MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541122176 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 4, 2025, for 'low-cost iot surveillance system for crop protection.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Naresh Kannan; Mr. Kunj Goel; and Mr. Tilak Parivartan Sharma.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 2, under issue no. 01/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides a method (100) for agricultural surveillance. The method (100) includes deploying a plurality of camera nodes in an agricultural field (32) at step (102), streaming video frames from the camera nodes to an edge processing unit via...