Starr Computers Chief Executive Officer Mike Mohan last Friday told Stabroek Business that the business-related opportunities that promise to derive from the country’s oil & gas sector must become available to Guyanese entrepreneurs, both at home and abroad.
Speaking with this newspaper shortly after the launch of the company’s multi-million dollar Chalmers Place information/ communication technology store, Mohan said that he saw the country’s oil & gas-related developmental direction as an opportunity that allowed for the creation of more space for Guyanese investors to make a more meaningful investment mark.
Mohan, whose STARR Computers complex has been one of the country’s high profile information technology companies for several years told Stabroek Business that the company’s new investment in a range of contemporary security-related equipment was a response to its interpretation of the priorities of both the public and private sectors in the period ahead.
Asserting that it was obvious that the economic direction in which Guyana would appear to be heading gives rise to the need for the creation of “new types of goods and services” that can meet the important needs of the country, going forward, Mohan says that what the new Starr Computers service seeks to do is to provide easy and ready access to the kinds of security equipment and services “that both the government and the private sector are going to need, going forward.”
Last Friday, during an engagement with the media, Mohan disclosed that the new Security Store will offer, as part of its inventory, reliable surveillance cameras and Network Video Recorder (NVR) technology, a software service that allows for recording surveillance video in a digital format to a disk drive. This technology, he said will be accessed from some of the leading global manufacturers including Honeywell, Q-See and Hikvision.
According to Mohan the local security technology market can also anticipate access to “smart artificial- intelligent software with crime predictive features” that include “number plate recognition, facial biometry, weapon detection, video synopsis, follow-me sequence, and drone integration.” Further security products that will be offered by the new store include “walk-through and body security scanners, security guard management tools, biometric devices, smart home appliances along with a full lineup of support accessories,” Mohan said.
He told Stabroek Business that partnering with international security technology entities allowed Starr to negotiate prices, a facility which, in turn, allows for the passing on of preferred prices to customers in Guyana including the company’s more than two thousand local ‘Platinum’ members and resellers.
Part of the service that comes with the launch of the new Starr facility, Mohan said, are staff who are trained to provide instruction and guidance-related support in the use of the security-technology which the company will now be making available. Further, according to Mohan, the new service will be supported by the continuation of the company’s programme under which it invites some of the leading information and security technology entities here to help train the company’s local staff in both the use of the technology and the provision of the various services associated with upgrading and maintenance.
