ATHARVA TARE

At South East Central Railway (Indian Railways), I participated in power-factor monitoring and correction at traction substations, recording readings and studying reactive-power compensation strategies. I also studied diesel generator operations and observed traction motor and control-circuit systems.

I built Solar Bharat, a renewable energy platform with a rooftop solar sizing tool that estimates system size, ROI, and payback period. Its IoT dashboard tracks live generation output and CO₂ offset.

For my academic solar PV sizing study, I designed a 10 kWp on-grid rooftop system, including string sizing, inverter selection, array layout, and energy-yield estimation. I also assessed its financial viability through LCOE and payback-period analysis.

My final-year project is a PID-based ball and beam balancing system. I built a hardware prototype with an IR sensor and servo, then modeled the system and tuned PID gains in MATLAB/Simulink.