Agri-pal

Inspiration

India's agricultural lands are either being degraded by urbanization. If this continues, where can we go finally for our food? The solution is within us. It is we who need to produce our own food if this situation continues. Our terrace gardens and small garden plots are gonna feed us in the future by growing high yield vegetables in minimal area. Rodents and bug attacks on plants and Poultry have considerably affected the terrace gardeners, small-plot farmers, and poultry farmers throughout India. Major agents responsible for these critical damages have been rodents and cats and sometimes even snakes in Poultry. Security personal to watch over the plants is both tedious, and expensive. The need to monitor and proper reaction mechanisms in Animal and burglary detections are very essential. Participation and Involvement of Youth are not considered high since most of them are not used to farming and are mostly employed in other sectors like IT. Providing an interactive Aid to guide will ensure more involvement of Youth. We were able to make the model quickly. The easy to use device with a simple guide allows the gardners and children in Cities to nurture their Agriculture skills with out any hassle. Making a business model or the way we made strategies so that it could hit the markets were only a bit difficult for us and that's what we learnt a lot in this process also. Making it a successful product in the market is our final aim.

What it does

Agri-Pal is the simplest solution to aid a farmer in Agriculture - Terrace and Poultry Farming. Agri-Pal is a simple Plug n Play device ensuring Disease Detection and Animal Breach Detection.

Agri-Pal ensures more productivity with less labour.
No additional money needs to be spent on security. The Animal Monitoring System will ensure detection and actions for both animal and burglary breach.
Ensures Quick and Precise Disease detection ensuring the safety of neighbouring plants and maintaining minimal losses
The App provides Easy-to-Follow instructions at all times i.e. any person irrespective of experience can participate in agriculture
The Chatbot provides friendly clarifications and instruction at all times.
Agri-Pal is Waterproof and rodent proof

How we built it

The Agri-Pal is centred on a Raspberry Pi which has a rotatory camera module mounted on the apex. An OpenCV, Keras and tensorflow based model is programmed to the Jetson nano to analyse and interpret the crops visually and to support the user. Another OpenCV based model is programmed to ensure the crops and poultry are safe from wild animals. An IoT based Android app along with a friendly chatbot, programmed in a diversity of Indian languages, is designed to notify the user of any important and critical information and the instructions that they have to follow to overcome those.

Challenges we ran into

As the project is completely dependent on the user experience and our target users are Farmers and Poultry Owners, we weren't able to find any locals to test our device out (along with the pandemic situation hurdling our travel). But later on we were able to find a small scale Poultry rearing farm to collect some test samples.