MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641051255 A) filed by Nitte Meenakshi Institute Of Technology, Nitte; Badarla Sri Pavan; Afzaal Ahmad; Kushal N Hubballi; and Khushi Arali, Bangalore, Karnataka, on April 22, for 'a smart unified architecture for home automation and plant protection.'
Inventor(s) include Nitte Meenakshi Institute Technology, Nitte; Badarla Sri Pavan; Afzaal Ahmad; Kushal N Hubballi; and Khushi Arali.
The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention relates to a smart unified architecture that integrates residential home automation and plant protection upon a single technological platform, thereby eliminating the duplication of hardware and user interfaces that characterize the prior art in which the two domains are addressed by independent systems. The system comprises a master ESP32 microcontroller (200) communicatively coupled, through a decentralized ESP-NOW peer-to-peer radio protocol, to a first slave ESP32 (201) for plant monitoring and to a second slave ESP32 (203) for home monitoring. The first slave is coupled to a plant-domain sensor suite (101-105) and to plant-domain actuators (301, 302) and, through an ESP32-CAM module (202), to an edge-AI engine (401) realized as a Gemini 1.5 Flash vision-and-language model for the identification of plant diseases and pest infestations. The second slave is coupled to a home-domain sensor suite (106-110) and to home-domain actuators (303, 304). The master (200) additionally uplinks consolidated telemetry to a Blynk IoT cloud platform (600) and a user mobile application (700) through a Wi-Fi access point (500). The present invention ensures that all time-critical sensing and actuation decisions are executed locally at the edge through the ESP-NOW protocol, that plant diseases and pests are detected continuously through AI-assisted visual analysis, that residential intrusion and fire hazards are detected and actioned through the shared sensor-fusion layer, and, most importantly, that cross-domain event propagation enables a trigger in one domain to autonomously initiate a corrective action in the other, thereby delivering improved agricultural productivity, enhanced residential safety, reduced latency, reduced energy consumption, and an enhanced quality of life."
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