no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . march 2013 vortex engineering founded 2001 headquarters no 6b 6th floor iit madras research park chennai india area served financial institutions and banks key people l. kannan founder cto ; products atms cash acceptors services atm managed services number of employees 201 500 website vortexindia vortex engineering is an india based company making self service transaction systems such as atms for banks . vortex also offers services for atm management . vortex atms are also now used in several countries outside india especially in asia & africa . vortex is backed by investors tata capital aavishkaar ventureast oasis and ifc a world bank subsidiary . contents 1 history 2 products & services 3 software 4 awards & recognition 5 references 6 external links history edit vortex was founded by an iit madras alumni l.kannan in 2001 . around 2004 05 they ventured into atms . their first pilot deployment was for disbursal of nrega wages through their atms in tamil nadu in association with iit madras in 2008 . 1 they made their first major break though with the winning of an order for 545 atms including 300 solar powered atms from the state bank of india . 2 3 4 vortex atms are now currently used in almost all states of india . products & services edit vortex has specifically designed atms that could operate up to 50 degree celsius at any conditions in the world . the atms manufactured by vortex consumes very less power and constitutes very less mechanical and electrical parts as compared to other conventional atms . 5 all the vortex atms come with solar power options for greater availability in areas having severe power shortage whereas no other atm is commercially viable to be operated with solar power due to its higher power consumption . . 6 7 software edit vortex ecoteller is the only automated teller machine operates on linux platform . awards & recognition edit the company has been selected as one among the 10 start ups that will change your life by time magazine . vortex has won the following recognitions srijan award 2009 for technology innovation in financial inclusion finalist for the wall street journal asian innovation awards 2010 8 9 one of technology pioneers 2011 by the world economic forum . 10 vortex has also been selected to join the business call to action bcta global initiative 11 which encourages private sector efforts to develop inclusive business models that can have both commercial success and a positive impact in development . recently vortex has been awarded with frost & sullivan technology innovation award 2012 for solar powered atm . vortex atms have been pioneered as the first atms to be used for transparent last mile delivery of government welfare schemes like mgnrega . 12 13 vortex engineering and their founders featured in amazing indians on times now 14 references edit http www.hindu.com 2008 11 23 stories 2008112352350300.htm http www.thehindu.com 2010 03 12 stories 2010031254731600.htm http www.financialexpress.com news vortex set to install 300 solar atms in rural sbi branches 589748 http www.finextra.com news fullstory.aspx newsitemid 21179 http indiagetgreenblog.com tag atm machines http www.cnbc.com id 101521523 a unique atm http businesssaga.com a unique atm http online.wsj.com article sb10001424052748704103904575336092096124172.html http online.wsj.com article sb10001424052748703700904575391460677186520.html mod wsjasia hpp middlethirdnews http www.weforum.org en communities technology % 20pioneers technologypioneers index.htm http www.un.org apps news story.asp newsid 40730 & cr poverty & cr1 http www.nrega.net ict sucessstories atmsuccessstories.pdf http www.nrega.net ict information ongoing ict projects http www.timesnow.tv changing the face of rural banking videoshow 4441103 . cms external links edit official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title vortex engineering & oldid 713331347 categories engineering companies of indiahidden categories use dmy dates from september 2015use indian english from september 2015all wikipedia articles written in indian englishorphaned articles from march 2013all orphaned articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 april 2016 at 11 01 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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