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The big business of selling Canadian technology to Turkey

May 10, 2015

The big business of selling Canadian technology to Turkey

Turkey’s booming defence sector is making it a ‘priority market’ for many Canadian companies

The Canadian flag is flying in Istanbul this weekend, where Canadian technology and innovation are very much in evidence and it’s all for sale.

The Canadian presence at the annual defence industry fair (IDEF) is larger than it has ever been.  This year, nearly 30 companies from cities like Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal and Vancouver are busy pitching their products.

Many are world leaders in their industries. But there are other companies at the fair that many Canadians have never heard of.

“They are surprised that this kind of technology originates in Canada,” says Ken Smart, president of EOMAX Canada, a company that makes thermal cameras and wireless video systems.

“The automatic assumption is that these kind of things come from somewhere else.”

But they develop their products in Toronto. The city’s heavy urban search-and-rescue team uses the company’s gear, as do police forces around the world.

The Los Angeles Police Department’s SWAT team is another client.

“The [technology has] this ability to understand whether people are armed,” Smart says. “Whether these are just innocent bystanders that have been caught in a position where they are in danger.”

Quebec-based Genetec Solutions’ electronic eyes are watching in a different way — particularly if you’ve ever passed through a major airport in North America, Europe, or the Middle East.

 

“Rome, Schiphol, Prague, Charles de Gaulle,” Genetec vice-president Ted Ghali says, listing off some of the airports the company serves. Their systems run at Toronto’s Pearson airport, too.

“Mecca is also protected by Genetec,” he adds.

So are two of Istanbul’s most important historical sites – Topkapi Palace and the Hagia Sophia.

 

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