Our Mission
We believe that Industrial IoT can enable mankind to live life more efficiently and happily. Our goal is to bring down the cost of Industrial IoT for every end-user across the globe, while building a vibrant community of engineers, who enjoy a great sense of achievement and work-life balance.
Our Values
Creating a positive difference in the lives of everyone – our customers, our employees and the society at large, through ingenious use of our engineering skills and operating with integrity.
Executive Team
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Bhagath believes in creating a positive difference in the lives of every human being, by contributing to the direction in which the fourth industrial revolution takes off. He is a first-generation entrepreneur with a passion for engineering and technology. He started Kalycito in 2007 and has grown it organically for over a decade now. He believes in using technology to enable people with more insights and help them achieve democratic decentralized decision making.
Experience: Over his 18 years of experience, Bhagath has been working with leading machine builders and automation OEMs globally, enabling them on full stack Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies – software development, embedded systems, open source & real-time Linux, enterprise and industrial networking. He complements this with his passion for project management, product management, marketing and sales. Before starting Kalycito, he was with Infosys and was involved in developing mission critical embedded software for industrial automation customers in Europe and North America. Prior to that, in 2002 he started his career as network engineer managing enterprise IT software, networks and servers.
Interests: Bhagath loves to read, travel and has been fortunate to experience different cultures across 15 countries and most of India. He has also been lucky to circumnavigate the globe during one of his business trips.
Chief Operations Officer (COO)

Kamal is a founding director of Kalycito. He is passionate to create a positive change to lives of every human being on this planet by advent of new technology innovations. This made him start Kalycito in 2007.
Kamal brings-in strategic insights that make Kalycito operations efficient and he actively involves in financial management and planning of Kalycito that has fueled its organic growth since inception.
Kamal has pursued Masters in Microelectronics Engineering from Melbourne, Australia and lived there from 2003 to 2007. Before starting Kalycito he worked for Telstra, Australia. He has more than 14 years of experience in project management and hands-on exposure to global best practices in services industry.
Kamal loves all cuisines of food and adventure sports. Kamal has strong affection towards performance cars and his big dream is to go around the world on a road trip.
Co-Founder & Director

Maha is a founding member and Director of Kalycito. He has 25 years of experience in technology, management and education. Being an accomplished technocrat, he has proven expertise in Data Communication Networks, Datacenters, Security and Embedded systems. He was involved in the design of large and complex IT infrastructure projects for Mumbai International Airport, Mumbai City Surveillance, Hyderabad City Surveillance, Metro Rail and other smart and safe city projects.
Maha has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Techonology (NIT), one of the premier technology institute in India owned by the state.
In the early part of his career, he had been involved in design of embedded electronic products for Medical, Textile and Automation industry which were successfully commercialized. Maha also founded Netcon Technologies India Pvt. Ltd, based in Coimbatore, India specializing in large scale IT solutions infrastructure. He has spearheaded the company to revenues of US$10 million and 250 employees.
Maha also co-founded a technology institute in Coimbatore, India and has served as a member of Board of studies of leading Educational institutions such as Kumaraguru College of Technology, Avinashilingam University and Bharathiar University.
Milestones
2007
- Kalycito started operations in Technology Business Incubator facility sponsored by Govt. of India at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore.
- Back then we called it “networked embedded systems”, when terms like Big Data, IoT, Industry 4.0 were never heard of.
2008
- Won first business from Europe.
- Received grants and soft loans from Technology Development Board (TDB) & MSME, Govt. of India
2009
- First major contribution to opensource community – openCONFIGURATOR was released in sourceforge and showcased in Hannover fair.
- Invested in acquiring hardware prototyping capabilities and FPGA IP development capabilities.
2010
- Delivered our first end-to-end product as a service (Firmware, FPGA IP & PCB)
- R&D investments into eAlerta started – an IIoT platform sold as a subscription service.
2011
- Conducted our first international conference on openAUTOMATION technologies in Coimbatore and Chennai.
- Graduated out of TBI facility and moved into our own office with state-of-the-art infrastructure.
2012
- First assignment in wireless space.
- First export of CE certified hardware as a part of an end-to-end product development assignment.
2013
- First customers from USA
2014
- eAlerta is now a continuously integrated platform
2015
- We have delivered our services to customers across atleast 7 countries and 5 states in India.
- eAlerta won QCI – D.L Shah Quality Award in Gold category at the 10th National Quality Conclave held at New Delhi.
2016
- Large scale production deployments of POWERLINK in field machines for our customers.
- Started winning services contracts spanning multiple years with multiple customers.
2017
- Became members of IIC and OPC Foundation and started contributing to OPC UA TSN development
- First Indian company to become part of IIC TSN Testbed
- Celebrated 10 years of business
2018
- OSADL Kalycito Fraunhofer Project: Building world’s first open source eco-system for Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things projects.
- Thought leadership: Kalycito consultants speaking in multiple conferences in US and Europe in the subject of Industrial IoT.
- 50%-50% revenue share between European & US markets.
- Successful completion of phase 1 of the OPC UA over TSN community project
- Membership in OPC Foundation Field Level Communication steering committee
2019
- Certified an example build using open source open62541 stack by OPC Foundation for “Micro Embedded device server” profile and security policies
- Successful launch of the phase 2 of OPC UA over TSN community project at Embedded World 2019
2020
- Kalycito & Sterfive start collaboration together on OPC UA cloud space
- Launch of our DevOps tool for Industry 4.0 – FSET (Field Service Enablement Tool)
- Launch of our online courses platform
2021
- Successful launch of the crowd funded project phase 3 for OPC UA and TSN. Companies that participated in the 3 funding rounds so far ABB Inc., Arm Ltd., B&R Industrial Automation GmbH, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Intel Corp., iss innovative software services GmbH/Balluff GmbH, Kontron AG, Kontron Europe GmbH, Linutronix GmbH, Nestfield Co. Ltd, Pepperl+Fuchs GmbH, Pilz GmbH & Co. KG, SICK AG, Siemens AG, TQ-Systems GmbH, WIKA Mobile Control GmbH
2022
- Successful completion of the crowd funded project phase 3 for OPC UA and TSN
- Launch of our new initiative “Sensor to Cloud using OPC UA over MQTT”
- With launch of our 3rd online course of OPC UA, engineers from all types of backgrounds whether they are from Mechanical, Electrical or Software backgrounds can learn OPC UA with practical sessions
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