Indian gate management platforms must be asset-light, not hardware-heavy
Vijay Arisetty · Building A Society Mantainance App For 4M+ Homes Ft Vijay Arisetty, Founder, MyGate · Aug 1, 2022 · at 20:17
Vijay Arisetty, founder and CEO of MyGate, discusses why traditional hardware solutions like boom barriers fail at scale in Indian gated communities.
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“In India, if you have to build efficient gate management or efficient platforms anywhere, there is a lot of validation that needs to take place, right? You need to build, you know, asset-less you know, platforms.”
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