A senior Motorola executive has stated that India’s public safety system and network expansion is set to double every three years, especially, with the arming of police with digital radio sets.
According to Balbir Singh, Vice President, Sales and Operations at Motorola Solutions Asia Pacific, they are experiencing strong demand for radio-based systems from Indian police force as well as private sectors such as oil and gas industries, coal mines and industrial production centres. The growth is driven by rising security concern across the country.
As per him, these radio sets are more effective in allowing communication between various locations and command centres, helping the police manage any emergency. On the private sector, Coal India has recently selected Motorola systems to manage its mine operations. Moreover, Indian enterprises are very fast in adopting technologies and they believe the Indian market will leapfrog in taking on the best digital systems, leaving analogs aside. They have been leading the radio-based communication market in India for four decades and have now established a working relationship in supplying handsets to police. They also provide training to the police on the effective use of handsets.
Singh further stated that besides the radios, Motorola has a wide range of communication sets in India, a market being served for more than 40 years.
Going forward, Singh sees Indian Postal Services and Courier Services using computers for deliveries in rural areas.
He pointed out that rural India is a huge market where the postman will be using mobile computers to serve the people.
According to Singh, Motorola’s Indian operations were fully supported by India’s software engineers who are involved in designing the software and setting up network for the radio sets. Motorola also operates its biggest research and development centre in Bangalore, software programmes from which are used for its systems globally. Besides the domestic consumer market, the country eventually would emerge as a major exporter with corporate India collaborating and merging local and international technologies in products for the global markets.