Digital Entomologist
Solar, powered AI device monitoring insect populations in real time
Contact:
suman@iitrpr.ac.in
Vision
Universal real, time biodiversity intelligence, every ecosystem continuously monitored, protecting pollinators and agricultural health globally.
Problem
Insect populations are declining globally yet monitoring is manual, sporadic, and lab, dependent. Farmers, conservationists, and policymakers lack real, time data on pollinators and pest species critical to food security.
Solution
A compact, solar, powered device with motion, detection camera, nRF5340 MCU, 4G, and cloud. It autonomously captures insect images, processed via YOLOv5/CNN trained on GBIF and iNaturalist for >90% species accuracy.
Potential
$10B+ global biodiversity monitoring market · 40% global crop yield depends on pollinators · Scalable across India, South Asia, and Africa · Government mandates for ecological monitoring growing.
Target Beneficiaries
Farmers & agricultural cooperatives · Forest & wildlife departments · Beekeepers · Environmental NGOs · Research institutions · Policymakers
Current Users
Deployed at IIT Ropar campus & 10+ countries; AWaDH pilot sites operational · Global Deployments: Pune (India), Ropar (India), Basel (Switzerland), Fraunhofer (Germany), USA, France, Australia, Idanha, a, Nova (Portugal), Netherlands.
