Hello, I'm
Arijit Das An AI & IoT Entrepreneur
Co-founder & Director of Aeonix Research and Innovations — a bootstrapped Indian deep-tech company engineering complete technology systems for defense, government and enterprise: hardware, AI and software, in-house — from custom PCB, firmware and AI systems to cloud. Cleantech is our biggest initiative — a plastic-free, waste-free India is the vision I'm building toward. Also co-founder of iAvatars LLC — a Michigan, USA-based emotional-AI company building a personal AI human avatar device.
Companies I've worked with
01 — About Me
Engineering real-world systems — from hardware to AI to software.
I founded Aeonix with zero capital, zero clients and no manufacturing facility — out of a simple observation: India was importing almost all of its IoT hardware. Today we design our own PCBs, write our own firmware, train our own AI models and ship our own products, deployed in the most demanding environments in the country.
500+
Machines deployed in the field
200+
Enterprise & government clients
30+
Products engineered & shipped
10+
Countries worked in
5+
Indian patents — 1 granted, more filed
7
Peer-reviewed publications
5+
Industries served
100%
Bootstrapped — no external capital
02 — My Vision
Three missions, one direction.
01
Make India independent in IoT
India shouldn't have to import the hardware that runs its own infrastructure. Every Aeonix machine is designed, engineered and manufactured in India — custom PCB to cloud.
02
A plastic-free, waste-free India
Guilt doesn't fix broken systems; engineering does. Cleantech infrastructure that makes the sustainable choice the easy choice, at national scale.
03
AI + IoT for the future of the world
The next generation of infrastructure will sense, think and act. I'm combining AI and IoT to build machines that serve people — from Indian streets to global markets.
03 — My Journey
From a maker collective to defense-deployed engineering.
2018 – 2020
Sparklers — the maker years
Started as a research and maker collective working on robotics, AI and image processing — and spent 6 years making tutorial videos on YouTube that have crossed 1.7M+ views. Watch the Sparklers channel ↗
2021 – 2022
System Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services
ETL development with front-end responsibilities in React — my last job before going all-in on building my own company.
2022
Founded Aeonix
Aeonix Research & Innovations LLP — Kolkata, zero external capital. The thesis: India shouldn't have to import its IoT hardware. Enterprise validation followed the same year with Tata Group entities, ITC and IIT Hyderabad.
2024
Government OEM status
WBPCB empanelment; first IoT cloth-bag vending machines deployed. JIS Samman — Best Entrepreneur Award.
2025
Defense & national scale
Indian Army deployment. Gangasagar Mela AI sanitation. IPL gesture gaming at sub-100ms latency. 500+ machines in the field.
2026
Going global
Opened Aeonix's first international branch in Michigan, USA. Co-founded iAvatars LLC. Autonomous waste-logistics robot showcased at AI India Summit. Green MSME Award.
04 — My Companies
The companies I've built.
India · Bootstrapped · Government OEM
Aeonix Research and Innovations
Indigenous IoT, AI and robotics engineering — custom PCB to cloud. 30+ products across defense, smart cities, industry, healthcare and entertainment. Clients include the Indian Army, Tata, ITC and the Government of West Bengal.
aeonixinnovations.com ↗
USA · 2026– · Co-Founder & Technical MD
iAvatars LLC
Emotional-AI company building a personal AI human avatar device — the Virtual Loved Assist (VLA) — combining AI with emotional intelligence to keep people connected with loved ones regardless of distance or internet availability, inside a secure, identity-verified ecosystem.
05 — What I Do
Four engineering disciplines I work across.
From custom silicon to deployed AI — I build hands-on across all of these, without outsourcing the hard parts.
Embedded Systems & IoT Hardware
Custom PCBs shipped in production — ESP32, Quectel 4G LTE, motor drivers, BMS, custom display drivers.
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AI & Computer Vision
Real-time vision at sub-100ms latency in production — gesture recognition, sanitation monitoring, autonomous drones.
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Robotics & Autonomous Systems
Service robots and autonomous platforms with SLAM, LiDAR and obstacle avoidance.
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Surveillance, Security & Defense
Defense-deployed surveillance and counter-surveillance systems on custom hardware with secure protocols.
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India can't recycle its way out of plastic — but it can build its way out.
This is the part of my work I measure in tonnes, not revenue. Guilt doesn't fix broken systems; engineering does — so we built the machines that make the better choice the easier one. Every one below is out there right now, running 24/7 in public infrastructure, from Kolkata's markets to rural girls' hostels.
CO₂ emissions stopped
Cumulative CO₂-equivalent avoided by our deployed cleantech machines (tonnes)
0 t
500+ installed
IoT cloth-bag vending machines
Drop a ₹10 coin or scan UPI, take a cloth bag — 24/7, no staff, no excuse to reach for plastic. 100+ live in Kolkata alone, for the Govt of India.
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1,000+ girls served
Sanitary pad vending & incinerators
Installed where the nearest medical store is a bus ride away — rural girls' government hostels, schools and tribal colleges. Dispensing and safe disposal, in one machine.
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Gangasagar Mela
AI sanitation monitoring
Computer vision watching the ghats round the clock, flagging what needs cleaning before the crowd notices — at one of the largest human gatherings on Earth.
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Fish & vegetable markets
Compostable bag vending machines
Placed inside fish and vegetable markets — the exact point where single-use plastic enters the chain. Certified biodegradable, for the Govt of India.
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Pan-India · 100% solar
Solar smart compactor bins
Crushes what goes in to a fraction of its volume — 5–8× the capacity in the same footprint, so bins stop overflowing between collections. Runs entirely on solar.
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These are just a few of our deployed cleantech machines — explore the full range.
See all products →07 — AI & IoT Projects
Beyond cleantech — robotics, aerial AI, live entertainment.
<100ms · Tata IPL · KKR
Gesture-recognition gaming
Real-time pose estimation turns the fan's own body into the bat — camera in, skeleton tracked, shot on screen in under 100 ms. Any slower and it stops feeling like cricket.
Made in India · AI Summit
Misti — autonomous service robot
Maps the floor with LiDAR, then holds its line through a room that keeps rearranging itself — obstacle avoidance running continuously against a map that is never quite current.
Tata Telecom · Universities
AI autonomous drone system
Built from bare airframe to flight — our own frame and electronics, with object detection and tracking running live on the video feed for aerial survey.
All IPL 2025 stadiums
Miniature Tata Curvv toss car
A scale Curvv that drove the coin out for the toss — PCB, drive electronics and firmware in-house, and it had to hit its mark on live broadcast, every single match.
…and many more
Just a few highlights — 30+ products engineered & shipped across 5+ industries.
Explore all →08 — Live Demonstrations
See it running — and me explaining it.
These aren't promo videos. Each one is a real deployment or a working system, demonstrated on camera — in the field, at summits, and on my own tech-education channel.
Media Coverage & Podcasts
Live on All India Radio
My live radio session — Akashvani Yuvavani. Watch the recording on Facebook.
Watch on Facebook →09 — Global Footprint
Countries I've worked with.
10 — Education
Engineer first, always.
Receiving my M.Tech degree — IIT Patna convocation, 2026.
M.Tech, Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India
B.Tech, Computer Science
Narula Institute of Technology, India
11 — Awards & Recognition
Credentials, exact to the letter.
JIS Samman — Best Entrepreneur
Awarded by JIS Group, Eastern India's leading education & industrial conglomerate.
Outstanding Young Entrepreneur
NASSCOM SME Inspire Awards — nominated by India's apex tech industry body.
Green MSME Award
World MSME Day 2026 — for indigenous IoT cleantech infrastructure.
AI India Summit
Made-in-India autonomous robot showcased at India's largest AI summit.
Talks · Awards · Events
On stage and in the field.
12 — Invited Talks & Events
On the invite list — stages, summits, radio.
13 — Patents & Research
Depth on record.
Indian patents 5+ · 1 granted
- Deep Learning Based Fingerprint Lock Supported Multilingual Optical Character Recognizer — Patent No. 581267, granted 26/02/2025.
- A Portable Ultrasonic Microphone Jamming System with Wireless Charging Area and Camera Blocker Unit — App. No. 202631006318, published 10/04/2026.
- A Wireless Audio Surveillance System and Process thereof — App. No. 202531119137, published 27/02/2026.
…and a few more filed and under process.
Peer-reviewed publications 7 papers
- Automated Bundy Tube Metrology with Deep Learning — RCAAI 2023, LNEE vol 1220, Springer (2024).
- Detection of COVID-19 Using Deep Transfer Learning from X-Ray and CT Images — LNEE vol 786, Springer (2022).
- Proper Choice of a Machine Learning Algorithm for Breast Cancer Prediction — LNEE vol 786, Springer (2022).
- A new graph-theoretic approach to determine the similarity of genome sequences based on nucleotide triplets — Genomics 112(6): 4701–4714 (2020).
- FireBird: A Fire Alert and Live Fire Monitoring System Based on Social Media Contribution — CDVE 2020, Springer.
- Blockchain vs GDPR in Collaborative Data Governance — CDVE 2020, Springer.
- Genome sequence comparison under a new form of tri-nucleotide representation — Gene 730: 144257 (2020).
14 — Press & Media
Featured across leading publications.
Coverage in 5+ languages with an estimated reach of 10M+ — national dailies, regional press and international engineering magazines.
Newspapers that have featured my work
Magazine features — Circuit Cellar · Electronics For You · Silicon Chip · Servo · The MagPi
