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EDS India: Liberating India Of Its Electronics Design Dependency

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Santanu Roy,Managing Director

Santanu Roy

Managing Director

In India, the design services segment plays a significant role in the electronics system design and manufacturing (ESDM) sector. According to a study by the India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA), the contribution of design services to the ESDM sector grew steadily over the past few years. In spite of an increase in domestic production, the import of electronics into India continues unabated. However, that is about to change with start-ups like EDS India setting new frontiers in in-house products and designs. Working in the electronics design services domain, EDS India was established in 2015 and has already made some major contributions to `Make in India' initiative.

In the past 5 years of its operations in the electronics design services domain, EDS India has ensured to cater to every touch-point of this value chain. Having established a reputation of an independent design house, EDS India has demonstrated its expertise in LED lightings, Home Automation, LED displays, IoT connectivities (2G/3G/4G modem, WiFi, BLE, LoRa modules), Industrial Automation, Electric Vehicle (Charger, BMS, Control), and more advance projects including Automatic Emergency Breaking (AEBS), Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) and Advance Car infotainment systems.

While metro cities like Bangalore and Hyderabad pervades majority of IDHs, EDS India enjoys a significant market share in the northern states. EDS India has already applied for 4 patents in the field of lighting and display systems, and EVs, of which one has been granted recently. The firm has its designed LED boards installed at 50+ Airport Terminals, and 500+ Railway Stations spread across the country. More than 30,000 vehicles, through 10+ vendors approved under AIS140, has EDS' tracking systems installed. The numbers reaches new heights every day. EDS India has also designed wide range of LED Lighting Driver designs supporting major OEMs, like Havells, Bajaj, surya etc.

EDS is founded and guided by Mr. Santanu Roy (MD), with more than 25 years of industry experience in Project Management, Designing for Analog & Digital Circuits, Embedded Controls, Power electronics, Hardware & Software Development. Santanu started his career in 1996, working with hard core design companies. He has designed and successfully delivered various embedded hardware and software products/technologies to the global market, holding 3 international patents and 1 Indian Patent in his name. He also holds a Bachelor of Technology degree and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Symbiosis, Pune.

Led by Santanu and his associates cum companions, EDS India caters to every domain of electronic design services, be it homespun power supplies or complex systems like Automated test benches, Smart home automation, Tracking Systems, Electric Vehicles etc. EDS-India provide services in areas of Complete Hardware Design (Hardware architecture planning, Schematic Designs, DFMEA, PCB Layout, EMI/EMC etc.), Embedded Software, Application software and web applications including Mobile Apps, IoT dashboards, gateway solutions etc. This IDH also provides assistance in product certifications from organizations like ARAI, iCAT, UL, DIMTS, RDSO etc. EDS' primary
focus is Analog & Digital Designs, Power Electronics, Embedded Controls, and Connectivity.

First Time Right
First Time right has always been EDS India's modus operandi since its inception. The firm provides its clients with any and all kind of expertise under one roof. EDS provides solutions for everything between Hardware, Software, Embedded Software and Website development & Android/IoS App development. Being one of the top IDHs in India, EDS India takes a personal responsibility to take steps in working towards the Prime Minister's vision of "atmanirbhar bharat".

Observing this national objective, EDS India felt the need of Hardware development in the country. "Countries like China and Japan other western countries have a strong hand in the Hardware segment, which enables them to create more efficient products. In the current scenario, India lacks in the production of Hardware services. We as a Design House are working on the development of the same. Our vision to be a single source solution provider enabling our customers rise the ladder of success", ex-plains Santanu.

Innovating its Way to the Top
Innovation has always resided on the top, in the list of factors contributing to EDS' success. The firm has already numerous patents applied in the field of LED driver / LED Display and EV Chargers. Recently, EDS has been Awarded a Patent for LED Video screen by Govt. Of India. EDS India has always strived for the best. While the current market is flooded by EV chargers, only a handful of them can meet an efficiency of more than 90%. Given the upcoming market of EV, every single penny saved will turn into million. EDS put in massive efforts to bring the best and finally emerged with a design of EV Charger which can deliver more than 93% efficiency, thereby saving millions for the nation.

The import of electronics into India continues unabated. However, that is about to change with start-ups like EDS India setting new frontiers in in-house products and designs.


The above achievement is just one of the many successful milestones met. To highlight, EDS India's patentable RGB video wall solution and Digital SMPS based battery charger are the top runner. With its patented solution for RGB video wall, now video walls can be Made in India, doing away with imports from China or other countries. This development caters to the needs of Indian Railways and Airport for Video wall display for Flight / Train Information for which earlier they had to depend on imported goods troubled with reliability and maintainability issues. More so, with the development of highly efficient digital SMPS based EV charger up to 2KW, EDS India deliver stremendous power savings to the nation. These chargers connected in millions on the grid, with an efficiency of more than 93%, the power savings achieved are off the records.

Design is our Passion, Not Profession
"Design is our passion, not profession. Being fanatically passionate, we deliver solution as required by our customer in a timely manner enabling us to grow in the eyes of our customers. With this high-speed technical era, we believe we need to regularly upgrade our skills which is the major key to our success", says Santanu. He adds, "In India we have good pool of resource talent in the field of software design but lack in stable hardware designs. We, at EDS India, majorly concentrate on providing robust hardware solutions to withstand the varied condition in our vast motherland. We at EDS believe delivering `First Time Right' which needs extensive testing and process, being an ISO certified design House all our processes are well defined and followed stringently like DF-MEA, 7D resolution etc. which gives strength to our design and faith to our customers. Field return of EDS projects are below industry standard of 2% we stand at 1.41%".

Santanu is further supported by professionals of the field. Mr. Vijay Kumar carries with him more than 23 Years of Experience in Operations, Customer support and back-office. Mr. Kumar is the backbone to this growing organization. Prior to EDS-INDIA Mr. Kumar worked with some major players servicing the Indi- an Railways in Passenger information System.

With More than 8 Years of Experience in Embedded Design, Mr. DileepSingh and Mr. Naveen Dagarplay a key role in defining the projects and executing the design activities taking care of EDS India's end customer requirement. Mr. Singh is also a certified Auditor from Quality Austria for company's ISO Process.

More Futuristic Innovations Ahead
"Technology is changing very fast and we, at EDS, are also keeping up with the pace. Our major long term focus area is on the Artificial Intelligence, Electric Vehicle and IoT (Connected device) market place", says Santanu. EDS is already working with some game changing projects like Automatic Emergency breaking system, Train Collision avoidance system, and Smart Connected Railway coaches etc. The firm is extensively focusing its resources in the area of machine learning and connectivity which is the need of the hour.