Smart water solutions in agriculture: Integration of Sensors, Satellite & ICT tools
Primary Information
Domain
Water Resources & River Systems
Project No.
6974
Sanction and Project Initiation
Sanction No:
Sanction Date:
Project Initiation date: 01/10/2017
Project Duration: 36
Partner Ministry/Agency/Industry
Ministry of HRD / Robert Bosch Engineering & Business Solution / Satyukt
Role of partner:1. Hardware Implementation 2. Data Analytics 3. Satellite Services 4. Cloud Based Services 5. Decision Support System
Support from partner:
Principal Investigator
Prof. Sekhar MudduPrimary
Indian Institute of Science - Bangalore
Host Institute
Co-PIs
Rajendra Nath Goswami
Robert Bosch Engineering & Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Scope and Objectives
To develop a decision support system, which utilizes a framework that combines microwave satellite observations (soil moisture and crop variables) with terrestrial data captured from network of IoT enabled soil sensors to provide smart solutions for Agriculture with applications into the area of water management
Deliverables
Scientific Output
The network of soil sensors deployed for this project utilizes LoRA (Low Power Long Range) wireless communication, which enables formation of a cluster of 5 soil sensors within a radius of 250m from a central plot. The central gateway is a solar powered device which communicates with portable battery operated soil sensors nodes wirelessly and transmit the soil moisture data to the cloud. The nodes provide the flexibility to be moved around the plot as when required during the cropping season. The ability to have a soil moisture data from multiple farms surrounding the central gateway provides robust spatial average of the soil moisture in the region almost real time similar to very expensive cosmic/gamma ray sensors utilized for satellite soil moisture calibration
Results and outcome till date
The network of soil sensors deployed for this project utilizes LoRA (Low Power Long Range) wireless communication, which enables the formation of a cluster of 5 soil sensors within a radius of 250m from a central plot. The central gateway is a solar powered device which communicates with portable battery operated soil sensors nodes wirelessly and transmit the soil moisture data to the cloud. The nodes provide the flexibility to be moved around the plot as when required during the cropping season. The ability to have a soil moisture data from multiple farms surrounding the central gateway provides robust spatial average of the soil moisture in the region almost real time similar to very expensive cosmic/gamma ray sensors utilized for satellite soil moisture calibration. The field sensor data is combined with the multi-satellite soil moisture data to provide information at a large scale. Currently, soil moisture is available at 20 m for Chamarajanagar district, Karnataka nad at 500 m for entire Karnataka state.
Societal benefit and impact anticipated
Next steps
Publications and reports
Patents
Scholars and Project Staff
Challenges faced
Other information
Further, information is available at the DSS webpage: https://agritech.boschindia.com/imprint/
Financial Information
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Total sanction: Rs. 33808000
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Amount received: Rs. 12836000
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Amount utilised for Equipment: Rs. 8048130
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Amount utilised for Manpower: Rs. 109200
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Amount utilised for Consumables: Rs. 0
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Amount utilised for Contingency: Rs. 126267
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Amount utilised for Travel: Rs. 0
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Amount utilised for Other Expenses: 500000
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Amount utilised for Overheads: Rs. 2567200
Equipment and facilities
13 soil moisture clusters are installed in the Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka state. Each cluster contains a network of sensors in different farm plots to capture the spatial variation in soil, crop and farming practices. A DSS (decision support system) is set up in the cloud which can be accessed from the web and mobile app. The app is being used by the farmers and other stakeholders (e.g. agriculture departments, watershed departments).
