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Seminar by Ranveer Chandra of Microsoft - FarmBeats: An IoT System for Agriculture

Jun 27, 2017 - 1:00 PM
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Ranveer Chandra
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research

Host: Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

FarmBeats: An IoT System for Agriculture

Abstract: Data-driven techniques help boost agricultural productivity by increasing yields, reducing losses and cutting down input costs. However, these techniques have seen sparse adoption owing to high costs of manual data collection and limited connectivity solutions. Our solution, called FarmBeats, an end-to-end IoT platform for agriculture that enables seamless data collection from various sensors, cameras and drones. Our system design explicitly accounts for weather-related power and Internet outages, which has enabled six month long deployments in two US farms.

Biography: Ranveer Chandra is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research where he is leading an Incubation on IoT Applications. His research has shipped as part of multiple Microsoft products, including VirtualWiFi in Windows 7 onwards, low power Wi-Fi in Windows 8, Energy Profiler in Visual Studio, and the Wireless Controller Protocol in XBOX One.  Ranveer is leading the battery research project, and co-leading the white space networking project at Microsoft Research. He has published more than 80 papers, and filed over 100 patents, more than 80 of which have been granted by the USPTO. He has won several awards, including best paper awards at ACM CoNext 2008, ACM SIGCOMM 2009, IEEE RTSS 2014, USENIX ATC 2015, and Runtime Verification 2016 (RV’16), the Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship, the Microsoft Gold Star Award, the MIT Technology Review’s Top Innovators Under 35, TR35 (2010) and Fellow in Communications, World Technology Network (2012). Ranveer has an undergraduate degree from IIT Kharagpur, India and a PhD from Cornell University.