Agricultural spraying drone — Cotton
Variable-rate spraying with terrain following and drift control. Delivered for a cotton client in Bhavnagar.
- Location
- Bhavnagar
- Year
- 2024
- Duration
- 25 weeks
- Team
- 12 engineers
- −26%
- chemical use
- 28
- ha per day
- 15k
- farmers
The challenge
Existing vendors had delivered pieces of a agricultural spraying drone system, but nobody owned the integration and the pilot had stalled.
What we built
Built in our Motera lab, validated on a replica rig, then commissioned on site in days using PX4 and GDAL.
Delivery timeline
Phase 1
Discovery sprint and site survey
Phase 2
Prototype built and tested in the Motera lab
Phase 3
Pilot on site with before/after measurement
Phase 4
Scale-out, training and handover
Highlights
- Designed, built and supported from Motera, Ahmedabad
- Runs on-premises; no data leaves the site unless agreed
- Before-and-after measurements agreed with the client up front
- Operator training delivered in Gujarati, Hindi and English
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