Faculty-led spin-off company wins innovation contest

TITAN won the 2nd prize in The Socially Relevant Technologies (SRT) Innovation Contest (Professional Category) sponsored by the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines-Documentation, Information, Technology Transfer Bureau. 

TITAN is one of the DOST-PCIEERD-funded research projects in the DLSU College of Computer Studies and its Advanced Research Institute for Informatics, Computing and Networking. It is now being commercialized through VISON Technologies Corporation, the 1st official spin-off company from the college.

Established through a grant from the DOST Funding Assistance for Spin-off and Translation of Research in Advancing Commercialization (FASTRAC), the startup company is composed of computer scientists and researchers. 

Salie Siao, the company’s Chief Operating Officer, shared that TITAN technology as a vision-based computer system helps navigate data in a faster, economical, and more accurate manner, thus, saving time and money to assess data manually.

“We have developed and are continuously developing a novel algorithm for an efficient and effective processing of videos. It is composed of a secured web-based system, a dashboard, an easy system of integrating with the current ICT system. Finally, using our software is cost-efficient – we are hardware agnostic – we can use your existing cameras,” Siao added.