About Us
 


Are you tired of asking driving directions....are you tired of locating a business....We are here to help you out. We are a Bangalore based startup on a mission to help people with providing driving directions and locating a business.

We are proud to introduce unique and innovative navigation concept based on Video Maps. Video Map is a feature rich next generation navigable map built on a traditional digital map. Video Map is a video clip of the complete route between source and destination with rich features (business logos, background music, turn-by-turn audio overlay, road names etc.) embedded into it. Video Map is built of individual geo-tagged video segments.

Driving directions provided traditionally consist of digital map and turn by turn text directions. These directions are easy to follow provided all the streets are marked with clearly visible street nameplates, which is usually not the case in countries like India. This is where need for visual navigation aid arises and our Video Map product would address this space.

Video Map is meant not only for navigation but is also useful for locating businesses and exploring the streets, all sitting in front of your computer. We have surveyed a list of prominent businesses, points of interest with their accurate location and also captured their photographs. This information in turn is embedded right inside the video and also on the digital map. You can explore the streets i.e. virtually navigate through the streets, and find out what is where even before you step out of the door.

As part of the navigable solution, we provide the following - Video Map of the complete route, Digital Map with Route overlay, Image (Point-of-Interest and Decision-Points) integration and Landmark based Text directions. The Images are integrated both into Digital Map as well as Text directions.

We are the first ones (not just India but World) to come up with a Video Map based solution for Road navigation and we at VidTeq are really proud of it. Our mission is to be the world's leading provider of Video Maps and our vision is to be the leader in road navigation for developing countries like India and Others.  
       

 
  Technology

  
 
The process of Video Map creation is as follows - We have a video capture team whose job is to go and capture videos of all the roads (Main and Internal) in Bangalore city. We have a camera mounted vehicle which gets used for this purpose. What they get is the raw video. The raw video then goes through stabilization process before it gets delivered to the Media team for editing. Once edited, these videos get geo-tagged and stored. We have built a whole set of proprietary tools to handle the complete process of geo-tagging the Video clips. This is true with Images as well.

  
  Management Team

  
  Chandra Thimmannagari
Co-Founder

 
 
Chandra has over 15 years of industrial experience. He holds a BE in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology and MS in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, USA. He held several engineering and management positions in various technology companies such as AMD, Sun Microsystems, Cradle Technologies and Intel. He has filed a total of 24 patents in US of which 11 have been approved and 13 are pending approval. He also authored "CPU Design: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions" published by Springer Publications.

  
  Ravi Narala
Co-Founder

  
 
Ravi has over 15 years of industrial experience. He holds a BE in Electronics and Communications engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology and MS in Electrical Engineering from University of North Carolina, NC, USA. After graduating from UNC he worked at Analog Devices, Texas Instruments and Qualcomm. He held several engineering and management positions at these companies. He authored and co-authored several technical publications in the field of wireless systems design.

 
  Muraleedhara Navada
Co-Founder

 
 
Navada has over 15 years of industrial experience. He holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, California, USA and a BE in Electronics and Communications engineering from National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka. He held several engineering and management positions at Intel and C-DOT. Navada has vast experience in the field of software development. He has filed a total of 23 patents of which 2 have been approved and the rest are pending approval.

  
  Team

  
 
At VidTeq we have spirited team of Engineers and Technicians. We have 3 separate divisions - Software Development, Media Processing and GIS Development. A diverse set of experience folks (animation software, Web site development, Cell phone development and Geo special software development) have been put together. The team has gained extensive experience in developing Maps based on open source software. Our Media team consists of people trained in cartoon design and animation. They are graduates in Media design. They have put together extensive experience in Video Map creation and geo-special multi-media content development. Our GIS team has extensive industry experience in Map making process. Our GIS in house team is capable of creating various layers of Maps. We have a separate field survey team whose job is to go collect Images and Navigable data.