TDI – Security & Age Verification

Business Description

Age Verification and Parental Controls for Mobile and IP Devices

Our client, code named TDI co, who is a private security, age verification and parental controls software company, is now seeking a Strategic buyer for their business. TDI is a pioneer in the delivery of end-to-end security, age verification and parental controls solutions for mobile operators, enterprise and consumer markets.

The Company:

Established in 2003, TDI’s Patent Pending suite of software products enable secure distribution of age sensitive authorized multimedia content to mobile and IP devices. With TDI’s turnkey products and services, mobile operators, social media and communications providers, service providers, handset manufacturers, direct to consumer service providers and parents of mobile and IP device users can create a secure operating environment for all ages ensuring only age appropriate and authorized content and communications reach mobile and IP devices.

In 2007, the company launched North America’s first carrier grade Age Verification solution for a large telecommunications company, proving the technology to be rapid, accurate and robust over thousands of customers. TDI’s target markets and customers fall into five distinct segments: 1. Mobile Operators (Mobile Network Operators and Mobile Virtual Network Operators), 2. Corporate, Enterprise and IT Service Providers, 3. IP Media Services Providers (IPTV), 4. Age Sensitive Brand Media, Products and Service providers, 5. Mobile and IP Handset Manufacturers.

TDI have uniquely positioned themselves as a technology leader in security, age verification and parental controls software, having (3) core product offerings, which provides a complete end-to-end (server to handset and handset to handset) infrastructure that enables secure content screening and delivery.

The Technology:

TDI’s innovative patent pending software technologies address the needs of Service Providers, Content Providers, IPTV Providers and other value-add businesses in the delivery of secure digital multimedia entertainment. The company has 3 district product offerings that address Age Verification, Content Management and Parental Control.

The Age Verification solution will ensure users attempting to get access to age sensitive content on their mobile devices are verified to be the age of consent.

Functionalities include:

  • Age Verification
  • API to interface to AV database
  • Detection of unique device ID and verification against user credentials
  • Collection of user data necessary to verify user’s age.  User registration via both Web and WAP.
  • Interaction with various national databases and credit bureaus to confirm user’s age
  • User database management capabilities
  • Statistics and reporting modules
  • User Portal (Web and WAP)
  • Customer Service Portal (Web interface)

TDI’s content management product provides operators with a simple method to host any type of digital media, with either in-house or 3rd party hosting, and on or off-deck access.

Functionalities include:

  • Web interface (storefront under development)
  • WAP interface
  • Content management system
  • Configurable menu structure
  • Content ingestion and management
  • Billing
  • UAProf detection and adjustment to fit the capabilities of the user’s mobile device
  • On-the-fly transcoding to adjust content to the capabilities of the user’s mobile device
  • User database management
  • Statistics and reporting
  • User Portal (Web and WAP)
  • Customer Service Portal (Web interface)

TDI’s Parental Control or content filtering product has built-in capabilities to filter URL, Image and Text messages on a subscriber’s mobile device.

Functionalities include:

  • API to data control modules
  • API to user control modules
  • API to statistics and billing modules
  • URL filtering module
  • Image filtering module
  • Text filtering module

The Market Opportunity:

Leveraging its first to market advantage and only deployed and proven carrier grade products, TDI is well positioned to become North America’s dominant supplier of Age Verification and Parental Control solutions to Mobile Operators, Social Media and Communications, Service Providers, Handset manufacturers and Direct to consumer service providers within 5 years.

There will be 370 million mobile subscribers in North America by 2013 – of those 20% (74M) will sign up for Parental Control services.

Global age sensitive mobile media market will be $3.3B by 2013 (Juniper Research – 2010) of that, European market will take the lead, Asia Pacific region running a close second while North America will account for 17% or close to $560M.

The Value Proposition:

Looking forward, TDI will contribute significantly to the revenue, growth and competitiveness of a corporate partner, as it provides these significant strategic assets:

  • Cutting edge, “First to” technology
  • A product roadmap that incorporates feedback gleaned through 7 years of market presence and development
  • Deep domain expertise
  • An attractive revenue model of base license fees plus recurring monthly subscription fees
  • A brand that is a recognized leader in their field