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Canon enters surveillance market

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NEW DELHI, INDIA: Canon India today launched 24 new products in IT peripheral segment, which included an IP surveillance camera marking its entry into Indian surveillance and security space.

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“There is immense need that we have felt for modern product in surveillance and security space,” said Alok Bharadwaj, vice-president, Canon India.

“The IP camera that we have launched today are enabled with hi-tech features like night vision, intelligent image capturing. We are confident of leading Indian surveillance and security market which is estimated to be Rs 100 crore,” he said.

Apart from this, the range unveiled today includes four single format inkjet printers, 10 all-in-one printers, 3 laser printers, 5 projectors and one scanner.

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Canon has added Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) feature in one of its projectors, which has a resolution of 1400x1050 pixels. This projector can display direct image from PictBridge-Compatible digital cameras.

Canon claims that high resolution projectors that it has launched today would cater to the needs of studies in healthcare industry.

“The new addition in the existing range of IT peripherals and products are based on future technology. The resolution of our projectors have high resolution and will help specialists in health industry to conduct various studies,” said Bharadwaj.

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He said Canon has provided enhanced version of projectors to give clear picture and help experts to go through minute details that are required for their study.

Canon also said one multi-purpose inkjet printer in this new range of products is wi-fi enabled.

Canon expressed hope that these new additions would add 30 per cent additional growth to the company's revenue.

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“This year till September end we registered growth of 58 per cent in printer division, where as the overall industry showed a decline of 14 per cent,” said VP Sajeevan, assistant director, Consumer System Product Division, Canon India.

He said the newly launched products are aimed to increase Canon's presence in home print, office print and scan, project print, entertainment, education and government.

“Simultaneously we are entering into three new segments - namely project security, industrial security and health care. I am optimistic that this launch altogether will make easy for us to achieve 40 per cent company growth target in 2010,” he added.

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