The City-Based Odyssey Technologies Devolop A Software Product To Regularly Check And Improve The Agricultural Fields In India....

City-based Odyssey Technologies Ltd has developed a software product that has the potential to change the way verifications are carried out by banks, insurance firms and other agencies to enrol clients. The product, it is claimed, could usher in a system of paperless verification system to enrol customers.It requires just a mobile phone to speed up the verification process and save cost.

Named Odyssey Epic, the product is typically loaded into a mobile phone that has a GPRS connection, a camera and a Windows operating system, to create a paperless verification and enrolment system.The verification process using Odyssey Epic typically works thus. A visiting agent of an enrolling organisation captures the data relating to the client in his Odyssey Epic-loaded mobile phone using the in-built camera. He takes the picture of the person who is enrolled and also the `verification' document (say, a driving licence).

The software application (Odyssey Epic) converts the textual inputs and images into a single PDF document. The agent then digitally signs it, using the smart card in the phone and a digital certificate that is previously issued to the agent. This ensures the `authenticity and integrity' of the collected data, facilitating the enrolling organisation to store them directly.The security features were encrypted in an external mobile security card, Mr. Raja said. Odyssey would provide the software (in the mobile and at the backend of the client) to customers for Rs.5,000 to Rs.7,000 per agent.