The Students of the IIT-Madras have developed a smart agricopter to eliminate the manual spraying in agricultural fields and help identify crop health by using an imaging camera.
Benefits of Smart Agricopter
- Smart Agricopter can spray pesticides ten times faster and with 100 per cent precision at the same cost as manual spraying.
- Manual pesticide spraying is an extremely hazardous activity and endangers farmers’ and labourers’ health, resulting in a massive overuse of toxic chemicals. Smart Agricopter will aid in overcoming this by reducing human presence.
- This also helps in intelligently identifying which crops on the farm require pesticides and which did not.
- The advanced multispectral imaging camera on the Smart Agricopter makes smart maps of farmland based on crop health and its completely autonomous pesticide refilling system ensures entire spraying is completely autonomous.
The Smart Agricopter is a hexacopter drone with the capacity to carry 15 litres of pesticide.