Agriculture & Energy Building the Next Generation

IoT innovation Platforms For Indian Agri-Economy

By

Ravikishor Mundada

Mundada.ravi@gmail.com

Future SMART Agriculture using IoT – Big PictureView

smart sensing & monitoring

smart analysis & planning

smart control

BIG DATA

Back End Analytics - AI

Mechanized Cultivation & Harvesting

SMART Dairy

Farm Management Precision /SMART Farming

With Acknowledgements due to WUR University

COE Vision for Agriculture Doubling the India’s Agriculture GDP or average pre-acre farm production

currently this is about just half as that of the word average! Wiki

Disruptive technologies under IoT – can offer immediate productivity boost to Agriculture and allied businesses.

Large scale adoption of SMART Farming & SMART Processing will change the way farming is done till now, enabling the ‘social change’.

SMART & Connected Farming End to End.

IoT Agri platforms connecting various and complex threads of farming practices, from demand to consumption, Sowing to monitization, COP for cultivation, with promise to stay always connected on-farm / off farm.

Better control & security of Crops, Equipments, Live stock and others.

Predictive tools and models for Efficient resource management & better productivity due to informed decision making. Converging every bit of information from diverse fields of applications ( life-sicence, crop-science, equipments, sensors etc..)

Can evantually do-away with Minimum Control Price (Cotton, Sugarcane etc..)

Agri/Food Supply Chain can become much more SMART & predictive for the demand / supply gaps verses need for production of food / Agri produce- for facilitating the market driven fair pricing.

Chemical free Food Production can become reality

With the strategic shift in agri-inputs towards quality & supply of farm inputs. This Shall have the profound impact on human life. In terms of chemical residue related disease like Sugar, BP, Cancer etc..

Bio-diversity & Environment Protection

will be easy by optimum use of natural resource in as much quantity as minimum required for the farming.

Facilitate Policy Implementation - addressing multitude of challenges

Building awareness, maturity and social change needed for building a strong agri-economy of India .

Current Battlefield of Indian Agriculture & Farming Business

Ministry of Agriculture

Farming Support

Govt Aids,

NGO, KVK, Univ. Local Bodies .

Core Agri-Business

Farm Management. Economic Viability?

Reliable Source of Income ?

Technology

IoT, Mobile, Life Science,

Crop Science, Soil Science

Core Farming Farm Inputs, COP, Outputs,

Cultivation Methods, Cropping Patterns. Land

Resources.

Contract Farming Local

Pricing

NABARD

Pawn / Local Borrowing

Political Impact

Social Culture

Demographics

Age Old Practices

Terrain & Environment

Market Driven

Tech Start-ups

Logistics Economics

Funds Availabi

lity

Loans

Subsidy

Return Per Acre

Co-operative Farming

Small & Marginal Farmer

Corporate Farming

Farmer Producing Company

Input Suppliers

Organic Farming

Tech Provider

Building Innovation platforms for Agriculture

1. Electricity / Power : SMART Grid for Remote Communities. Apps for Efficient Power Management.

2. Water Resources : SMART Irrigation. Apps for Effective Water Control.

3. Labor Productivity : SMART Harvesting - Cotton / Cashew Picking Robotic Arm as one example.

4. Challenging Terrain – Application of Drones, Remote Sensing, Monitoring.

5. Cultivation / COP - Soil Sciences(Ph, Temp, Humidity, Nutrients analysis), On Farm Bio-Technology : Pest Control & Prevention, Growth Stage-wise / daily monitoring (Nursery, Silk Farming)

6. Mechanization - Equipments, Tools and automation. Farm Input & Out Put Side Supply Chain

7. Market & Economics - Decision Making & Predictive Tools, Trends and Consumption patterns.

8. Environment Impacts - Predictive tools for Weather; Disease Migration & crop protection

9. Policy Matters - Enabling Govt and Local Administration for enforcing the policy, implementing program , spreading awareness, online training, etc…

Building & Driving the IoT innovation for Agriculture shall help in addressing multitude of challenges faced today. This needs to evolve in the order of their necessity & priority for farmers and the benefits it offers. While mobile is one of

the critical enablers, its not just yet another mobile app!

All these innovations platforms to be evolved for the collaboration and to enable the IoT based application to be evolved for solving real-life issues. Using the IoT based technologies. Such platforms shall further drive innovations for the respective domain-specific challenges to bring in efficiency. ‘IoT for agriculture’ Platforms shall further extend to bring the benefits from interdisciplinary ‘connected systems’ based on - Cloud, Mobile, Remote Sensing, Data Analytics & Communication.

Major IoT Based Innovation Platform for Agriculture proposed:

Ecosystem & Collaboration Space Multi-actor approach, Governance, Security, Privacy, Business Models

Open IoT Architecture & Infrastructure Event-driven, Configurable, Customizable

Standardisation EPCIS ISO11783

Infrastructure & Technology Providers

Agri-end users IoT integrators App/Service Developers

Researchers analysis

& planning

control

sensing & monitoring

IoT Cloud

Physical Object Layer

Driving Innovation through IoT- Open Architecture & IT Infrastructure

Starting with Product to Product System to the System of Systems; The IoT for Agriculture needs to evolve to provide a comprehensive Open Architecture & Infrastructure, that is then easy to deploy and use for the respective applications.

• Integrating a multitude of IoT devices supporting the whole value chain

• Consortium of technology and service providers

• Moving Towards data-driven farming, autonomous operations, virtualized food chains and personal nutrition.

• Need for the Reliable and Secured IoT Systems.

Building the Eco-system to implement IoT for Agriculture

1. Govt. Departments

2. Agri-Universities

3. Engg-Universities

4. NGOs & Communities

5. ISRO

6. Tele-Communications

7. IoT Major Industry Players

8. Start ups for IoT Applications

9. NABARD

10. Others / Market Place

11. Global Collaboration

‘IoT for agriculture’ phenomenon is going to ride on the convergence of technologies, domains and an interdisciplinary field of applications. The biggest challenge today, is to stitch them together, bring under one umbrella and help to identify the synergies. Thus innovations for real-life-benefit application can evolve with ease. As the maturity of this eco-system sets in, with the adoption & leveraging technology, we can expect explosion of IoT applications offering solutions to all kinds of problems – from small & simple to large and very complex!

NASSCOM IoT COE shall enable the collaboration opportunities through the IoT HUB for different entities to come together and help building an eco-system towards realizing the potential offered by the technologies.