C-DAC to help improve technology for agri testing
Updated: Jul 16, 2014 01:35:47pm
Kolkata, Jul 16 (KNN) The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is getting involved in improving technology for testing of agri products like tea and silk.
The C-DAC will involve private firms to develop IT based products and systems for transfer of technology (ToT) of quality monitoring instruments for agricultural produces like tea and silk.
The Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) under Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India initiated an advanced research on Agri and Environmental Electronics (eAgriEn) which takes convergent and holistic look at all the related areas in agricultural sector to ensure optimum induction of IT and Electronics for improvement of productivity, quality and value, according to official data.
C-DAC has already identified this thematic area, as one of its advanced research destinations and C-DAC, Kolkata is the Resource Centre for Agri-Electronics within C-DAC family.
Under this eAgriEn program, a few production-worthy prototypes have been developed which maybe used by the related industries.
One of them is the Hand held electronic nose (HEN), a compact, portable, battery operated, low powered, embedded device designed to detect complex odours using sensor arrays. The sensor array consists of broadly tuned (non-specific) sensors that are treated with a variety of odour-sensitive biological or chemical materials. An odour stimulus generates a characteristic fingerprint from the sensory array. The fingerprint (or smell-print) is classified and identified with suitable pattern recognition engine for declaration of odour.
HEN can be used for assessment of finished tea quality; and determination of optimum fermentation time during tea manufacturing process.
Another prototype developed is Resham Darshan for colour analysis of Tasar silk yarn and grading. This is a PC operated, portable device for characterizing of silk yarn based on colour. It uses uniform illumination arrangement and a digital camera to capture the images of the silk yarn and digital image processing techniques have been used to grade the silk yarn based on the colour. The system has built with a load cell to measure the weight of the silk yarns.
Resham Darshan can be used in silk yarn sorting centres at different Sericulture Industries.
These technologies have been developed and extensive field trials have been conducted in the industries. Also, a few prototypes have been deployed in the field.
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) is the premier R&D organization of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) for carrying out R&D in IT, Electronics and associated areas.
CDAC focuses on synergy between research, product development, training, consultancy and turnkey implementation of contract projects.
The technology development initiatives of the Centre are focused in the areas of Software Technology, Health Informatics, Image Processing, Face Recognition, Speech Processing, Agri and Environmental Electronics, Information Security, Language Technology, Social Empowerment of Mass through IT, Digital Library, IT Systems and Services and related emerging areas. (KNN/ES)
The C-DAC will involve private firms to develop IT based products and systems for transfer of technology (ToT) of quality monitoring instruments for agricultural produces like tea and silk.
The Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) under Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India initiated an advanced research on Agri and Environmental Electronics (eAgriEn) which takes convergent and holistic look at all the related areas in agricultural sector to ensure optimum induction of IT and Electronics for improvement of productivity, quality and value, according to official data.
C-DAC has already identified this thematic area, as one of its advanced research destinations and C-DAC, Kolkata is the Resource Centre for Agri-Electronics within C-DAC family.
Under this eAgriEn program, a few production-worthy prototypes have been developed which maybe used by the related industries.
One of them is the Hand held electronic nose (HEN), a compact, portable, battery operated, low powered, embedded device designed to detect complex odours using sensor arrays. The sensor array consists of broadly tuned (non-specific) sensors that are treated with a variety of odour-sensitive biological or chemical materials. An odour stimulus generates a characteristic fingerprint from the sensory array. The fingerprint (or smell-print) is classified and identified with suitable pattern recognition engine for declaration of odour.
HEN can be used for assessment of finished tea quality; and determination of optimum fermentation time during tea manufacturing process.
Another prototype developed is Resham Darshan for colour analysis of Tasar silk yarn and grading. This is a PC operated, portable device for characterizing of silk yarn based on colour. It uses uniform illumination arrangement and a digital camera to capture the images of the silk yarn and digital image processing techniques have been used to grade the silk yarn based on the colour. The system has built with a load cell to measure the weight of the silk yarns.
Resham Darshan can be used in silk yarn sorting centres at different Sericulture Industries.
These technologies have been developed and extensive field trials have been conducted in the industries. Also, a few prototypes have been deployed in the field.
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) is the premier R&D organization of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) for carrying out R&D in IT, Electronics and associated areas.
CDAC focuses on synergy between research, product development, training, consultancy and turnkey implementation of contract projects.
The technology development initiatives of the Centre are focused in the areas of Software Technology, Health Informatics, Image Processing, Face Recognition, Speech Processing, Agri and Environmental Electronics, Information Security, Language Technology, Social Empowerment of Mass through IT, Digital Library, IT Systems and Services and related emerging areas. (KNN/ES)
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