MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641043556 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on April 6, for 'energy-efficient routing protocol for iot-based smart farming wireless sensor networks.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Selvi M; Mathivadhani Arul; Tripurana Shanmukha Pardhiv; and Srilekha Sridhar.

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: "Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for IoT-Based Smart Farming Wireless Sensor Networks. The present invention relates to an energy-efficient routing protocol for wireless sensor networks deployed in Internet of Th...