Final-semester PhD · open to 2026 research & industry roles

Ph.D. Research Scholar · SWAN Lab

Atonu Ghosh

Dedicated to advancing next-generation IoT, Edge Computing, and Low Power Network research — translating these innovations into scalable, human-centric technologies that create tangible societal impact.

Ph.D. Research ScholarIIT Kharagpur Former Research InternSamsung R&D

Recent work spans HTTP and TLS over LoRa and condition monitoring systems deployed in steel plant and municipal water networks. Led several research and consulting projects including the ones sponsored by the Govt. of India.

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16
Patents · 3 granted
12
Peer-reviewed papers
4
Systems in production
6+
Years research & deployment
Atonu Ghosh, IoT and edge systems researcher TX  IoT · Edge · LPWAN

01 — About

Systems engineering
where hardware meets the network.

I'm a final-semester PhD scholar in Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Kharagpur, in the Smart Wireless Applications & Networking (SWAN) Lab under Prof. Sudip Misra, and a former Research Intern at Samsung R&D Institute India, Bangalore. My work lives in the resource-constrained middle where embedded hardware, networks and machine learning meet.

Over 6+ years I've taken systems from breadboard to production: HTTP and a full TLS 1.3 handshake carried over LoRa for remote and ad-hoc networks, a 4×4 and 8x8 LoRa MIMO testbed for higher throughput, condition monitoring for overhead cranes and rotating machinery, and a lightweight blockchain running on a microcontroller. Several are patented and some are in production.

I've led small teams on consulting and research projects for Tata Steel, Bokaro Steel Plant, Haldia Water Services, and CPHEEO resulting in end-to-end systems and their field validation. My aim always has been and still remains to build systems that are reliable, low-power, and genuinely useful to the people who depend on them.

02 — What I work on

Six problems I keep coming back to.

Different projects, one throughline: making capable systems run on tiny, far-flung, power-starved hardware — and keeping them secure and maintainable once they ship.

LPWAN & LoRa Systems

Long-range, low-power links that carry more than telemetry — HTTP and TLS over LoRa, message handling, interference management, and MIMO for throughput.

LoRaRFM95WSX1262FHSSTLS 1.3

Edge Systems

Running AI inference on the edge. Staged model deployment for constrained devices on and single-board computers instead of relying on the Cloud to avoid latency and ensure security.

YOLOEdge MLESP32Staged deploy

Industrial IoT & Condition Monitoring

Retrofitting legacy plant equipment with modern sensing — vibration, temperature, electrical and gas monitoring wired into Industry 4.0/5.0 dashboards.

MQTTModbusPLCGrafana

Secure Cyber-Physical Systems

Trust at the edge — end-to-end TLS over constrained links, real-time intrusion detection and actuation, and tamper-proof logging via lightweight on-device blockchain.

TLS 1.3BlockchainIDS

Full-Stack IoT

From schematic and firmware to REST APIs, dashboards and deployment. Custom PCBs on one end, containerised cloud on the other — and everything that connects them.

DjangoDockerKubernetesPostgreSQL

Digital Transformation

Turning field data into decisions — instrumenting operations, automating manual process steps, and moving organisations from paperwork to data-driven control.

IIoTAutomationCloud

03 — Selected work

Systems that left the lab.

A few projects I've led or built end-to-end. Most are patented; several run in production at industrial sites and municipal utilities.

Industrial deployment In production

EOT Crane Condition Monitoring

Tata Steel Downstream Products Ltd — Jamshedpur, India

Led a team of four to build and deploy a full-stack condition-monitoring system for Electric Overhead Travelling cranes — real-time vibration, temperature and electrical sensing streamed to plant-floor dashboards. Patented and running in production.

Raspberry Pi 5ESP32MicroPythonMQTTDjangoDockerPostgreSQLGrafanaAzure
Flagship research Patented · arXiv

HTTP & TLS over LoRa

Siia - SWAN Lab, IIT Kharagpur, India

A transparent proxy that accepts ordinary HTTPS from a Wi-Fi device, carries the request across a LoRa backhaul, and completes a full end-to-end TLS 1.3 handshake at the far end — unlocking the web for remote and ad-hoc networks with no cellular coverage.

ESP32RFM95WRaspberry PiNginxTLS 1.3Python
Research system Patented · arXiv

LoRa MIMO Testbed

4×4 spatial multiplexing — SWAN Lab, IIT Kharagpur, India

Designed and evaluated a 4×4 MIMO system for LoRa that uses spatial multiplexing to exchange parallel data streams, pushing effective throughput well past a single link while keeping LoRa's low-power profile intact.

ESP32RFM95WMicroPythonSpatial MUX
Gov-sponsored deployment In use

Water Distribution Pressure Monitoring

Haldia Water Services · CPHEEO, Govt. of India

A solar-powered, remotely configurable IoT node that streams domestic water-pipe pressure to the cloud for ML analysis — built for a CPHEEO / Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs project and deployed in the field.

Pressure sensorESP324G modemSolar + batteryMQTTAWS
Industrial proof-of-concept Tested

Legacy Sensor IoT Enablement

Bokaro Steel Plant, India

Led a team of three to retrofit 4–20 mA Honeywell gas sensors and relay their readings over LoRaWAN to a central server — bringing decades-old industrial instrumentation online without ripping it out and replacing it.

ESP32MicroPythonRFM95WLoRaWANAWS
Research system Patented

Lightweight Blockchain on a Microcontroller

Decentralised trust for IoT — SWAN Lab

A lightweight blockchain framework running entirely on a resource-constrained microcontroller, giving IoT nodes tamper-proof logging and data exchange with no dependence on cloud infrastructure.

ESP32MicroPythonOn-device ledger

04 — Publications & patents

The written record.

16 patents (3 granted), 12 peer-reviewed papers across IEEE Transactions and journals, and 3 preprints under review. Full list on Google Scholar.

  1. PG-3

    Atonu Ghosh, Biswajit Ghosh, Ruelia Saha, Sudip Misra, and Arijit Roy. System for Real-Time Intrusion Detection, Actuation and Alert and Method Thereof.

    GrantedIndian Patent No. 566326 · May 16, 2025
  2. PG-2

    Subhas Chandra Misra, Debanjan Das, Sudip Misra, Venkanna Udutalapally, Atonu Ghosh, and Tanushree Pan. Wireless Network Device for Wireless Communication with User Devices in a Wireless Communication Network.

    GrantedIndian Patent No. 539308 · May 27, 2024
  3. PG-1

    Subhas Chandra Misra, Debanjan Das, Venkanna Udutalapally, Sudip Misra, and Atonu Ghosh. Blockchain-Enabled IoT System and Method for Securing Real-Time Data in a Microcontroller-Based Blockchain Network.

    GrantedIndian Patent No. 529261 · Mar 20, 2024

05 — Experience

Where I've done the work.

Jan 2026 — Jul 2026

Research Intern

Samsung R&D Institute India — Bangalore

Applied research in IoT and edge computing at Samsung's India R&D centre, alongside the final stretch of my doctorate.

IoTEdgeSystems R&D
Jan 2021 — Present

Ph.D. Research Scholar

IIT Kharagpur — SWAN Lab (Prof. Sudip Misra)

Research on IoT, IIoT, edge computing, LPWAN and condition monitoring. Led four industrial deployments and several patented systems end-to-end — from schematic and firmware through cloud dashboards to field validation with entities like Tata Steel and Haldia Water Services, India.

IoTEdge ComputingIIoTLPWAN
Nov 2020 — Oct 2025

System Architect · voluntary

SensorDrops Networks Pvt. Ltd.

Architected edge-ML systems for a deep-tech startup: pet-immune human intruder detection integrated with existing CCTV DVRs — now commercialised — and modular machine & ambient condition monitoring reusable across warehouse and industrial settings.

YOLODjangoONVIF / RTSPInfluxDB
Oct 2020 — Dec 2023

Research Fellow · JRF → SRF

IIT Kharagpur / MeitY, Govt. of India

Junior then Senior Research Fellow in the TribeConnect, a MeitY, Government of India sponsored research project. It aimed to build IoT + ML platform for tribal agriculture and healthcare in Chhattisgarh. I contributed by building rural LoRa networks, IoT gateways with optional load control, and full-stack dashboards with database replication for lossy links.

LoRaRaspberry PiMicrocontrollerDjangoMariaDB

06 — Recognition, teaching & service

Beyond the research.

Awards & positions

  • 2024Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship — Finalist
  • 2026Invited as a Session Chair, IEEE CONECCT 2026 Conference, Bangalore, India.
  • 2024Invited to help conduct lab sessions, IoT Training Programme, IIT Patna
  • 2022Speaker, Workshop on IoT, MITM Jamshedpur
  • 2022–23Secretary, IEEE Computer Society SBC, IIT Kharagpur

Technology in production

  • 2025Liquid-Level Sensing & Pump Control — licensed via IIT Kharagpur to Imperial Electrical Appliances Ltd., India
  • 2024Real-Time Intrusion Detection — commercialised via SensorDrops Networks
  • 2024EOT Crane Condition Monitoring — in use at Tata Steel Downstream Products Ltd., Inda
  • 2024Water-Network Leak Detection — in use at Haldia Water Services, India

Teaching

  • 6×TA, Introduction to IoT (NPTEL) — Prof. Sudip Misra, IIT Kharagpur · 2023–25
  • Inst.TA — Programming & Data Structures, Computer Networks Lab, Ubiquitous Computing · 2021–26
  • Instr.Instructor — Security for IoT & DevSecOps, Tata NeuSkills
  • Instr.Hands-on IoT + ML and Cloud Computing short courses, IIT Kharagpur

Peer review

  • JournalsIEEE Transactions on Communications · IEEE Internet of Things · Springer Nature Scientific Reports · J. of Computer Virology & Hacking Techniques · Wiley Software: Practice & Experience
  • BooksTechnical reviewer for Apress & Springer Nature — titles on IoT security, healthcare 4.0, supply-chain and UAV swarms

07 — Education

Foundations.

2021 — Present

Ph.D., Computer Science & Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
SWAN Lab · Advisor Prof. Sudip Misra
2018 — 2020

M.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

MAKAUT (formerly WBUT), West Bengal
Blockchain + IPFS logging
2014 — 2017

B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata

08 — Contact

Let's build something
that ships.

I'm open to research collaborations, postdoc and industry roles, and selective consulting in IoT, edge and LPWAN systems. Email is the fastest way to reach me — I read every message.

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