Building the Infrastructure Layer for Global Precision Agriculture.

Agriculture is the largest industry on earth. It generates almost no data. VarshaKrishi - DPIIT-recognised and Supported by the EiR Fellowship under 5G/6G Centre of Excellence, SIIC IIT Kanpur - is building the agricultural IoT sensor infrastructure that changes that, starting where the problem is hardest: farms with no internet, no grid power, and no existing sensor coverage.

Mission

Our mission is to make agricultural intelligence as accessible as weather forecasts - for every farm on earth, regardless of connectivity or scale.

Field Hardware

Designed for farms without connectivity

The VK-Series is solar-powered, LoRa-connected, and built to run where grid power and cellular coverage end. Every component is engineered for Indian monsoon conditions and institutional research protocols.

VK-S1 solar-powered agricultural IoT sensor node in a field deployment context
Architecture Principles

Three Constraints That Define the Design

Every hardware and software decision traces back to the operating environment: rural India, monsoon climate, no grid power, no cellular coverage.

Zero-internet
Offline-first by design
Sub-GHz LoRa mesh at 868 MHz. 30-day local data buffer on the VK-G1 gateway. No SIM card, no data plan, no cloud dependency for field operation.
Solar-only
No grid, no fuel, no maintenance
Each VK-S1 node runs indefinitely on integrated solar with LiPo backup. Power budget designed for continuous operation through Indian monsoon cloud cover.
IP65 · −10° to +70°C
Rated for Indian field conditions
Enclosures rated IP65 per IEC 60529. Operating range validated for UP monsoon humidity and Rajasthan summer extremes. Not a lab instrument repurposed for the field.

Leadership

Founding Team

Building precision agriculture infrastructure.

Tanmay Sahare
Founder & CEO
B.Tech Aerospace Engineering

Tanmay founded VarshaKrishi to solve the infrastructure gap in global precision agriculture - building hardware and software systems that work without grid power, without internet, and without the assumptions of connected environments. He leads product architecture, hardware development, and institutional partnerships.

Hardware Architecture Firmware LoRa RF Stack EdgeOS v1 Institutional BD
tanmay@varshakrishi.com Connect on LinkedIn

Recognition

Milestones & Recognition

EIR Fellow
5G/6G Centre of Excellence, IIT Kanpur
Entrepreneur-in-Residence at IIT Kanpur's 5G/6G Centre of Excellence - building the agricultural intelligence infrastructure layer using next-generation wireless and Edge AI technology.
DPIIT Recognised
Startup India - DIPP255998
Recognised under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) Startup India initiative. Registration number DIPP255998.
First Deployment
Planned
Jashpur, Chhattisgarh
Planned first institutional deployment at Govt. VBSD Girls Degree College, Jashpur, Chhattisgarh under CCOST Tender 4-5/CCOST-C.SC./2026. Field nodes and dashboard rollout are scoped for post-award installation.

Why We Built This

The Problem We Saw Firsthand

The precision required to engineer flight systems - reliability under extreme conditions, zero tolerance for data loss, hardware that cannot fail - turned out to be exactly the mindset needed to build agricultural sensor infrastructure for rural India and beyond.

VarshaKrishi starts with the hardest deployment environment: no internet, no grid power, monsoon conditions, 45°C summers. If the system works here, it works everywhere. That constraint is the product.

Agricultural field at sunrise - the deployment environment VarshaKrishi hardware is built for

Entity Information

Company Registration

Registered details as filed with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India.

For procurement documentation, institutional quotations, and vendor due diligence materials, visit varshakrishi.com/procurement or contact contact@varshakrishi.com. All procurement inquiries receive a formal response within 48 hours.

About the Founder

About the Founder

VarshaKrishi was founded in March 2026 by Tanmay Sahare, an IIT Kanpur student founder pursuing B.Tech Aerospace Engineering (Batch of 2023). Tanmay holds an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) Fellowship at the 5G/6G Centre of Excellence, FIRST IIT Kanpur - one of a small number of student founders selected for the programme. VarshaKrishi is his full-time venture, built around the conviction that precision agriculture intelligence should be affordable enough for every Indian research institution and smallholder farm.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

VarshaKrishi was founded in March 2026 by Tanmay Sahare, an IIT Kanpur student founder pursuing B.Tech Aerospace Engineering. The venture is Supported by the EiR Fellowship under 5G/6G Centre of Excellence, SIIC IIT Kanpur.
Yes. VarshaKrishi Udhyog Private Limited is DPIIT-recognised under Startup India (DIPP255998) and Supported by the EiR Fellowship under 5G/6G Centre of Excellence, SIIC IIT Kanpur. The company is registered in India with CIN U01113UW2026PTC250001.
VarshaKrishi builds the VK Series - agricultural IoT sensors forming a complete farm sensor network: VK-S1 solar-powered soil moisture sensors for farming and micro-climate monitoring, and the VK-G1 Edge AI gateway. The stack is LoRaWAN farm tech designed to run with no internet, grid power, or SIM cards at the field layer.
Agricultural research stations, KVKs, ICAR institutes, universities, cooperatives, and grant-funded projects. Institutional purchase orders are accepted directly, with a formal proposal and technical specification within 48 hours.