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Intech Harness Pvt Ltd!

Intech Harness Pvt. Ltd. Was started on 9th April 2018 with a primary intention of providing precision farm irrigation solution at affordable pricing. We are a Social Impact Enterprise working in Water Sustainability in farm irrigation. We have a modular offering of IoT based pump controller to hand hold the farmer into the future by offering Digital Agriculture. With our technology we would like to contribute positively towards Climate Change through Climate Smart Agriculture.

Tarang Patel

Co-Founder & CEO

Highly Experienced Sales & Business Development Professional & Market Analyst with broad – based expertise in Finance. Proven ability to quickly analyze key business drivers & develop strategies to grow the bottom line.

Priya Patel

Co-founder - Technical

A manufacturing and sourcing professional with over 16 years of experience. Experience over assembly line for product assembly including PCB assembly and wave soldering. Instrumental in developing the controller from scratch. QA/ Process Enhancement - Vendor Interaction - Project Planning.

Rajendra Patel

Honorary Consultant

An incisive professional with over 35years of experience in Design and Development, Production(Testing), Maintenance (Servicing), Installation & commissioning. A keen planner, strategist & implementer with competencies across
- Embedded System - Design Engineering - Client Interaction

The need for an enhanced version of the Automatic Pump Controller had arisen to cater to these existing problems which could not be mitigated by the current system.

Today, one of the major problems ailing the Indian agriculture sector is that of the feasibility of irrigation especially in the face of an erratic power supply which reduces its benefits.

The major problems encountered due to this erratic power supply was that

  • There was a huge dependence on labour for intervention in the pumping operations from the erratic electricity supply which reduced productivity & decreased efficiency in terms of time required for motor start-up
  • Apart from labour, time, which was of key essence in motor-operations, was also not utilized effectively reducing productivity. Other resources involving financial aspects were also strained on account of irregular schedules relating to start-ups
  • The need to control the operation of a pump motor, which on restart would operate for an extending period to make-up the lost time due to non-availability of resources was realized
  • And majorly, none of the existing products could deal with this demand-gap in an wholesome way, thus increasing the burden on the farmers who had to manually intervene to set things in order

India is the second populous country in the world having more than 70% of the population residing in the rural area.

The main resource for the agriculture is timely and adequate supply of water and electricity. Nearly 20% of the farmers in India are dependent on electric water pumps for irrigation. The highly unreliable power supply with frequent power cuts has lowered the operational efficiency of farmers. The supply to agriculture is limited to few fixed hours throughout the day. Agriculture receives power mostly during off-peak hour as this reduces the cost of electricity supply for the transmission and distribution company. Because of the erratic nature of supply of electrical energy, the farmers have to vigilant so as to not be susceptible to the variable timings.

The need to immediately switch on their equipment after electricity supply resumes gains prime importance.

With the supply to agriculture being mostly during the non-peak hours, the farmers bear the brunt of waiting the whole day for electricity supply to resume so as starting their equipment for irrigation purposes.

This results in reduction in productivity, wastage of labor, and equipment lying idle.

Moreover, frequently the farmers would be engaged in an activity at a location distant from the location of the pump would be installed at another place. The main challenges at such times also include passing through a rough terrain & also the threat of \wild animals is eminent. It thus becomes imperative for a farmer either to be physically available at the equipment site or employ a labor only to switch on the equipment when electricity supply resumes which results in further wastage of resources bringing down efficiency.

India is the second populous country in the world having more than 70% of the population residing in the rural area, 60% of India’s 1.1 billion populations depends on agriculture which contributes to 17% of the Indian economy.

The main resource for the agriculture is timely and adequate supply of water and electricity. Nearly 20% of the farmers in India are dependent on electric water pumps for irrigation. However with many states having a huge gap in demand and supply of electrical energy, the highly unreliable power supply with frequent power cuts has lowered the operational efficiency of farmers.

The supply to agriculture is limited to few fixed hours throughout the day. Agriculture receives power mostly during off-peak hour as this reduces the cost of electricity supply for the transmission and distribution company. Because of the erratic nature of supply of electrical energy, the farmers have to vigilant so as to not be susceptible to the variable timings.

A patent granted Pump Controller which manages ground water efficiently without the farmer even realising it. This would be the last mile solution for the completely automatic pump operations. Bringing convenience for the farmer, saving of water and power due to precise operations with no extended pump operations due to manual intervention, along with the capability for data logging (in development). We achieve, convenience for the farmer, water conservation and power conservation in Agri-Irrigation.

The Technology is in line with the guidelines of PMKSY, Atal Bhujal Yojana as well as SDG of the UN for optimising ground water usage.

Consumption of water in agriculture constitutes 70% of fresh water resources & India utilises 1.6 - 2 times the actual required water for the farm, there is a need for technology to be introduced to regulate water supply at the micro level based on the need of the crop, which is where our controller will be of immense help. There is a need to address the problem of extended pump operations resulting in flooding the crop due to manual operations and also bring in convenience to the farmers.
We are a Agritech startup based in Pune, Maharashtra, India and have developed a Patent Granted, AI Driven and IoT ready Farmer Obedient Motor Controller for electric water pumps on agriculture farms used for irrigation with an ability to cover up the lost time. This can be used by individual farmers and its precision operations save a lot of water, power and eliminate the need for manual intervention to operate the pumps. Provides precise water to the fields based on timing provided by the farmer. Needless to say that precise operation results in huge savings of water and electricity. Farmers can make the daily activity of attending to pump operations redundant.

Achieved Objectives

  • To control the operation of a pump motor, which on restart operates for an extending period to make-up the lost time due to non-availability of resources(water & power).
  • To control the supply of water based on the availability of water and power.
  • To control the operation of pump motor to eliminates excessive manual intervention and avoid Dry Run.
  • To avoid extended pump operations due to manual Switch ON / OFF of pump.

Resources: Once the On & OFF times are fed to the controller, at no time in the entire cycle will there be human intervention to start the motor or to stop the motor. Both functions will be carried out by the controller based on the logic given to it.

Water: It detects non availability of water at source and shuts the pump. It keeps check for the water and once it is available it will restart the pump on it own and complete the time cycle by keeping the pump ON beyond the OFF time given to the controller.

Electricity: If the electricity is not available after the pump is on, then everything will shut down. But once the electricity is resumed the controller will restart the pump on its own and complete the cycle.

I hope you find merit in this technology and look forward for further interaction with a view to introduce this concept with various agriculture irrigation projects.

This will take the farmers towards digital agriculture in an organised manner as we have planned more technology layers on this.

In case you need any further information would be happy to provide it.

To offer single Technology solution for current problems in farm irrigation and handhold farmers into the future through modular and affordable offering of Digital Agriculture.

Jalaprayah Pump Controller - Ensures Water Supply To The Crop, Irrespective of Power Timings, Increases Crop Yield Through Engagement With Digital Agriculture.

A patented technology for farmers facing erratic power & water supply, Jalaprayah Pump Controller automates farm irrigation with an ability to respond to power and water disruption without human intervention, unlike GSM based controllers which require human intervention to set right disruptions.

Precise operations bring relief to the farmer and reduces water & carbon footprint.

Though the technology is capable of working independently in isolation we have layered IoT technology on it to empower the farmer for scientific agriculture.

This patented technology is aligned with Atal Bhujal Yojana & Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana. The technology also aligns with UN-SDG No. 2, 9, 11, 12, 13 & 15.

We are a UNIDO Accelerated Venture (Cohort 1) & Incubatee under RKVY-RAFTAAR program of Ministry of Agriculture & Farmer Welfare, Government of India (Cohort 1).