GridSense

Overview

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Vidarbha region experiences severe climatic uncertainties thereby giving rise to citrus crop failure. In absence of right information, farmers do not follow right irrigation practices based on stage-wise crop water requirements, and tend to overexploit ground water resources. Improper/ excessive irrigation results in water logging, which has a strong correlation with diseases which adversely effects the quantity and yield of citrus. This warrants for efficient water management in the region. GridSense project had tried to address water sustainability problem by providing technological, economical and behavioral solutions to the most critical water related problems in citrus agriculture. The combined effects of Hydro-geology, Irrigation, and Crop pest/diseases are being investigated in the project. Field scale experiments are conducted for developing ‘soil-watercrop’ models with detailed representation of aquifer composition, material characteristics, groundwater divide, and structural boundaries at field scale. Methods are being developed for quick and real time system for measurement of groundwater draft. Wireless Sensor Network has been developed and deployed to monitor the agrometeorological parameters from the citrus farms and further develop models for early detection of crop diseases. Consequently, GridSense project will assist water managers and farmers with region specific crop & disease models and information through various ICDT, which in-turn will help them in optimizing the irrigation and increasing the citrus productivity.

Mentors/Collaborators

MENTORS:

  • Prof. James Phillip King, New Mexico State University, USA
  • Prof. Praveen Kumar, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA
  • Prof. U. B. Desai, IIT Hyderabad
  • Prof. S.N. Merchant, IIT Bombay

COLLABORATORS:

  • Dr. P. S. Shirgure, National Research Centre for Citrus, Nagpur
  • Mr. Rafael Thomas, Datamatrix Infotech Pvt. Ltd., Pune
  • Dr. Bhushan Jagyasi, Ms. Yogita Karale , Mr. Jayant Mohite, Mrs. Sonali Kulkarni, TCS Innovation Labs
  • Maharashtra Orange Growers Association, Warud

Key Outcomes


(10 )
Title: Rural Informatics (GNR629)
Institutes: IIT-BOMBAY

Remarks: Enrollment - 10
course with hands-on session at CSRE, IIT Bombay at Masters level.

Links/URL: http://www.csre.iitb.ac.in/mtechProgramme.php

Title: Additional modules to "Rural Informatics" course
Institutes: IIT-BOMBAY

Remarks: Enrollment - 10
For design and development of Geo-ICDT systems and Decision Support. CSRE, IIT Bombay (Masters level)

Links/URL: http://www.csre.iitb.ac.in/mtechProgramme.php

Title: Developed sensor application and interoperability module for Geospatial Standards, Interoperability and Knowledge Discovery (GNR629)
Institutes: IIT-BOMBAY

Remarks: Enrollment - 10

Links/URL: http://www.csre.iitb.ac.in/mtechProgramme.php

Title: New application modules were added to "Geospatial Standards, Interoperability and Knowledge Discovery (GNR629)" Course
Institutes: IIT-BOMBAY

Remarks: Enrollment - 15
With specialized focus on implementation of OGC standards

Links/URL: http://www.csre.iitb.ac.in/mtechProgramme.php

Title: "Hydro-geologic characterization" and "Geophysical Inversion Theories" in the course (CE6530 – Groundwater Modeling)
Institutes: IIT-HYD

Remarks: Enrollment - 8
Taught at PG level students during:i)Jan-May 2016 and ii) Jan-Apr 2018

Title: Added a chapter on "Root water uptake modelling using experimental and numerical framework in Groundwater Modeling (CE 6530)
Institutes: IIT-HYD

Remarks: Enrollment - 8
Taught at PG level students during Jan-May 2016

Title: Sensors and applications in Natural resource monitoring
Institutes: IIT-BOMBAY
Links/URL: http://www.csre.iitb.ac.in/mtechProgramme.php

Title: Additional modules added to "Remote Sensing of Vegetation”
Institutes: IIT-BOMBAY

Remarks: Enrollment - 15

Links/URL: http://www.csre.iitb.ac.in/mtechProgramme.php

Title: Additional modules at graduate level course in "Groundwater Modeling” (CE 6530)
Institutes: IIT-HYD

Remarks: Enrollment - 8

Title: Introduced IT solutions in Plant Pathology
Institutes: PDKV-AKOLA
(5 )
Title: Test bed for estimation of chlorophyll fluorescence under water stressed condition for tomato plants

Remarks: To be extended to Citrus

Links/URL: https://github.com/suryakant54321

Title: Test bed for usability of very low-cost sensors under different soil moisture conditions
Links/URL: https://github.com/suryakant54321

Title: Development of new test bed for soil moisture estimation in collaboration with SensSprout (Japan) and GridSense
Links/URL: https://sensprout.com/en/

Title: Improved Telegram Bot for dissemination of sensor observations and ETo estimates (Software)
Links/URL: https://github.com/suryakant54321

Title: Experimental test-bed for geophysical investigations
Institutes: IIT-HYD

Remarks: Purpose: To perform surface and bore-hole ERT sections as a part of CE6530 (Groundwater Modeling) course

(3 )
Title: Additional modules and hands-on sessions are added in “Rural Informatics”
Institutes: IIT-BOMBAY

Remarks: Enrollment - 10

Links/URL: http://www.csre.iitb.ac.in/mtechProgramme.php

Title: Additional modules are added to "Remote Sensing of Vegetation”
Institutes: IIT-BOMBAY

Remarks: Enrollment - 10

Links/URL: http://www.csre.iitb.ac.in/mtechProgramme.php

Title: New modules are added to CE6530 (Groundwater Modeling)
Institutes: IIT-HYD
(5 )
Title: Hydrometeorology Lab
Institutes: IIT-HYD

Remarks: Equipped with ET flux tower for state-of-art hydrological research improved computational lab facilities using Hydrus 3D

Title: Improved computational lab facilities (Hydrus 3D)
Institutes: IIT-HYD
Title: Hydrogeology and Groundwater Lab
Institutes: IIT-HYD

Remarks: Added with SAS logger (ABEM, USA) for borehole lithologic profiling

Title: Updated "Agro-Informatics Lab"
Institutes: IIT-BOMBAY

Remarks: New instruments (Revised SenseTube, SenSprout)

Title: High Performance Computing Facility in Geo-Semantics Lab
Institutes: IIT-BOMBAY
(2 )
Title: SenseTube

Remarks: A hardware/software device to integrate sensor data, human-provided information, computational models and wireless communications to manage crop resources.
Registration date: Proposed

Title: Hydrology & Groundwater Consulting

Remarks: A service for detecting and estimating the size of ground water resources in hard rock aquifers
Registration date: Proposed

(2 )
Title: SenseTube

Remarks: A Syntactically Standardized Web Enabled Wireless Sensor Network System for Precision Agriculture Applications (An interoperable on-site processing and analysis platform for WSN)
Application Number: 2236/MUM/2015
Filing Date: 10/06/2015
Published Date: 16/12/2016

Title: e-Citrus

Remarks: A Prototype Crowd Sourcing System for Agricultural Advisory Services in Pest and Disease Management
Application Number: PAT/CR/JA-1/13-14
Filing Date: Oct 29, 2013

(3 )
Title: Winter School on "Geographical-Information, Communication and Dissemination Technologies in Water Resources”
Institutes: IIT-HYD

Remarks: Participants: 30 participants from academia and industry
Date: 6-8th Jan 2015

Title: ITRA-Water closure workshop
Institutes: IIT-HYD

Remarks: Participants: ~ 125
Date: 10-11 Jul 2017

Title: ITRA-Water workshop
Institutes: IIT-BOMBAY

Remarks: Participants: ~ 125
Date: 11-12 Jan 2016

(1 )
Title: Short course on 'Groundwater Modeling through Fractured Geologic Media'

Remarks: In collaboration with Prof. Walter A Illman, University of Waterloo Canada who was the main instructor to the course
Participants: 30
Date : 27 June – 08 July, 2016

(1 )
Title: Pre-Workshop Tutorial IoT in Agriculture, ITRA Evaluation Workshop IITB

Remarks: Participants: 75
Date: 11/01/2016

(4 )
Title: Workshop on 'Citrus crop management'
Institutes: PDKV-AKOLA

Remarks: Participants: 35
Date: 15-19 March 2016

Title: National Seminar on "Geo-informatics Applications in Natural Resources Management”

Remarks: At NIRD&PR, Hyderabad
Participants: 40
Date: 18-19 March 2016

Title: Session on IoT (Infinity of Things) inTechfest 2016
Institutes: IIT-BOMBAY

Remarks: Demonstrating technologies developed as part of this project
Participants: 50
Date: 23-24 December 2016

Title: Big-Data and IoT in Agriculture, The Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Proceedings Vol 38

Remarks: March 2015

(1 )
Title: Hands-on session on IoT and its applications (design to deployment) for faculty and students in Mumbai University

Remarks: Participants: 60 (including students and college teachers)
Date: 4-5th January 2016

(3 )
Title: Datamatrix Systems

Remarks: Collaboration Area: Remote monitoring of pump operations, monitor energy & water use with ground water level monitoring and performance analysis

Title: Tata Consultancy Services-Innovation Labs

Remarks: Collaboration Area: mKRISHI initiative from TCS Innovation labs provided personalized and integrated services in local language (Marathi) to farmers on their mobile phones.

Title: Vassar Labs, Andhra Pradesh

Remarks: Vassar Labs - A startup company that works on real-time DSS in agriculture
Collaboration Area: Real time DSS support

(1 )
Title: Center for sustainable agriculture, Tarnaka, Secunderbad

Remarks: Collaboration Area: Selection of experimental plots, resilient agriculture

(2 )
Title: SenSprout and University of Tokyo

Remarks: Collaboration Area: Soil Moisture Sensing

Title: Collaboration with INRA France, University of Tokyo, NARO Japan, National Universities of Vietnam and Thailand in a consortium based Project under the regional program ‘STIC - Asia (ICT ASIA)’ on ‘BD-Farm

Remarks: Collaboration Area: Big Data Management and Analytics for Agriculture’ to strengthen high-level scientific cooperation through mobility and networking in the Grand Challenge area of Big Data in Agriculture and research network development on digital agriculture.

(1 )
Title: Maharashtra Orange Growers Association (MOGA)

Remarks: Collaboration Area: Actively involved in providing testbeds for experiments, facilitation and maintenance of prototypes and conducting farmers meet for disseminating the outcomes of the research.

(3 )
Title: e-Citrus: A Prototype Crowd Sourcing System for Agricultural Advisory Services in Pest and Disease Management

Remarks: Provided to: Farmers and orange growers

Title: SenseTube

Remarks: Interoperable agro-meteorological observation and analysis platform for precision agriculture

Title: Groundwater Modeling solutions

Remarks: With BAIF (IITH)

(4 )
Title: Services developed during the project are linked with user friendly interface to interact with the system. Apart from this, information generated through systems can be available to the end users using multiple platforms such as WhatsApp group (IWC Water Group), Twitter handle (KrishiSense) and through messages sent to registered farmers

Remarks: Offered to: Farmers and anyone want the related information

Title: mKRISHI - Rural Participatory Sensing (RuPS) platform

Remarks: Offered to: Farmers, Local resource persons, Field officers

Title: Developed Telegram based mobile Sensor Observation Service and Sensor Event Notification for agro-meteorological data dissemination

Remarks: Offered to: Farmers, Local resource persons, Field officers

Title: Automatic Weather Station

Remarks: Regular weather information dissemination for agricultural practices and management

(4 )
Title: Geoderma Regional (Elsevier)

Remarks: Dr. J. Adinarayana

Links/URL: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/geoderma-regional/editorial-board

Title: CIGR-Section VII/IT in Agriculture

Remarks: Dr. J. Adinarayana

Links/URL: http://www.cigr.org/Governance/technical-sections-7.php

Title: AFITA(full)

Remarks: President, Dr. J. Adinarayana

Links/URL: http://www.afita.org/

Title: Founding Board member for CUAHSI

Remarks: a consortium of over 110 universities for the advancement of hydrologic science- Dr. Praveen Kumar

Institutions

IIT-BOMBAY - Lead Institution IIT-HYD - Partner Institution GCOE-AMRAVATI - Partner Institution SSCOH-AMARAWATI - Partner Institution PDKV-AKOLA - Partner Institution

Team Members

Publications


1.

Dynamics of crop coefficients for citrus orchards of central India using water balance and eddy covariance flux partition techniques
Peddinti S.R., Kambhammettu B.P.; Agricultural Water Management;2019
2.

Dynamics of Ecosystem Water Use Efficiency in Citrus Orchards of Central India Using Eddy Covariance and Landsat Measurements
Peddinti S.R., Kambhammettu B.V.N.P., Rodda S.R., Thumaty K.C., Suradhaniwar S.; Ecosystems;2019
3.

A compressed sensing based 3D resistivity inversion algorithm for hydrogeological applications
Ranjan S., Kambhammettu B.V.N.P., Peddinti S.R., Adinarayana J.; Journal of Applied Geophysics;2018
4.

Modeling soil?water?disease interactions of flood-irrigated mandarin orange trees: Role of root distribution parameters
Peddinti, S.R., Kambhammettu, B.V.N.P., Ranjan, S., Suradhaniwar, S., Badnakhe, M.R., Adinarayana, J., Gade, R.M.; Vadose Zone Journal;2018
5.

Epidemiological Relations to Phytophthora Spp. Causing Citrus Root Rot in Nagpur Mandarin
R. J. Choudhari, R. M. Gade, R. S. Lad, J. Adinarayana, and?K. B. V. N. Phanindra; International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences;2018
6.

Evaluation of Citrus Gummosis disease dynamics and predictions with weather and inversion based leaf optical model
Badnakhe M.R., Durbha S.S., Jagarlapudi A., Gade R.M.; Computers and Electronics in Agriculture;2018
7.

Gaussian process based spatial modeling of soil moisture for dense soil moisture sensing network
Andugula, P., Durbha, S.S., Lokhande, A., Suradhaniwar, S.; 2017 6th International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics, Agro-Geoinformatics 2017;2017