MUMBAI, India, Nov. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641124749 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology on October 19, 2026, for Edge-Ai Disease-Aware Irrigation Controller With Counterfactual Disease-Risk Simulation For Row Crops.
Inventors include Roy S; Shaik Roohi Naaz; and Jayakumaran U.
The application for the patent was published on October 30, 2026, under issue no. 44/2026.
Abstract: The present invention discloses an edge-AIirrigation controller for row crops that decides each irrigation by its predicted effect on both water stress and disease risk. A solar-powered field node (110) with a microcontroller fuses soil, microclimate, leaf-wetness and canopy-image signals, and maintains a cro...