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Smart Agricopter

July 29 , 2019 1937 days 1170 0
  • Students of IIT Madras have developed a smart agricopter to eliminate the manual spraying in agricultural fields.
  • The current version of Project Smart Agricopter is a hexacopter drone with the capacity to carry 15 litres of pesticide.

IIT-Madras students create smart agricopter to spray pesticides 1

  • It aims to spray pesticides 10 times faster and with 100 percent precision at the same cost as manual spraying.
  • The drone will work well on crops 1-1.5 m tall.
  • It is equipped with a multispectral imaging camera to map a farmland based on crop health.
  • This project also won the Indian Innovation Growth Programme (IIGP 2.0) University Challenge held at IIT Bombay in June 2019.

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