Zicom plans factory in Himachal Pradesh

Ties up with Bin Jabr to tap middle-east markets

Zicom Electronic Security Systems (ZESS) plans to set up a factory at Baddi in Himachal Pradesh to integrate security systems.

The Mumbai-based electronic security systems provider has also signed strategic alliance with Bin Jabr Group, Abu Dhabi, for setting up a new entity to cater to the Middle East market. Bin Jabr group, will hold 51 per cent equity in the new company while 49 per cent equity will be held by Zicom.

According to the agreement Zicom will be responsible for operation management, implementation, delivery and servicing of safety and security systems while Bin Jabr Group will be responsible for administration and relationship management.

Pramod Rao, managing director of Zicom Electronic Security Systems said the company was planning to enter in services business targeting individual homes and commercial places for a monthly rental of Rs 777 and onwards.

Earlier the company signed a strategic alliance with Belgium based Bioptimo for selling, marketing and integrating the entire range of biometric systems offered by the company.

Biometric technologies is the automated method of identifying a person using behavioral or physical characteristics as fingerprints, iris scans, voice modulation, etc.

Pramod Rao said "We wanted to get into Iris recognition business in a big way and chose Bioptimo since they have experience and array of products which will help us to address our customer needs, both in the Indian and the Middle East market."

Bioptimo offers innovative solution in iris recognition and sells the very first fully Portable Iris recognition based Biometric System, which enables up to 250,000 individuals to be enrolled quickly and easily. It can perform a "one to many" search of the database in less than 10 seconds.

Zicom Electronic Security Systems has performed well during the year ended March 2005 by posting 41.31 per cent rise in revenues and 73.15 per cent growth net profit. The company's sales were Rs. 57.73 crore for the year ended March 2005.