Achievements
ICAR-Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering
Development of sensor-based technologies for precise farm input application and quality control in post-harvest processing
- Image based variable rate nitrogen applicator for granular (tractor drawn) as well as liquid (knapsack) applications has been developed for wheat and paddy crops.
- Rigourous field testing and design refinement is going on at present.
Image based variable rate granular fertilizer applicator
Variable rate nitrogen applicator for liquid fertilizer
Development of AI/IoT Based intelligent Irrigation System for Field Crops
- A micro controller based smart irrigation system has been developed which could be operated with input data from soil moisture sensor and cloud rainfall forecasting data.
- The aforesaid AI/IoT based intelligent irrigation system could save 11.4 to 22.7% of water as compared to ET based irrigation scheduling in maize crop.
Thingspeak channel for data storage
Field testing of smart irrigation system
Development of sensor based multi pass cleaner for pulse / legume grains
- Optimization of the design parameters, electronic components, actuator selection has been tuned with developed in-house programme for vision based multi pass cleaning of chick pea.
- Fabrication of the prototype with integration of electronic components and in-house software is in progress.
Object detection by the micro controller
