Having two patents awarded and 5 patents pending on his name in field of USB
technologies associated with copy protection of software and data Vinay has over
13 Yrs of experience as Product Manager, Director Sales (US), VP Sales for India,
APAC and MEA among various other roles. His areas of interest in technology are
Sensor Networks, Mobile Computing, RFID, short range wireless networks and
multimedia streaming frameworks.
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| Left To Right Mr. Vinay, Mr, Yogesh and Mr. Ranjit. |
He along with his friends Yogesh and Ranjit started Altizon in April
2013. Altizon derives its name from
Altitude and Horizon representing endeavor to go as high as one can go and as
far as one can see.
Altizon products are used to build data driven applications that help customers
gain new customer insight, boost operational efficiencies and build a
competitive edge.
In such a short time Altizon has been listed as top 10 Big Data Player by
Silicon India Magazine. (http://altizon.com/ )
[VN] Yogesh, Ranjit and I spent a lot of time
in October through December of 2012, working on the core area that interests
us, aligns with our experience and allows for a large enough play in the
market.
It was very clear to us that the Internet of
Things space will see a decade plus of work in terms of Enterprises and
Consumers adopting products and solutions in this space. So we conceived
the Datonis(TM) platform as the core offering that would spawn devices and
applications in multiple verticals.
While we had global ambitions
we were also very keen to develop the India market first. That is where we
made the call to apply our platform to local needs in the manufacturing space.
The manufacturing sector has a chronic need for solutions that provide
real time operational data around assembly line productivity, affordably. To
begin with we targeted the Tier 1, 2 and 3 suppliers of the larger
manufacturing companies in the area as these needs are more acute in that
segment. After all the prep work was in place we started operations as a
company on Gudi Padwa, April 2013. We raised a seed round and are a 10 person
company today.
Q2. What is
so new about Datonis?
[VN] The Datonis(TM) platform is the world’s
first public cloud based real time analytics insight engine for
connected devices.
It is amongst the very few
products globally that provide a device cloud, a real time Big Data Engine and an application development
platform.
This helps us rapidly
integrate very diverse sensor networks to the platform and write applications
that benefit from the data generated by these sensor networks.
For the Manufacturing
vertical the Aliot Appliances are one-of-a-kind as they help both advanced and
legacy machines get connected. This is vital as a very large segment of machines
that are used locally are primitive in nature. So existing global solutions
cannot integrate with them easily. The AltiVu solutions in manufacturing
therefore benefit by providing management a holistic view of
their assembly lines productivity as they get to view a wider set of
machines.
This effectively means that
management in Manufacturing companies can get anywhere, anytime access to their
production levels and exception alerts in real time. Corrective actions can
happen as situations develop, as opposed to post-mortem analysis looking at the
past.
Q3.
You have been featured as top 10 player in Big data space. How do you
feel about getting such an early stage recognition.
[VN] Any award is a recognition for the work put in by the entire team.
We are proud of having hit such a milestone so early. It reflects very well on
our efforts to date and spurs us to go for larger heights in 2014. We want to
build a global technology company out of Pune and this will help us on that
journey.
Q4.
What do you visualize for “AltiVu” in next 5 years
[VN] The key concept behind the AltiVu solutions is to provide
accurate data in real time that helps operational activities in the
Manufacturing sector function more efficiently. That goal in itself has a
lot of play to it. Over time we see this data driven culture creating a
demand for more applications that analyze trends and create a need
for advanced applications like predictive analytics. We also see
needs for remote monitoring type applications coming under the AltiVu
umbrella.
Q5. What do you see next for the Datonis(TM)
Platform?
[VN] The platform is at the core of everything we do. We plan to
drive further adoption of the platform by providing help to anybody to use the
platform in a self-service mode. The initial interest from partners has
been encouraging. So we are working within a closed group of partners right
now and will open it up for 3rd party access within a couple of quarters.
