December 2016
Stellaps IoT products in diary farming and dairy plants
Their signature product is SmartMoo™: Acquires data via the sensors embedded in Milking Systems, Animal Wearables, Milk Chilling Equipment & Milk Procurement Peripherals, and transmit the same to the Stellapps SmartMoo™ Big Data Cloud Service Delivery Platform where the data is analysed and results are disseminated.
Other Cloud-based IoT
SmartAMCU™: a portable IoT Device and Wireless Gateway system used at Milk Collection centres,
Contrak™: a system built for remote monitoring of Bulk Milk Coolers (BMC) which are critical for the Milk Cold Chain in India
SmartAMS, an automated Milking System with Real-time, online Milk Measurement, Animal Health Monitoring, Heat Detection.
http://iotindiamag.com/2016/12/animal-wearables-startup-revolutionizing-indias-agri-dairy-businesses-using-iot/
November 15, 2016
ECONOMICTIMES
Wearables for cows: How Stellapps Technologies is 'Milking' its way to success
Can Internet of Things (IoT) bring about another white revolution for the dairy sector? Stellapps Technologies is in the midst of that disruption.
http://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internet-of-things/wearables-for-cows-how-stellapps-technologies-is-milking-its-way-to-success/55428325
August 2015
IoT initiatives of Mother Diary
http://www.cio.in/cio-interview/mix-iot-mobility-and-big-data-will-transform-way-we-function
Jul 30 2015
Chitale Dairy takes cows to cloud, IoT
Using RFID tags to track the health and nutrition of cattle and informing farmers about it throgh cellphones has markedly raised the animals’ productivity.
http://www.livemint.com/Industry/hjoLviUthjjynOj8jCvMWL/Chitale-Dairy-Taking-cows-to-the-cloud-IoT.html
2003
AKASHGANGA'S IT TOOLS FOR THE INDIAN DAIRY INDUSTRY
Using IT to increase efficiency in rural dairy cooperatives
What Works Case Study, August 2003
Shree Kamdhenu Electronics Private Ltd. (SKEPL), founded in 1996 to develop IT-based tools that could increase the efficiency and productivity of the Indian dairy industry at a grassroots level. SKEPL provides integrated solutions, marketed under the brand name of AKASHGANGA, that automate the milk collection process at local dairy cooperatives. The AKASHGANGA system provides transparency, and creates a basis for improving the quality of the milk produced.
The company provides complete IT-enabled solutions that automate the milk collection process at local milk cooperatives. Its high-end system, selling for about US$3,300 (Rs 151,800), incorporates an electronic weighing system, a milk analyzer to test milk quality, a personal computer, and accounting and management software. The AKASHGANGA system is faster, more accurate, and more transparent. That means milk can be sent on to the cooperative union for processing more quickly, reducing spoilage; farmers can see for themselves the weight and quality of their milk via a display and printed receipt, increasing their trust in the cooperative process. In addition, farmers are paid immediately, rather than sometimes days later as under manual procedures; and local cooperatives need fewer employees and have better records and reports for planning purposes.
In the states of Gujarat and Maharashtra, the company’s 600 installed systems are located.
There 96,000 local milk cooperatives in India giving a potential market for IT systems. The company has also recently formed a strategic alliance with ICICI Infotech Ltd, a large software
consulting firm linked to ICICI Bank Limited to partner ICICI Infotech, in the process of developing an integrated supply chain management software system that will seamlessly connect milk societies, milk unions, and milk federations on a single technological platform. ICICI Infotech will integrate its system with AKASHGANGA’s solution at the local society level.
In FY2003, the company recorded a turnover of US$207,000 (Rs 9,500,000) with a gross profit of
about US$7,630 (Rs 350,000), recording a return on equity capital in excess of 25%.
As of March 2001, India's 96,000 local dairy cooperative societies (DCS) included more than ten million farmers and were integrated in a three-tiered cooperative structure.
The DCS, a village-level organization of milk farmers, collects milk from members and sells the
collected milk to a district-level cooperative union. Member farmers are paid on the basis of quantity of milk collected and its quality.
170 cooperative unions process and market the milk collected from their respective DCSs.
Fifteen state cooperative milk marketing federations support the cooperative unions in marketing and operations planning, providing services ranging from branding and advertising, to operations consulting on how much milk to process into various products such as curd and cheese.
A society (DCS) is typically located within five to ten kilometers of the villages supplying the milk.
The number of farmers selling milk to these societies varies from 100 to 1,000 and daily collection varies from 1,000 to 10,000 liters per society. Farmers bring their milk to the cooperative in a variety of containers and cans, ranging in size from couple of liters to a capacity of more than a hundred liters. Daily milk sales in India’s cooperatives total about 13 million liters.
Over the years, states have developed popular dairy brands such as Amul (from Gujarat), Vijaya (from Andhra Pradesh), Verka (from Punjab), Saras (from Rajasthan), Nandini (from Karnataka), Milma (from Kerala) and Gokul (from Maharashtra). These brands have earned high degrees of brand recognition and customer confidence, especially within in their respective states.
In 2000, the industry was threatened by the arrival of low-cost fresh milk from New Zealand. This means international supply of fresh milk became feasible and global supply chains of fresh milk can be set up.
The cost of milk production in India is high in part because the average annual yield of Indian dairy cows is low—only 987 kilograms (kg) of milk, as compared to 6,273 kg in Denmark, 5,289 kg in France, 5,462 kg in the United Kingdom, 5,938 kg in Canada, 7,038 kg in the US, and 11,000 kg in Israel.
SKEPL’s primary competitor is Rajashtan Electronics India Limited (REIL), a joint venture between the national government and the state government of Rajasthan. REIL, which provides electronic milk testers and automated milk collection systems, has a sizable presence in the northern states.
There are other players also. A total of 2,500 automated milk collection systems installed in
India (600 are AKASHGANGA brand).
