Times of India:
NAGPUR: Phones telling you about nearest hotels, ATMs, or police station or way
to a particular place are already here. But they do so using maps. Imagine
phone's camera identifying your location and guiding you to your destination.
Or help a person on the other end find a lost key by actually pointing towards
it. These next generation smartphones are expected to be in the market in the
next 2-4 years. And apps like these are being developed right here in city's
backyard.
Nagpur may still not be an IT hub but city-based mid-sized company GlobalLogic
is working in association with leading mobile handset makers and service
providers in developing such products. The former Lambent Technologies was
taken over by US-based GlobalLogic four years ago. The company held a road show
of the latest products developed by it on Thursday.
Addressing newspersons, GlobalLogic vice-president Shashikant Chaudhary said
"we work on behalf of various international players and using basic technology
we have developed certain products. Called augmented reality, this helps in
connecting the real with the virtual world." There are other companies like
Tech Mahindra, Mindtree and Aricent also working in the same segment, he added.
He said if the user were passing through Kasturchand Park, he could get a
reference from the phone itself on details like nearest ATM, a restaurant or any
other place. Called place of interest, the data on preferred places to be shown
could be fixed as per users' choice. The mobile will show the way and also
remaining distance in real time, he added. The maps are provided by different
agencies that use satellite data as well photographs taken from the ground.
Defence establishments are excluded from the maps, he added.
Another smart mobile during a video call enables the caller point out the
things around the other person with a finger. Suppose someone needs to take out
a thing out of a drawer, the caller can point out at the exact drawer to be
opened. "The product is being offered to the mobile companies. It can be even
used for monitoring work on, say, a construction site from a remote centre," he
said.
Chaudhary expected such phones to garner a mass market by 2014. It is expected
that with time they will be affordable to a large section, he added.
With thanks and regards
(Rajesh Asudani)
Assistant General Manager
Reserve Bank of India
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