Automation and sophistication are evolving at their own pace and if you don’t catch up with the limitless trends and technologies provided by the Internet of Things (IoT) then you will be left behind with outdated and precarious solutions at hand. Zenatix Solutions, now a Hero Electronix Venture, makes sure that you are techno-ready with trendsetting solutions that allow your home and office to use items to be connected through IoT to ensure the utmost convenience.
Hari Shankar, our Managing Editor in an exclusive interview with Rahul Bhalla, Co-Founder, and CEO of Hero Electronix Zenatix Solutions, brings you the inspiring startup journey. Zenatix Solutions is an Information Technology and Services company that was founded in the year 2014 and the company specializes in providing solutions in the following areas: Energy Management, Big Data, Machine Learning, Energy Analytics, IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Planet, Carbon Footprint, etc.
Having graduated from IIT Delhi in the year 2002, Rahul Bhalla founded Zenatix Solutions with two other co-founders who were also his batch mates. Since 2002, Rahul ventured into various fields and started the company in late 2013. The limitless possibilities of how IoT can connect to various infrastructures were the premise upon which the foundation of the company was laid. As a company, they do it by collecting the data of these infrastructures and use IoT to increase their efficiency in a way of solutions in smart buildings and smart retail.
Zenatix, being a business-to-business (B2B) company since its inception, provides customized connected solutions based on the individual needs of the vendor, which varies depending upon place, purpose, and other intricacies.
So how exactly do Zenatix Solutions make your homes and offices connected? The company connects a lot of physical assets such as lighting systems, air-conditioning, exhaust fans, etc. over the internet and once they are connected to the internet they can be centrally controlled says, Mr. Bhalla. The company has deployments over 2000 locations in the country across more than 200 cities and Mr. Bhalla stated that early 201 they became a part of the Hero Electronix, the Hero group’s foray into technology businesses.
Hero Electronix Venture strongly believes that connected solutions and connectivity through IoT is the future since everything is connected in the present generation. Zenatix happens to be the enterprise IoT business of Hero Electronix, and given the experience of Zenatix in the IoT sector wherein they control more than 25,000 assets and collect over 100 million data points every day, the company decided to open up the key components of their technology stack and how Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) can use their technical expertise to launch smart products overnight.
Rahul explains their process with an example, “the LED lighting has two components, i.e. the lighting itself and then its connectivity, while the OEMs are good at manufacturing the lighting components we can enable them with the whole technology component, which is right from the module that will go into the light, which is essentially a mesh enabled network and gateways that can talk to cloud and the entire cloud infra
