far beyond making assumptions about their new surroundings and those they share them with.

Alternatively, they’re able to shed their prejudices and identify the connection that a human shares with each being on earth, if they simply allow themselves to. And that is a very beautiful thing!

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EXPERTS VIEW

GIS Boom on the Planet Earth

by Abhishek Rathod “Geographic Information System is the God of all the technologies right now. One can implement GIS in most of the fields. It will be right to say that, there is a GIS Boom on the Planet Earth.”

Latest Trends In GeoSpatial Industry: 1.Survey and Mapping: Land surveying for urban and rural development with the help of the most advanced laser and satellite collaborated instruments, helps to acquire data and the same data can be visualized in 3D. Water bodies or an ocean survey like hydrographic and Bathymetric survey helps to understand user, underwater world till the depth of 4500m deep sea in 3D; hydrography is also used for pre and post dredging and Geo-Thermal Activities.

2.Urban Management Application: Urban management application helps to monitor massive urban big data, with statistical land records and demography. It can also be customized according to the different country’s governments urbanization policies and parameters for accurate and analytic urban agglomeration data output.

3.Location Based Services: Location Intelligence, Site suitability analysis, Geo-fencing, usage based insurance, vehicle fleet management and real time product tracking are few examples of location based services. Location Based Service is very much important these days, to rehabilitate a business location in another country or a market research for setting up a product or services. We can also monitor the spread of Disease with the help of Artificial Intelligence.

4.Smart City: A Smart city is never an expensive city, but; it is a most resourceful city at comparatively affordable rates. Smart mobility where effective public transport improves traffic flow, Smart water where high quality water supply catering to growth population and smart planning where expansion of city is pre planned till next 100 years with Machine Learning.

5.Infrastructure Management: Mega Structures can also be visualized and monitored in 3D and can be managed with customized parameters and querying filters. With the help of more advanced GIS automated software and real 40

time high-end motion sensors it is also possible record smallest movement in Aerodrome or giant multidisciplinary functioning construction site.

Challenges Faced While Entering In The Atmosphere Of Corporate Sphere: 1. It is a critical task to maintain cash flow for a startup consultancy: For a startup infrastructure cost and overhead expenses holds the major percentage. Travelling one place to another to meet clients and vendors, Getting participated in National/International conferences to understand the market up gradation, setting up meetings with several small, medium and high profile industrialists; needs a heavy and constant cash flow.

2. To run multiple projects with limited cash and to stick with Pre-planned business project model: A Startup company breathes on the project out sourced. It is not at all difficult to get collaborated with some of the genuine companies by communication development and human networking. The main obstacle is when you invest in particular project and money inflow is inversely opposite.

But Work input is more important than money, so it is tricky to run multiple projects with low cash reimbursement from multiple clients and money management.

3. All the Governmental GIS projects have tremendous Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) to bid the Tender: The technology we are dealing with is very much expensive as it is most advanced, effective and well oriented. In every country, GIS data is majorly produced by country’s own government. Therefore, in India any GIS project's tender EMD (Earnest Money Deposit) amount is extremely high as per the project requirement with the locking period of the EMD amount. All Government sectors has pre-defined eligibility for minimum work experience to bid for the tender, but there is no chance for any fresh company to participate for the tender because the tender parameters are already sequenced in an order to win by the big GIS Players. So, now how the fresh, new and very high technical skill manpower startup company will grow in India, is the big Question. | OCTOBER 2017

Abhishek Rathod Co-founder Arianrhod GeoSpatial

About the Author Abhishek Rathod is a Co-founder of Arianrhod GeoSpatial Solutions Private Limited, based in Pune city, India. He believes in first, the human network and then the technologic network. He is a Geographer and Startup Entrepreneur. Arianrhod GeoSpatial Solutions, is a Geographical Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing services and consultancy firm. Where water and land surveying, 3D mapping for smart cities, Development of the urban and rural infrastructure, Climatology, Location Based Services, detail Environment and health research is carried out with the use of GIS software using drones, Total Stations, Differential Global Positioning Systems and High Resolution Satellite Aerial Data.

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SPINDS Engineering: Building the Futuristic Engineering Ecosystem

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n the 2000’s Building Information Models (BIM) were introduced to the architecture and engineering professions as the latest medium for designing and drawing a building. In spite of the evolution of technology over the years, construction disputes continue to occur. A current trend in Information Technology is the adoption of a Geographic Information System (GIS), to improve the acquisition, management and analysis of spatial (geographic) data. However, the possession of a computer hardware and software system does not ensure successful application. Appropriate tools should be selected for appropriate tasks. In a GIS, you connect data with geography. Because you cannot fully understand your data until you see how it relates to other things in a geographic context.

The integration system of BIM and GIS enables 3D GIS the effective management of information in various stages of a project’s life cycle, namely planning, design, construction, operation, Simulation and maintenance. The information at any spatial and temporal scale can be available in such system for different applications. Effective management of heterogeneous information from different sources can also provide essential supports for decision-making.

A prominent name engaged in BIM, Geospatial and Multidiscipline Engineering services is SPINDS Engineering Private Limited.

SPINDS Engineering strides to provide impeccable solution in advance GIS and comprehensive Multidisciplinary Solutions for the civil engineering industry with in house software solutions. They provide you with the 42

best range of building construction, CAD design & project management with effective & timely delivery.

A Plethora of Ardent Services SPINDS Engineering offers services across various verticals including; Geospatial Services, Design Consultancy and Engineering Services, Construction Engineering, Interior Designing, Training & Support along with Augmented, Virtual Reality and Walkthrough. They have extensive experience in managing a wide spectrum of large, complex, multiphased and fast-track buildings and

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We aim to provide a vibrant BIM Environment fostering innovation and creativity, informed by best industry practice inspired by research focusing global stack we excel

infrastructure projects.

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SPINDS Engineering empowers the Civil engineering ecosystem from Feasibility Studies, Surveying, Investigation, Planning, Designing, Land Acquisition, Tendering,

Construction Management, and GIS Based Asset Management, Training, Hand Holding and Project Management. The company envisages BIM Practice and implementation, BIM/GIS Conglomerate intervention, Scan to BIM, Walk through, Home Automation, Virtual and Augmented reality applications in competency with light and sounds. SPINDS provides impeccable solutions to civil engineering ecosystem that covers advanced surveys like LiDAR (Terrestrial and Mobile), UAV (Unmanned Aerial vehicle), Total Station Surveys, and Establishment of control points, CAD/GIS Conversions, Remote sensing, Photogrammetry, Designing of Structures, Public Health and Engineering, Water Engineering, Highway Engineering among others.

A leader who is always on the technological forefront Sandeep Sharman, Managing Director at SPINDS Engineering, is a diligent leader who keeps himself upto-date, enlightened, and extremely well informed about the latest developments or research in the field of BIM, GIS, LiDAR, Photogrammetry, Remote sensing, Gaming, Feasibility study, DPRs, Designing, Construction Management, Project Management, Structural Analysis and much more.

Sandeep is a tech enthusiast and a business strategist, who has got handson experience in civil engineering and software which in turn succumbs with a wide range of expertise in the field.

IoT (Internet of Travel) is an added feather on his future endeavors. His simplicity, dedication and problem solving skills are his key strengths.

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millions who struggled and failed .Surged ahead not in search of success, but will power, happiness and contentment led him. Had a bunch of unclear dreams and blurred vision on goals too but all he had was an undying learning attitude to hold on to and very practical in life.

Academically average but very much reluctant to board based education. All he was looking for a value based education which never get in any universities. He conquered his own way of “how to handle failure”. A selflearner, humble and a restorative thinker.

“Objective is to look positive in a negative equation and to bring positive results,” asserts Sandeep.

Quality one-click solutions in minimal time-frame Any product with superior quality actually improves the business, and has a positive effect on the investment, sales and growth of the company winning an advantageous position over the competitors as well as avoids litigation.

SPINDS Engineering is blessed with a group of versatile tech enthusiasts who works efficiently in a stipulated time frame with never compromising on quality delivery. It’s inhouse Software Development and Support to solve the complex issues with a minimal time is one thing that always stays unique in the market.

One click solution in entire civil engineering ecosystem is another USP of SPINDS. It provides service from reconnaissance stage till digital outputs in any means is the key factor that lifts SPINDS up in the international market.

Upgrading themselves to new trends and technologies and continuous improvement is the key factor that drives the company ahead.

The Road to Glory had a lot of Ambiguities Owing to the major technological disruption in the industry, initial hiccups are always there for any business or organization. Proper planning, working capital investment, people management, time management and effective usage of resources are the factors that generally face intricacy in this field. These are the fundamentals for a company to thrive on.

Despite a recent beginning, SPINDS Engineering has been catering to a complete spectrum of solutions in the GIS space. SPINDS believes that its versatility lies in their committed approach to bring quality solutions combined with the technical expertise and dexterity of a dedicated team of professionals. The company hopes to leverage this to bring about a change in the market with novel solutions that can produce the desired output in a short span of time.

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Sandeep Sharman Managing Director

Future Roadmap for GIS and SPINDS To most, GIS is still a strictly academic system. While an increasing number of people are at least vaguely aware of GIS programs’ mapping and analytical capabilities, the actual applications are not particularly well understood. But as these specific programs become more popular and are used more frequently, their applications are becoming more mainstream and they’re often tied in to Internet of Travel (or IoT) with comprehensive GIS initiatives in business.

The basic idea behind this tie-in is that augmenting IoT data with interactive GIS mapping can significantly improve understanding of the data.

SPINDS Engineering sees immense opportunities in leveraging IoT using hardcore GIS. They are working on various resources while in-house APIs, SDKs and Pythons are emerging and hitting to international market. Their prime focus is on integration of BIM to GIS, Underwater GIS, Smart Cities, Agriculture and Mining etc.

The Areas SPINDS is extensively have a wide spectrum to operate service with diligence on Digital City, Electricity, Feet Management, Health, Land, Agriculture, Mining and many more.

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