Cows were seen as the backbone of the rural economy, but neglected for being inefficient and now a top business school has proposed a development model based on facial recognition technology. integrated wild cow.
A study by the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) has come up with a model that uses facial recognition technology for stray cows to link them to donors to achieve “Gai Aadharit Unnati (Gai Aadharit Unnati)” GAU),” or cow-based development.
A working paper published by the country’s top management institute proposes to link the last stray cows in shelters to donors using Artificial intelligence (AI) model for a self-sustainable cow-based economy.
Authored by IIM-A faculty member Amit Garg and others, the paper suggests that an AI-based model involving facial recognition technology for non-milking feral cows could help dairy farmers. sponsors track their donations in real time while also taking care of them.
The “GAU model”, including the technology platform, was launched in January this year at Vadodara in Gujarat for a live demonstration.
The article titled “Gai Aadharit Unnati (GAU): Modernizing a cow-based economy through the application of advanced technology” is preparing to launch this model. For the live demonstration, an NGO (non-governmental organization) and a panjrapole (cow barn) serving 1,000 cows were selected.
“Technology has been created and it looks promising in connecting stakeholders. Each cow is also named and their profile is created on the technology platform,” the article said.
An internal and exclusive study conducted by TechMachinery Labs generated machine learning models to recognize a cow’s face from a live cow or from its photo.
“Faces can be recognized for all cows on which the model was trained with a minimum of 92% accuracy,” according to the paper.
The “GAU Vision App” is used to recognize the faces of cows. Profiles of such cows are created on a portal used by a donor to donate.
According to the authors, such a platform would provide transparency in capital disbursement and help a donor select one or more cows from the database and donate to them on a regular basis, forming a a kind of personal link between them.
Gaurav Kedia of the Indian Biogas Association, Pradeep Mishra of APJ Kalam College of Engineering and Nishant Krishna of IT firm TechMachinery Labs are other authors of the paper recently published on the IIM A website.
Under the socio-technical financial system (STFS) proposed by them, gaushala or panjrapole will be linked with donors so that they can buy feed for the cows.
Donor funds will go to an NGO through the GAU platform, with the organization volunteering to provide fodder through a company.
In return, the gaushala provides the company with the same amount of manure every day, free of charge. The company can use manure to create biogas.
“Optimizing the economic efficiency of wild cow by-products: cow dung derivatives such as cakes, compost, briquettes, incense sticks, etc. and such cow dung along with urine can be are sold to biogas/biofertilizer factories for additional economic benefits”. paper.
The model’s practical application also shows how a community biogas plant can help with a sustainable energy transition for villages and even cities to become self-sufficient and reduce their dependence on electricity. LPG.
The paper by IIM A adds that the circular economic model proposed by the authors will help “support feral herds while creating jobs and boosting the economy through cow manure and other agricultural products.” from urine”.
A circular economy is a system designed with the aim of making maximum use of resources and minimizing waste generated for disposal.
“In the long term, the proposed model relies more on internal revenue generation and phased out the contribution to enable a GAU-based sustainability model for an economy,” the article said.
The newspaper cited the 20th livestock census showing that there are 500,000 stray cows in the country, with their numbers increasing, especially after the recent ban on cattle slaughterhouses.
