Dombivli East, Maharashtra
Rahul Upadhyay
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Building connected hardware that ships — from firmware to cloud.
Who I am
Rahul Upadhyay is the Founder & Managing Director of Smartdwell Technologies, an IoT/IIoT and industrial automation company based in Dombivli East, Maharashtra, and Co-Founder of QubecSense LLP, building smart water metering systems. He also leads IoT initiatives at AgriGati, an agritech company, and works as an IoT consultant for NBSense and Anukool India Private Limited. Rahul works across the full stack — embedded firmware, industrial hardware, cloud infrastructure, and client-facing business development — turning connected-hardware ideas into deployed, revenue-generating products.
2
Ventures Founded / Co-Founded
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Projects Delivered & Active
5
Organizations
What I work on
End-to-end capability, from silicon to storefront.
Embedded Systems & Firmware
Firmware development for microcontroller-based IoT/IIoT devices, from sensor interfacing to over-the-air deployment.
Cloud & Backend Infrastructure
AWS, EC2, DNS, and data ingestion pipelines that take telemetry from thousands of field devices to production dashboards.
IoT/IIoT Hardware & Automation
Industrial automation and connected-hardware systems designed for real-world deployment at scale.
Client Proposals & Business Development
Translating technical capability into client-facing proposals, partnerships, and revenue.
Organizations I work with
Founding, leading, and advising IoT-first businesses from zero to deployment.
Smartdwell Technologies
Founder & Managing Director
IoT/IIoT and industrial automation company based in Dombivli East, Maharashtra, delivering connected-hardware systems for residential and industrial clients.
QubecSense LLP
Co-Founder
Smart water metering venture building LoRaWAN-based metering hardware and data infrastructure for housing societies and utilities.
AgriGati
IoT Head
Agritech company where Rahul leads IoT strategy and implementation, connecting field sensors and automation to farm-level decisions.
NBSense
IoT Consultant
AI-powered Industrial IoT platform for real-time monitoring of energy, water, HVAC, DG sets and other plant utilities across industrial, healthcare and commercial sites. Rahul advises on IoT architecture and solutions.
Selected projects
Delivered and active work across building automation, metering, mobility, and mobile.
Building Automation
Client: L&T
Building automation system delivered for L&T, integrating building services into centralized monitoring and control.
QR-Based Complaint Management
Client: L&T
QR-driven complaint management system delivered for L&T, letting occupants raise issues by scanning a code and routing them to the right team for resolution.
Asset Management (Pan-India)
Client: L&T
Asset management system delivered for L&T across a pan-India project, tracking equipment and assets across multiple sites.
Canteen Management
Client: L&T
Canteen management system delivered for L&T, digitizing canteen operations.
Real-Time Temperature Monitoring
Client: Aarti Pharmalabs
Real-time temperature monitoring system with alerts delivered for Aarti Pharmalabs, notifying teams when readings go out of range.
QubecSense LoRaWAN Water Metering
LoRaWAN-based smart water metering deployment for QubecSense, covering device firmware, gateway connectivity, and cloud data ingestion.
Water Equalizer
Volume-based fairness system deployed across a 25-tower housing society, ensuring equitable water distribution using real-time metering data.
HVAC Setpoint Control
Heat-load-based automation system with VRV integration, dynamically adjusting setpoints for optimized climate control and energy use.
EV Charging Station
ESP32-S3 firmware powering a QR-based EV charging station, handling session management and precision energy metering.
GateGuard / Society Connect
Flutter-based society management and gate security app, live on both the Play Store and App Store for residential communities.
Intern Training Program
A structured 16-week embedded/IoT training program, supported by a purpose-built Next.js tracker app for managing intern progress.
Let's build something
Open to conversations on IoT/IIoT deployments, partnerships, and new ventures.