Patent landscape for Internet of Things (IoT) in agriculture in India

Innovative digital technologies have huge potential to provide solutions for the many complex problems in agriculture. IoT based technological applications are now been accepted even by small hold farmers for judicious use of resources with precision and better predictability. With improved digital infrastructure across the country, the agritech startups offer innovative IoT based smart solutions addressing the problems of farmers. Many such agritech startups have made their mark in the market with their own patented technologies. In this paper patent analytics is used to measure the current status, emerging trends in technology development in IoT landscape for agriculture applications and growth prospects of agritech startups. States of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Telangana with favorable startup policies see greater concentration of these agristartups.