14 cool hardware startups in India you didn’t know about

Bangalore-based Aerx Labs makes flight simulators, devices that artificially recreate the flying experience, as well as drones.

India is known more for software than hardware and systems innovations. But things are changing with new opportunities coming up in IoT (internet of things), drones, and cloud-based technologies.

The biggest challenge hardware and systems startups face is the lack of a well-developed ecosystem for them in India. For example, innovations in this domain require lab facilities for testing products and taking them to market.

Here is where Intel’s Maker Lab for India, launched at the beginning of this year, can make a big difference by providing infrastructure, tools, and mentorship. Yesterday, the first 17 startups to gain from this not-for-profit program were showcased at Intel India’s HQ in Bangalore.

Nine of those startups have already launched their products in the market, five startups are moving to customer trial stage, and the remaining three are in the design stage, says Intel in a statement on the program.

The Indian government has been promoting its Digital India and Make in India initiatives to improve the tech infrastructure in the country and to give manufacturing a boost. The Intel Maker Lab aims to play a part in that. “Innovation is the key ingredient for making the Digital India vision a reality,” points out Nivruti Rai, general manager of Intel India and vice president of the Platform Engineering Group at Intel Corp.

The 17 startups from the Intel Maker Lab cover a wide range of domains like education, sports, health, agriculture, finance, and e-governance. “These solutions will help solve real consumer and business needs… This initiative is not designed towards building or augmenting Intel India’s own R&D activities,” says Jitendra Chaddah, senior director for strategy and operations at Intel India.

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Here’s a look at the 14 startups from the Intel India Maker Lab whose products and solutions are ready for the market:

Photo credit: Aerx Labs.

Aerx Labs

This is one unusual startup. Aerx Labs makes flight simulators, devices that artificially recreate the flying experience, as well as drones. The simulators are important to train pilots as well as design, develop, and test flights. The startup promises that its products replicate “the equations that govern flight physics, flight controls, and the effects of other aircraft systems; allowing the user to play with air density, turbulence, wind shear, cloud, precipitation, etc.” It has multiple patent filings around safety, security, efficiency, and productivity of unmanned aerial vehicles or drones.

Avench

Avench offers technologies on various embedded engineering platforms. It provides IoT systems with different modes of connectivity like wifi, lora, GPRS, and so on. It offers customization of Linux kernel and other boot loaders, and supports embedded product design and engineering.

Green Ocean Research

Green Ocean Research makes ergonomic medical devices for preventive healthcare, designed with a focus on ease of use and portability. It has built a medical diagnostic platform to monitor multiple parameters such as blood glucose, blood pressure, and pulse oximetry. These can be used by individuals as well as health care providers.

Jayalaxmi Agrotech

Jayalaxmi Agrotech uses mobile technology, analytics, and the cloud to help farmers. It has developed several crop-specific mobile applications for agriculture, horticulture, and animal husbandry in English and Indian regional languages. One of its products, Agripole, helps farmers download agricultural applications in the local language at village fairs.

Klassik Klonec

Klassik Klonec has an easy-to-use, wireless sensor connectivity platform to deploy scalable, intelligent, and reliable IoT networking in remote and demanding environments. It has built an IoT-enabled hydroponic unit using Intel technology to grow plants without soil at homes and industrial centers.

Parkzap

Parkzap is a smart parking solution with an Android app. It can locate the nearest parking sites and help users make cashless payments for the parking space. Parkzap is working on an embedded controller for expanding the end-to-end solution for controlling the parking gates/mechanisms. It is currently based in Gurgaon.

Skylark Drones

Bangalore-based Skylark Drones believes data and drones provide disruptive opportunities in business and builds products that use drones in verticals like mining, construction, and smart cities infrastructure. Their products span the spectrum of drone hardware and software processes.

Smartron

Smartron is an Indian OEM startup that designs, engineers, sources, and markets IoT devices and systems. It is targeting both consumers and enterprises as well as industrial and infrastructure markets. It has a smartphone tphone and laptop tbook in the market besides other products. The startup says it aims for disruption in the areas of sensors, robotics, artificial intelligence, cloud, and crowd technologies.

Terrablue XT

Terrablue XT built a smart glove that can sense electrical signals from your body, keeping track of your health and letting you know how you are doing while you sleep, work, and go about. Called TJay, it is designed for the early detection and management of epilepsy. The TJay glove has 10 sensors that extract information from the palm of a hand. This information is transmitted continuously to Poketee, which is a personal data gateway and intelligent system that comes with TJay. Poketee sends this information to Terrablue’s cloud environment at intervals.

Acceleron Lab

Acceleron Lab has a “mini data center” for accelerating storage, network, and server performance. It designed and fabricated custom Intel® Xeon® boards, chassis and system software for the solution which can be adapted for software environments such as open stack, big data, and Hadoop.

BrownLogic

BrownLogic has developed an IoT-enabled solution for greenhouse farms. It aims to use embedded devices, smartphones, software, and servers to help small-scale farmers improve their efficiency and produce things in a more predictable manner.

Phoenix Robotics

Phoenix Robotics, founded by a young team, has an environment monitoring solution for air quality targeted at industrial IoT and smart cities. Its Aurassure solution was one of the 10 finalists of the Innovate for Digital India challenge run by the Indian government’s department for science and technology.

SrishtiESDM

Srishti is an electronics system design and manufacturing (EDSM) startup working in the digital human identification domain. Currently incubated at the innovation center of the IIITB, Bangalore, it is building products aimed at improving financial inclusion in India using the country’s unique identification system Aadhar.

Yaw software

Yaw software is working on a next generation device for biking enthusiasts to help them in tracking and improving their performance through analytics. The product will be unveiled soon, and we shall share more on it then.

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