Technology Hotbed · Agri & Food
Smart Irrigation
Data as of 11 Oct 2026Methodology
Momentum: ▲ Rising
Across fully-published filing years - the current year is still publishing and is left out of the signal.
252
Patents
8
Startups matched
3
Foreign filers
Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records - see methodology. Methodology
Startups working on smart irrigation
Deep-tech startups with a patent tagged this technology
Anil Kumar
New Delhi · Health & Life Sciences
BENLOTEX PRIVATE LIMITED
Kottayam · Agri & Food
Dinesh
Aurangabad · Agri & Food
DLD HARIYALI SOLUTIONS LLP
Patna · Agri & Food
EXPERTISE ERA LLP
Pune · Agri & Food
MOBITECH WIRELESS SOLUTION PRIVATE LIMITED
Erode · Agri & Food
SUS TECH INNOVATIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
Hyderabad · Energy
Technospy Technologies Pvt Ltd
Pune · Health & Life Sciences
A sample of matched deep-tech startups - Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records - see methodology. Methodology
Deep-tech basis: site-backed (own website fetched and read), IP-backed (patent or design filed in its own name), web-backed (described elsewhere on the open web), registry only (registry description alone). How this is decided
Where it clusters
Matched startups by state
| State | Startups mapped |
|---|---|
| Tamil Nadu | 7 |
| Bihar | 4 |
| Maharashtra | 4 |
| Haryana | 3 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3 |
| Delhi | 3 |
| Gujarat | 3 |
| Telangana | 2 |
| Punjab | 1 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 |
| Chandigarh | 1 |
See smart irrigation on the India map → Where its patents are filed, state by state and city by city, with companies, institutes and individual inventors apart.
Filing momentum
Filings by year - recent years still publishing
| Year | Filings | Foreign |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 20 | 0 |
| 2023 | 66 | 1 |
| 2024 | 66 | 1 |
| 2025 | 67 | 2 |
| 2026partial | 33 | 0 |
Patents publish ~18 months after they're filed, so the current year is always incomplete. The Rising / Steady / Cooling signal ignores it and compares only fully-published years - read a dip in the latest year as data still coming in, not a decline.
Who's filing
Indian companies lead - institutes & foreign kept separate
- DR MEGHNABEN BABUBHAI PATELIN · 3
- DR SATYEN PARIKHIN · 3
- ANTHONY SAVIO HERMINIO DA PIEDADE FERNANDESIN · 2
- DR BHRANTAV VORAIN · 2
- DR NAGESH B KIN · 2
- DR RONAK PATELIN · 2
Educational institutes (6) - ranked by grant rate (share of filings granted, sample-adjusted), not filing volume
Foreign filers (3)
Top inventors in this technology
The most prolific inventors filing in this technology, each linking to their full patent history.