A new product from Green Packet to keep your home safe

It sees increasing demand for surveillance products

PETALING JAYA: Green Packet Bhd hopes to sell 500 units of the IRIX 123, an Internet protocol-based surveillance system, a month in the first year of its introduction.

Senior general manager Kelvin Lee, who was upbeat on the company’s latest offering, said it saw a trend of increasing demand for surveillance products.

“The product is targeted at home users and small and medium-scale enterprises locally,” he said at the launch of IRIX 123 yesterday.

Lee said the company had a preview of the IRIX 123 with potential customers overseas and some had already expressed interest. “We are expecting some orders from overseas.”

Kelvin Lee with the IRIX 123. He says the product is targeted at home users and small and medium-s cale enterprises locally.

The IRIX 123 is a do-it-yourself surveillance system which can be accessed remotely from a website portal or a 3G phone.

“As long as you have an Internet connection via a computer or 3G or WiFi-enabled mobile phone, IRIX 123 can be accessed,” Lee said, adding that the surveillance system was designed to be installed in just three steps.

To a question, he said the savings for consumers differed as the surveillance systems in the market varied. “It is not an apple-to-apple comparison. It’s hard to compare but our products have their own value propositions.”

Green Packet has claimed that IRIX 123 is priced to be the best value-for-money solution in the market and the simplest to install.

While he did not disclose the investment cost for the product, Lee said Green Packet spent about 20% of its revenue on research and development annually.

“We make the allocation to fund the innovation of new solutions,” he said.

Meanwhile, Lee said the IRIX 123 would indirectly contribute towards increasing the sales of Green Packet’s WiMAX products, as the new surveillance system needed a WiFi connection to be activated. “For those who have yet to install the broadband facility, this will be a two-in-one package.”

The system will be distributed through broadband resellers and the retail price is RM1,588 for two cameras.

In conjunction with the product launch, a complimentary two-gigabit memory card and video management software are also included.

To a question, Lee said the installation of its surveillance systems for one’s own consumption was not against the law. “It doesn’t infringe the law unless you were to install it in another person’s place. If I install it at your house then it’s against the law as it would be an invasion of your privacy.”

“It is quite common nowadays to install a surveillance system at home or in your own shop,” he said.