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StomatoBot - Intelligent Surveillance System
What is StomatoBot?
StomatoBot is aimed to solve the surveillance monitoring problem in near-real-time. CCTVs are installed at so many places, but no one monitors them 24x7 and so when some undesirable incident happens, we come to know many hours later mostly.
By the time the police gets its hands on the CCTV footage to investigate, the perpetrator of crime might have fled abroad and the victim might probably have died.
We are working towards solving this issue as the infrastructure is already there and is increasing rapidly, but due to lack of intelligence it is not being really helpful.
Jatin Chaudhary Salesman @eChaiVentures l Good at managing WhatsApp groups n organizing high quality, large gatherings at low cost :-) l Observer l Fmr Global Shaper @WEF
anand muglikar CEO & Gardener @StomatoBot1 - Your WatchMan who never sleeps! Entrepreneur in Computer Vision AI ML Deep Learning | Try-Grit-Stoic
@Jatin Right now the biggest challenge is how to market this kind of a completely new & innovative product. Most people don't know or cannot believe this exists. This is not a conventional product such that it has an analogous old product existing, say just like Lifebuoy, we've made this new soap. There's no such comparative product for our product. So, we have to educate potential customers on how this product works and how it benefits them. Plus, we cannot Not use the keyword 'CCTV' in our advertising as our product needs pre-installed CCTV system to function. But due to having the keyword 'CCTV' in our ads, we're getting a lot of false leads from people who want to buy CCTV systems/cameras. So, it's a tricky situation we're in in our marketing right now. Besides, young startups are always in need of funding until luck favors and we get exposed to some awesome Angel investor or we have a steady income from paying customers.
Hi I’m cofounder of fixitpro services we can provide installation and maintenance of cctv if possible let’s collaborate .we will do all the maintenance and installation you can offer a package including cctv’s along with your software why to lose customers . We will support your business by providing installation and maintenance.
Prem Nathwani Computer Engineer by degree and a salesman by heart.
On a constant endeavour of learning the advantage of new tech and make it available for masses through product design.
Particularly will it complement the government surveillance plans?
anand muglikar CEO & Gardener @StomatoBot1 - Your WatchMan who never sleeps! Entrepreneur in Computer Vision AI ML Deep Learning | Try-Grit-Stoic
@Prem Indian Govt has surveillance systems like the NatGrid, DRDO Netra and all for telecommunications, phone, email and social media tapping and interception. It even has recently got a nod to access financial transactions data of suspected individuals. However, in India we do Not have a pan-India security shield for CCTV Surveillance automation. We at StomatoBot would like to propose and be part of such a pan-India Centralized monitoring system, whenever that happens in India.
anand muglikar CEO & Gardener @StomatoBot1 - Your WatchMan who never sleeps! Entrepreneur in Computer Vision AI ML Deep Learning | Try-Grit-Stoic
Although not everything goes as per plan in entrepreneurship, but having no plans is risky as well as foolhardy. So, my plan is to give trial to as many potential customers as possible and leave the rest to how they experience the product and how it solves their problem. Rest I'm hopeful will work out by them telling more people.
Dhruv Gupta A researcher turned entrepreneur, a computer scientist by certificate and a design thinker by training who did his first startup at 18.
He has built 3 (three) tech startups till now and has been part of the journey for many startups as consultant, mentor and investor.
@Anand - I too work in domain of Computer Vision and Image processing, and had felt a huge scarcity of human resource available in this domain. From your team, it is quite visible that you alone with a bunch of "interns" are taking care of the core technology development.
I would like to know your strategies for making a good team for future of StomatoBot.
anand muglikar CEO & Gardener @StomatoBot1 - Your WatchMan who never sleeps! Entrepreneur in Computer Vision AI ML Deep Learning | Try-Grit-Stoic
I know we don't have readymade talent for us, so we groom them as interns / coached students first. If they stay back, it's a bonus as long as they do.
anand muglikar CEO & Gardener @StomatoBot1 - Your WatchMan who never sleeps! Entrepreneur in Computer Vision AI ML Deep Learning | Try-Grit-Stoic
Yes sure @Vishwas. Please ask any question you might have. And sorry i got too busy since this afternoon until now. Just got free and called you up, but you seem busy now.
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Jatin Chaudhary
Salesman @eChaiVentures l Good at managing WhatsApp groups n organizing high quality, large gatherings at low cost :-) l Observer l Fmr Global Shaper @WEF
@Anand - Which are your major Sales challenges?
anand muglikar
CEO & Gardener @StomatoBot1 - Your WatchMan who never sleeps! Entrepreneur in Computer Vision AI ML Deep Learning | Try-Grit-Stoic
@Jatin Right now the biggest challenge is how to market this kind of a completely new & innovative product. Most people don't know or cannot believe this exists. This is not a conventional product such that it has an analogous old product existing, say just like Lifebuoy, we've made this new soap. There's no such comparative product for our product. So, we have to educate potential customers on how this product works and how it benefits them. Plus, we cannot Not use the keyword 'CCTV' in our advertising as our product needs pre-installed CCTV system to function. But due to having the keyword 'CCTV' in our ads, we're getting a lot of false leads from people who want to buy CCTV systems/cameras. So, it's a tricky situation we're in in our marketing right now. Besides, young startups are always in need of funding until luck favors and we get exposed to some awesome Angel investor or we have a steady income from paying customers.
Aravind Neelagiri
Hi I’m cofounder of fixitpro services we can provide installation and maintenance of cctv if possible let’s collaborate .we will do all the maintenance and installation you can offer a package including cctv’s along with your software why to lose customers . We will support your business by providing installation and maintenance.
Prem Nathwani
Computer Engineer by degree and a salesman by heart. On a constant endeavour of learning the advantage of new tech and make it available for masses through product design.
Particularly will it complement the government surveillance plans?
anand muglikar
CEO & Gardener @StomatoBot1 - Your WatchMan who never sleeps! Entrepreneur in Computer Vision AI ML Deep Learning | Try-Grit-Stoic
@Prem Indian Govt has surveillance systems like the NatGrid, DRDO Netra and all for telecommunications, phone, email and social media tapping and interception. It even has recently got a nod to access financial transactions data of suspected individuals. However, in India we do Not have a pan-India security shield for CCTV Surveillance automation. We at StomatoBot would like to propose and be part of such a pan-India Centralized monitoring system, whenever that happens in India.
More details here:
https://stomatobot.com/pan-india-security/
Until then, we're doing our work well to get noticed.
Hanuj Tilwani
Founder's Office at DemandFarm | Ex-Founder at Miho (B2B SaaS)
How do you plan to scale this up?
anand muglikar
CEO & Gardener @StomatoBot1 - Your WatchMan who never sleeps! Entrepreneur in Computer Vision AI ML Deep Learning | Try-Grit-Stoic
Although not everything goes as per plan in entrepreneurship, but having no plans is risky as well as foolhardy. So, my plan is to give trial to as many potential customers as possible and leave the rest to how they experience the product and how it solves their problem. Rest I'm hopeful will work out by them telling more people.
Nikunj Verma
Cofounder at CutShort, an AI based platform to find jobs, hire or connect with other professionals.
Very interesting product. Anand's passion and energy for this idea is inspiring too!
anand muglikar
CEO & Gardener @StomatoBot1 - Your WatchMan who never sleeps! Entrepreneur in Computer Vision AI ML Deep Learning | Try-Grit-Stoic
Thank you @Nikunj! :) That's what keeps us from drowning, isn't it? What Cutshort has done with Voila is awesome too!
Dhruv Gupta
A researcher turned entrepreneur, a computer scientist by certificate and a design thinker by training who did his first startup at 18. He has built 3 (three) tech startups till now and has been part of the journey for many startups as consultant, mentor and investor.
@Anand - I too work in domain of Computer Vision and Image processing, and had felt a huge scarcity of human resource available in this domain. From your team, it is quite visible that you alone with a bunch of "interns" are taking care of the core technology development.
I would like to know your strategies for making a good team for future of StomatoBot.
anand muglikar
CEO & Gardener @StomatoBot1 - Your WatchMan who never sleeps! Entrepreneur in Computer Vision AI ML Deep Learning | Try-Grit-Stoic
I know we don't have readymade talent for us, so we groom them as interns / coached students first. If they stay back, it's a bonus as long as they do.
Vishwas Joshi
Jedi Knight working on building Disruptive Technology.
Hi, can we discuss on your future plans?
anand muglikar
CEO & Gardener @StomatoBot1 - Your WatchMan who never sleeps! Entrepreneur in Computer Vision AI ML Deep Learning | Try-Grit-Stoic
Yes sure @Vishwas. Please ask any question you might have. And sorry i got too busy since this afternoon until now. Just got free and called you up, but you seem busy now.