Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is entering India’s fast growing homeland security service business which is expected to grow to over $13 billion by 2014. Recently, Reliance Security Solutions, a subsidiary of RIL, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Siemens to jointly develop homeland security solutions in India.

RIL said the objective of the partners is to provide safe, secure, smart cities and highways in India. “The Indian security market is expected to be one of the largest growing markets in the world over the next decade and this initiative will result in India joining a select set of advanced nations, which are beginning to use 4G wireless networks for law enforcement purposes,” RIL said in a statement.

The role of surveillance has assumed a great level of importance considering the fact that insurgency and terrorism have become a global phenomenon. “With the traditional security platforms being inadequate to address these new challenges, there is an emerging need to move over to intelligent electronic security solutions,” RIL said.

“Reliance and Siemens will combine to leverage the 4G network for the low latency and assured quality of service required for video and security applications,” RIL said. Reliancet has designed and operates the world’s largest integrated security automation system consisting of over 12,000 cameras apart from other advanced security sensors, radars and video analytics etc. Indian companies such as Tata, Larsen & Toubro and Mahindra are already present in the homeland security space.

The venture is headed by Dr Vivek Lall who is President and CEO of Reliance Security Solutions.