Bussiness Ideas

OMNVEX is building the operating system for industrial plants - an applied industrial AI platform aligned directly with Uttar Pradesh's startup priority areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT and advanced manufacturing. Most plants in India - steel, cement, power, chemicals, refineries - run on machinery 10 to 30 years old that was never designed to communicate. Data sits trapped across 10 to 30 disconnected systems: PLCs, SCADA screens, standalone meters and paper logbooks. Nobody sees the plant as a whole, so failures are found only after breakdown. One unplanned shutdown costs Rs 4 crore to Rs 40 crore, and the warning was usually sitting in the sensor data days earlier, unwatched. OMNVEX unifies three layers into one retrofit platform. A live 3D digital twin of the entire site - a digital replica of the physical plant, where an operator clicks any machine to see its real-time state, camera feed and AI health score. A universal IoT bridge connecting machines a plant already owns across 40+ industrial protocols including OPC-UA, Modbus and MQTT, with nothing ripped out and deployment measured in days. And an edge AI engine that predicts equipment failures and safety hazards 7 to 14 days early, cuts energy consumption 8 to 15 percent, and removes roughly 80 percent of false alarms. All inference runs on an on-site edge device, so plant data never leaves the plant - a hard requirement for defence and public sector facilities. This is import substitution. Indian plants today buy this capability, when they can afford it at all, from Siemens, ABB and Honeywell at crore scale, and must replace working machinery to install it. OMNVEX is an indigenous alternative built for the 99 percent of mid-market plants those vendors ignore. We are headquartered in Kanpur, a node of the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor, and DPIIT-recognised (DIPP273041). Our first deployments target Uttar Pradesh's industrial belt, supporting the state's goals of reducing import dependence and building domestic capability in industrial AI, before expanding nationally and to export markets.

Startup Teams

• 1 Prakhar Shukla (Founder)
• 2 Rounak Shukla (Director)

Incubation Details

• Incubator Name
  HBTU TBI Foundation
• Incubator Host Institution
  Harcourt Butler Technical University Kanpur
• State
  Uttar Pradesh
• City
  Kanpur Nagar