Nagpur: Two enterprising engineers from Pune have developed,in mobile application being presented to Irrigate your farm with a missed call from anywhere in the world an automated mobile-based device which can switch on and off your water pump for irrigation from any place. The device, costing Rs6000, is one of the few automated devices developed by the Automation India. The device also calls you to tell that if electricity is available so that you can start the engine.
The company is displaying its product at the ongoing four-day Agrovision exhibition at Reshimbagh ground. One of the engineers, Deepak Nathe, a mechanical engineer, that the device has 40 different automated functions which can be controlled by the mobile.
mobile application device can be controlled by 10 different persons whose numbers can be connected to the device. “You have to just give three rings from anywhere in the world to automatically start the engine of the water pump installed in your well in your farm. Similarly, the pump can be switched off with two rings,”
His partner Vijay Jha, an electronic engineer, said that they have sold 1,700 devices in last one year. The company has also developed water-level controller, home security system and home automation system through which you can operate all your electrical and electronic devices from anywhere outside the home.
A device that also has a system which calls the farmer to inform that the electricity is available and the farmer can start the equipment to irrigate the field. “The farmer doesn’t have to be present in the field physically to start the system. Mostly electricity is available in the villages only during the night time. Therefore, he has to wait all night in the fields to start the pump. But with this device he can start the pump from his home to irrigating the field,”
