Class 12 student at The Shri Ram School, Aravali. Growing up adjacent to Ludhiana's garment industry — my family's livelihood — I learned early that capable factory systems often fail not from incompetence but from invisibility. Energy waste no one can see. Worker injuries treated as inevitable. Numerical instabilities mathematics can trace but factories can't. My work, across one IoT platform, one filed patent, three research papers, and four industrial internships, responds to that one instinct.
38 claims
1 journal + 1 conference published, 1 under review
primary research
2023 → 2026
instrumented live
from 311 participants
Why everything on this site is one project
The factory floor is home
I grew up in Ludhiana's garment industry. The smell of the place, the sound of the machines, the people whose names I knew. The factory floor isn't an internship for me — it's where I learned to see.
What I noticed
Energy bills that no one could break down. Workers wrapping bleeding fingers in tape. Equations describing how stable systems flip into chaos. Three forms of invisibility, one underlying problem.
What I'm building
AeiX makes invisible energy waste visible to SMEs. The thread-pulling patent makes invisible worker injury preventable. The research papers make invisible system instabilities mathematically traceable.
Three lenses on the same body of work
The energy dashboard, live right now.
Real-time incomer power, per-block loads and 7-day energy from the 1.5 MW TSRS Aravali installation — streaming directly from aeix.in, AeiX's own platform domain.
Awards & honours
Portfolio
Three lenses on the same body of work — all on this page.
The carbon dashboard, live on this page.
Clean-energy share, CO₂ avoided and grid-vs-solar emission factors — translated into recycled bottles and mature trees. Streaming directly from aeix.in.
Products
Things I built.
This is a real factory-grade installation, streaming right now.
Live public dashboards from the 1.5 MW TSRS Aravali installation, served from aeix.in — AeiX's own platform domain.
What the data actually showed
Four instrument views from the pilots — not mockups. Click any figure to enlarge and read it at full resolution.
A deployed product, not a research concept
Indian SMEs — the backbone of the country's manufacturing — operate without dedicated energy management systems. Their bills are summary numbers; the waste is invisible. AeiX makes it visible: real-time energy and power factor data, edge-to-cloud, with simple dashboards built for factory managers who don't want a spreadsheet of timestamps.
Edge to cloud
- Hardware: ESP32 / Raspberry Pi gateways, ZMPT101B voltage sensors, SCT-013 current sensors, integration with industrial energy meters over Modbus RTU/TCP.
- Transport: MQTT pub/sub for real-time telemetry; Telegraf for ingest.
- Storage: InfluxDB time-series database.
- Visualization: Grafana dashboards customized per factory.
- Future layer: Hyperledger blockchain for tamper-evident MRV reporting (planned, not currently deployed).
The first node, hand-built
Before the dashboards there was a breadboard. The prototype and its schematic — the technical artifacts behind the platform.
The poster behind the pilot
Three installations
Pilot metrics will be confirmed and posted in August 2026. Figures cited below are from the published IEOM Milwaukee paper.
Sakkatech LLP, Ludhiana IN PILOT
SME pilot installation on the factory's LT panel. From the published IEOM paper's industrial pilot: ~240,000 data points collected over 14 days with <2 s dashboard latency; hidden nighttime compressor loads identified, enabling a 7.5% reduction in nighttime electricity consumption; a malfunctioning capacitor panel detected through abnormal power-factor readings, supporting correction from 0.2 to 0.95.
Kamal Packaging Pvt. Ltd. IN PILOT
Second SME pilot, extending the same LT-panel monitoring approach to a packaging manufacturer. Commissioning is underway; pilot metrics will be confirmed and posted alongside Sakkatech in August 2026.
TSRS Aravali — 1.5 MW school install ACTIVE
Implemented inside the school's 1.5 MW electrical panel; mentored 2 junior students on data collection and dashboards. This is the installation streaming to the dashboards above.
Site survey → build → commission. Drag or use the arrows to move through the sequence; click any photo to enlarge.
From a lag I couldn't tolerate
AeiX began with a question I asked myself at TerraTech in Dubai during summer 2025: if energy generation gets clarity, why doesn't energy consumption? I locked myself in my room for two days to learn MQTT from scratch, fixed the 15–20 second polling lag in TerraTech's HTTP-based dashboard, and saw the platform principle.
Back in India, I surveyed 21 SMEs across Punjab, Haryana, and Delhi. None used a dedicated EMS. All wanted clarity, actionable insights, and proof of savings. AeiX was the answer to what they actually asked for, not what enterprise vendors like Schneider or Siemens were selling them.
Including the two that said no
Automatic Thread-Pulling Machine
A worker-safety machine for flat-knit garment manufacturing.
The observation
During my Class 10 internship at Prakriti Creations in Ludhiana, I watched the workers pull loose threads from finished garments. The motion looked simple. The reality was: thousands of repetitions a day, sharp tool blades close to fingers, exposed moving rollers, and cuts and nerve injuries treated as part of the job. The injuries weren't accidents. They were designed-in by default.
The reframing
The factory engineers had decades of wisdom about the problem. They had told supervisors for years that the work was unsafe. What they didn't have was someone who could draw a buildable solution. I had been teaching myself CAD since Class 7 — TinkerCAD first, then SolidWorks. The machine I drew is what they had been wishing for.
The patent
- Application No. 202511017487
- Filed: February 27, 2025
- Complete specification: submitted August 2025
- Claims: 38
- Co-inventors: Aditya Krishan Goel and Namrta Singhania (Owner, Prakriti Creations)
On the factory floor
In July 2026 the machine ran on a live production floor. The photographs below show what the patent abstract can't: separated flat-knit components coming off the line, and the training sessions where the workers who inspired the design learned to run it. Worker testimonials and before/after data will be published here once permission to name workers is secured.
Origami for Mechanics
Teaching mechanical physics through paper folding, designed for schools without lab access.
Why origami
Origami is a personal practice for me — what I do when no one is watching. It teaches the same things engineering does: vectors, symmetry, structural integrity, careful precision. For students at MCD schools who don't have a physics lab, origami is the lab they can carry home in a folded square.
Status
- Facilitating bilingual workshops in MCD schools since March 2026 — forces, motion, energy, structural mechanics
- Train-the-trainer model enabling local facilitators to scale the curriculum
- Partner: KalaTalks Foundation
Research
Papers that anchor my work in published methodology.
The decks behind the papers
The presentation decks used at the conferences — download the source files.
One methodology backbone
The papers above aren't isolated — there's a methodology backbone: Random Forest regression, sensor instrumentation, primary stakeholder interviews (the 21-SME study), literature review (DDGS), and spreadsheet-based numerical experiments (chaos paper). Across domains, the same disciplines.
Internships
Four summers at Indian SMEs. Three of them became products.
Most international applicants spend summers on prestige programs at US universities. I spent four summers at Indian SMEs — Vandana Solvex, Prakriti Creations, TerraTech Dubai, my cousin's animal feed company — and converted three of them into products or papers. This wasn't a resume strategy. It was a worldview: the factory floor is where I learned to see, and that's where I went back to learn more.
Community
Three commitments, one principle: building things that outlast the moment.
Project Palash / ReefGuard
Co-designed a hexagonal modular reef tile (3×1 ft) addressing dual ocean threats: heavy-metal removal (Cu/Zn/Cr via chelation, inner filter) and coral regeneration via a nutrient-rich porous outer shell. Led engineering and design within a 5-member TSRS Aravali team. Lab-tested 3% Cu-ion removal at ~₹2,530 unit cost; prototype refinement continuing post-Finals.
Origami for Mechanics
Designed and facilitate bilingual workshops teaching mechanical physics — forces, motion, energy, structural mechanics — through origami in MCD schools. Train-the-trainer model enabling local facilitators to scale the curriculum. Full curriculum page →
Earth Saviors + Duke of Edinburgh + Happy School
Old-age home volunteer, supporting daily activities and engaging with residents (Earth Saviors India). Weekly public-garden clean-up drives (DofE Silver); taught English and Mathematics to house help (DofE Bronze). Taught modular origami to underprivileged children (Happy School mentor).
I serve as a volunteer on the EcoVision project — maintaining the MobiEcoVision farmer app during stubble-burning seasons and supporting community outreach, training farmers to use the app. Founder, developer, and co-founder roles on EcoVision belong to my brother Vaibhav Goel; I do not claim them. More at ecovision.co.in.
Press & external coverage
Third-party signals, in chronological order.
Presenting AeiX at the fair
About
Where I'm from
Ludhiana. Punjab. The garment industry. My family's livelihood is rooted in the flat-knit textile trade, and the factory floor is the place I knew best growing up — the smell of the place, the sound of the machines, the people whose names I knew. The factory floor isn't an internship for me; it's home. That specific experience — watching capable systems fail not from incompetence but from invisibility — is what every project on this site responds to.
What I'm trying to do
One question runs through everything I've built. Why do capable systems fail not from incompetence but from invisibility? AeiX makes invisible energy waste visible. The thread-pulling patent makes invisible worker injury preventable. The chaos paper makes invisible system instabilities mathematically traceable. CAD makes invisible factory wisdom buildable. Activated carbon made the invisible odor of DDGS something the cows could see past.
The thread is tighter than it looks. Each project taught me something that made the next one possible. Vandana taught me CAD. Prakriti taught me how factories actually fail. TerraTech taught me MQTT. The DDGS work taught me to start with literature, not with a hypothesis. AeiX is the synthesis of all four.
What I do when no one's watching
Origami, mostly. Modular folds, hours at a time, paper and patience. Chess at state level. Rubik's cubes. Cricket. Soccer. Backstage technical lead for school theatre. Reading — currently The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder, Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, and Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smil.
What I fold when no one's watching
The same disciplines engineering asks for — vectors, symmetry, structural integrity, patience. Scroll through the collection.
Decisions I've made
Short notes on judgment calls along the way — kept honest, including what I got wrong first.
Why I dropped the blockchain layer from AeiX
The first AeiX pitch included a Hyperledger layer for tamper-evident carbon reporting. Diamond Challenge judges didn't award it — and their feedback exposed the real issue: I was building infrastructure for a problem my users hadn't asked me to solve yet. The 21 SMEs I surveyed wanted clarity, actionable insights, and proof of savings. None mentioned carbon credits. I moved blockchain to the roadmap and rebuilt around what factories actually asked for. Validation before infrastructure.
Why SME-first, not Schneider-shaped
Enterprise EMS vendors compete at the top of the market with systems priced and designed for plants with dedicated energy managers. Of the 21 SMEs I surveyed across Punjab, Haryana, and Delhi, none used a dedicated EMS — not because they didn't care, but because nothing was built for a factory manager who reads a dashboard between shifts. Low-literacy-friendly dashboards that surface ghost loads and power-factor issues are a different product, not a cheaper copy. That gap is where AeiX lives.
Why Sakkatech as the first pilot
A pilot site has to offer two things: real industrial load worth instrumenting, and enough trust to let a student wire hardware into a live LT panel. Sakkatech LLP offered both — a working SME floor where I could install, fail, fix, and return. Pilot metrics will be posted in August 2026 once verified; until then the site cites only figures from the published IEOM paper. Trust is also why the numbers wait.
Why the patent is framed around worker dignity
The thread-pulling machine could be pitched as a productivity gain — fewer labor-hours per garment. That framing would have been easier to sell and it would have been wrong. The problem I watched at Prakriti wasn't slowness; it was cuts and nerve injuries treated as part of the job, mostly by women workers. Model 2 exists because the workers who ran Model 1 told us what hurt. A machine framed around the people it protects gets rebuilt when they speak; one framed around throughput doesn't.
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- The Shri Ram School, Aravali — Class 12
- Gurgaon, India (term time) · Ludhiana, India (factory work)
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Last updated: July 2026
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