Stellapps is deploying affordable IoT solutions to weed out inefficiencies in dairy farms
For a group of five friends who couldn’t distinguish a cow from a bull, life has come a full circle at Stel-lapps. Ravishankar Shiroor, Ranjith Mukundan, Praveen Nale, Venkatesh Seshasayee and Ramak-rishna Adukuri, friends for 15 years, were telecom engineers and technologists at heart. They knew machine-to-machine communications or internet of things (IoT) as it is known now, but what they were clueless about was the vertical where they had chosen to deploy it — dairy farming and milk production. “None of us had reared an animal before,” Shiroor guffaws.
The erstwhile embedded engineers of Wipro who also had trysts with companies such as Nokia, Ericsson, and Motorola spent over a year in farms on the outskirts of Bengaluru before taking the plunge in 2011. Years down the lane, Stellapps, short for stellar applications, is India’s first dairy technology solutions company providing analytics-backed management solutions to farms, cooperatives and private dairies.
THE SMART MILCHER
Subsequent to the white revolution during the 1970s, India has emerged as the world’s largest milk producer with 18% market share globally. However, the high milk production is attributed to the large cattle population in India which has been witnessing lower milk yields compared with the US or Europe. The average yield of Indian cattle stands around 4 litres/day, way below that of countries such as the UK, the US and Israel where the numbers are around 22 litres/day, 29 litres/day and 33 litres/day respectively. Low nutrition levels, long dry periods and inferior farm management practices add to the inefficiency, driving yields lower and making it a non-profitable business for farmers.
This story is from the OLB 18 August ,2017 edition of Outlook Business.
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