MUMBAI, India, March 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641024913 A) filed by Srm Institute Of Science And Technology; and Easwari Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on March 3, for 'root-zone bio-sensor and mobile field monitoring system for paddy cultivation.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. M. Shunmugathammal; Venkatesan V; Nakshatra Sree S; Dharun Rai H; and Tanushree J.
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 current design establishes an Internet of Things enabled system which monitors agricultural activities through its robotic agricultural monitoring system. The system operates as a mobile Internet-of-Things robotic platform which provides real-time irrigation management services to monitor paddy field conditions. The system connects an ESP32-based mobile robot system with multiple IoT sensor nodes to monitor soil moisture and soil pH and temperature and humidity and atmospheric pressure and root health through bio-impedance sensing at the root-soil interface. The system transmits field data through Wi-Fi to a cloud-connected dashboard which enables users to visualize data and receive automated decision support. The system enables early detection of crop stress while it improves irrigation efficiency and decreases labor needs and it increases crop yield. The experimental evaluation results show that up to 42 percent of water usage decreases while crop yield increases by 28 percent and labor hours decrease by 32 hours every month when compared to traditional farming methods."
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