Report on

Application on GIS in Agri business

Company Name: Exabit Systems

Submitted to:

Dr. M. Mahipal Reddy

Associate Professor

Food and Agribusiness School

Submitted by:

K. Raj kumar

F20016

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Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................3
Geographic Information System........................................................................................................3
GIS in Agriculture:............................................................................................................................3
Company Profile....................................................................................................................................5
Company Focus.....................................................................................................................................6
Devices used..........................................................................................................................................6
RobotiX.............................................................................................................................................6
TactiX:...............................................................................................................................................7
Company Offerings...............................................................................................................................8
Crop Management & Advisory..............................................................................................................8
Product- Platform..........................................................................................................................9
Primary Differentiator...................................................................................................................9
GIS And Map Based Search........................................................................................................10
Reports........................................................................................................................................10
Farmer Management....................................................................................................................10
Agri-Input Management..............................................................................................................10
Pre-Harvest Cropping Process planning......................................................................................10
Cropping Process Tracking..........................................................................................................11
Farmland Tracking......................................................................................................................11
Expenses Tracking.......................................................................................................................11
Yield Management......................................................................................................................11
Precision/ Smart farming.....................................................................................................................12
RobotiX.......................................................................................................................................12
EHarvest......................................................................................................................................13
Farm Automation................................................................................................................................14
Agri- Analytics....................................................................................................................................16
Reference.............................................................................................................................................18

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 Introduction

Geographic Information System:

Geographic Information Systems, or GIS, are computer and software tools for gathering
and analysing data connected to geographic locations and their relation to human or natural
activity on Earth.

Common uses of GIS include inventory and management of resources, crime mapping,

establishing and monitoring routes, managing networks, monitoring and managing vehicles,
managing properties, locating and targeting customers, locating properties that match specific
criteria and managing agricultural crop data.

Technologies used in GIS:

 Satellite imagery.
 Remote sensor readings.
 Statistical models.
 Crowd sourced data.

GIS in Agriculture:

GIS in agriculture helps farmers to achieve increased production and reduced costs by

enabling better management of land resources.

Agricultural Geographic Information Systems using Geometrics Technology enable

the farmers to map and project current and future fluctuations in precipitation, temperature,
and crop output etc.

Technologies used in Agriculture:

Agricultural drone
Satellite photography and sensors
IoT-based sensor networks

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 Phase tracking
Weather forecasting
Automated irrigation
Light and heat control
Intelligent software analysis for pest and disease prediction, soil management and
other involved analytical tasks
Biotech
Hydroponics, soilless farming technology
Soil moisture sensors

Benefits of GIS in Agriculture:

 Cost savings resulting from greater efficiency.
 Better decision making.
 Improved communication.
 Better geographic information recordkeeping.
 Managing geographically.

GIS Application in Agriculture:

GIS Applications in Agriculture examines ways that this powerful technology can help
farmers produce a greater abundance of crops with more efficiency and at lower costs.

It has been claimed that agriculture in India started 9000 years ago with cultivation of
plants, domestication of crops and animals.

GIS can analyse soil data combined with historical farming practices to determine what
the best crops to plant, are where they should go, and how to maintain soil nutrition levels to
best benefit the plants.

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 Company Profile

Exabit is an AgTech company which focuses on making Agriculture a reality. Their

flagship product Robotics when integrated with TactiX makes it a complete end to end
platform for enterprises and growers for crop monitoring, tracking and safeguarding; aimed
towards enhancing agricultural productivity.

Exabit created an IoT platform which would help in resolving the broader problems
such as fragmented land management, irrigation controls, seed behaviour and move towards
sustainable agriculture. Robotics in conjunction with TactiX makes the IoT platform. We are
the first movers in India to build an end-to-end IoT platform for agriculture, enabling smart
precision farming and smart control.

A group of techie friends, like-minded people who have worked with various MNCs
during initial professional careers have created this cutting edge platform, for the larger gain
of Agri-ecosystem.

Address of the company: 679-57 Jayanagar 4th T Block Tilak Nagar, Deva Sandra,
Karnataka, 560036, India

Website: www.exabit.in

Company Registration code: SIC Code76,762, NAICS Code11,115.

Exabit Systems Pvt has <25 employees.

Revenue:   <$5 Million.

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 Company Focus

India being an Agri-economy and majority of the contribution to GDP comes from Agri
and allied sector. When analysed Agri-data across various other agricultural nations, we find
a bigger gap when compared to per hectare yield. Further analysis makes us understand that
the approach we follow makes the difference. To grow more, we have to understand crop
science, adapt to the climate change & sustainable Agri practices.

Devices used

RobotiX:

An IoT device, which captures micro-climatic data, soil condition data & real-time
controls to make it conducive for a better crop growth. Robotix is made with tremendous
amount of research and field trials, capable to withstand varied weather conditions. Made for
both open-field and hi-tech farming, Robotix is moving closer towards a cognitive IoT
solution.

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TactiX:

Software platform that comes with different modules for managing post-harvest and
pre-harvest processes. Modules help in management of distribution, logistics, inventory,
storage, and billing are few to highlight about. Dynamic reporting and analysis helps in
keeping a tap on what is happening within your enterprise.

“TactiX” & “RobotiX” in tandem gives Agri Organizations a helping hand to grow
quality produce, follow transparent business processes and create satisfied customers.

TactiX Mobile App comes handy with access to all your farm data anywhere.
Benefiting field force to interact and update crop information on the go.

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 Company Offerings

The Process behind TactiX & RobotiX has been to provide Agri Organizations and
progressive farmers a helping hand to grow better quality produces, bringing field level
tracking, and transparent business process implementation, create satisfied customers and
expand the band globally.

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 Crop Management & Advisory

They develop and adopt new Eco-friendly technologies for increasing crop
productivity. Since long, it has been recognized that crops and soils are not uniform within a
given field. The potential of precision farming for economic and environmental benefits
could be visualized through reduced use of agricultural inputs such as water, fertilizers,
herbicides and pesticides. Increasing Productivity and sustainability.

They focus on Smart Sensing & Monitoring, Smart Control & Smart Analytic
technologies to enable Precision Agriculture for mass.

Their Hi-Tech Farming as a Service (HaaS) & Out-right sales for Agro-based
Enterprises; with the Crop Analytic, Farming Extension Services, Crop Advisory, Farmer &
Field Digitization along with Real-Time based Farm Automation gives us the leading edge to
serve our Customer across all segment of Individual grower till Enterprise/ Commercial Agri
Organizations with the help of latest technologies. (Cloud, Mobile & IoT).

Product- Platform

RobotiX-IoT Platform: A Cloud Based IoT Agri Tech Platform, Enabling Smart
Precision Agriculture.

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 India is an agrarian country. Indian agriculture accounts for almost 14 per cent of GDP
and employs 52 per cent of the population. It is very important but under performing sector.
To meet the forthcoming demand and challenges.

They have built; geographic positioning system (GPS)-based agriculture, site-specific

and precision farming which includes computer-oriented technologies, agricultural decision
support software, sensors and monitoring systems, GPS and mapping systems, predictive
modelling technologies and imaging, etc.

Their RobotiX IoT Platform Enables Precision Agriculture Platform offers the potential
to automate and simplify the collection and analysis of information. It allows management
decisions to be made and quickly implemented on small areas within larger fields.

Primary Differentiator

They work to enable smart precision agriculture for mass using the power of IoT, Cloud
& Mobile Technologies.

Their platform is built to solve problems of Developing Agri-Economies for both

Individual growers & Commercial Agriculture in following areas;

1. Fragmented land Management

2. Irrigation Planning & Automation
3. Seed R&D
4. Sustainable Practices
5. Mechanization
6. Supply chain management

GIS And Map Based Search

 EHarvest Module allows Corporate Farming, Community Farming, Contract Farming,

Farmer Clubs & Co-operative societies to Track & Manage their Farmers/Growers on GIS. It

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helps the Higher Management Plan, Track & Predict Cropping details at a faster pace.
Distribution, Production, Demand & Supply can be known at fingertips for Thousands of
Farmers & Farmlands.

Reports

 One of the prominent modules of TactiX. This is a one stop Analysis for entire Data
being captured in TactiX. Graphical reports are available for users to view and take inference.
Historical Data reports help in analysing a particular farm over a different crop cycles and
time period.

Farmer Management

 This helps in managing all your farmers and their farmlands. May it be individual,
contractual or progressive farmers, all can be managed in our system. Farmer document
management is another part, which digitizes all kind of documents of the field and farmer’s
as well. Geo Tagging of farmlands helps at MIS level.

Agri-Input Management

 Inputs to your crop and land can be tracked and monitored; this helps in planning your
stocks well in advance and planning your procurement timing. This enables in swifter
decision making while disbursement and procurement.

Pre-Harvest Cropping Process planning

 Our system allows you to define cropping process and this can be standardized over
time. Each successful process is stored forever for a future look. At any point of time one can
go back and see how it was done and can replicate same procedure for any new land.

Cropping Process Tracking

 One stop page to track your crop, understands progress, monitor health, understand
ambient and soil condition, act based on local weather forecast.

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Farmland Tracking

 Our system is capable to geo tag farmlands; so that any time you can track crop stage
and progress status on map directly. This helps in getting status on the fly for all of your
farms and plan sales as your harvest projections.

Expenses Tracking

 Application provides mechanism to input all your expenses for a farm. This helps in
keeping track of daily expenses done for the farm, per stage. These provide a guideline on
optimal usage of resources and give an option to control it.

Yield Management

 Harvested yields are maintained to enable users to see how much yield has been there
for a particular crop. This can be tracked at farmer and farmland level. This helps in
understanding overall crop performance and resource performance.

Precision/ Smart farming

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 RobotiX is the hardware (IoT) which is deployed in farm field to sense environment
conditions & soil conditions and upload data into eXabit’s Cloud server. RobotiX also has
capability to run electronic devices like, valves, motors, ventilators, motorized screens, etc.
Once data is uploaded into cloud Server, TactiX platform takes care of it and churns it into
valid actionable information for users to see across various modules of the application.

RobotiX

This is eXabit’s On-field Friend for Farmers & Growers; IoT not only allows them to
check Data, Read out Information but also, take precautionary steps or execute needed action
on field at an ease. RobotiX is made to bring farmland to agriculturist doorsteps. This enables
farmland level real-time information to control field level processes & equipment’s. RobotiX
empowers farmers with more control & information on the Crop, Increases farmland
productivity & optimizes labour, decreases manual labour, decreases operational cost, save
natural resources, it also helps to bring better Yield & profitability to the farmer.

EHarvest

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 The new Efarming way of doing agriculture is a flagship product of Exabit with a
complete Design in India & Make in India tag. This module helps farmers/growers/co-
operative society, community farmers, farmer clubs, contract farming, corporate farming &
next gen farming entrepreneurs to use latest technologies, Technologies like cloud platform
& internet, mobile phones to plan, execute, monitor & control their crop management
processes at finger tips.

Farm Automation

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 There is an urgent need to mechanize the agricultural operations so that wastage of
labour force is avoided and farming is made efficiently. Agricultural implements and
machinery are a crucial input for efficient and timely agricultural operations, facilitating
multiple cropping and thereby increasing yield.

They enable real-time data oriented, volumetric or power availability Mode

automations of the following activities at Open Farm Fields or Green House/Ploy
Houses/Nursery/Shade Nets/Ploy Tunnel/ Kitchen Garden/Office Gardens/ Society Gardens
& Etc.

Their Robots are capable to run electrical devices or motors. Some of such devices
would be fogger, misting, sprinkler, exhaust fans, etc. Robots can operate these equipment’s
remotely without any manual intervention. This gives an edge to the hi-tech farming using
our devices.

Real-Time Automations for:

 Water pump
 Irrigation

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 Sprinkler
 Foggers
 Fertilizer(Ventures ) tank
 Exhaust Controls
 Ventilators
 Cooling pads
 LED Lighting
 Electronic repellent control systems.
 Any Electronic or Electrical Switch Points.

Agri- Analytics

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 Analyse crop condition to understand how good crop is maintained during complete
crop cycle. This enables to pre-empt quality of produce and yield well in advance. This
analysis also helps in maintaining GAP (Good Agricultural Practice) standards.

System enables to produce following type of analysis reports for better decision making

 Ambient conditions Analysis

 Soil Conditions Analysis
 Resource usage Analysis. (Crop/Farmer/Location Wise)
 Yield Analysis. (Crop/Farmer/Location wise)
 Expense Analysis
 Farmer Analysis
 GIS based Farmer & Crop Search
 GIS based drill down till Farmland Level
 RobotiX Automated Action Taken Analysis
 Field Condition Alerts Via SMS
 Farm field GEO-Tagging
 Farmland Survey Analysis
 Automatic Field & Crop Imaging at 3-images/day rate

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  Regional-language/Multi Lingual Mobile App.
 Mobile Android Based App for easier Alert & Notifications Management
 GEO Fencing of lands

Their major thought process behind “TactiX” & “RobotiX” is to provide Agri
Organizations & Progressive Farmers a helping hand to grow better quality produces,
bringing field level tracking, and transparent business process implementation, create
satisfied customers and expand the brand globally.

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 Reference

About Company: https://www.zoominfo.com/c/exabit-systems-pvt-ltd/426002545

Offical Website of Company: www.exabit.com

About GIS: http://data.conferenceworld.in/GNCG/P148-155.pdf

https://mapasyst.extension.org/what-are-some-uses-for-gis/

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