Nano Ganesh

Nano Ganesh is an irrigation automation system from Indian company which allows farmers to use mobile phones to remotely control the irrigation pumps located in distant hazardous locations. It is a hardware device attached to the existing starter and water pump set. The application was developed by Ossian Agro Automation in Pune, India, initially with external basic mobile phones used for wireless connectivity and later on with built-in GSM modules named as Nano Ganesh GSM.[1] The overall developments of various wireless remote controllers began in 1996 by Santosh Ostwal, an Electrical Engineer, the founder of Ossian and son of a farmer.[2] Approximately 60,000 farmers in India have been using Nano Ganesh since 2008 till 2017.[3][4] In mid-2009, it was tested in Anand district in the Indian state of Gujarat in partnership with Tata Teleservices using Tata phones.[5][6] Later, it was designed to operate on any basic mobile phones. In 2014, Ossian further upgraded the technology as Nano Ganesh M2M to monitor the water level of overhead water tanks on mobile phones and remotely control the water pump as per the lower and overflow levels of water in the tanks.[7]

  1. ^ "Welcome To Our Website …". NanoGanesh.com. Ossian Group. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
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  5. ^ Ribeiro, John (23 July 2009). "Indian farmers use mobile phones to control irrigation". IDG News Service. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  6. ^ Pandit, Virendra (11 July 2009). "Soon farmers can control irrigation with a cell phone". Business Line. Retrieved 8 August 2009.
  7. ^ Pandit, Shiladitya (14 September 2015). "Nano Ganesh alerts to curb waste". The Times of India. Retrieved 8 October 2019.