Raj Kumar Singh

Innovation is the key to betterment of education and students in the Indian universities/colleges put a lot of efforts on the projects as a part of the academic requirements. If a common knowledge platform (with a facility for plagiarism) is created to bring all project works taken up at various levels by the students in Technical / Higher Educational Institutes and Universities throughout the country, then it will be a great source of knowledge and also will help the student community to take up unique/innovative project works. Summary: An integrated platform should be developed where in all the universities/Colleges provide information about the projects done by the students. The information on this platform will help in the peer learning and this will also help in cross functional research between various universities/colleges. Objective: To develop an online integrated platform for projects taken up by the students of various universities/colleges.

KrishiMitra is an AI-powered precision agriculture platform designed to promote sustainable and data- driven farming. It helps improve crop yields while optimizing water usage through intelligent decision-making. The platform features a custom- built crop recommendation system, a smart irrigation scheduler, real-time IoT-based monitoring, and an IVR support system for farmers with limited internet access. The crop recommendation model, trained on soil and weather datasets, utilizes Random Forest with GridSearchCV tuning to achieve 86.41% accuracy. It suggests the top five crop choices along with optimal cultivation techniques. Meanwhile, the irrigation scheduler, powered by XGBoost with feature engineering, hyperparameter tuning, and data balancing, provides personalized watering schedules and syncs with Google Calendar for automated reminders. For real-time environmental monitoring, KrishiMitra employs an IoT framework with rainsensors, humidity (DHT11), moisture, LDR, and pH sensors, all connected to an ESP32 microcontroller. The collected data is processed and continuously updated in the system. Additionally, an IVR support systembuilt with Exotel offers voice-based assistance in Hindi, ensuring accessibility for farmers without internet access.