AWaDH, a Technology Innovation Hub at IIT Ropar, presents a 9 week online certificate course on AI and CPS for agriculture automation for employability enhancement of students and recent graduates. The course is facilitated by faculty members who have extensive experience in teaching, research and industry. The course includes 36 contact hours for lectures and 18 hours of labs. Read More
Hardware kit with all components to perform lab experiments will be given as part of registration
Free access to IIT Ropar iHub - AWaDH cloud during the course period
36 hours of lectures by experts of the field
18 hours of lab in live interaction format
Lectures will be focused on practical aspects
Expert lectures from eminent professors/scientists
Practical knowledge assessment at the end of the course
A certificate of completion of the course
Open for UG/PG students of any branch of Engineering and professionals from the industry. Attendees should have minimum programming experience in any language (C/C++/Java/Python).
Overall Course Duration.
Lectures in every week
Labs in every week
March 22, 2022
May 16, 2022 to July 15, 2022
Hardware and software will be made available to the participants registered under category A at their home. Number of participants: limited to 200.
After screening the applications, offer letters will be sent to the selected candidates via email. Full fee needs to be paid by the participants to complete the registration.
A laptop/computer with good internet connectivity, microphone and webcam. A quiet place to work.
Category A
₹8,500Category B
₹5,000Category A
₹7,500Category B
₹4,000Category A
₹6,500Category B
₹3,000Communication Manager,
AWaDH, IIT Ropar
Co-Ordinator, IIT Ropar
IIT Ropar
IIT Dharwad
IIT Jammu
Punjab Agricultural University
IIT Ropar
IIT Ropar
IIT Ropar
IIT Ropar
IIT Ropar
IIT Ropar
Ans. Yes, lectures will be live and will be delivered by an IIT faculty
Ans. Lectures will be generally conducted after 4pm and can have duration of 1 hour to 2 hour. For example, there could be 2 sessions of 2 hours or 3 sessions of 80 minutes, or four sessions of 60 minutes. This may depend on the availability of instructors and will be informed in advance.
Ans. Labs will also be conducted only with help of TA instructors. TA will be available for two hours on lab day. They will give you instructions to conduct the lab and will resolve your queries.
Ans. Don’t worry. All the lectures will be recorded and shared.
Ans. PPT of the lecture will be shared after the lecture. There is no specific text book of the course. However, instructors may guide about further readings or relevant books.
Ans. CPS hardware kit contains: 1. A microcontroller with Bluetooth, wifi and BLE, USB cable. 2. Breadboard. 3. Registers, jumper wires, capacitors. 4. Input sensors: LDR, Soil moisture, air temperature and humidity, PIR motion sensor. 5. Output devices: LEDs, LCD, Buzzer, Solenoid valve, water pump. 6. Required power supplies. 7. Relay card.
Ans. Top students of the course will be provided with internship opportunities with the IIT Ropar
AWaDH is a Technology Innovation Hub established by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) – Government of India at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar in the framework of National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM - ICPS) to improve the overall ecosystem of agriculture in India in the line with developed countries. Water/industry discharge assessment, treatment, and management Advancement of land resources and farm preparation. Agriculture automation and precision farming. CPS in harvesting and post-harvesting. The application of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the domain of Agriculture and Water.
Growth of Indian economy depends on the agriculture sector, since 60% of the population is engaged in agriculture related activities. Recent advancements in AI and CPS can help in productivity and yield in agriculture. A report suggests the AI market will increase to US$1.1 billion by 2025, with annual growth of more than 20%. These technologies can help farmers increase their income by US$9 billion. Therefore, increasing the contribution of agriculture in GDP and helping farmers to increase their standard of living.
