Hub of ambitious developments

Electronic queue, multiboard and high-quality software — HTP resident offers unique projects for the CIS market

For more than four years, the Belarusian company Techno-Sky has been working on the designing and production of sensor equipment, as well as software and electronic components. Among their projects there are touch panels and tables, self-service terminals that have replaced information desks at the country’s enterprises. The company’s portfolio today includes more than several hundred developments, most of which are supplied to Russia and other CIS countries. In 2021, Techno-Sky received the status of a resident of the Hi-Tech Park, and this year it plans a strategic transition to a new business model.

Photo by Pavel Chuiko

Thousands of smart solutions

If you study the portfolio of completed orders of the company, then for a complete description of all projects, you need to make a book of more than 300 pages. As wide a variety as the functionality of touch panels, about which Techno-Sky employees apparently know everything. In their small, industrial-scale facility, they assemble, weld, and design products. In addition, they themselves create software. The founder of the company, Yuri Savchuk, is convinced that it is this approach that allows the full control of the quality of products, “We also create a unique screwless design that our competitors are trying to copy.”
Among the many products, Yuri Savchuk singled out the most successful cases by which the company’s capabilities can be assessed: an interactive checkpoint, a multiboard and an electronic queue.
— Interactive checkpoint is a modern replacement for classic paper information stands. The project includes a self-service touch terminal and specialised software with a huge number of modules. One of these developments was implemented at the checkpoint of one of the capital’s enterprises. We were faced with the task of solving the problem of informing visitors about the activities and structure of the enterprise, as well as organising a modern way of connecting visitors with employees via telephone. This task has been successfully completed.
In turn, the multiboard is an interactive touch panel that replaced the projector and, unlike it, has become an absolutely independent device. The multiboard does not need additional devices during operation and performs its tasks stably. Built-in additional equipment, such as a fingerprint scanner, prevents unauthorised activation of the multiboard by unauthorised persons. Yuri Savchuk also drew attention to the fact that this product is the most in demand. The development of the company is ideal for classrooms and classrooms, conference rooms, meeting rooms, significantly increasing the efficiency of information presentation.
— Our electronic queue is a service consisting of an interactive panel, an additional receipt printer, a main display, an operator console and an administrative part for managing and monitoring the system. This solution helps automate objects of any traffic, analyse work using reports, monitor the work of employees online, and also combine objects into a common network.
The Techno-Sky team also has its own bright solutions for the education sector. They include the interactive Lecture department. A powerful PC, which is located inside the case, is responsible for its operation. Any screen, audio system can be connected to the computer, the required number of outputs and connectors, microphones can be built in.
Among all the developments of the company, it is impossible not to single out the Glass table. This is a real touch table, which five years ago could be more attributed to the films about the near future, and not to reality. The table is made of tempered glass of increased transparency with the application of special dirt-repellent coatings. A feature of the series of touch tables is the possibility to place from one to four independent workstations on one device.

To become an HTP resident is to reach a new level

No less surprising is the fact that such a variety of products was created by a team of 30 people.
“For four and a half years we have successfully worked with more than 500 customers. Among them there are both well-known companies and state institutions,” explained Yuri Savchuk.

At the same time, the founder of the company noted that it was important for the entire team to become HTP residents, “When we started working on interactive panels, the first thought that accompanied us was to take the company to a new level and become residents of the Hi-Tech Park. Now we are proud to say that we are part of the ‘Silicon Valley of Eastern Europe’.”
This gives developers not only obvious preferences and benefits, but also a status that can ‘add weight’ when working with foreign players. At the moment the company cooperates with Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Strategic year

Yuri Savchuk also noted that this year the company’s business model may undergo significant changes.
— Over the years, we have created products for which we created separate software. We want to create a platform that will unite all our developments into a single ecosystem, and add a mobile application for individuals to this. We have an idea that through this application it will be possible to pay, take a queue and much more. Now all possible functions are under analysis and development. Ultimately, if everything works out, we plan to refocus on software and, possibly, move away from physical products.
The founder of the company noted that the development of such a platform could take up to six months.
“Until 2025, we plan to create a software platform that will combine all existing software within a mobile application that will be used by individuals in the CIS and the West,” sums up the interlocutor.

ACCENT
The Techno-Sky company worked on the creation of a software and hardware complex for the Partisans of Belarus special project of the Belarus Segodnya Publishing House and the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus. Recently, this project, unique for the entire territory of the former USSR, received a special award from the President for significant work in shaping public consciousness, popularising the history of the partisan and underground movement in Belarus.
“We have created three interactive panels for this project. We were given the task of making information stands that could display the site partizany.by on the panel and allow users to interact with it. We tried to meet the tight deadlines, we succeeded,” said Yuri Savchuk.
The Partisans of Belarus project is an interactive multimedia online database of the partisan movement partizany.by. In 2020, it was decided to organise the first mobile multimedia exhibition Feats and Fates of Partisans in Documents based on the Internet resource. The exhibition presents exhibits (photo works) and award documents. In addition, there is a branded interactive stand of the partizany.by project, with the help of which each visitor of the exhibition can try to find his heroic ancestor from among the partisans and underground fighters, learn new facts about the partisan movement in Belarus.

By Ilya Kryzhevich