Politics of bees and honey

Bees will bargain for better price of honey!

Indian agriculturist will get the benefits of their innovations in soil in accordance with their counterparts in IT irrespective of brokers and middlemen. ICT and Mobile applications will play a role to energize agricultural sector.
Innumerable individual innovations that are practiced from time immemorial  in different geographical and crop cultivation areas are either not aware to public or diseased with their owners. The good agricultural practices are going to share with mobile applications and along with newly opened up markets and with mobile phone as a tool to communicate and interact. Agriculture sector and small farmers are going to free from middle men. This will generate a new economical and political arena where farmers and rural economy will dominate over their city counterparts. They will demand more from politicians to create law and policies in favor to them as against global industrial lobbyists.

Karur Exhibition

ICT for Agriculture

Even with increased internet and mobile service reach, computer penetration remains extremely low in rural areas. Mobile phone has to take over e-literacy in farming and agricultural operations as an ICT tool for productivity enhancement.

Applications to address this segment like price forecast, product trading, crop and harvest planning, inventory forecasting, government information, availing credit facility, linking different agencies, etc will drastically change the productivity of Indian agricultural sector. They are more willing to pay for utility services for their better earnings than mere calls or games.

With regional language interface and multimedia content delivery in field operations, we can cater to large number of rural customers. Location Based services are also play a vital role in rural economic development.

Private enterprises and social agencies are required field data synchronized with their central database for a wider reach into a large underserved rural economy. It will reduce their operational cost in micro filed data collection and data dissemination.

Governments, insurance companies, banks and other service sector organizations has to have mobile applications in regional languages to address and serve masses with less cost. Mobile phone with its interactive property, convenience, multimedia content delivery and integrated data communication will give result to more reach. Altersoft mobile apps will become a trendsetter in rural mobile computing.

GOOGLE APPS COLLABORATIVE TOOLS-USER FRIENDLY

GOOGLE APPS COLLABORATIVE TOOLS

 

Altersoft, as part of our social enterprise productivity enhancement initiative, pleased to introduce Google Apps for collaborative online corporate documents.

INTRODUCTION:    

Google Apps is a web based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, form and data storage service that allows users to create & edit data online while collaborating in real time. It enables the user to upload and save documents from your desktop, edit them online from any computer and invite others to read or edit your documents. Files are securely stored in your own domain.

ADVANTAGES:

1.    Protect your company's documents – Administrators have control to manage how employees can share corporate documents according to their access rights.

2.    Work together without the hassles of attachments – Coworkers can share the same online copy of each doc, spreadsheet or presentation. All revisions are saved and recoverable.

3.    Present and publish through the web – Presentations can be delivered to remote audiences, and documents and spreadsheets can be published internally for employees to view.

4.    The foremost advantage is that it is available online, so without the need of any download you can work easily this consumes less RAM.

5.    Each employee can work from home even if he is on leave or on a holiday thus saving the company’s work from suffering.

6.    Altersoft will manage any domain settings and train your staff by providing all necessary guidance.

7.    There is no need to email your boss or colleagues about your work. Save your time by sharing your work with other users with a simple invite.

8.    Google forms can be accessed from spreadsheets which is very productive while accessing field data.

9.    When an employee is relieved from service his account can be permanently removed thus making company data safe & secure. At the same time the administrators can keep the data for future references.

 

           

CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM):

 

INTRODUCTION:    

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a widely-implemented strategy for managing a company’s interactions with customers, clients and sales prospects. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes principally sales activities, but also those for marketing, customer service, and technical support. The overall goals are to find, attract, and win new clients, nurture and retain those the company already has, entice former clients back into the fold, and reduce the costs of marketing and client service. Customer relationship management describes a company-wide business strategy including customer-interface departments as well as other departments.

This software program “Customer relationship management” enables customer, business and service provider to grab business by organizing day to day activities,

 

ADVANTAGES:

·         Provide Better Customer Service.

·         CRM is a software solution that enables organizations to organize their day to day activities.

·         Online CRM acts as a reporting tool & communication media among employees.

·         CRM gives an opportunity to expand your business by adding more branches and locations with a perfect monitoring system at your hands.

·         CRM also helps the organization to easily adjust the level of service to reflect the customer's importance or status.

·         Simplify marketing and sales processes.

·         Help sales staff close deals faster.

·         With each employee having access to customer details and order histories, targeting clients becomes easier.

·         Last but not the least, CRM helps the organization’s workforce in knowing how to deal with each individual customer depending upon the customer's archives available through CRM. The information can be accessed instantly from anywhere within the company.

 

ICT for agriculture

NABARD to fund project to consolidate ICT initiatives

Friday, 22 January 2010 12:12 Kerala IT News

Inaugurating the conference, State Minister for Agriculture, Shri Mullakara Ratnakaran said that IT should be made farmer friendly and should empower farmers and Government will support any initiative that does this.

In his special address, Dr. Ajay Kumar IAS, Principal Secretary IT, Government of Kerala said one of the areas where IT can be beneficially applied is agriculture but the challenge remains that the lowest IT implementation is in agriculture. He highlighted the two initiatives of the Kerala government – Kissan Kerala and the eKrishi project in Malappuram. The database of all the farmers in 4-5 districts has been done and this will be rolled out soon in other districts. Government has sanctioned the Agrinet project for Kerala. Kerala has achieved 100% connectivity but computer penetration remains extremely low in rural areas. According to him, mobile phone has to take over e-literacy.

Mr. K C Shashidhar, Chief General Manager, Kerala Regional Office, NABARD said NABARD would fund an IT project to consolidate ICT initiatives for the agriculture sector. He asked IT companies to handhold ICT initiatives for the agriculture sector and at the same time farmers should have interaction with corporate sector. He wants ICT to reach financial services to farmers, projects on financial inclusion and networking of ICT innovators in Kerala.

Rajeev Srinivasan, Professor, Corporate Strategy, IIM Bangalore said India can be world’s food superpower by proper implementation of ICT in agriculture as food security can be a huge problem. In his welcome address Mervin Alexander, CEO, Technopark said ICT can play a critical role in Agriculture and we should start using more IT in this area. Agriculture will be able to attract talented professionals if ICT is implemented.

Satish Babu, Secretary, GTech & President, InApp Information Technologies announced that his event would be an annual event where innovations in ICT for agriculture can be highlighted. GTech wants to contribute to the society and this is one initiative in this regard. Arrangements were done by GTech to bring 55 farmers from different parts of Kerala to attend this one day conference.

iTag Timetrack

Real-Time Public Transport Information System

Public transport system with iTag can provide real-time bus arrival and departure information

ABOUT ALTERSOFT

Altersoft is a leading name in field automation. We are a solution provider, offering consulting services, design software, hardware, personalization and full implementation. Altersoft works with its customers to deliver comprehensive, integrated and tailor-made solutions. Our product range includes biometric fingerprint scanners and HR software, smart card, RFID, mobile applications for data collection, field staff automation, open source productivity enhancement tools and its training. We have introduced new ways of data collection in order to improve field data collection which benefits agriculture, retailing, insurance, micro-finance, production planning, inventory management, loyalty keeping and customer relationship.

TECHNOLOGY

RFID UHF technology detect vehicle from a distance of 10 to 12 meters and at a speed of 200 kph. The tag cannot be duplicated as it has a programmable chip inside with an identification number and it transmits this number without any external power. It can withstand any harsh environment conditions.

UHF Reader reads the signal of iTag on the windshield of the buses which passing through it. Then the reader adds the time and other details to its internal memory, which will then be transmitted to the Internet.

The RFID software reads all iTag Reader data and provides reports to evaluate and monitor bus time punching details. Reports can be generated daily, weekly and monthly basis through Internet according to users access rights. It will generate details like average speed of the vehicle, time-stamped trips, number of trips during a period and any other data required. Bus-owners have a user name and password to view their bus time tracking details. At the same time traffic police or any other authority can review the report with their own user access rights.

BENEFITS

1. Proper time keeping of passenger vehicle
2. It can be used for a real-time public transport information system for bus riders.
3. Make bus travel more convenient and comfortable for bus riders.
4. It helps public transport system to maintain proper route time.
5. Terminal managers like bus operators, bus stand operators, traffic police, RT office and public can utilize thisinformation system for increased bus time visibility.
6. Operators can use this data to improve management of bus routes and working personnel, like driver, conductor, checker etc
7. The RFID system is very effective and attractive solution for providing vital real-time information about bus departure and arrival to bus-riders and to the terminal managers who control the bus routes.

OTHER BENEFITS

Existing manual or semi-manual system of time punching lack transparency in their operations . It is a burden to keep a traffic police on each punching station round the clock . It will not give automatic and real -time punching results as provided by iTag time track system. iTag time track system is the ultimate word in bus time punching solution, which generates report automatically by passing buses on each points and calculate the speed and generate an Internet based report which can be monitored by the concerned authorities.

FUTURE POSSIBILITY
Public Transport information system:

A well equipped bus-stop with LED display and Internet {GPRS} connectivity can display real-time bus arrival / departure information inside the bus waiting area.

SMS based bus time alert:

If bus timing information is stored in a centralized location, the software can automatically send this information by accepting an SMS request from any mobile phone. It will act just like a train time information system

bus-stand Automation

Bus bays in bus-stands can be equipped with iTag reader which enables alerting the bus drivers to leave and enter proper bay keeping their time schedule

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