Providing advisory services to the farmers based on the pictures (geo-referenced) taken using mobile phone, of the problems of the crop/plants and the description made in video/audio/text format. This would accelerate the facilitation services provided to the farmers by the experts. Using the artificial intelligence the predictions could also be facilitated.
Smart application for the mobile phones developed would enable farmers to register their category of produce, quantity and their expected price and get the right price for their produce. The farmers can know agriculture commodities rates live through web streaming of agriculture markets or from agriculture market information network.
The villager could interact with line department officials through video conferencing facilities at the community centers. They could also access the eservices for utility.
eSagu
To provide timely agro-advisory service, e-Sagu system has been developed by IIIT-Hyderabad and Media Lab Asia. It is an IT-based personalized agro advisory system which is to provide high-quality personalized (farm-specific) agricultural expert advice to each and every farm in a timely manner to the farmers.
In e-Sagu, the agricultural experts generate the expert advice based on the information about the crop situation received in the form of both text and digital photographs. The advice is provided on a regular basis (typically once a week) from sowing to harvesting which reduces the cost of cultivation and increases the farm productivity as well as quality of agri-commodities. In eSagu, the developments in IT such as database, Internet, and digital photography are extended to improve the performance of agricultural extension services.
In Kharif 2004, a prototype was developed and implemented with 1051 farms. In the prototype, a team of agricultural experts stayed at IIIT, Hyderabad (India) and delivered 20,000 pieces of agricultural expert advice to 1051 cotton farms of three villages (Oorugonda, Gudeppad and Oglapur) in Atmakur Mandal of Warangal district in Andhra Pradesh state, India.
As consultant to the project the author contributed to the development of a spatial and temporal GIS software, for the analysis of collected information and providing advisories and predictions spatially.
Monitoring Bee Hives
The BuzzBox is the smart hive monitoring assistant. Uses artificial intelligence to inspect hive’s health and report updates to the mobile app continually throughout the day. Detect swarming, missing queen, healthy, sick, or collapsed hives in realtime. Monitor temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, and local weather conditions. It even contains anti-theft systems that alert when your hive is disturbed.
LifeTrac 5 - Open source ecology
Open Source Ecology is a lean start-up dedicated to transparency in all of its operations. Below, you will find information about how decisions are made, who is making them, how much revenue is generated, how its spent, etc.
https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Life-Trac_5
DNA finger prin ng
DNA finger printing of seeds and plant species, so that farmers are not duped by the spurious seeds and plant species.
OpenPCR is a low-cost yet accurate thermocycler, capable of reliably controlling PCR reactions for DNA detection, sequencing, and limitless other applications. (Source: https://openpcr.org/)
