Saral TechnoMart

Saral Technomart is a web and mobile product and solutions company founded by entrepreneurs with large industry and technologies experience.

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Our mobile platform/solution, which is live at Lucknow Nagar Nigam, got awarded at E-Uttara: The Manthan Awards annual function organized by UP Government and DEF (Digital Empowerment Foundation) and co-organized by IDAF (Indian Development Alternatives Foundation) & Fifth Estate during a gala ceremony on the 11th October 2014. About the Manthan Award The Manthan Award recognizes the best practices in the area of digital content, solutions and innovations that seeks to address development challenges. The Manthan Award was instituted in 2004 under the framework of World Summit on Information Society since then it has supported digital innovations through various award verticals and entities. The Award looks at how digital tools and digital media including web based applications impact the masses, especially people living in remote, difficult and underserved areas. The Jury Expert and Panelist was a select group of people of very high repute from various walks of life. These included: Mr. Amit Gupta, Secretary to CM, Govt. of India Ashish Sanyal, Former Sr. Dir, DIT, Govt of India Arundhati Dhuru, Advisor to Honorable Supreme Court Nagendra Singhal, Principal Consultant, State e-Governance Mission, UP Depti Pant, UP Head, IT CRS Abhishek Tiwari, MD, Abhitech IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd.   The Eminent Board comprised of: Osama Manzar Dr. Madanmohan Rao Rajen Varada Dr. Amir Ullah Khan Ashis Sanyal Amitabh Singhal Shalini Kala Mridula Chandra   The solution got shortlisted to 43 finalist from amongst a total of 137 nominations in various categories and finally, was awarded the best prize in the e-Governance & Citizen Service Delivery Category.   http://www.euttara.org/tracking-location-of-workers/ http://www.euttara.org/winner/   The much coveted trophy: Certificate of Recognition:                   We take this opportunity to congratulate all the […]

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Just a couple of days back a latest newspaper report (inserted below) talks about growing number of parents making use of GPS tracking through mobile phones to keep a tap on their children in the USA for the safety of kids. The report, however, also indicates the increased usage of such applications in India as well. The tracking of location through mobile phones has got immense advantages and the only negative is that of infringement on privacy of the person being tracked. There are newer and newer application highlighting about making use of GPS location for safety of children and women. We have recently created an App for a roadside assistance company for its customers in general where besides other functionalities there is also a button for ‘SOS’. A simple clicking on this will initiate a call and/or an SMS giving the exact location of the owner of the mobile to a selected few mobile numbers. The location tracking has also been super-hit on vehicles where fleet owners use it extensively. This feature has been also much sought after by companies having people in the field. Introduction to such functionalities is mostly bundled along with a reporting tool which, when used also throws the location details from where the reporting has been done. According to us this will be a de facto standard for field based reporting in times to come. And GPS would be a mandatory feature in even the most entry level smart phones which is currently not the case. The readers’ feedback would be extremely appreciated!!

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“Internet Of Things” (IOT) refers to a world where there are different ‘everyday’ devices (besides computers) that are connected (or are going to be connected) to the internet. The possibility of “Internet Of Things” has developed with the convergence of multiple technologies like wireless networks, embedded systems, RFIDs, NFC, Barcodes and home & building automation. These devices can be anything from a refrigerator, television set and smart phones to healthcare devices or cars or animals. In future, we will have things which will be internet smart or simply smart devices and which will be part of the internet, sending and receiving data over networks. Once we have devices throwing various kinds of data on internet, it is going to seriously revolutionize the automation in various fields. For example, a web connected tennis racket uses sensors in that racket itself to determine your swing and while you keep hitting the ball off the court. Some household items are already web connected, i.e. Samsung has the internet connected refrigerator, which tweets and shares the latest news too. Eventually, all these object work together to create a smart home. Just imagine, you have a tyre with low air pressure and sensors on your car trigger to check your calendar to fix the appointment with the local garage to fix that. Then, an email sent is pushed to you asking if the appointment time was okay. This is going to be the amazing world of Internet of Things. Users would only be limited by their imagination about how life will pan out with IOT. Already, a lot is being revolutionized with regards to mobile phones (and other mobile devices) connecting to internet. And then again, a lot is happening […]

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“Don’t tread where the path leads; instead go where there is no road and leave a trail behind.” - Anonymous So has been adopted and put in action by the leadership team at Luckow Nagar Nigam. Lucknow Municipal Corporation shows courage to launch this path-breaking initiative riding on Saral Technomart’s technology innovation based on Location based services. Now e-Governance will be closer to the citizens at large. We, at Saral Technomart, already have a clear roadmap laid out for “Nimboli”, the solution behind LMC’s latest initiative for sanitation related activities. Soon citizens would be the custodians of wellness and hygiene in their neighborhoods and also be independent inspectors of cleanliness standards in the city. Read this news article about the initiative. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Lucknow-Municipal-Corporation-targets-clean-city-through-GPS-tracking/articleshow/35129353.cms

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There are a whole lot of benefits possible around location based services on mobile phones. Before we go on to understand sample of such services and the benefits let’s first understand how the location of a mobile device is detected. Currently, there are two ways in which location of the mobile phone is established: A-GPS vs GPS GPS stands for Global Positioning System. Standalone/autonomous GPS operation uses radio signals from satellites, therefore, a GPS device communicates with 4 or more satellites to determine its exact location coordinates (latitude and longitude) anywhere on Earth. It works in any weather as long as the device has a clear line of sight to the satellites. A-GPS stands for assisted global positioning system, while just regular GPS is non-assisted. GPS satellites circle the earth twice a day in an orbit. These satellites continuously send information to the earth via radio waves. Messages transmitted by the satellites include (a) the time the message was transmitted, (b) the ephemeris or the information about the orbit, and (c) the almanac or the health and rough orbits of all the satellites. GPS receivers use these signals by calculating the time at which the signals were sent by the satellites and time at which they were received on Earth. Once the GPS receiver knows the position of at least four satellites and the transmit time of each (this is called time to first fix, TTFF), it is able to lock its own location. This method of computing is called trilateration. This initial TTFF is often called a cold start, it can take anywhere from 30 seconds to a couple of minutes to acquire a signal. That time is dependent on ones’ location, amount of […]

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This article gives an overview on the latest web applications which work along with mobile application development to cater to the needs of an effective business strategy and its advantages to you as a business house. Mobile phones have become as very important part of our life. Given the penetration of mobile phones, it is going to be the single most important game-changer on how businesses will operate in times to come. Mobile devices have become a tremendous source of communication, entertainment, information and now they can be put to innovative use in order to conduct business. Building a website which is responsive and which opens comfortable on any mobile or hand-held devices is order of the day. Web applications are now conceived and designed in a way to work in conjunction with mobile apps development for a conjectured long-term success. About Mobile application development – what is it? A mobile app is a software application designed to function on mobile phone and other hand-held devices. A vast majority of mobile devices now operate on Android platform followed by Windows OS and iOS for Apple devices. Blackberry, which was a de facto standard for enterprise users, has fallen way behind and there are simply no takers for BB anymore. Thus, it is the android apps development which is in the middle of lot of action. Android apps development is considered an exciting area to operate also because of availability of cheaper phones based on Android. Today, a decent smart phone is available in the sub-4k category, making it easier for enterprises to switch their employees on such phones and then run innovative applications for business management. In fact, the latest web application development strategies lean […]

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This SaaS is not the Saas of the Saas-Bahu daily soaps (serials) which is all about scheming in the negative sense rather this is a revolutionary scheme for businesses of all sizes. It is, in fact, quite like ‘Saans’ (breathe in Hindi) so it can pump real oxygen into businesses when it comes to automation. This is a crucial outcome of cloud computing. SaaS is the popular abbreviation of “Software as a Service”. This solution is an outcome of cloud technology and its applications. Cloud computing is the use of computing resources, both hardware and software, that are delivered as a service over a network, usually the Internet. SaaS is a type of public cloud computing that hosts free software. SaaS makes software and associated data hosted on a cloud accessible to users with a thin client (computer) on a web browser. SaaS allows data to be transferred between the client and the provider via internet and the stored data can be accessed by the client using software provided by the service provider. Start-up costs involved in this are much less and clients may pay only for the amount of storage space used or as per number of transactions. SaaS has today emerged as a common delivery model for various business models like accounting, collaboration, customer relationship management, enterprise resource management, content management, e-mail, games and the like and revolutionizing the automation in businesses. SaaS, by using cloud services have been able to reduce its costs and also provide efficient services. Companies have therefore taken to this new idea of outsourcing hardware and software maintenance and support to the SaaS provider. This eliminates the need to install and run the application on the cloud user’s own computers simplifying maintenance and support. […]

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Have your ever been overwhelmed by the number of software applications and data accumulated on your computer/hard disk and wished that it remained a little less crowded and had more free space? Then, cloud computing is the answer to your worries. Cloud computing is the means of delivering IT resources such as applications, storage capacity, programming, communication and collaboration tools etc. as a service over a network, generally the internet. Cloud computing allows access to various files and applications stored on a virtual server, referred to as a cloud and from where data, files and software can be accessed when and where required. Though the idea of cloud computing originated in the 1960s, the term cloud computing and its applications became popular from 2007 onwards. In a cloud architecture, data is mostly resident on servers somewhere on the internet and the application runs on both the cloud servers’ and the users’ browsers. Hence cloud computing helps in reducing capital costs and infrastructure requirements. Today cloud computing services are utilized by all forward looking enterprises, especially the start-ups as a means to reduce costs. Clouds can be private, public or hybrid depending upon the restrictions placed on the users to access the various resources on the cloud. Cloud computing has helped in reducing capital expenditure, in improving infrastructure utilization rates and also allows scaling up of capacities in times of massive demand. It has also helped in improving speed and agility of operations and allows access to resources anytime, anywhere and from any computer or system. It also provides cost benefits as the user is generally charged on the basis of his/her usage rate. It also eliminates the need for software licenses and up-gradation and promotes […]

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Everybody would agree that ‘Change’ is the only constant in this universe. Even then people resist change all the time. Technology is great innovation and difficult to cope up with only when it arrives after we have arrived. Otherwise, it is just a way of life. Please go through the video below where kids are reacting to older technology. Besides the fact that this video is funny, it has much learning to offer. It suggests that we embrace change and adapt to the fast changing technology ushered into our lives. No matter what position you are in, one needs to set examples for the ‘Generation Y’. There is need to automate businesses at all levels. So whether you are a corporate executive or a bureaucrat, newer possibilities are opening up everywhere. One cannot stick to the old rules of the games. The mobile technologies have so much to offer given the reach and penetration of mobile phones. A lot of what we are used to doing; is going to undergo a lot of change. The education space cannot stick to chalk and talk, therefore one needs to play around with technology based learning solutions (www.intellituts.com ). We cannot always say that this cannot be changes because we are used to this methodology for several years. The next generation of kids are extremely smart and they are going to laugh at us if we do not experiment and evolve with newer techniques. The expectations are rising from all stake holders including parents. Schools and colleges need to gear up to automation and provide visibility to all the stakeholders (www.campuserp.in and www.myschool360.in ). Rules of governance are changing. Citizens are more enlightened and would like to have […]

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Everybody would agree that ‘Change’ is the only constant in this universe. Even then people resist change all the time. Technology is great innovation and difficult to cope up with only when it arrives after we have arrived. Otherwise, it is just a way of life. Please go through the video below where kids are reacting to older technology. Besides the fact that this video is funny, it has much learning to offer. It suggests that we embrace change and adapt to the fast changing technology ushered into our lives. No matter what position you are in, one needs to set examples for the ‘Generation Y’. There is need to automate businesses at all levels. So whether you are a corporate executive or a bureaucrat, newer possibilities are opening up everywhere. One cannot stick to the old rules of the games. The mobile technologies have so much to offer given the reach and penetration of mobile phones. A lot of what we are used to doing; is going to undergo a lot of change. The education space cannot stick to chalk and talk, therefore one needs to play around with technology based learning solutions (www.intellituts.com ). We cannot always say that this cannot be changes because we are used to this methodology for several years. The next generation of kids are extremely smart and they are going to laugh at us if we do not experiment and evolve with newer techniques. The expectations are rising from all stake holders including parents. Schools and colleges need to gear up to automation and provide visibility to all the stakeholders (www.campuserp.in and www.myschool360.in ). Rules of governance are changing. Citizens are more enlightened and would like to have […]

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“Hey, he always picks my calls” you state proudly to your circle of friends and you suddenly become enviable. Have you wondered this statement did not exist 10 years back. That was the time when one would rush to pick up his/her mobile phone. And then 20 years ago, when one only had landlines, the only time a call was not answered was when nobody was actually there to respond to that funny ring of “Tring, Tring”!! Jokes apart, now, is this really a matter of pride? And what impression does the person throw on to others when he usually does not respond to calls? What about the basic courtesy of calling/replying back? I am astonished, how quickly the society of this time has accepted this new reality where mobile phones are all pervasive but lack of communication is much more than earlier times. It is amazing to note that such people are not a minority. May be it is time a session on ‘courtesy’ be included in the school curriculum. Not to be too much cynical about the current situation, mobile phones have and are going to be all the more impacting the lives of people in general. The penetration of mobile phones has beaten down the penetration of PCs & internet, landlines etc. Innovative things are already happening on the mobile phones and it is on the rise. A recent article on M-learning highlights how mobile phones can impact delivery of education through mobile devices is in this blog at the bottom. Hats off to Mr. Gorakh Nath Sharma for this initiative. Our very own virtual classroom platform called IntelliTuts delivers conventional classroom lecture on the mobile phones. (Click here for details). Our […]

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You have obviously heard of terms like ‘Outsourcing” or “Business Process Outsourcing” or “Knowledge Process Outsourcing” or “Legal Process Outsourcing”, but how about “Homesourcing”. This is a term given to employees/associates working out of homes. First coined by David Neeleman, the founder and CEO of JetBlue Airways Corp, JetBlue now has four hundred reservation agents, working at home, taking reservations – in between babysitting, exercising, writing novels or cooking dinner. Interesting, isn’t it. We are living in amazing times. We have, on one side, companies wanting to cut cost and cut corners, retrenching staff members while still having to generate revenue in order to sustain business. And, on the other side, we have huge numbers of smart home ladies who could not take up full-time assignments because of family pressures. In between, cloud based applications that automate business operations can enable these two segments to connect into a win-win relationship. Just to name a few segments that can make tremendous use of this opportunity is resourcing business or placement consultants. Recruitment business is very man-power intensive because of the huge amount of coordination required between clients and candidates. Most organizations have independent consultants working on distinct recruitment requests. How about a software that could enable these consultants to work from home and shoot a report at the end of the day to the management of these organization giving status of the work completed during the day. Imagine the kind of benefits possible! Placement consultants can scale up their operations by appointing consultants to work from home without having to invest in computers and working space. This is exactly what placement consultants can achieve using our software, SmartHire. We invite your crucial comments on the concept […]

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