Kisan Raja – Smart Irrigation Automation Solutions

About the Project

Kisan Raja is a venture involving technology deployment for Agriculture through end-to-end Smart Irrigation Automation Solutions.

Vision:
“Enhance personal productivity of Farmers while helping them to achieve enormous yields with the use of technology; thereby bringing happiness and prosperity to the Farmers and the Nation”

Mission:
1. Sustain the agricultural production with the growing population
2. Address the disparity between agriculture industry, emerging service sectors and other industries
3. Contain the urban migration that is driven by standard of living and income generation opportunities.
4. Improve the working conditions in the Agricultural sector

Challenges in irrigation: Providing timely and adequate water supply in the right areas
1. Pumping of the water from the well/bore
2. Transporting water to the right area at the right time
3. Sensing exact requirement of the water


Our Solutions:
1. Remote Motor Controller/Starter – Enabling the Remote Control of irrigation pump
2. Smart Valve Controller - Regulating the valves to provide the water in right areas for the right amount of time
3. Sensor based Irrigation Controller – Identifying and supplying the right amount of water


As a first step, we have built Kisan Raja GSM based Remote Motor Controller which is the most comprehensive solution with the greatest ease of use!

Pain points for Farmers in operating irrigation pump set:
1. Physical effort and Inconvenience:
a. Few hours of power supply during non-peak hours
b. Erratic and highly un-reliable power
c. Frequent power cuts
d. Long distance Travel to fields at odd hours during Nights and on Rainy days
e. Risk to life from electric shocks, snakes
f. Labour Problem
g. Sacrifice other personal priorities

2. Motor and Starter related problems:
a. Frequent damages to motor/starter due to voltage fluctuations, three phase connectivity issues
b. Running the motor in the absence of water
c. Theft of motors, starters, cables and other irrigation equipmen

3. Environment related problems:
a. Wastage of water and electricity
b. Soil-erosion and Fertilizer run-off due to excess water.

Kisan Raja – A Revolutionary GSM based Remote Motor Controller, which is a one stop solution for all the troubles in operating the motor pumps.

1. Enables the farmer to remotely control the motor pump
a. Through mobile or landline of any operator
b. From Anywhere, Any time

2. Local language IVRS options
a. Easy to operate
b. Remote power ON/OFF
c. Multiple modes: 1. Manual 2. Auto 3. Timer

3. Acknowledgement of Motor status:
a. Power Availability status in the area where motor is installed
b. Motor ON/OFF status

4. Protects the damages to the Motor and Starter from
a. Voltage Fluctuations (
b. Phase connectivity faults (wire-cut issues anywhere between power supply and motor)
c. Dry Run (water not being pumped)
d. Over load current
e. Single Phasing
f. Phase Imbalance
g. Phase Reversal

5. Farmer gets Voice alerts for
a. Faulty power supply
b. Motor not starting
c. Non-availability of water in the well/bore
d. Attempt of device/motor theft

6. Can be retrofitted to all the existing motor starters

Project Action Plan

Project Action Plan

1Production Agreements in Place; Senior Leaders on board; Setting up Distribution Channel; Operations Across Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh

Production Agreements in Place; Senior Leaders on board; Setting up Distribution Channel; Operations Across Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh
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2Expansion of Operations across South India.

Expansion of Operations across South India.
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3Expansion of Operations Across India

Expansion of Operations Across India
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4Break Even

Break Even
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Who will this help Rise

Farmers (Agricultural sector), Society and Environment are the primary beneficiaries of this solution. A farmer who is facing physical inconvenience, risking life, incurring labour cost while operating irrigation Motor pump sets, getting the motors and starters damaged due to erratic power supply and wants to reduce the operational cost while improving the Agricultural yield with timely and adequate water supply, which in turn helps the efficient use of resources such as water and electricity, and hence better utilization of government provided subsidies.

How will this help them Rise?

Electrical Motors of various capacities(From 2 to 30HP),Electrical Starters of various types (DOL, Star Delta, Oil Immersed, Handle Type, Electronic, Semi Automated, Fully Automated),Simulation Equipment for Faulty power supply with Voltage Fluctuations,Circuit Breakers

Project Champion

Vijay Bhaskar Reddy Dinnepu

Vijay Bhaskar Reddy Dinnepu
Vijay Bhaskar Reddy Dinnepu has over 12 years of technology design and development experience with technology leaders such as CISCO and INTEL. His focus has been on networking and embedded software. Vijay hails from agricultural family in a rural village in Andhra Pradesh and he has a thorough understanding of the problems in rural India, especially in agriculture sector. Vijay holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from IIT, Madras

Project Location

This Project Needs

Volunteers
10 volunteers create the awareness about the benefits of our solutions among farmers
15 volunteers to help us create local Language marketing content
15 volunteers to help us reach Eco System Partners and NGOs across various states
100 volunteers to help us "tech enable" their village with Smart Irrigation Solutions

Equipments
5 Electrical Motors of various capacities(From 2 to 30HP)
10 Electrical Starters of various types (DOL, Star Delta, Oil Immersed, Handle Type, Electronic, Semi Automated, Fully Automated)
2 Simulation Equipment for Faulty power supply with Voltage Fluctuations
20 Circuit Breakers

Funding
₹18000000

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