research

PROJECTS

TCS

• [2014 - ] Digital Farming Initiatives (mKRISHI), Innovation Labs Mumbai (News/ Major Talks/ Presentations/ Demonstrations)

  • June 17, 2021: TCS received "Award for Excellence in IT Services for Large Enterprise" at IMC Digital Technology Awards, 2020 for the Digital Farming Platform (link)

  • June 15-16, 2021: Delivered talk at "UQ-IITD workshop on Agriculture Technology" (link)

  • Dec 8, 2020: Delivered talk on "Data-driven Insights for Management of Tea" at webinar organized by IDH STGSP forum (link)

  • Mar 8-10, 2020: TCS Digital Farming Platform showcased at Saudi IoT 2020, Riyadh (link) (demo)

  • Dec 4-6, 2019: Digital Farming Initiatives awarded and recognized as 'Best Enabling Group' at TCS Brillianz 2019, Pune

  • Nov 19-20, 2019: Digital Farming Initiatives showcase recognized among top three at TCS Re.Fresh 2019, Hyderabad

  • Oct 29-Nov 1, 2019: Showcased TCS Digital Farming Platform at QITCOM 2019, Doha (link) (video)

  • Apr 25, 2019: Presented TCS Digital Interventions for Tea at Young Tea Entrepreneurs Meet, Kolkata [On the spot talk] (link)

  • Oct 25-27, 2018: Presented Demo on IoT for Agriculture at the ICFA Agro World 2018 along with Tata Trusts (link)

  • Oct 9-10, 2018: Presented 'Nutrient Monitoring and Crop Health Detection Solution' at IoT Congress 2018 by IET (link)

  • Jul, 2018: Talked about Cognitive IoT in Agriculture at the ICAR National Workshop on AI in Agriculture, National Agricultural Science Complex (NASC), New Delhi, July 30-31, 2018 (link) (video) (pdf)

  • Jan, 2018: IEEE Pune Section Workshop on Technology for Agriculture (link 1) (link 2)

  • Sep, 2017: TCS mKRISHI®features in Fortune Top 50 companies 'Change the World' 2017 list (link)

  • Jan, 2017: mKRISHI® Fisheries – A Blue Ocean Innovation wins National Contest on Social Innovation 2016 (link 1) (link 2)

  • Feb, 2016: TCS InteGra platform showcased in partnership with Intel at MWC'16, Barcelona (link 1) (link 2) (video)

  • Jun, 2015: Presented "Smart Farming @ Digital Farming Initiative - Digital Reimagination of Agricultural Services" at TACTiCS, TCS Yantra Park, Thane

IIT Delhi

• Primary role

  • [2013 - 14] IU-ATC (India-UK Advanced Technology Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks, Systems and Services) for the eHealth (Pervasive Sensor Environments) and eAgri (Rural/Distributed Services and Applications) work-packages. (Wisekar)

  • [2009 - 13] Development of Wireless Sensor Network for Animal Management under the National Agricultural Innovation Project (Site Link) - (Dainik Bhaskar - Karnal)

  • [2008 - 09] Development of a Wireless Sensor Network based Gait Assessment System for the Elderly under TIE (Department of Science and Technology) - Telegraph Report

• Supportive role

  • Design and development of a integrated locomotive driver warning system for preventing elephant collisions (DST and Indian Railways) (Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Award)

  • Pilot village level development of a wireless sensor network based animal management monitoring scheme for rural/semi-rural dairy operations (DST)

  • Development of a Wireless Sensor Network Based Automated Feed Uptake and Animal Development Monitoring Scheme for Semi-rural Dairy Operations (DST)

  • Assisted in configuring and demonstrating an indigenously developed "Low Cost Disaster Warning System" (Hindu Report) for INCOIS

PATENTS

Published List: Google PatentGuru

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Publications: CITATIONS ORCID SCOPUS RESEARCHGATE

• Journal

1. S. Sarangi, J. Umadikar, S. Kar, "Automation of Agriculture Support Systems using Wisekar: Case study of a crop-disease advisory service", Elsevier Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, vol. 122, 2016, pp. 200-210 (link)

2. S. Sarangi, S. Kar, "Performance Evaluation of Region Estimation with Reactive Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks", Inderscience Int. J. of Sensor Networks (link)

3. S. Sarangi, S. Kar, “Performance Evaluation of Graded Precision Localization with Sensor Networks in Indoor Spaces", Elsevier Computers and Electrical Engineering, vol. 48, 2015, pp. 258-269 (link)

4. S. Sarangi, S. Kar, “Scriptable Sensor Network Applications for Rapid Development of Internet of Things", Network Protocols and Algorithms, vol. 6, no. 1, 2014, pp. 37-57. (link)

5. S. Kar, S. Sarangi, A. Bisht, “Fall Detection and Activity Monitoring with Wireless Sensor Networks", Indian J. of Med. Informatics (IJMI), vol. 7, no. 3, 2013, pp. 128-139 (link) [pdf].[Open Access]

6. S. Sarangi, S. Kar, "Mobility aware routing with partial route preservation in wireless sensor networks", Ubiquitous Comput. and Commun. J., vol. 6, no. 2, 2011, pp. 848-856. (link) [pdf]

7. S. Sarangi, S. Kar, "Performance Analysis of an Improved Graded Precision Localization Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks”, Int. J. of Comput. Netw. & Commun. (IJCNC), Vol.2, No.4, July 2010, pp. 150-159. (link)

• Conference

1. M. Sakkan, S. Sarangi, S. B. Choudhury, P. Jain, Hemavathy B., R. Urkude, S. Pappula, "Disease Assessment in Rice with Pervasive Stationary and Mobile Sensing - Learnings from Rabi 2019-20" 13th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2021) - MINDS Workshop (Bangalore) [virtual] (link)[Received Best Paper Runner Up Award]

2. S. Sarangi, P. Jain, P. Bhatt, S. B. Choudhury , M. Pal, S. Kallamkuth, S. Pappula and K. Borah, "Effective Plantation Management with Crowd-sensing and Data-driven Insights: A Case Study on Tea", 2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), 29 Oct - 1 Nov 2020, (Seattle) [virtual] (link)

3. P. Jain, S. B. Choudhury, P. Bhatt, S. Sarangi, S. Pappula, "Maximising Value of Frugal Soil Moisture Sensors for Precision Agriculture Applications", 2020 IEEE / ITU International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Good, 21-23 Sep 2020, (Geneva) [virtual] (link)

4. S. B. Choudhury, P. Jain, S. Kallamkuth, S. Ramanath, P. Bhatt, S. Sarangi, S. Pappula, "Precision Crop Monitoring with Affordable IoT: Experiences with Okra", Global IoT Summit (GIoTS), July 2019, Aarhus, Denmark (link)

5. P. V. Bhatt, S. Sarangi, S. Pappula, "Detection of diseases and pests on images captured in uncontrolled conditions from tea plantations", SPIE Defense & Commercial Sensing - Autonomous Air and Ground Sensing Systems for Agricultural Optimization and Phenotyping IV, pp. 73-82, April 2019, Baltimore (link)

6. P. Bhatt, S. Sarangi, A. Shivhare, D. Singh and S. Pappula, "Identification of Diseases in Corn Leaves using Convolutional Neural Networks and Boosting", ICPRAM 2019, pp. 894-899, Feb 2019, Prague, Czech Republic (link)

7. P. Bhatt, S. Sarangi, S. Pappula, “Unsupervised Image Segmentation using Convolutional Neural Networks for Automated Crop Monitoring”, International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM), Feb 2019, Prague, Czech Republic (link)

8. K. Srinivasan, P. Vutla, D. Singh, D. Alla, V. Lonkar, S. Sarangi, "Feedback System for Improving Capturing Quality and Quantity of Livestock Images Using Deep Learning Technology", IndiaHCI 2018, Dec 16-18, Bangalore [Received Best Case Study Award] (link)

9. A. Mittal, S. Sarangi, S. Ramanath, P. V. Bhatt, R. Sharma and Srinivasu P., "IoT-based Precision Monitoring of Horticultural Crops – A Case-study on Cabbage and Capsicum", IEEE GHTC 2018, Oct 18-21, San Jose (link)

10. S. Sarangi, S. B. Choudhury, P. Jain, P. V. Bhatt, S. Ramanath, R. Sharma and Srinivasu P., "Development and Deployment of a Scalable IoT

11. Framework for Digital Farming Applications", IEEE GHTC 2018, Oct 18-21, San Jose (poster and teaser paper) (link)

12. P. Jain, S. Sarangi, P. Bhatt, S. Pappula, "Development of an Energy-efficient Adaptive IoT Gateway Model for Precision Agriculture", IEEE GIoTS 2018, June 4-7, Bilbao, Spain, pp. 1-6 (link)

13. B. Mukhopadhyay, S. Sarangi, S. Srirangarajan, and S. Kar, "Indoor Localization using Analog Output of Pyroelectric Infrared Sensors", IEEE WCNC 2018, Barcelona (link)

14. P. Bhatt, S. Sarangi and S. Pappula, "Coarse Clustering and Classification of Images with CNN Features for Participatory Sensing in Agriculture", In Proc. 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM, 488-495, Jan 16-18, 2018, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (link)

15. S. Sarangi, V. Naik, S. B. Choudhury, P. Jain, V. Kosgi, R. Sharma, P. Bhatt, and Srinivasu P., "An Affordable IoT Edge Platform for Digital Farming in Developing Regions", IEEE COMSNETS 2018, Jan 3-7, Bangalore. [Demos & Exhibits] (link 1)(link 2)

16. P. Bhatt, S. Sarangi and S. Pappula, "Comparison of CNN models for application in crop health assessment with participatory sensing," 2017 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), San Jose, CA, USA, Oct 19-22, 2017, pp. 1-7. (link)

17. S. Biswas, A. Saunshi, S. Sarangi, S. Pappula, "Random Forest based classification of diseases in grapes from images captured in uncontrolled environments" in ICSP 2016, Chengdu, Nov 6-9, 2016, pp. 1775-1780. (link)

18. S. Sharma, S. Sarangi, B. Jagyasi, "A framework for performance evaluation of plucking activity in tea" in GHTC 2016, Seattle, Oct 13-16, 2016, pp. 14-20. (link) [Open Access]

19. S. Sarangi, S. Pappula, "Adaptive Data-Centric Clustering with Sensor Networks for Energy Efficient IoT Applications" in LCN 2016, Dubai, Nov 7-10, pp. 398-405. (link)

20. S. Sarangi, S. Sharma, B. Jagyasi, "Agricultural Activity Recognition with Smart-shirt and Crop Protocol" in GHTC 2015, Seattle, Oct 8-11, 2015, pp. 298-305. (link) [Open Access]

21. B. Mukhopadhyay, S. Sarangi, S. Kar, "Performance Evaluation of Localization Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks Using RSSI and LQI" in NCC 2015, Mumbai, Feb 27 - Mar 1, 2015. (link)

22. S. Sarangi, A. Bisht, V. Rao, S. Kar, T. K. Mohanty, A. P. Ruhil, "Development of a Wireless Sensor Network for Animal Management: Experiences with Moosense", in IEEE ANTS 2014, New Delhi, Dec 14 - 17, 2014. (link) [Received Best Paper: Honorable Mention Award]

23. C. Peoples, G. P. Parr, B. W. Scotney, S. Sarangi, S. Kar, "Profiling User Behaviour for Efficient and Resilient Cloud Management", in Int. Conf. Advances in Comput., Commun. and Informatics (ICACCI 2014), New Delhi, Sep 24 - 27, 2014. (link) [Received Best Paper Award]

24. V. Rao, V. Chawla, P. Priyesh, S. Sarangi, S. Kar, "HealthSense - A Portable IoT Enabled Monitoring Platform for Primary Health Centres", in APAMI 2014, New Delhi, Nov 1 - 2, 2014. (link) (HT report) [Poster]

25. P. Biswas, S. Sarangi, J. Umadikar, V. Mimrot, P. Langdon, S. Kar, V. Ribeiro, S. Prashant, "Interface Personalization through Inclusive User Modelling Web Service", in INTERACCION 2014, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Sep 10 - 12, 2014. (link)

26. P. Biswas, S. Sarangi, P. Langdon, S. Kar, "Application of Inclusive User Modelling Web Service" in UMAP 2014, Aalborg, Denmark, July 7-11. [Poster & Demo] (link)

27. C. Peoples, G. P. Parr, B. W. Scotney, S. Sarangi, S. Kar, "Application Resource and Activity Footprinting to Influence Management in Next Generation Clouds", in Nat. Conf. Commun. (NCC 2014), Kanpur, Feb 28 - Mar 2, 2014. (link)

28. B. Mukhopadhyay, S. Sarangi, S. Kar, "Novel RSSI Evaluation Models for Accurate Indoor Localization with Sensor Networks" in Nat. Conf. Commun. (NCC 2014), Kanpur, Feb 28 - Mar 2, 2014. (link)

29. S. Sarangi, S. Kar, "A Scriptable Rapid Application Deployment Framework for Sensor Networks" in Proc. Int. Conf. Advances in Comput., Commun. and Informatics (ICACCI 2013), Mysore, Aug 22-25, pp. 1035-1040. (link) [AR: 25%]

30. S. Sarangi, S. Kar, "On Implementing Graded Precision Localization with Sensor Networks in Indoor Spaces" in Proc. Int. Conf. Advances in Comput., Commun. and Informatics (ICACCI 2013), Mysore, Aug 22-25, pp. 1058-1063. (link) [AR: 25%]

31. S. Sarangi, S. Kar, “Wireless Sensor Knowledge Archive" in Proc. of Int. Conf. Electron., Comput. and Commun. Tech. (IEEE CONECCT 2013), Bangalore, Jan 17-19. (link) [AR: 10%]

32. S. Kar, S. Sarangi, A. Bisht, “A Wireless Sensor Network based Fall Detection and Activity Monitoring System for the Elderly" in 8th Nat. Conf. Med. Informatics 2012, AIIMS, New Delhi, Feb 3-5. (link) (pdf)(ncmi slides). [Extended Abstract] [Open Access]

33. S. Sarangi, S. Kar, “Genetic Algorithm based Mobility Aware Clustering for Energy Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks" in Proc. 17th Int. Conf. Netw. (IEEE ICON 2011), Singapore, Dec 14-16, pp 1-6. (link) [Supported by CICS Travel Fellowship]

34. S. Sarangi, S. Kar, “A novel algorithm for graded precision localization in wireless sensor networks” in Proc. Int. Conf. Netw. & Commun. (NetCoM 2009), Chennai, Dec 27-29, pp. 18-22. (link) [AR: 28%]

35. S. Sarangi, S. Kar, “Location Estimation with Reactive Routing in Resource Constrained Sensor Networks”, in Proc. Int. Conf. Sens. and Related Netw. (SENNET'09), vol. II, Vellore, Dec. 8-10, pp. 563-567. (link) [pdf]

Other Publications:

1. S. Sarangi, S. Pappula, "Transforming Agriculture with Data-driven Insights", Indian Farming, Vol 9, No 3 (2019) (link) [ICAR Magazine since 1940]

2. S. Sarangi, "Cognitive IoT in Agriculture", Proceedings of ICAR National Workshop on AI in Agriculture, pp. 43-44, 30-31 July 2018 (link) (pdf)

3. C. Pramanik, S. Pappula, S. Sarangi, Praneet P. V., S. Selvan, "Food Security with Sustainable Livelihood through InteGra" in ICAS VII, 2016, Rome [Invited paper] (link)

4. S. Sarangi, P. Biswas, P. Langdon, S. Kar, "Personalized Multimodal Geo-Visualization through Inclusive User Modelling" in UAHCI/HCII 2014, Greece, Part I, Springer LNCS 8513, pp. 279–287. (link)

5. *Oredope, A., McConnell, A., Peoples, C., Singh, R., Gonsalves, T. A., Moessner, K. and Parr, G. P., "Cloud Services in Mobile Environments - The IU-ATC UK-India Mobile Cloud Proxy Function" Proc. 19th European Wirel. Conf., Guildford, April 2013, pp. 1-7. [*S. Kar, S. Sarangi Acknowledged] (link)

6. S. Kar, S. Sarangi, "Advances in Sensor Network for Wildlife Research", ENVIS, vol. 13, no. 1, 2010, pp. 35-38, launched: 12th April, 2012. (link)

7. Mohanty, T.K., Ruhil, A.P., Kar, S., Lathwal, S.S., Behera, K., Layek, S.S., Patbandha, T. and Sarangi, S. Climate control of livestock houses through sensor controlled system. Compendium of XIX annual conference of the SAPI and International conference on Physiological capacity building in livestock under changing climate scenario. held at IVRI, Bareilly 11th- 13th Nov 2010. pp. 48-53. (pdf)

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