A one-week online Faculty Development Programme on ?Internet of Things for Agriculture ?was organised during July 19-23, 2021 through the WebEx platform. Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering received the fund of INR 93,000/- from AICTE -ATAL for organizing this FDP. Renowned experts from Industry and Academic Institutes conducted all the sessions. The registration of the webinar was open for faculty members of all the Universities across the nation and 200 participants from different states of the country participated successfully. This FDP was coordinated by Dr N P Gajjar and Dr Manisha Upadhyay from Electronics and Communication Engineering Department. The inaugural session at the Institute was chaired by the Director, Institute of Technology and HoD, Electronics, and Communication Engineering Department, IT-NU. Common inauguration session of 24 ATAL-FDP was organised by the ATAL academy and was chaired by Dr T G Sitharam, Director-IIT Guwahati. Prof Ashutosh Dutta, Johns Hopkins University, USA delivered the keynote address on 5G Networks for IoT and Security: Opportunities and Challenges. The demonstrations of various projects based on the Internet of Things in Agriculture were also presented.
The schedule of the programme with the name and affiliation of the experts is as shown below:
| Session No | Time | Topic | Name of Speaker with affiliation |
| 19/7/2021 Monday | |||
| 1 | 10:00 to 11:00am | About the Nirma University, Institute of Technology, EC Department, About FDP
Keynote Address: 5G Networks and Security: Opportunities and Challenges |
Director-IT,NU & HoD (EC)
Prof. Ashutosh Dutta, Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| 11:00 to 11:30 am | Inauguration
www.youtube.com/mediaaicte |
Prof. T.G. Sitharam
Director, IIT Guwahati |
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| 2 | 11:30 to 1:15pm | Digital Agriculture | Dr. Nabarun Bhattacharyya,
Director, CDAC, Kolkata |
| 3 | 2:00 to 3:00 pm | Agritech: Emerging Trends in India | Prof. N. P. Gajjar, EC, IT NU |
| 4 | 3:15 to 5:15 pm | System design of IoT platform | Shri Bhavesh Shroff,
Director, INTEL India |
| 20/7/2021 Tuesday | |||
| 1 | 10:00 am to 12:00 | IoT Architecture for Agricultural Application | Dr. Rahul Dubey
Consultant, California, US |
| 2 | 12:15 to 1:15 pm | IoT Communication Standards | Prof. Manisha Upadhyay, EC, ITNU |
| 3 | 2:00 to 3:00 pm | Inside the Mind of Students in New Normal | Dr Parth Vaishnav
Co-director, Samvedna Happiness Hospital, Ahmedabad |
| 4 | 3:15 to 5:15pm | IoT hardware platform | Mr. Pranav Purohit, eInfochips
(An Arrow Electronics Company) |
| 21/7/2021 Wednesday | |||
| 1 | 10:00 am to 12:00 | Sensing for IoT in Agriculture Applications | Prof. Jose Antonio Gutierrez
Instituto Tecnologico de Morelia, Mexico |
| 2 | 12:15 to 1:15 pm
2:00 to 3:00 pm |
IoT data collection, logging, and visualization with open source tools
IoT software /cloud |
Prof. Gaurang Raval, CSE, ITNU |
| 3 | 3:15 to 4:15 pm | System-level Design, simulation & implementation of IoT | Mr. Dhiraj Jagtap
MATHWORKS, Bengaluru |
| 4 | 4:15 to 5:15 pm | Integrated Design and deployment of IoT Application | Mr Jayesh Gandhi
Director, HK Automation Ahmedabad |
22/7/2021 Thursday |
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| 1 | 10:00 am to 11:00 | Research and Spirituality | Sadhu Vivekjivan Dasji,
BAPS, Ahmedabad |
| 2 | 11:00 to 12:00 | IoT Case study in Smart Irrigation | Prof. Sachin Gajjar, EC, ITNU |
| 3 | 12:15 to 1:15 pm | Reliability analysis of IoT Communication protocols | Dr. Lalit Singh
NPCIL-BARC Department of Atomic Energy |
| 4 | 2:00 to 3:00 pm | IoT security issues in Agriculture | Prof. N. P. Gajjar, EC, ITNU |
| 5 | 3:15 to 4:15 pm | IoT for supply/chain management | Prof. Debjit Roy,
IIM Ahmedabad |
| 6 | 4:15 to 5:15 pm | IoT enabled Green House | Prof. Nikhil Marriwala,
University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kurukshetra University |
| 23/7/2021 Friday | |||
| 1 | 10:00 am to 12:00 | IoT and Space Technology for Precision and Smart Agriculture | Dr Bimal Bhattacharya,
SAC, ISRO, Ahmedabad |
| 2A | 12:15 to 1:15 pm | IoT & Artificial Intelligence | Shri Manoj Parmar
Robert Bosch, Bangaluru |
| 2B | 2:00 to 3:00 pm | IoT & Artificial Intelligence | Dr. A S Guru Prasad Robert Bosch, Bangaluru |
| 3 | 3:15 to 4:15 pm | Case Study/ Demonstrations | Prof. Ruchi Gajjar/
Prof. Akash Mecwan, EC, ITNU |
| 4 | 4:15 to 5:15 pm | Exam, Feedback & Valedictory | Prof. N.P.Gajjar /
Prof. Manisha Upadhyay |
Minimum 80% of the attendance was mandatory for successful completion of the course. At the end of the programme, as per the directive of ATAL academy, the performance of the participants was evaluated by an online MCQ-based test and assignment.