Labs & Infrastructure
The equipment you need four times a year already exists. Forty minutes away.
Every engineering university in India owns instrumentation that sits idle after six in the evening and all weekend. Udgam turns that idle capacity into something you can book by the hour.
- Hourly or daily booking
- Technician included
- Faculty available separately
Who this is for
Three situations where owning the equipment makes no sense.
You need to test a prototype
A printed circuit board, a mechanical assembly, a material sample. One round of proper testing tells you whether to proceed. Buying the instrument to find out would cost more than the product will earn in its first year.
You need a two-week stress test
A new component has to run continuously under load before you can ship it. A commercial testing house charges premium rates for exactly the equipment a university already has standing idle.
You need a capability once
Something specialised — a particular kind of imaging, a fabrication step, an environmental chamber. It is one step in a process you otherwise handle entirely in-house.
What a listing looks like
Everything you need to decide, before you contact anyone.
VLSI Design and Testing Lab
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Institution | A technological university in Pune |
| Equipment | 8 design workstations, FPGA boards, IC tester, four-channel oscilloscopes |
| Availability | Weekdays 6pm–10pm, weekends 8am–6pm |
| Booking window | Minimum 4 hours, maximum 4 weeks |
| Usage fee | ₹2,500 an hour, or ₹15,000 a day |
| Supervision | Lab technician included; faculty available at ₹1,500 an hour |
| Suitable for | PCB testing, FPGA prototyping, chip design verification |
How you find the right one
- Filter by equipment type, capability, city or state
- Filter by availability window — evenings and weekends are the norm
- See the institution's other engagements and their contributor history
- Compare hourly and daily rates across nearby institutions before you book
Where the money goes
- Host institutionThe overwhelming majority
- Platform feeA small share
The overwhelming majority stays with the institution. This is a genuine non-tuition revenue line for them, which is why the listings are real and maintained.
Booking
Five steps, coordinated by the institution's admin.
Find and request
Search by capability and location, choose a window, and submit a booking request with a short description of what you need to do.The institution reviews
Their admin checks the request against lab availability and confirms whether a technician or faculty supervision is needed for what you have described.Confirmation and payment
You pay through the platform. The overwhelming majority of the fee goes to the host institution.The session
Technician time is included in the rate. If you booked faculty supervision, they attend for the hours you specified.Rating
You rate the facility and the support. That rating is visible to every other MSME considering the same lab.
Why institutions want you there
Your booking is worth more to them than the fee.
It is reportable
Every industry booking is evidence of industry-academia collaboration, which is directly assessed in national accreditation. Your two-day booking helps their score.
It is revenue they do not have
Institutions are almost entirely dependent on tuition. A recurring non-tuition line from equipment already paid for is genuinely valuable to them.
It creates the next relationship
An MSME in the lab meets faculty. Faculty consulting follows. Then a student project. Then an intern. Lab access is often where the whole relationship starts.
of every booking fee that stays with the host institution
minimum booking; four weeks is the maximum single reservation
when most listed capacity becomes available — plus full weekends
Universities and industry, working on the same problems at the same time.
Co-working
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Real business problems. Real student teams. Real outcomes.
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Accreditation in a click. Projects in a semester. Placements in a season.
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