SpaceGrid Business Plan

Pradeep Rathore
Naresh Soni
SpaceGrid

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Introduction
SpacegGrid provides Remote Sensing(RS) and Water
Resource Management(WRM) Services (Fig. 1)
Focus on Scientific and innovative solutions instead of
the current firefighting approach
Reducing cost and time using technology
Collaboration with academia for Research to evolve
new algorithms and become World leaders in Remote
Sensing
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Management Team
Pradeep Rathore

MSc, Water Resource Management, TU Delft, the Netherlands

B.Tech, Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur
Extensive experience around the world working in the
countries like Germany, the Netherlands, Myanmar,
Luxemburg, India, Vietnam etc
Experience in Project Management, integrated water resource
management, Hydrology, Flood warning systems, river basin
management, community participation etc
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Management Team
Naresh Soni

MSc, Geomatics, TU Delft, the Netherlands

B.Tech, Mining Engineering, IIT Kharagpur
Working experience with companies such as Shell, Baker
Hughes, Halliburton, Hansje Brinker, MetaSensing, Coal
India Ltd. Etc
Software development and technical computing
experience particularly with remote sensing and GIS
domain
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Organization
Sukesh Nayak ,B.Tech, Civil Engineering, IIT
Kharagpur
5 year project management experience

Sarin K Kumar, M.Tech, RJIT, Gwalior

Mapped whole J&K region under NFS project

Madhu Rathore, MBA, ICFAI Business School

7 years credit experience with HDFC, ICICI, First Data

Xurxo Otero, MSc, Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft

ESA, UNICEF, Extensive GPS experience

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Advisors
Prof. Dhrubajyoti Sen, Head, School of Water Resource, IIT
Kharagpur
Prof. Jayanta Bhattacharya, Ex-HOD, Mining Engineering
Department, IIT Kharagpur
Dr. Debasis Deb, Mining Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur
Prof. Nick Van De Giesen, Head, Water Management, TU Delft, the
Netherlands
Retd. Col. Sanjay Chadha, Head, Telecom Section, A2Z Group
Prof. Sanjay Pareek, Nihon University, Japan

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Alliances & Partnerships

Magnasoft Pvt. Ltd- Acquisition Partners

WaterWatch Cooperative- Project partners, Crop Health
Monitoring
IIT Kharagpur- Research Partners
TU Delft- Research Partners
Nippon University- Research Partners

* Pricing is done on a project to project basis

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SpaceGrid
SpaceGrid

Water
Water resource
resource
management
management

Earth
Earth observation
observation

Remote
Remote sensing
sensing

GIS
GIS

LiDAR
LiDAR

Web
Web mapping
mapping

InSAR
InSAR

GIS
GIS consulting
consulting

Photogrammetery
Photogrammetery

Location
Location based
based
services
services

Geo-scientific
Geo-scientific
consulting/R&D
consulting/R&D

Flood
Flood early
early
warning/monitorin
warning/monitorin
g
g systems
systems

LiDAR
LiDAR equipment
equipment
manufacturing
manufacturing

Watershed
Watershed
Management
Management

Drones/Copters
Drones/Copters
development
development

Under
Under water
water
surveying
surveying
systems
systems

Figure 1: Spacegrid Focus Areas

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Major competition
Earth
Earth observation
observation

Rolta (Major work is done for defence, heavily invested in

software development)
GeoKno, Genesys (only companies with LiDAR scanning
capabilities)

Water
Water resource
resource management
management

Wapcos (biggest water consultant in India)

GE, Dorr-Oliver(major waster water management/treatment plant
consultant)
Water Harvester (small
scale water harvesting such office sites etc.)
Geo-Scientific
Geo-Scientific ConsultingConsulting- R&D
R&D
No Hardware manufacturers in India yet.
IRNSS no hardware makers, India Government intends to promote
IRNSS bases location services
The Government: Laws not in place for UAVs.

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 Current Products/Services

LiDAR scanning and R&D

Real time Deformation monitoring algorithm
Real time Flood Warning module
Crop Health Monitoring app

Future Plans(2-3 years)

Make a National Level Flood/Drought Early Warning

System
Use satellite data for predicting/monitoring crop damage
(Crop Insurance)
Dedicated deformation monitoring modules for mining,
cities, ports etc.
River Rejuvenation studies and implementation with
community intervention.

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Market & Industry Environment

Market
Definition

Earth
Observation

Water
Resource
management

Remote sensing
and GIS work

Improved
Create new
management of products as per
water resources market needs

Key Segments
Size of Market

Refer to Slide #
$20 billion

$385 billion

Growth Rates
Challenges for
Market

Geo-Scientific
ConsultingR&D

$87 billion
By 2030

Technology still
evolving and
new to the
market

Resilience to
Change, Over
dependence on
old software,
bureaucracy

Heavy
competition by
big market
players (aka
Google, Here etc)

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An Example

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Thank you!!

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