Q1. Ubiqedge has developed an IoT-powered remote monitoring and control system for solar PV assets. How is this technology helping solar developers and asset owners improve plant performance, reduce downtime, and optimize O&M costs?
Our KLEON-SAMASTH stack for solar is built around one simple idea: you can’t manage what you can’t see in real time. Most O&M teams today still rely on periodic site visits and manual logging, which means underperformance or faults can go unnoticed for days or weeks. What sets our approach apart is that we don’t monitor in silos – a single, unified full-stack ecosystem covers multi-inverter, multi-BMS, and energy meter data together, regardless of make or brand, so an asset owner running a mixed fleet from different OEMs isn’t stuck stitching together separate monitoring tools for each one.
That unified layer means our IoT gateways pull data simultaneously from multiple inverter brands, multiple BMS units on the storage side, and energy meters across the site, and normalise all of it into one consistent view on SAMASTH. On the performance side, this gives asset owners plant-level, string-level, and asset-type-level visibility into generation versus expected yield, so deviations – a soiled panel, a failing string, an inverter derate, a BMS cell imbalance – get flagged within hours instead of at the next site visit, no matter which vendor’s equipment is involved. On downtime, our anomaly detection models are trained to catch early signatures of equipment degradation before they become outright failures, which shifts O&M from reactive to predictive. And because our platform automates reporting, alerting, and compliance logging across this entire mixed-asset environment, O&M teams spend far less manual effort reconciling data from different systems and can prioritise site visits only where they’re actually needed – which is where the real cost savings show up.
Q2. The KLEON 4G Solar Dongle enables remote monitoring without frequent site visits. What has been the industry’s response to this solution, and how significant are the operational savings and efficiency gains it delivers?
The response has been strong, particularly from asset owners and O&M contractors managing distributed portfolios – residential and C&I sites that are too small individually to justify a dedicated site engineer, but too numerous collectively to ignore. The KLEON dongle is designed to be a plug-and-play retrofit: 4G LTE connectivity, Modbus/RS-485 compatibility with existing inverters, and OTA update support, so it doesn’t require ripping out existing infrastructure.
The operational savings come from two places. First, the obvious one – fewer truck rolls, since technicians only need to visit when the data actually indicates a problem, rather than on a fixed calendar. Second, and less obvious, is the efficiency gained from catching performance losses early. A string underperforming by even 5-10% for a few weeks before it’s caught manually adds up to real revenue loss across a portfolio. Remote monitoring compresses that detection window dramatically, and that’s usually where customers see the fastest payback.
Q3. Water conservation has become a critical sustainability priority. How are Ubiqedge’s smart water management solutions helping industries and utilities reduce water losses, improve distribution efficiency, and meet regulatory requirements?
Non-revenue water is one of India’s most under-addressed infrastructure problems – national losses are estimated at anywhere between 35-50% depending on the utility. Our water vertical uses IoT-enabled flow and pressure sensing combined with SAMASTH’s analytics layer to give utilities and industrial users a real-time picture of where water is actually going versus where it’s supposed to go.
We’re currently extending this into leak detection, quantification, and localisation – using statistical and machine learning techniques on mass-balance and pressure residuals to not just flag that a leak exists in a district metering zone, but estimate its size and narrow down its location, which is the piece utilities have historically struggled with. On the compliance side, our platform automates the kind of continuous, auditable data logging that regulatory bodies increasingly expect, whether that’s groundwater extraction tracking or industrial water use reporting, so organisations aren’t scrambling to assemble records manually when audits come around.
Q4. Environmental monitoring is increasingly becoming a compliance requirement across industries. How does Ubiqedge’s air quality and environmental monitoring platform support organizations in tracking key parameters such as AQI, CO2, TVOC, temperature, and humidity in real time?
Our AQMS deploys low-maintenance IoT sensor nodes – indoor and outdoor – that continuously track AQI, CO2, TVOC, PM2.5/PM10, temperature, and humidity, and stream that data to SAMASTH for dashboarding and alerting. For facility managers, this replaces what used to be spot-check monitoring with a continuous, defensible data trail.
What tends to matter most to our customers is the combination of real-time alerting – so a facility can act immediately if a parameter crosses a threshold, rather than discover it after the fact – and structured historical reporting that maps directly to regulatory and ESG disclosure formats. We’re seeing rising demand from commercial real estate and manufacturing facilities where indoor air quality is becoming both a compliance and an employee wellbeing consideration, alongside outdoor deployments tied to industrial emissions and urban air quality monitoring mandates.
Q5. Ubiqedge positions itself as a Made-in-India deep-tech startup focused on smarter sustainability. What differentiates your approach from other IoT solution providers in the renewable energy and environmental technology space?
Three things, I’d say. First, we’ve built full-stack capability in-house – from the KLEON hardware layer (industrial-grade IoT gateways supporting Modbus, CAN, RS-485, 4G LTE with OTA) through to the SAMASTH cloud and ML layer. A lot of players in this space integrate third-party hardware with a generic dashboard; we control the full pipeline, which lets us tune everything from sensor calibration to model accuracy for the specific physics of each vertical.
Second, we deliberately went cross-sector rather than single-vertical – solar, water, fleet/concrete quality, and air quality all run on the same underlying platform. That’s given us pattern-matching advantages: techniques we developed for anomaly detection in solar BESS translate directly into leak detection models for water, for instance. Third, being an Indian deep-tech company building for Indian infrastructure realities – unreliable connectivity, cost sensitivity, fragmented asset ownership – means our systems are engineered for conditions that off-the-shelf global platforms often aren’t designed around.
Q6. Your technology ecosystem combines KLEON industrial IoT hardware with the SAMASTH cloud platform. How does this integrated ecosystem enable predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and data-driven decision-making for customers across different sectors?
KLEON is the sensing and edge layer – it’s what gets high-fidelity, high-frequency data off physical assets reliably, even in low-connectivity environments, using local buffering and OTA-managed firmware. SAMASTH is where that data becomes intelligence. We run a mix of statistical methods and ML models – CUSUM change-point detection, Isolation Forest, LSTM autoencoders for time-series anomaly detection, and gradient-boosted models like XGBoost for quantification tasks – depending on what the use case demands.
Because both layers are ours, we can push logic to the edge where latency or bandwidth matters, and reserve the heavier modelling for the cloud where we have more compute and more historical data to learn from. The result for customers is the same underlying capability – detect anomalies early, quantify their impact, and support a decision rather than just present a chart – applied consistently whether the asset is a solar inverter, a water pipeline, or a concrete batching plant. That consistency is also what let us scale to roughly 30,000 deployed units with a very high SaaS attach rate.
Q7. As digitalization continues to reshape renewable energy and sustainability initiatives, what are Ubiqedge’s key growth priorities over the next few years, and how do you see IoT and edge intelligence transforming the future of energy, water, and environmental management?
Our near-term priorities are threefold: deepen our footprint in solar O&M and BESS analytics as India’s renewable capacity scales rapidly; expand our water vertical, particularly around leak detection and NRW reduction, where the problem is large and still largely unsolved at scale; and grow our concrete/RMC quality vertical, which addresses a very different but equally underserved compliance and quality-assurance need. We’re also exploring select international opportunities, including cloud deployment models tailored to markets like Saudi Arabia, where data sovereignty and localisation requirements are shaping how platforms like ours need to be architected.
More broadly, I think the next phase of digitalisation in energy, water, and environmental management is about moving from monitoring to autonomy – from dashboards that show you what happened, to systems that predict what’s about to happen and, increasingly, act on it directly at the edge. As sensor costs keep falling and connectivity keeps improving even in India’s tier-2 and tier-3 geographies, I expect edge intelligence to become the default way infrastructure – public and private – is managed, not a premium add-on. That’s the future we’re building KLEON and SAMASTH toward.
