MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202631045663 A) filed by NIT, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, on April 9, for 'an iot-enabled environmental monitoring and forecasting system.'

Inventor(s) include Kaushik Das; Koel Datta Purkayastha; Surajit Kundu; and Sambhu Nath Pradhan.

The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to an Internet of Things (IoT)-based environmental monitoring and forecasting system is disclosed for real-time sensing and prediction of environmental parameters. The system comprises a compact hardware unit incorporating a NodeMCU microc...