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Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 12: Solinas Integrity Private Limited, a deep-tech robotics firm incubated at IIT Madras, has been chosen as the topic of a case examine revealed on Harvard Business Publishing – the world’s foremost repository of enterprise faculty instructing circumstances utilized by establishments throughout six continents. Authored by Dr. Suresh Srinivasan from the Great Lakes Institute of Management, the case thoughtfully captures Solinas’ journey, innovation, and rising impression throughout India.
Operating on the intersection of public infrastructure and industrial methods, Solinas has emerged as a key participant working carefully with municipal firms throughout a number of states, in addition to main industries. The firm focuses on fixing important challenges in underground infrastructure, starting from guide scavenging, water pipeline leakages, and contamination dangers to unsafe sewer methods, areas which can be usually invisible but important to public well being and sustainability.
Through its superior robotics, AI, and digitization options, Solinas is enabling cities to scale back non-revenue water, enhance service supply, and make data-driven selections. At the identical time, its options are serving to industries guarantee operational effectivity, regulatory compliance, and infrastructure reliability.
Solinas is amongst a small cohort of Indian startups — and fewer nonetheless from the WASH (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene) sector — to be featured on this publishing ecosystem. The case is now out there as a instructing useful resource for MBA applications and enterprise colleges worldwide.
The HBS case examine highlights how Solinas is constructing a scalable and impact-driven enterprise mannequin in a historically underserved sector. It explores the corporate’s method to navigating complicated authorities ecosystems, establishing credibility in industrial markets, and leveraging expertise to create measurable outcomes.
‘There isn’t any playbook for constructing a expertise firm within the water and sanitation sector. Solinas has been constructed by fixed experimentation and studying. Having studied Harvard Business School case research throughout my schooling, it’s extremely significant to now see our journey featured as one,’ mentioned Divanshu Kumar, Co-founder & CEO, Solinas.
The case is anticipated to function a world studying useful resource for college students, policymakers, and enterprise leaders, providing insights into innovation, public-private collaboration, and constructing a startup in important infrastructure sectors in WASH (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene).
About Solinas Integrity Private Limited
Solinas is a deep-tech startup within the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) sector, incubated at IIT Madras. The firm focuses on underground city water and wastewater infrastructure, creating robotics and AI-led options for the inspection, cleansing, digitization, and administration of underground networks. Its portfolio consists of robotic inspection methods, AI-powered analytics platforms, and the Manhole Cleaning Robot designed to allow safer and mechanized sewer upkeep. These applied sciences enable cities and utilities to visualise, assess, clear, and handle infrastructure that’s in any other case invisible, enhancing security, lowering non-revenue water, and eliminating the necessity for guide scavenging.
Recognized and honoured by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Solinas companions with city native our bodies, water utilities, and industries to reinforce the security, effectivity, and resilience of important public infrastructure.
Solinas’ options have been deployed throughout greater than 30 cities in India, enabling large-scale inspection, cleansing, and upkeep of underground water and wastewater methods. The firm has labored with main city utilities and municipal our bodies together with Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB), Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB), Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB), Sangli, Miraj Municipal Corporation, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Municipal Corporation, Tripura Jal Board, Greater Chennai Corporation, and Noida Authority. Its expertise helps important reductions in water loss, saving as much as 600,000 litres per kilometre of inspection per day whereas decreasing operational prices by as much as 5 occasions.
Through options such because the Manhole Cleaning Robot, ENDOBOT Robotic Crawler, and AI-driven analytics platforms, Solinas permits a proactive, data-driven method to infrastructure administration whereas advancing employee security, operational effectivity, and local weather resilience.
The firm has additionally expanded internationally, with its ENDOBOT robotic resolution deployed with Dubai Municipality, and is now planning to scale its presence throughout the Middle East.
Solinas goals to additional broaden its footprint throughout India and world markets, with a continued give attention to enabling safer, extra sustainable, and resilient city infrastructure methods by robotics, AI, and clever underground infrastructure administration.
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