The Automation and Plant Engineering (APE) Division is newly created to focus on providing stakeholders with the quality products and processing technologies. It includes solutions for instrumentation, automation through sensors, robotics, IoT (internet of things), AI (artificial intelligence) enabled equipment, machineries, and pilot plants for rural industrialization to promote secondary agriculture.
Mandate:
- Fast and low cost sensor based systems for identification, estimation and quality control of agri-bio-products
- Development of automation and robotic systems for pre and postharvest operations
- Development of automation system for integration of quality control with processing plants
Objectives:
- High throughput and low cost systems based on sensor and AIs for identification and estimation of quality and quantity of major agri-bio-products developed by NISA
- Development of automation systems for processing operations
- Development of smart packaging, storage to ensure loss reduction, quality and traceability