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iKrushak: Transforming Indian Agriculture Through Data, Design & Digital Innovation

Agriculture in India is at an inflection point. Rising climatic uncertainties, fragmented information systems, and the need for higher productivity have created a strong case for technology-led transformation. Amidst this landscape, iKrushak emerges as a purpose-driven initiative that blends data science, intuitive design, and grassroots understanding to support farmers in making smarter decisions. What is iKrushak? iKrushak is an intelligent agriculture-support platform designed to deliver AI-powered insights to Indian farmers in a simple, accessible, and practical format. The platform unifies agronomic data, weather intelligence, market trends, and digital advisory into a single, farmer-friendly ecosystem. Why iKrushak Matters for India’s Agricultural Future 1. Turning Information Gaps Into Actionable Insights Indian farmers often operate with limited and fragmented information. iKrushak solves this using: Real-time weather monitoring Soil and crop insights Price trend anal...
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Thingsboard

  Building an IoT Telemetry Pipeline with ThingsBoard: Architecture, Trade-offs, and Lessons Learned Summary This article documents my journey implementing an end-to-end IoT data pipeline using ThingsBoard Community Edition (CE) , MQTT , and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) . It covers the architectural decisions, the practical steps to make binary telemetry usable, dashboard design principles, security and redaction practices for sharing work publicly, and the lessons I learned moving from a local prototype toward a production-ready approach. Security note : All values in this post (broker address, topics, tokens, schema, and identifiers) are intentionally anonymized using placeholders like <BROKER_ADDRESS> and <ACCESS_TOKEN> . Background & Objectives Our devices publish telemetry over MQTT using Protobuf payloads. Protobuf keeps messages small and efficient, but the binary format is not directly consumable by dashboards or analytics tools. The goal of this work was ...
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