Techgentsia aims one million users of contest-winning Vconsol this fiscal

Techgentsia Software Technologies (TST), a Kerala-based global IT service provider which won the Central government’s Grand Innovation Challenge for developing a home-grown video-conferencing solution in the context of COVID-19 pandemic, will hit the market with the innovative Vconsol product next month, with an initial target of securing one million users, Mr. Joy Sebastian, CEO of the company, said here today.

The multilingual, superior-quality video-conferencing app, hailed as the first of its kind in India with better audio-video than Zoom or Google Meet, will aim at the B2B market with focus on telemedicine and education. “These are the two segments that are in top demand amid a new post-COVID world order which has made health and learning increasingly e-centric,” he pointed out.

“Vconsol, with its capacity to support as many as 80 active and 300 passive participants at a time, however, will not be free for the time being,” Mr. Sebastian informed.

The cost involved in its making and marketing will make Vconsol chargeable after “a free trial of maybe a week,” said the team leader of the Kerala-based firm which won the tough competition conducted by the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

“The fees won’t be very high. We are in the process of finding resources for sufficient investment that can broaden our clientele,” Mr. Sebastian revealed about TST, which functions under Infopark Cherthala in Alappuzha district, famous for its backwaters. “By March 2021, the company hopes to get a million users across continents.”

Winning the marathon and highly competitive Grand Challenge under the Digital India Initiative earned TST Rs one crore, making the company eligible to provide its Vconsol to Union government offices across the country. “Our role is as technical supporters. We will install the app for them. The government will run the show, owning the cloud,” he said. The software is capable of functioning in leading eight Indian languages.

TST’s contract with the government is for three years, during which the firm will get an additional Rs 10 lakh annually towards the maintenance of the project. “Having won the contest, we will start marketing the product globally,” Mr. Sebastian said.