The Artificial intelligence (AI) suite of technologies that include machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, image recognition, and natural language processing (NLP), to name a few, is undoubtedly transforming our individual lives and business models. The AI market in India, too, is showing a lot of promise. A joint study conducted by Microsoft and the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) expects this market to grow 20% in the next five years with a major part of this growth being attributed to private companies, and industry bodies in this domain. While we acknowledge that the list is not exhaustive, we have compiled a list of a few such entities that have stood out in 2022. Founded in 2015, Staqu is a Gurugram-headquartered AI startup.

In the first week of September, the Uttar Pradesh STF was conferred with FICCI Smart Policing Award 2021, among more than 190 entries from 19 state police forces, four CAPFs and other central police forces. The STF branch of the UP police won it for their application of the JARVIS tool. Indigenously developed by a Gurugram-based AI research startup, StaqU, the JARVIS-SIAN tool was launched in 2021 by IPS Amitabh Yash. Founded in 2015, StaqU uses state-of-the-art image recognition, text-processing & summarisation, classification, and language-independent proprietary speaker identification. In April this year, the company raised Rs 11 crore in a pre-series A funding round from Mount Judi Venture and SIS limited.

Before COVID-19 struck India, Rajesh Agrawal and his wife, Meenakshi, would often get food from restaurants delivered to their home. A weekly treat of chicken tikka masala or lamb biryani would be a break from the vegetarian dishes they cook at home. It's been nearly a year since the Agrawals stopped ordering in food from their favorite restaurants. "There's no way to tell how clean and hygienic the restaurant kitchens are really," Mr. Agrawal says. "Sure, the government has released processes for restaurants during the pandemic. But we can't be certain that they're following those, can we?"

Cutting-edge automation, smart features and productivity hacks; the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here to disrupt conventional norms. While users may remain oblivious to the sheer extent and scale of automation seeping into our daily lives, we can all take a whiff of the changing times. The writing on the wall is clear! AI is here to make our everyday lived experiences smarter and more efficient. To the same end, some of the leading and fast-growing companies of today have made AI an integral part of their offerings.

Staqu launched an AI powered Video wall which will analyse CCTV footage from 70 prisons of UP. The video analytics platform called JARVIS will check for frisking, unauthorised access, crowd analysis, violence, and intrusion detection. The startup has already worked with the police forces of Rajasthan, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Telangana. Indian Artificial Intelligence and facial recognition startup Staqu which has partnered with the police on several occasions - has now brought about a'Video Wall' that will analyse movement in the prisons of Uttar Pradesh. The AI-powered Video wall will cover and analyse CCTV footage from 70 prisons of UP.

Indian AI-powered software firm Staqu has revealed the launch of TRINETRA, an AI application for the Uttar Pradesh Police Department. The application digitizes and search records using AI and carries records of criminals, assisting police forces at ground zero with real-time information retrieval during investigations, regular checks, verifications, and at police checkpoints. The firm said the app is powered by Staqu's expertise in facial recognition, visual search, machine learning, and deep learning, works well with low-resolution images and videos, and offers better accuracy than any other criminal recognition system. "With AI-powered Gang identification Technology, TRIENETRA not only identifies a criminal but also their associates active in different districts and part of the states."

This article is part of Inc42's Startup Watchlist annual series where we list the top startups to watch for 2018 from industries like AI, Logistics, Fintech etc. Explore all the stories from'Startup Watchlist' series here. "AI will be the best or worst thing ever for humanity," says the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. Musk has been one of the most vociferous about the impact of artificial intelligence or AI on human life, voicing both concern and hope of what it can do to the future of the human race. "I have exposure to the most cutting-edge AI, and I think people should be really concerned by it," Musk said at the National Governors Association. "AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization in a way that car accidents, airplane crashes, faulty drugs or bad food were not -- they were harmful to a set of individuals within society, of course, but they were not harmful to society as a whole." While Musk has his concerns about robots taking up human jobs and becoming far more intelligent than humans, the fact remains that AI as a technology was the most talked about in 2017 in the Indian startup ecosystem.

Various algorithms like content, color, shape and texture are extracted and fused together to provide visual search solutions for various e-commerce businesses in the field of fashion, housing, medicine etc. Rai's start-up is selling the technology to e-commerce companies and mobile phone brands to integrate the same within the mobile phone camera. Elaborating the role of AI in Staqu, Rai stressed that image search was not the only segment in which they are working right now. The start-up is offering various services like visual search, automated meta-tag generation, visual recommendation, real time video processing etc.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) -- the technology that tries to mimic human behaviour and thought processes -- has decisively broken the size barrier. No more is it the preserve of big tech firms, as small and medium outfits and start-ups are increasingly using it to great effect. For instance, last month travel-search marketplace ixigo launched an AI-powered chatbot -- ixibaba -- for its users. The chatbot (an automated response system that gives users the feeling of chatting with another human) helps travellers find the cheapest travel deals, hotels, vacation destinations and things to do in a city. "Now AI is better positioned for an uptake, especially in domain-specific contexts, as a lot of Big Data is available. AI, one part of which is machine learning, is the next big thing," said Aloke Bajpai, co-founder and CEO at ixigo.