arnav1609/KANDA_KRATES

🧅 Kanda Krates AI-Powered Modular Onion Storage & Spoilage Prevention System Store Smart. Sell Right. Save Every Onion. --- ## 📌 Overview **Kanda Krates** is a smart, modular, and AI-driven onion storage solution designed to reduce post-harvest losses, improve farmer decision-making, and enable sustainable onion storage at scale. The system integrates IoT sensors, edge artificial intelligence, ethylene control mechanisms, and agentic AI decision support to detect spoilage at an early stage—often before it becomes visible—and to recommend timely corrective actions such as ventilation adjustment or urgent sale. By shifting onion storage from a reactive to a predictive approach, Kanda Krates addresses a critical gap in post-harvest agricultural infrastructure. --- ## 🚨 Problem Statement India loses approximately **20–30% of its onion produce** after harvest due to poor ventilation, uncontrolled humidity, ethylene-induced sprouting, undetected microbial spoilage, and delays caused by manual inspection methods. Farmers typically lack access to real-time, actionable insights that could help prevent losses before they escalate. Traditional godown-based storage systems respond only after visible damage has occurred, making them inefficient and economically unsustainable. **Kanda Krates** directly addresses this challenge by enabling proactive, data-driven storage management. --- ## 💡 Solution Overview Kanda Krates introduces **5-ton modular storage units**, referred to as *krates*, each equipped with a suite of sensors and AI models. These units continuously monitor storage conditions, predict spoilage risks using machine learning, regulate ventilation and ethylene scrubbing mechanisms, and generate simple, actionable recommendations for farmers. The system is designed to operate reliably even in low-connectivity environments through local edge inference, making it suitable for rural and semi-urban deployment. ## ✨ Core Features ### 🧠 Onion Health Index (OHI) At …