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Proposal-M2M - IoT - Plaform - Ethio - Telecom - 23 August 2019
Proposal-M2M - IoT - Plaform - Ethio - Telecom - 23 August 2019
PROPOSAL
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purpose other than to evaluate the proposal, provided that if a contract is awarded to this offer as a result of, or in connection
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Proposal for Machine to Machine / Internet of Things Engagement
Table of Contents
1. Cover Letter
23rd August, 2019
Sales Division,
TPO, Enterprise Building 4th Floor,
Ethio Telecom
Dear Sir/Madam,
On Behalf of Techno Brain, I would like to thank the Ethio Telecom for this opportunity to potentially
partner with you.
We are pleased to present our Proposal for Internet of Things/Machine to Machine Engagement .
The enclosed response presents our capabilities and strengths in providing these products and services.
By virtue of executing numerous projects and services for various organizations and in similar domain,
we have gained an unparalleled reputation in executing similar services that satisfy our customer
requirements.
This experience has given us a lot of understanding of business environment and enables us to continue
the building of strong capability to sustain existing and deliver new projects. We will leverage this
experience to implement the present engagement.
We are therefore confident that the proposed services will meet the needs of Ethio Telecom, which will
significantly improve present processes in a timely manner and within a budget that can be agreed and
achieved.
Yours Sincerely,
2. Executive Summary
Techno Brain along is pleased to submit our Proposal and capabilities for the Machine to Machine /
Internet of Things Engagement for Ethio Telecom.
Techno Brain, a Pan African company is one of Africa’s leading ICT Software Services, BPO ITES and IT
Training Company, delivering complex IT projects to government, private and not-for-profit
organizations.
As Africa’s second fastest growing IT Company and a long-term IT player in Namibia and Africa at large,
we welcome and appreciate the initiatives of the CoW, in facilitating and managing the efforts towards
the realization of the Proposed System.
Techno Brain commenced operations over 20 years ago, as a Training Centre to the rapidly expanding
behemoth that now covers 20 countries, 5 different continents and employs over 1,200 people., its
growth testament to the incubatory and conducive environment for growth that Africa has provided for
Techno Brain. In line with this, Techno Brain, seeks to take this important step and milestone to
potentially partner with CoW, by submitting our response. Contained herein are the details that provide
insights on our Experience in providing similar services, CVs of the Key and Non-Key resources, response
to CoW requirements, Training and Capacity Building and Local Support.
With the ambition of playing its crucial role in IoT service provisioning, Ethio Telecom wants to engage
with experienced IoT service providers with best solutions, equipment and pre to post deployment
services with a revenue sharing model.
Below is the list of key objectives Ethio Telecom wants to achieve through Internet of Things/Machine
Machine Engagement project:
• To engage IoT partners with a diverse range of experience and high level of expertise in the
provisioning of IoT platform, application and devices.
• To establish best practices, standards, and an actionable process that will help ethio telecom
• To jointly identify feasible IoT projects to deliver based on market size and customer demand.
Our Capability
Techno Brain has for over 20 years been developing and deploying many systems for various NGO’s,
Public & Private Sector and Government entities. This experience means that we understand the
challenges faced by organizations, how to overcome these challenges thus ensuring that the solution
and system implemented is “right first time”.
Below table displays some of our experience in implementing systems of similar nature and scope as
that Proposed in this Proposal: -
Techno Brain’s strength lies in understanding the local scenario and requirements essential for successful
solutions, providing local support services that are close to the client and empowering the client via
capacity building and training. This is envisaged by our vast experience and knowledge of implementing
large scale projects in Southern Africa.
Republic of Namibia
Lesotho Postal
ZESCO Limited
Implementation of COBIT 5.0 & Training of over 400 people for Centre
Turnover in
$22,002,650.00 $22,833,178.00 $18,702,463.00 $29,540,940.80 $19,620,465.03
USD
$30,000,000.00 $29,540,940.80
$25,000,000.00
$22,833,178.00
$22,002,650.00
TURNOVER IN $
$15,000,000.00
$10,000,000.00
$5,000,000.00
$0.00
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS
3. Company
The engagement will bring Ethio telecom and partners capabilities together in a single, integrated
delivery model. Hence, we are responding our proposal with the our detailed IoT and similar capabilities
that Ethio Telecom can leverage by partnering with us. This partnership will bring the various benefits
like overcome capability gaps, reduce time to market by levering partnership model.
Techno Brain will bring in decades of experience of delivering IoT/M2M project to various customers
across the world. The experts who all trained and experienced in similar services will handle the projects
in association with the valuable input facilitated by Ethio Telecom as a part of this initiative.
4.1 Scope
The IoT service provider will engage with Ethio Telecom to provide the end to end IoT services with
deep technical expertise and support.
IoT Partner are required to submit a product information (for product information please refer Section
6 of this document) and strategy on the potential areas mentioned below. The list is not intended to be
exhaustive and responders are encouraged to share additional areas that can be monetized and
repeatable.
• Smart Home
o Home security: internet-enabled cameras, security alarms, smoke alarms & locks
o Energy monitoring
o Home appliances
• Waste management
• Transportation:
IoT Service Provider (Partner) should deliver the solution, operate and provide in life management
support jointly with Ethio Telecom for the above engagement areas. Service Providers can submit their
solution that can address one, some or all the areas above. The areas should not be restricted to the
above ones and additional areas can be included depending on market potential and segment maturity.
5. Proposed Offerings
5.1 Introduction
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a grid of things (objects/sensors) that contain embedded software to
communicate and interact with their internal states or the external environment. These IoT Sensors have
ability to collect and transfer data over a network without manual intervention. The connecting of assets,
processes and personnel enables individuals/ enterprises in learning the behavior and usage, achieve
predictive analytics and reengineer business processes. The IoT is a foundational capability for the
creation of a digital business.
With dynamically changing requirements on the daily operational activities, it has become evident that
we make use of technology and leverage on the strengths of connected devices for providing operational
managers, back office analytics team with more data points. These data points are available in today’s
world from various channels / medium.
• The IoT offers opportunities for variety of use cases. IoT solutions can be very different,
depending on objectives, technology and infrastructure, but they have a lot in common.
• One of the most important issues to be addressed is how to connect the different
communication technologies used by all sorts of devices to the Internet.
• This makes individual solutions an inefficient option and leads to the adoption of a single
platform to address problems that are shared by all devices and all applications.
Locate365 an IoT platform built on specialized IoT Framework, enabling it to be quickly used and applied
for various use cases. Techno Brain solutions that use this Locate365 Platform are already operating in
several market areas, giving customers the opportunity to benefit from all the savings and control
advantages offered by the IoT.
Locate – IOT Platform provides data and management platform which acquires, stores and analyses data
from field gateways or sensors connected to various networks.
MAIN FEATURES
• Connected Platform with various edge hardware - sensors, gateways to single Data Account
• Data platform as middleware
• Multitenant platform with individual access rights
• Multi-Protocol Ready Platform
IoT is synonymous with time-stamped data, or time series data since the purpose of any sensor is to
measure change over time. To gain insight and act, systems need to evaluate and analyze the data
based on timeframes and ranges. The Modern IoT Data Platform needs to be optimized for time series
data.
IoT is synonymous with streaming data. Data is created by different sensors, and each sensor emits a
relentless stream of data. The Modern IoT Data Platform needs to be optimized for streaming data and
has actionable analytics to find the signal from all the noise
Sensors capture and emit data in real time. Greater business value is derived if the data can also be
interpreted and acted upon in real time. The Modern IoT Data Platform is designed to handle real-time
ingestion and real-time streaming analytics.
Having sensors and getting more data is irrelevant to the business if this data cannot be used to gain
real-time insights, accelerate decision-making, perform automated tasks, and create value by enabling
organizations to become data-driven. We see businesses getting value from their IoT data in 3 major
areas:
Finally, Real time Dashboard will provide IoT Dashboards for data
visualization and remote device control in real-time.
Technology
• Open Protocol enabled solution for supporting various IOT Sensors – Multi Vendor Platform
Support
• Accessibility: The ability to capture data from multiband sensors, generate data points using
dashboards and generate analytics from the sensor data. Locate365 is a multi-tenant platform,
and a Cloud ready solution for various use cases.
• Flexibility: The platform enables high level of integration between data acquisition, validation
and processing. The platform supports the most varied use cases and integration with external
ecosystems in general.
• Anything as a Service (XaaS): Locate365 IoT Platform are offered as XaaS (Anything as a Service)
solutions, with comprehensive monitoring, reduced development time and costs, user-friendly
distributed access, Help-Desk Support and Revenue Management Integrations.
Architecture
Locate 365 is a cloud ready platform and is capable of having deployed for on-premises implementation
or for a private cloud requirement of Ethio Telecom.
B Avail a single point of integration between Fully Comply The proposed platform will
ethio telecom infrastructure and different utilize the ethio telecom
applications. infrastructure for connectivity
requirements and provide the
single point of integration with
various applications
C Handle scalability/ growth in the number Fully Comply The proposed platform is highly
and heterogeneity of devices scalable can integrate with
millions of device
simultaneously to process the
data stream captured through
the devices.
D Provide precise analytical insights Fully Comply The proposed platform gives the
precise analytical insights
through customized dashboards
and reports. The platform can
also be integrated with third
party analytical and BI tools.
E Protect devices from accessing malwares Fully Comply The devices are secured enough
and spoofing sites to project it from any kind of
malware and unauthorized
access which include the
physical access also.
H Service integration (with legacy system, Fully Comply The APIs will be exposed to
third party system) integrate with any other third
party application or legacy
systems. The APIs can also be
consumed from such systems
and applications if required.
I Device Management (manages a Fully Comply The platform comes with easy to
heterogeneous set of devices) use device management
console with features like device
registration, activate, deactivate,
delete registration, reports on
device registered, inactive
devices etc.
J Information/ Data management (storage- Fully Comply The platform can support
processing massive amounts of data, BI) massive amount data to process
K Self-service Portal (user management, Fully Comply The proposed platform has the
reports) user management and report
generation module. Using user
management module various
roles and accessibility rights can
be configured for users.
L Subscription and Billing management Fully Comply The proposed platform has
(flexible packaging and pricing) inbuilt subscription and billing
management module.
O Ensures data security, confidentiality and Fully Comply The platform is secured and
accessibility, follows standard security
guidelines with multi-layer
security standards to ensure
data security, confidentiality and
accessibility.
Techno Brain established well-defined organizational standards and management processes that
successfully meet the requirement for providing world class quality services to our clients across the
globe.
Techno Brain has established sets of defined and documented standard processes and is occasionally
reviewed for additional improvement. Level 5 CMMi assures consistency in the development process
across the organization. Our extensive training and processes keep both new and existing employees
updated and consistent across the organization. It includes work instructions, professional training, and
certification and document templates. Techno Brain applies its CMMI implementation processes related
to the Technical Solution, Requirements Management, and Project Monitoring and Control Pas which
helps the client in achieving the below:
On-Time Increased
Overall Cost Improved Higher Return
Project Customer
Reduction Quality on Investment
Schedules Satisfaction
Professional Qualifications
M.B.A (Project Management)
B.Sc. (Computers)
PMP Certified
Key Skills
Project Management
Delivery Management
Account Management
Stakeholder Management
Business Development
Enterprise-wide Implementations
Requirements Analysis
ROI Analysis
Team Building & Leadership
Client and Partner Relations
Cross-Functional Supervision
Address of Employer:
Shaunak Ganguly
Summarize professional experience over the last twenty years, in reverse chronological order. Indicate
particular technical and managerial experience relevant to the project.
Detailed Tasks:
Responsible for the entire project management right from
requirements gathering to ending of the project.
Responsible for accomplishing the project objectives within the
constraints of the project
Involved with the planning, controlling and monitoring, and also
managing and directing the assigned project resources to best
meet project objectives
Controlled and monitored “triple constraints”—project scope,
time and cost (quality also)—in managing competing project
requirements
Languages skills:
Experience in programming using ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, ASP, HTML, SQL, and
Visual Basic 6.0.
Involved in developing Stored Procedures, UDF, Triggers, and Transact SQL
using SQL Server 2000/2005 databases for Web and Windows based software
technologies using ADO.NET.
Present Name of Employer: Techno Brain
employment
Address of Employer:
Shaunak Ganguly
Summarize professional experience over the last 6.9 years, in reverse chronological order. Indicate
particular technical experience relevant to the project.
Company/Project/ Position/Relevant technical and management
From To
experience
July 2010 To date Techno Brain: Project Manager
Consultancies and Implementations have included:
Project: Electronic Cargo Tracking for Transit Cargo – Zimbabwe
Client: Zimbabwe Revenue Authority
Role: Project Manager
Summary of Accomplishments:
Project Management
Complete Requirement Gathering
Client Coordination
Solution Design
Deployment Architecture
Business Analysis
Control Room Design and Setup
Integration Approach Design and Deployment
End-to-End Demonstration and Go-Live Support
Completed Development
Completed Testing
Completed Training to Key users
Completed User Acceptance Test
Completed Project Handover
Address of Employer:
Shaunak Ganguly
Summarize professional experience over the last twenty years, in reverse chronological order. Indicate
particular technical and managerial experience relevant to the project.
Languages skills:
Address of Employer:
Shaunak Ganguly
Languages skills:
Shaunak Ganguly
Project Management
Developing and Guiding Team of Human Resource System
Training Users
Conducting Demonstration for clients
System Analysis and Design
Database Designing
Products Demo
Pre-Sell and Developing Prototyping
System Requirement Preparation
System Testing
2004 -
2007 MOF Generating Budget reports of Ministry of Finance
Customization of Epicor Financial Management
TRA Fund Reservation
" System for TRA (2004- SoftTech)
Development of Revenue and Receipting and
Accounting System for TRA. .Net application for
TRA RRAS Enhancement
collection revenue and issuing receipts (2004-
" SoftTech)
Development, Testing and Deployment of
Budgeting Tool for MOF (SoftTech). A net
Ministry of Finance Budget Model application that used to prepared account code
and budgeting and print budget books for the
" GOT
Customization of Epicor Financial Management
Malawi Commitment Control System for Commitment Control for TRA (2006-
" SoftTech)
Local Government Reform Customization of Epicor Financial Management
Program Commitment Control- System for Commitment Control for Tanzania
" LGRP Local Government (2005- SoftTech)
Development, Testing of Epicor Financial
Government of The Gambia Management System for Government of
" Gambia(SoftTech)
Development, Testing and Implementation of
Uganda Communication
2007 - To Human Resource System. Net application with Sql
Commission
Date server database. (2007 Techno Brain)
Development, Testing and Implementation of
Lilongwe City Assembly Malawi Human Resource System. Net application with Sql
" server database. (2008- Techno Brain)
Supervising, Support, Testing and
Implementation of Human Resource System. Net
Plan Malawi
application with Sql server database. (2011-
" Techno Brain)
Supervising, Support, Testing and
Implementation of Human Resource System. Net
NFRA Malawi
application with Sql server database. (2011-
" Techno Brain)
Languages skills:
Reading Speaking Writing
English Excellent Excellent Excellent
Swahili Excellent Excellent Excellent
Shaunak Ganguly
• Multi-layer security
Techno Brain proposing the Revenue Sharing Model in this partnership on case to case basis. The
detailed terms and conditions on revenue sharing will be discussed, agreed and signed between Techno
Brain and Ethio Telecom in later stages of this project.
The proposed steps to help us break in to the market are mentioned below:
• Educate the targeted customer segment in the market about our product and services through
various marketing campaigns.
• Engaging with customers to create value and convey the value propositions of our products
and services and how are we better than other players in the market.
• Enabling our internal sales and support team with right content and provide the required
support to convert the prospect in to customer.
• Aggressive pricing strategy
• External marketing activities
Note: The detailed go to market strategy will be discussed in detail with the Ethio Teleocm Team. Above
mentioned strategy is very high level which needs to be drilled down.
• Techno Brain will provide detailed terms and conditions along with commercials on each
business case. The subscription charges of the Smart Fleet Management Software are attached
in this document at last. The subscription price only includes the platform (Software) cost.
• Cost projections are highly dependent on Hardware (device) cost. Hence, in absence of knowing
the number of devices it cannot be projected.
• Details commercial, co-marketing and GTM strategy will be discussed with Ethio Telecom
• Deployment models will be discussed with Ethio Telecom based on each of the use cases and
customer requirements.
• Delivery timelines will be defined based on the cases. Delivery Timelines are mostly depended
on the complexity of the project.
Proof of Concept for the proposed solution can be provided to the Ethio Telecom or any other entity if
required. The platform is hosted on cloud and it can be used for POC purpose. A detailed business case
and business requirements will be defined for the POC in case of Pilot Project.