MUMBAI, India, Sept. 28 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202621091945 A) filed by Shinde Shamkishor Sukhdev; Anand Nagesh Dasange; Faiz Munnawar Tamboli; and Dr. Sachin Mahadev Khomane on July 29, 2026, for Agro-Connects: Smart Iot And Robotics-Based System And Method For Automated Precision Irrigation And Real-Time Crop Monitoring.
Inventors include Dasange Anand Nagesh; Shinde Shamkishor Sukhdev; Tamboli Faiz Munnawar; and Dr. Sachin Mahadev Khomane.
The application for the patent was published on September 25, 2026, under issue no. 39/2026.
Abstract: ABSTRACT AGRO-CONNECTS: SMART IoT AND ROBOTICS-BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED PRECISION IRRIGATION AND REAL-TIME CROP MONITORING An automated, IoT- and robotics-based irrigation control and crop-monitoring system, termed AGRO-Connects, comprising a wireless network of gate-actuator and water-contact sensor nodes deployed respectively at the inlet and distal end of individual furrow, drip-line, or sprinkler-line irrigation channels, coordinated by a master microcontroller via a combination of LoRa-WAN and ESP-NOW wireless protocols in a master-slave architecture. Upon channel selection via a mobile application, the master controller opens the corresponding gate and activates the associated tail-end sensor; upon detected water arrival, the sensor node transmits a confirmation signal, causing the master controller, following a calibrated saturation delay, to close the gate and proceed to the next channel in sequence, thereby preventing over-irrigation, soil erosion, and nutrient leaching. A fail-safe subsystem alerts the user, and optionally halts an automated pump, if water fails to reach a monitored sensor within a configurable time window. An integrated, obstacle-avoiding autonomous robotic rover, equipped with ultrasonic ranging sensors and an ESP32-CAM vision module, provides continuous crop-health surveillance and machine-vision-based disease prediction. The disclosed system, powered by battery or solar sources and requiring no cellular or internet connectivity for its core control loop, is physically and logically modular, enabling relocation of a limited hardware set across successive field blocks, and provides a low-cost, plug-and-play alternative to proprietary, cloud-dependent commercial irrigation- automation platforms, with demonstrated improvements in water productivity of approximately 54% to 72% relative to conventional flood/furrow irrigation.
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