The business was started in 1988 as a garage start-up in Chennai. When the first
Vending machine was made in India in 1989, we had our electronics in it. Since then PULSARS
has pioneered every technological innovation in the vending field in India. Some are:

? First Digital control system
? First Smart card based vending controller
? First touch-keypad solution
? First vending controller that sent and received SMS for status update and control
? First Snack Vending Machine Controller that takes payments from e-wallets
? First Fully battery based Vending Machine Controller for Condoms & Napkins
? First to release TOUCHFREE user interface to address the Covid concerns

The Products
 

Apart from our strength in vending machine electronics, we have developed control
products for other OE applications like

? Solar Inverters (High Freq Transformer-less design) cum MPPT Chargers for Home
Inverters
? Chemical Dosing Pump Controls,
? Intelligent Battery Chargers for E-bikes,
? CAN based Fuel level indicator circuits for ARJUN MBT Mark 2
? Electronics for water saving (Marine application)
? Battery Operated Golf Training Kits
? Cricket Electronics to assist training in batting posture and hit speed, pace and spin
bowling

The Staff
A dedicated Development team consists of a very select set of creative engineers of whom
about 70% specialize in software, 25% in hardware and the rest in PCB design. The testing
team is a group of qualified and trained technicians. We also have a couple of specialists in
product validation who put each newly designed product through specially designed tests to
expose all vulnerabilities so that the weak areas can be strengthened. Assembly and Wiring is
taken care of by two teams of very experienced technicians. Service team work on field returns
and provide valuable feedback to design teams. Stores is kept in order and well stocked by very
capable persons with the help of a fully computerized inventory management system.
Administrative staff, comprise of accountants, purchase assistant and delivery person which
completes the team.

Promoters
Balamurugan, completed engineering from Anna University; Worked for HCL; Now takes
care of Marketing, Product development and QA.

Ganesh, completed engineering from GCE Salem; Worked for Siemens; Now takes care
of Material planning and Manufacturing.

Work We Do
The company specializes in design of embedded controls for OE applications. Scope of
work generally taken up includes:
? Requirement study
? Control scheme design
? Specification development
? Circuit design
? PCB design
? Embedded software development
? Prototype testing
? Production

The typical customer has been machine builder – mostly mechanical or electrical people –
leaving the entire responsibility of control system to PULSARS.

Representative List of Customers (Alphabetical order)
? Cafeu, Danmark
? Coca Cola India Limited
? CVRDE
? Inagra, Belgium
? Milton Roy Asia LMI Limited
? Nestle India Limited
? Pepsi Foods Limited
? Secure Vending, UK
? Terabee, France
? Tata Technologies USA
? Vetus