Drone Based Disease Identification

Drone Applications

AI-powered smart drones that spot plant diseases early-helping protect crops, boost yield, and prevent major losses before problems spread

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Institute:
Meiyur Technologies Pvt.Ltd

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PI Name:
Dr. M. K. Padmanabhan
Technology Readiness Level (TRL)
5

Problem
Addressed

In India, 15-20% of crop yield is lost annually due to plant diseases. These losses often go undetected until it’s too late. The need for early, precise, and scalable disease identification in agriculture is critical to widespread crop damage and economic loss.

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About the
Technology

In India, it is reported that 15-20% of crops are lost due to diseases. This Technology solution addresses this problem. Using Drones with Contemporary Al/ML and Deep Learning technologies, we have arrived at a comprehensive solution that identifies diseases in plants in early stages, thereby preventing crop losses.
  • Images of the Plant Disease dataset are taken, and the images are resized to a smaller size for better operation.
  • The CNN is trained with images of the dataset along with their disease names and its intensity using TensorFlow and Keras.
  • Now, after training, the CNN model can predict and report on disease affected in any plant images

Application Areas & Use Cases

The Product and the Technology have undergone extensive Field trials. We have also successfully captured Diseases immediately after their on-slaught and ring-fenced them from spreading to other areas.

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Drone based Data Collection
Crop Health Monitoring
Identification of Plant Diseases- OnslaughtEarly Detection
Application of AI/M L DL Technology
Farmer Friendly Web app
General Treatise of software to be applied for Various diseases with In built Diseases Data Base