MUMBAI, India, Feb. 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641006705 A) filed by Nitte, Mangaluru, Karnataka, on Jan. 23, for 'ai-driven smart irrigation system for optimized crop watering.'
Inventor(s) include Utsavi Rai; and Dr. Bhojaraja.
The application for the patent was published on Feb. 6, under issue no. 06/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Disclosed herein is an AI-driven smart irrigation system (100) for optimized crop watering comprising a plurality of soil moisture sensors (102) measuring real-time soil water content, a weather data acquisition unit (104) receiving meteorological forecasts, an automated drip irrigation assembly (106) with zone-specific valves, and a processing unit (110) connected via communication network (108), the processing unit (110) comprising growth stage detection module (116) classifying crop phenological phases for differentiated irrigation strategies, predictive demand module (118) forecasting water requirements by integrating soil dynamics, evapotranspiration, and historical responses, confidence scoring module (120) evaluating sensor reliability and prediction uncertainty for risk-aware automation, water optimization module (122) computing irrigation volumes targeting maximum water productivity, and self-learning feedback module (124) continuously refining model parameters by comparing predicted versus actual soil moisture and crop responses for proactive irrigation management and water efficiency optimization."
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