Often, people who change the world as adults have an inimitable curiosity about the world as children. Meenakshi Vashisht was no different.
In her childhood, she couldn’t fathom why her home had uninterrupted electricity supply while her friend’s house did not. The unfairness of the situation made her dig more. She found out that electricity cuts were bound to happen near an industrial area. She was not happy, and this thought has niggled her ever since.
Meenakshi’s professional journey is marked with one milestone after another. With 23 years of product architecture experience at ISRO, C-DoT, Temic, Motorola & NXP, her life took a dramatic turn 12 years ago, when she embarked on a journey across India and met people across rural, urban parts of the country which sparked deep insights about our country.
In a bid to solve endemic issues in India with technology, Meenakshi partnered with her childhood friends to kick start her entrepreneurial journey, resulting in a successful edtech company. With a roller coaster journey that often plagues most entrepreneurs, Meenakshi finally forayed into solving her childhood enigma about electricity.
2019 gave birth to TekUncorked with its unique AI-based LVIoT platform to check the electricity grid’s health and performance in real-time 24×7. While the technology offered intelligent solutions to monitor electric grids, pinpoint faults in the distribution system and alert on electrical thefts, the ultimate mission of TekUncorked is to make electricity distribution grids Smart, Connected and Predictive, with an aim to cut down loss and wastage of electricity before it even reaches the end-consumer, improve energy availability and power quality.
For Meenakshi, it was always clear. To be a part of the ecosystem, we need to contribute to the protection and sustainability of the ecosystem as well. As TekUncorked changes the conversation around how electricity is distributed with a reduced carbon footprint. A question we all need to ask ourselves is: are we as consumers also ready to make the electricity generated last a lot longer by making little changes in our consumption habits?
