Hyderabad, Nov. 9 -- A Class 12 student from Hyderabad has developed a satellite-based weather receiver that downloads cloud images to track weather in Himalayan villages.

Agam Jain, a student of Indus International School, developed the Summit Sathi device, which costs about Rs 68,000 per unit.

According to a report by Hans India, three such devices will be deployed across 10 villages in Seraj Valley of Mandi district in Himachal Pradesh.

The programme seeks to improve access to weather information in remote mountain communities, where poor network coverage makes it difficult to receive warnings during emergencies. While weather applications need the internet to function, Summit Sathi captures cloud images from weather satellites as t...