Control IT bags major contract in UAE

Nagpur-based Control IT, a cable and wireless
communications company has bagged a major contract to install surveillance
systems of adapted from their Vessal Traffic Management Systems (VTMS) to the
tune of $ 25 million.

Control IT was founded in 1995 by a group of skilled
professional engineers with a client list that includes Norcontrol Systems and
VingCard. When Norcontrol introduced their latest version of VTMIS, they were
the key players in the process of designing, developing, producing, installing
and training. This was done for the system Control IT and Kongsberg Norcontrol
both headquartered outside Oslo, Norway was merged into Norcontrol IT.

A K Datir, MD, (Indian subsidiary) located at Nagpur
explained that VTMS made it simpler for control of sea traffic for harbors
sitting at a desk. The system can also adapted for purposes of surveillance.

"We were consultants to Kongsberg Norcontrol
Systems to enhance the VTMS delivered to Calcutta Port Trust. The job involved
elements of tracking systems and radar fine-tuning. The job ended up with
maintenance and support control given to our subsidiary in Singapore Control IT
Pte Ltd for round the clock service to CPT," Datir explained. The Calcutta
contract was worth $ 60,000.

Some of the projects recently completed by the company
include an assignment for the installation of VTMS at Korea. Together with the
crew of Kongsberg and Norcontrol Systems, the company had installed at a
surveillance system in the Port of Inchon.

The system consists of six radars and three
control-centers. The job involved setting up a database system with replication
between three servers, installation of the latest software technology, tuning of
tracking and video display had meteorological and hydrological systems.