Inspiration
India’s economy is majorly dependent on agricultural produce and that also constitutes a major portion of export. Also, for the majority of rural households, agriculture is the chief source of income. For the farmers, crop failures due to adverse weather conditions and uncontrolled pest issues have been the key contributors to the losses.
What it does
Adoption of drones within the field of agriculture faces a number of challenges. The utilization of drones can be made secure, especially where you have a fleet or swarm of these drones. We can also keep the recording of the data garnered as well as the tasks or activities that farmers take to save their crops including the data on response to spraying, irrigation, soil condition, farm inventory, and others. There are concerns about security and privacy in the use of drones. Governments face challenges in tracking and identifying all the drones within the sky or the mission that they perform while on the sky like when spraying crops
How we built it
Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones): UAVs are pilotless aircraft that can operate autonomously via the on-board computer or can be remotely controlled by a pilot at the Ground Control Station (GSS). UAVs use sensors to collect several types of data such as UAVs’ speed, battery level, altitude, RGB images, thermal images. Depending on the system requirements, specific sensors can be applied. The collected data can be pre-processed or kept intact at the UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) before being sent to GSS. Ground Control station: GSS is responsible for receiving data from UAVs and sending out commands to control UAVs including uploading new mission commands and updating controlling parameters. Users: are third parties that have access to the parameters and data of the UAVs and GSS for useful purposes. Blockchain Network: The key role of the blockchain network is to maintain a distributed immutable database of actions performed by users, data collected from drones, and commands from GSS. The recorded transactions are shared between nodes in the network. In our architecture, the users, UAVs, and GSSs act as nodes, storing the whole blockchain and participating in the consensus protocol to verify blocks. Cloud server: is responsible for offloading computation from the drone to overcome the computing resources’ limitations of the UAVs and optimize the mission execution. Correspondingly, the flying time of the drones can be extended
Challenges we ran into
Farmers must meet the changing needs of our planet and the expectations of regulators, consumers, and food processors and retailers. There are increasing pressures from climate change, soil erosion and biodiversity loss and from consumers’ changing tastes in food and concerns about how it is produced. And the natural world that farming works with – plants, pests and diseases – continue to pose their own challenges. While modern agriculture provides a large number of solutions, the outcome is not always the same because each farm is unique: different landscapes, soils, available technology and potential yields.
The Drone can be easily hacked since the communication between the drone and the ground station can be insecure which leads the data to be leaked to the anonymous third party, The communication between the drone and GSS (Ground station server) are made more secure.
What we learned
Because of implementing Drone in Blockchain, the above problems can be easily solved.
What's next for SecureDrone coin
A non-fungible token or NFT is a unique digital identifier that cannot be copied, substituted or subdivided, that is recorded on the blockchain.
SK tokens are used for:
1)Purchase drone content.
2) SK tokens are sold directly by SK as a utility token and generate revenue as a hybrid product/service offering.
3)SK tokens and points can be utilized to purchase agricultural services from other members of the SK Ecosystem.
4)Over time the token will continue to increase in value, this is by design and is a key factor to maintaining economic balance throughout the ecosystem.
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