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These engineering students predict rains for farmers using dish TV signals

Their device, BhuGoal, is installed between the set-top box and dish antenna. It records variations in signal, which are then run through AI algorithms to give precise predictions

Left to right: Toodecimal cofounders Debarshi Ghosh, Kartik Vij, and Nitin K Saluja
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Left to right: Toodecimal co-founders Debarshi Ghosh, Kartik Vij, and Nitin K Saluja

Samreen Ahmad Bengaluru
We all watch television. Over 800 million Indian households own TV sets. Viewers experience signal distortion when it’s cloudy or when it starts raining. This is because it is the dish antenna signals that tell us about the weather.

To address the issue weather forecast, three engineering students from Punjab, along with their professor, have built a device called BhuGoal using similar technology. Installed between the set-top box and the dish antenna, the device records the variations in signal, which are then run through AI algorithms to give precise predictions.

“It is similar to Google maps, but monitors live and

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