Project proposal for

DST &Texas Instruments Inc.

India Innovation Challenge Design Contest
2016
Anchored by IIM Bangalore

SOLAR POWERED AUTOMATIC PLOUGHING AND

IRRIGATION MACHINE FOR AGRICULTURE

Dr.N.G.P. INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Name College ID/Roll UG/PG Course/Branch Semester
No.
K.Praveen Kumar 13EC065 UG B.E/ECE 07
N.Sangeetha 13EC075 UG B.E/ECE 07
S.Sangeetha 13EC077 UG B.E/ECE 07
K.Sushmitha 13EC096 UG B.E/ECE 07
Faculty Mentor : U.Vinoth Kumar

Project Abstract

In Modern world, Automation is used in many of the fields such as defense, surveillance,
medical field, industries and so on. This solar powered automatic machine used to develop the
process of ploughing agricultural land without the use of man power. The aim of this project to
reduce the man power, time and increase the productivity rate and reduction of fuel usage since it
is solar powered. All the basic ploughing equipments such as ploughshare and some tillage
machines and so on are in use with use of man power. The issues involved in basic equipments are
the availability of tractor, fuel usage and cost. These issues are overcome by this project. This
project is to plough the land to the depth of 30cm without use of tractor and watering the land
whenever water is needed by using moisture sensor. The ploughing and watering process is remote
controlled.
Team Members – Roles & Responsibilities
S.No. Student Member Role (Choose one of the Justification
Name following – Marketing,
Technical, Operations &
Other Roles as
applicable)
1 K.Praveen Kumar Marketing
2 N.Sangeetha Hardware Implementations
3 S.Sangeetha Programming
4 K.Sushmitha Operations

Market Analysis
A. Customer Need Identification - <Teams to present thier case & Share
information>

B. Serviceable Addressable Market (SAM) Identification & Justification - <Teams to

share details of their SAM and support with analysis as applicable>

C. Product Differentiation w.r.t. Competition& Justification - <Teams to Highlight the

differentiated featues of their product w.r.t. to completion/existing product with
justification>

D. Understanding of your customer & user- <Teams to identify their customer & user
and share their product positioning to enable ease of adoption for both of these >
Note: Users refer to people using the product/service, and a customer is one who
pays for the product/services. Depending on product both could be same or
different.

E. Distribution Channel Identification - <Teams to share how would you deliver the
product/service to the customers/users>
Proposed Design
Objective –

To implement a machine to plough and irrigate the farm land automatically without the
usage of tractor in ploughing.

A. Proposed Solution

Block Diagram
Component Used - List all the TI Parts and non-TI parts to be used in designing the proposed
solution

TI PartNumber How is it being used in the proposed solution? Explain

its role/functionality
(link all the parts to
their respective
product page on the
TI website)

Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

Non - TI Parts How is it being used in the proposed solution? Explain

its role/functionality

For eg – 16x2 LCD

Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

Innovativeness of the Proposed Solution

Teams have to explain the uniqueness/differentiation of their proposed solution with
respect to the existing competition in the current scenario. Teams can differentiate their
proposed solution on the following vectors – size, power, performance, cost,
functionality& others as applicable

Impact of the proposed solution

Teams have to explain the impact of their proposed solution on the customer/relevant
industry and Justify with data as applicable.