Senseacre Labs: Solving the Complexities of Agriculture Domain
The Agriculture Technology market is expected to reach USD 13.50 Billion growing at a CAGR of 12.39 percent by the year 2023. However, it is ridden with several complexities. Understanding the ecosystem as India witnesses huge diversification in its climatic conditions, soil type, inputs (seeds/fertilizers), plant protection methods, crop health, insects and insecticides, fungus and fungicide, herbs and herbicides, irrigation, biomass and yield is the major problem in agriculture sector. Farmers spray chemicals or fertilizers to the crops mostly 5-6 times in a crop cycle which affects crop health badly. There are many evidences of presence of cancerous substances and other non-communicable diseases because of usage of chemicals for plant protection.Senseacre, a Hyderabad based company collaborates with reputed institutions like ICRISAT, PJTSAU, ICAR and scientists to understand the complexities of crop science and visualize intelligence to get magnified view of a plant. Over the last two decades, pollution and poison in food is the most important issue that is being deeply neglected and no one is really ready to talk about such a serious problem. Consumption of these poisonous foods leads to some severe health issues. Senseacre provides unique visual intelligence solution which helps in prevention of the same while reducing input cost for farmers.
Combination of Solutions Transforming Agricultural activity
Senseacre does 360-degree soil, crop, weed detection, crop health monitoring, pest detection, water stress, top soil moisture and quickly segregates among crops by using UAVs sprayer and high resolution sensors using drone imagery with Convolutional Neural Networks and deep learning techniques. Senseacre is building spectral image library for crops using drone imagery by annotation and training with RCNN. The company provides visual intelligence solution which is able to restrict the consumption of pesticides, weedicides, fungicides, insecticides and herbicides in a crop’s life cycle and save soil from degradation caused by the continuous use of chemical based fertilizers. Senseacre currently
provides Drones as a service to the farmers on Panchayat level. These drones provide aerial data collection, data processing and analytics capabilities. It enables to capture the data at desired frequency to Industry Best Portal by processing the raw data and transform it into concise, actionable insights in the desired output and store all of the data in the same place.
India constitutes of 250,000 Panchayats and if each Panchayat have UAVs, Senseacre can make them available trained pilots, technicians and an image processing experts. A single drone is capable of generating three jobs, creating 750,000 jobs in rural India in the fields of technology. All parts used in UAVs creates manufacturing ecosystem with the adoption of this technology and further more employment opportunities in this field. Our alliances with Global Industry best in drones and sensors and Make in India collaboration with MIT UAV research Labs is a big opportunity for Indian Farmers.
“We are working with NABARD, ICRISAT, PJTSAU, TCS, Government of Karnataka, Government of Telangana, MIT on some very innovative programs in India. This also includes creating Standard Operating Procedures in plant protection with UAVs for quarantine,” says Vinod Kumar S, CEO and Founder.
“We are working on compliance procedure with DGCA and once we get approvals we will be scaling big into this market with further investment in Pan India,” concludes Vinod Kumar.
The company provides visual intelligence solution which is able to restrict the consumption of pesticides, weedicides, fungicides, insecticides and herbicides in a crop’s life cycle and save soil from degradation caused by the continuous use of chemical based fertilizers
India constitutes of 250,000 Panchayats and if each Panchayat have UAVs, Senseacre can make them available trained pilots, technicians and an image processing experts. A single drone is capable of generating three jobs, creating 750,000 jobs in rural India in the fields of technology. All parts used in UAVs creates manufacturing ecosystem with the adoption of this technology and further more employment opportunities in this field. Our alliances with Global Industry best in drones and sensors and Make in India collaboration with MIT UAV research Labs is a big opportunity for Indian Farmers.
“We are working with NABARD, ICRISAT, PJTSAU, TCS, Government of Karnataka, Government of Telangana, MIT on some very innovative programs in India. This also includes creating Standard Operating Procedures in plant protection with UAVs for quarantine,” says Vinod Kumar S, CEO and Founder.
“We are working on compliance procedure with DGCA and once we get approvals we will be scaling big into this market with further investment in Pan India,” concludes Vinod Kumar.
