In a first, Ahmedabad, India-based VMukti Solutions has bagged an order from Election Commission and other security agencies to supply customized tablets for video surveillance of polling booths in seven Indian states. Using its remote video streaming solutions along with its bandwidth aggregator technology, VMukti will provide cloud-based video surveillance and streaming of polling booths during elections this year.

The company has so far bagged orders for states like Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab, Haryana, West Bengal, and Jharkhand, among others.

"We have tied up with a Taiwan-based tablet supplier for manufacturing several tablets that will be embedded with special video streaming chips. The use of tablets for video surveillance will be first time during general elections in the country. These can be placed anywhere and can run even during power cut. They will stream video via cloud computing to control centres using multiple SIM cards for good bandwidth," said Hardik Sanghvi, chief executive officer at VMukti Solutions.

The tablets will be deployed in at least 2500-3000 poll booths in these states. The company is, however, in talks for deployment in other states even as polling enters its next phase.

The company had earlier developed a mobile video uplink device that can upload videos of good bandwidth from cameras instantly. The device when attached to a camera can instantly upload videos on the Internet instead of just saving it as data in DVR cassettes, compact discs, or universal serial buses (USBs). […]