An overall perspective of the IoT for Indian Agriculture and to leverage the solutions for building the eco-system for Indian Agriculture. Currently being worked through NASSCOM, Bangalore

1. Agriculture & Energy
Building the Next Generation
IoT innovation Platforms
For Indian Agri-Economy
By
Ravikishor Mundada
Mundada.ravi@gmail.com

2. 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

3. 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 .

4. 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

5. 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:

6. Ecosystem & Collaboration Space
Multi-actor approach, Governance, Security, Privacy, Business Models
Open IoT Architecture & Infrastructure
Event-driven, Configurable, Customizable
StandardisationEPCIS ISO11783
Infrastructure &
Technology
Providers
Agri-end usersIoT
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.

7. 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.