MUMBAI, India, July 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611066170 A) filed by Prof. Dr. Deepika Varshney; Dr. Sharad Bisen; Dr. Jince Mary M Joy; Dr. Vivek Pandey; Dr. Pipas Kumar; Abhishek Ranjan; and Mr. Harshit Sharma on May 26, 2026, for Automated Irrigation Controller Using Soil Moisture Sensors And Weather Forecasting.
Inventors include Prof. Dr. Deepika Varshney; Dr. Sharad Bisen; Dr. Jince Mary M Joy; Dr. Vivek Pandey; Dr. Pipas Kumar; Abhishek Ranjan; and Mr. Harshit Sharma.
The application for the patent was published on July 17, 2026, under issue no. 29/2026.
Abstract: The present invention discloses an automated irrigation control system (100) that integrates a soil moisture sensor node array (110) comprising capacitive sensor nodes (111, 112, 113, 114) with a weather data acquisition module (140) that retrieves real-time precipitation probability forecasts from a cloud-based meteorological API endpoint (141). A central processing unit (120) executing a dual-parameter irrigation scheduling algorithm on an embedded real-time operating system determines whether to irrigate a given zone by simultaneously evaluating whether the measured volumetric water content falls below a lower moisture threshold and whether the 24-hour precipitation probability is below a configurable rain-skip threshold. Actuation commands are transmitted to a multi-zone solenoid valve control module (130) that independently controls zone solenoid valves (131, 132, 133, 134). A user interface module (150) comprising a local display (151) and a mobile application dashboard (152) provides real-time monitoring, threshold configuration, and manual override capability.
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