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KritiKal to unveil a new benchmark in Open Source Routing domain : Okapi Routing Platform

Wednesday, 24 February 2010

KritiKal Solutions Pvt. Ltd. will launch “Okapi: Redefining Networking Technomics”, an Open Source Networking Operating System at Convergence India 2010, New Delhi. The product will be showcased at Convergence India 2010, to be held between March 23-25, at Pragati Maidan, Hall -18, Booth No. C-212 (New Delhi)

Okapi is a software based, open source, network operating system. It combines the features, performance and reliability of an enterprise-class router, firewall and VPN with the cost savings and flexibility of open-source solutions. By leveraging the performance and economics of the x86 hardware ecosystems, it enables customers to grow their networks on a more efficient cost curve, and deliver twice the routing performance at half the price of proprietary vendor solutions.

For details, please visit http://okapirouter.net/

KLiPR : KritiKal's ALPR system receives honourable mention at ISA Technovation Awards 2010 at ISA's Vision Summit

Wednesday, 03 February 2010

KLiPR : KritiKal's Automatic License Plate Reading System has received "ISA Best Electronics Product – Security -- Honourable Mention" in the ISA Technovation Awards 2010 at Bangalore, India. The awards were presented by ISA (Indian Semiconductor Association) at their Vision Summit 2010.

‘Technovation 2010 – Celebrating Excellence in Electronics’ were constituted with an aim to recognize role models and excellence in not just the semiconductor, but also the greater electronics ecosystem – covering the entire electronics value chain. Technovation 2010 acknowledged, recognised and honoured India’s best individual contributors and companies and provide them with a platform to showcase their achievements and product successes. 

KLiPR : KritiKal's real-time ALPR system enables the identification of vehicle by capturing and recognizing a moving vehicle's number plate and transmitting real-time stamp of entry/exit to the database.

To know more about the award please visit:

ISA Pree Release

KritiKal Solutions receives DSIR recognition

Wednesday, 02 December 2009

KritiKal Solutions Private Limited has received recognition for its in-house Research & Development facility from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) under the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.

This accreditation reinforces KSPL's excellent track record of research work in the areas of Embedded and Vision Technologies. The research & development (R&D) centre currently focuses on designing products in area of Transportation, Banking, Networks & telecom through proprietary technology platforms in Embedded and Vision domain. 

KritKal completes 7 years of operations; striving for technological excellence in technologies for tomorrow

Monday, 10 August 2009

KritiKal Solutions has completed prodigious 07 years of operations on 5th Aug' 2009. To mark this day, KritiKal conducted an Open House '09 on 6th Aug' 2009 showcasing latest technologies and live product demonstrations and technical sessions. The event was well attended by Industry experts, clients and academicians from premier technical institutes. It was indeed a privilege to discuss technology pain points and share emerging technologies and their applications. KritiKal thank all for the overwhelming response and will strive to deliver innovative products for tomorrow. KritiKal's technological excellence, at this young age, has carved its name among the select few successful technology start-ups in India.

KritiKal designed product bags highly coveted NASSCOM award for technology innovation.

Friday, 27 February 2009

License Plate Reading System : a real-time system to read the license plate of vehicle has won the coveted NASSCOM award for technology innovation.  The system enables the identification of vehicle by capturing and recognizing a moving vehicle's number plate and transmitting real-time stamp of entry/exit to the database.

LPRS Engine technology is based on latest pattern recognition, image processing and artificial intelligence techniques. The system uses built-in proprietary algorithms to detect number plates in any language along with the Driver images of a moving vehicle.

The automated information resource of the engine adds a new vital dimension to decision-making for Access control, Security and Traffic management personnel. LPRS Engine system can be easily integrated with any physical access control device like boom barriers and sliding gates for seamless access.

To know more about the award please visit:
http://www.nasscom.in/Nasscom/templates/NormalPage.aspx?id=55728

The following link is the news coverage for the award:
http://specials.rediff.com/money/2009/feb/03sld3-innovation-8-win-nasscom-awards.htm

KritiKal attended IIT Delhi Open House.

Wednesday, 30 April 2008

Kritikal Solutions showcased the technologies and products developed over last six years to invited guests which included faculty members from IITs.,people from industry,students and entrepreneurs.This event served as a good platform for highlighting product development projects done successfully by KritiKal.

The event started at 10.00 A.M. and the booth was opened for display, demonstration & discussion. A lot of participants showed keen interest in understanding the technologies and potential commercial applications. Several products, designed & developed by KritiKal were demonstrated to the visitors. The event closed at 5.00 PM and was captured by several media houses.

KritiKal develops a Low Cost Biometrics Solution for Access Control Applications.

Friday, 14 March 2008

KritiKal develops a biometrics solution based on Linux operating system and low cost COTS hardware; the solution provides an economical solution for large organizations with requirements of access control to sensitive areas. It also enables a biometrics (finger print based) system for remote attendance in an authentic manner for organizations with workforce spread across large geographical areas.

The solution supporting various popular medium of communication viz. Ethernet, GPRS over cellular network or a dialup interface to connect with the servers, would prove as a boon for organizations trying to track their workforce even at most distant locations. Another important feature of the solution is that it can be offered as a service, thereby reducing the NRE costs for organizations and can be integrated with customer's ERP and pay roll systems.

For more details and commercial enquiries, please contact us at contact@kritikalsolutions.com

Industry Trends : Indian Embedded Design Market Growing Aggressively.

Friday, 15 February 2008

Next fews years will see huge surge in KritiKal's development activities primarily due to booming embedded design market. The consumption of electronic equipment in India is set to increase to $363 billion by 2015 from $28.2 billion in 2005, pushing the total market for semiconductors to a whopping $36.3 billion by 2015.

According to semiconductor market research reports by India Semiconductor Association (ISA) and Frost & Sullivan, the semiconductor-driven industry is expected to create over 3.5 million jobs by 2015.

The report reveals the semiconductor and embedded design (including chip design, hardware board design and embedded software) industry in India generated revenues of $3.25 billion in 2005, and could reach $43 billion by 2015 growing at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30 per cent during the forecast period.

Source: India Semiconductor Association (ISA) and Frost & Sullivan Reports

About KritiKal:
KritiKal provides cutting-edge, creative and innovative product development services in the areas of Embedded Systems and Computer Imaging. KritiKal successfully completed several product developments projects for esteemed domestic and international clients.

KritiKal's designed Multimedia & Data enabled Web Conferencing Service launched by BSNL.

Tuesday, 15 January 2008

BSNL launched nationwide web conferencing service on 11th January 2008. This service is provided using the Franchisee's equipment (M/s Communication Experts Private Limited). With its indepth understanding of the conferencing & multimedia streaming protocols, KritiKal Solutions is providing product enhancement support to Communication Experts Private Limited on A3Connect.

A3Connect has the innovative features such as Persistent meeting rooms, multi-point, multi-media (Audio, Video & Data) conferencing service. It allows enhanced collaboration among users through sharing of PowerPoint Presentation, Whiteboard, Documents, & Chat facility amongst the conference participants, which will significantly aid in increasing the effectiveness of business meetings.

Ideally suited for users at all levels in large corporate houses, Small and medium businesses, SOHOs & quality conscious individuals to enhance collaboration, increase productivity and save costs.

EET India Article : Using RTOS in the MCU environment.

Tuesday, 15 January 2008

Using RTOS in the MCU environment

By Nishant Sharma
Chief Architect, Embedded Systems
KritiKal Solutions Ltd

The MCU world has been undergoing an upward change with the advent of a variety of more powerful MCUs that, in addition to supplying more horsepower, integrate a large number of peripherals. Software developers are facing a new world where they can add in more and more capabilities to their applications while ensuring performance. This has in turn created a need for a framework and back-end support for the following:
. Driver interaction, message queues and critical section protection;
. The ability to create lightweight tasks;
. Managing and testing the various modules;
. Scheduling tasks.

Small real-time kernels fit the bill really well. Their small memory footprint makes them a good choice for use in current platforms, including 8bit environments. They provide the basic features of an OS and a backbone for the design. Although such small kernels have been around for a long time, their use will become more widespread in the future.

Communications stacks : The software platform can be further enriched by adding in communication stacks for Modbus, CAN or TCP/IP. eCos, FreeRTOS are among the offering from the open-source domain, eCos being released in GPL. eCos offers greater infrastructure, including a hardware abstraction layer, device driver framework and TCP/IP networking stack.
FreeRTOS comes with a basic framework for an OS and is very lightweight. There are other commercial RTOS available, including some that are royalty-free, and may be chosen based on the development requirements. Even with all these benefits, application developers must also be aware of the pitfalls. RTOS or any other OS should be introduced in a design judiciously, keeping the application requirements in mind, otherwise it may result in unnecessarily bloating the development and testing cycles. With a reliable back-end, the application can be up in a jiffy, although one would have to go through the usual cycles for testing the product. However, having an RTOS is not the end goal, but the means to the end, since developers would still have to adhere to healthy design principles, coding standards and methodologies.