Bussiness Ideas

PRAVID Lab Private Limited is a DPIIT-recognised startup building distributed IoT systems for physical safety and industrial monitoring. Our flagship product, Prahari, is a fire safety monitoring and automated escalation system that retrofits into existing alarm infrastructure using ESP32 and wired Ethernet sensor nodes, and escalates incidents through GSM-based automated calling and SMS — ensuring responders are alerted even during internet or WiFi outages. The system is currently live with 9 sensor nodes in continuous operation at a research-institution deployment, validated at Technology Readiness Level 7, and protected under a 37-claim provisional patent. Beyond fire safety, PRAVID Lab is developing a platform that extends into adjacent verticals: Vigyan Setu, a Hinglish educational AI tool piloting in August 2026, and Vajra Sentinel, an early-stage concept for acoustic and power-anomaly detection in industrial machinery, targeting India's industrial manufacturing belts. Our go-to-market strategy is phased: starting with academic and research campuses where we have proven deployment experience with Prahari, expanding into industrial clusters directly with Prahari while developing Vajra Sentinel toward a future entry product for that vertical, and eventually pursuing state and PSU infrastructure contracts. India's fire protection systems market is projected to grow to roughly USD 8.6 billion by 2031, with increasing regulatory push toward IoT-enabled, automated safety systems — a shift PRAVID Lab is positioned to lead with low-cost, internet-independent, patent-protected technology built for institutional and industrial scale.

Startup Teams

• 1 Ajay Kasaudhan (Director)
• 2 utsav Agarwal (Director)

Incubation Details

• Incubator Name
  Kalam Centre for Innovation and Incubation of Startup Foundation AKTU
• Incubator Host Institution
  Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University Lucknow Uttar Pradesh
• State
  Uttar Pradesh
• City
  Lucknow