Archive for August, 2007

Another milestone … Perimeterlogics deployment

August 28, 2007

Our previous post talked about our innovations in the web 2.0 arena. Apart from the “cutting-edge” web 2.0 projects, we’ve been working on the regular hard-core technology projects. It’s important to talk about these, because we feel that with all this hype around web 2.0 and web application development, people seem to have forgotten the good old days of desktop/system application development. We feel that things like memory leaks, system compatibility issues etc have been replaced by browser compatibility issues, CSS issues etc.

Anyway, the Perimeter Guard System has successfully been deployed in a few location one of which is a car dealership in Arizona. Here are some of the pictures of the system in action. Ignore the wiring mess-up this was cleaned up later. There are a total of 34 cameras along with motion detectors and alarms configured. Software allows support for managing guards. Another system we’ve used in this “Tour guard management”, this is based in RFID and allows to track guard movement and incident reporting. Guards can view live video streams and incident reports on their PDAs which are accessed through a secured wireless WAN in the area. Also incident reports can be configured to call a predefined number automatically. The entire system is very flexible and we are going to do a lot of customizations for different customers.

We can’t write about hardware set up because of NDA restrictions.

By the way, there were four rack-mount systems are used, as can be viewed in one of the pictures below. They are also kept cool and constantly monitored by the technical support team.

PGS Guard Control room

PGS Guard control room 2

PGS Installation control room

PGS Management Control room

PGS Video monitoring in action

PGS Video Monitoring in Action 2

PGS Server Racks

The successful deployment of the system is again a example of how versatile our engineering team is. We will be posting more news about our other successful projects (where NDAs allow us) so that our customers can really the range of things we’ve done before, and what we can do.

What are we up to? Amazon services, Facebook applications, Flex development, more web 2.0 applications …

August 12, 2007

This quarter is going pretty well. We’ve implemented quite a few of our plans, some of which were planned long ago. For starters, we added more skill-sets into the company:

a. We got more people trained in German (business analysts and sales staff). These will be continuing with their German language courses and continue to support our German customers. We’ve seen that knowing German has been great help in dealing with German customers.

b. PHP Zend certifications – we are also on the path of standardizing our skill-set certifications. For this reason, we are getting all our web development staff Zend PHP 5 certification. This will be help our potential customers differentiate apples from apples.

We continue to improve our processes, skill-sets and quality of work. We recently launched a video sharing portal completely based on joomla platform. We are also doing great things with the cutting edge technologies using web services such as Amazon’s (EC2, S3), Facebook applications, Yahoo’s new APIs and Google APIs. Furthermore, we’re doing applications on Flex platform. We’ve also completed a few more web 2.0 applications about some of which we will be writing on our blog soon. This also reminds me that this quarter we are also doing our first Arabic web 2.0 portal.

One of the applications that we developed, www.perimeterlogics.com is currently under field trials and the response has been great. The application now support live streaming and incident notification on PDAs, and we are planning a Linux-only version for the server.

We’re also poised to launch some of our own innovative new products (some are already in beta) but more on this later.

These are indeed exciting times (as always). We’re excited also because we are working hard to be the best and we are succeeding in that. Our customers are excited to see their vision turned into reality, while we are enjoying being part of so many people’s success stories. We believe that we are arguably amongst the top innovative and fast growing companies in South Asia.