AGRINET: A Comprehensive Solution for Indian Farming Community

Looking at the primary occupation of rural population (agriculture) in India and lack of advanced information available that can help them perform their job better, this paper proposes to provide agricultural knowledge products tied with relevant service models that would provide a value preposition for rural market. The value preposition thus offered would motivate a sizable number from the rural population to opt for this service and would result in increased sales of products to the market. This would also establish an entirely new business line providing for technology solutions in agriculture and related areas. The primary thrust of this plan is to outline the product and service offering and its stated value preposition to the customers and other stakeholders in the business

Execution Plan for AGRINET: A Comprehensive Digital solution for Indian Farming Community

In this paper, we have proposed a business plan for AGRINET. AGRINET [10], introduced in our earlier paper is a digital model based on the concept of Internet of Things (IoT), which integrates the already existing technologies, such as mobile communications, Bluetooth, GPS, GSM, CDMA, GPRS, WLAN, Remote sensing, with micro sensors such as - moisture, thermal, level. chemical, light, movement, etc. to help the farmers to perform precision agriculture with minimal extra financial burden. Although earlier also there has been work related to precision farming using remote sensing and GIS, for small farms and dairy farms, but for some technological and financial issues, until recently, the impact of precision agriculture solutions (e.g., variable-rate spraying)— while an improvement over traditional methods—has been limited by the granularity and timeliness of the data the farmers use and their lack of day to-day operational decision support. Very less percent of acreage is managed using the technology due to the high cost of gathering precise field data. It’s clear that precision agriculture still has considerable untapped potential. Here, we propose business plan, Financial plan, marketing plan and operational plan for AGRINET not only to improve Indian farmer's financial position but also to meet the food needs of an expanding population

Security Algorithms for Cloud Computing

AbstractWith growing awareness and concerns regards to Cloud Computing and Information Security, there is growing awareness and usage of Security Algorithms into data systems and processes. This paper presents a brief overview and comparison of Cryptographic algorithms, with an emphasis on Symmetric algorithms which should be used for Cloud based applications and services that require data and link encryption. In this paper we review Symmetric and Asymmetric algorithms with emphasis on Symmetric Algorithms for security consideration on which one should be used for Cloud based applications and services that require data and link encryption