AllGo to introduce Zigbee in India

BANGALORE: AllGo Embedded Systems has come up with a reference design based on the short-range wireless technology Zigbee, targeted at Indian companies manufacturing fire alarms and electricity meters.

The two-year old Bangalore-based firm, started by a group of Motorola engineers, offers DSP algorithms and solutions in areas like multimedia applications and wireless baseband. The company, which started off doing projects for Freescale Semiconductors, is now providing its services and IPs to portable media player vendors, leading car audio makers and consumer electronics majors.

K Srinivasan, chief executive officer, AllGo, informed that the company is investing resources in getting more solution focused and providing end-to-end vertically aligned solutions to customers. “We are investing in IP creation. We see ourselves as a solutions company that does IP and services around IP.”

The company has ten IPs in areas like short-range wireless, codecs for high-definition video and network audio solutions. Srinivasan added that the company helps in bridging the requirements gap between the semiconductor vendors and the OEMs by providing application software.

Staffed with just 18 engineers, AllGo (that signifies technology or solutions for the mobile or on-the-go segment) made revenues of $1 million in the first year of its operations and is looking at a growth rate of 50-60 per cent this year. The company is cash-positive and is aiming to touch the revenue target of $10 million in five years’ time.

AllGo, like its competitor in the industry Ittiam Systems, represents a new breed of start-ups that are arising out of Indian facilities of global tech companies such as TI and Motorola bolstering the India innovation story.

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