MUMBAI, India, March 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202521133942 A) filed by Shrabony Adhikary; Subodh Karamkar; and Jalinder S. Salunkhe, Nagpur, Maharashtra, on Dec. 31, 2025, for 'autonomous solar-powered subsurface seismic sensing system and method for infrastructure monitoring.'
Inventor(s) include Shrabony Adhikary; Subodh Karamkar; and Jalinder S. Salunkhe.
The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention discloses a Portable Subsurface Sensing Apparatus (PSSA) (100) and method (200) for creating permanent 3-10 metre deep instrumented boreholes comprising an auto-deployable solar energy collection means (110), solar-charged supercapacitor bank (120), autonomous penetration drive system (130), tubular penetrator with external helical geometry (140) carrying dual-purpose piezo-helical rotary drill assembly (141) equipped with piezoelectric transducer array (142) connected through bidirectional drive and harvesting circuit (143), detachable deep-earth sensor capsule (150) containing three-component geophone for P- and S-wave detection (151), micro-strain rosettes (152), 24-bit ADC (153), edge AI processor (154) and non-terrestrial transceiver (155), mechanical release system (160), and surface termination collar (170). The solar-flux detection circuit (122) automatically initiates charging and drilling upon sunlight verification. The identical piezoelectric transducer array (142) simultaneously generates high-frequency vibration for soil liquefaction and harvests electrical energy to cold-boot the deep-earth sensor capsule (150) from zero charge. The capsule releases at target depth and instantly transmits nationwide P/S-wave early-warning via satellite. The entire sequence requires zero human torque, zero external power and zero manual intervention in remote multi-terrain environments."
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