Cold Shield — An end-to-end IoT & AI platform for agricultural cold-chain monitoring, Gemini Vision crop disease diagnosis, pan-India mandi price arbitrage, and multilingual voice assistance for farmers.
🥶 Cold Shield — THE CHOSEN ONE
Agricultural Cold-Chain Monitoring • AI Crop Doctor • Pan-India Mandi Intelligence
An end-to-end IoT + AI platform that protects Indian farmers' perishable produce from farm-to-market — with real-time cold-chain monitoring, Gemini-powered crop disease diagnosis, pan-India mandi price arbitrage, and a voice assistant that speaks Telugu, Hindi, and English to illiterate farmers.
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## 📸 Live Screenshots
### 🏠 Cinematic Scrollytelling Homepage
> Scroll-driven storytelling that takes the viewer through the journey of a crop — from seed to market.
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### 👨🌾 Farmer Dashboard — Live Cold Box Telemetry
> Real-time ESP32 + DHT11 temperature monitoring, GPS tracking, produce freshness scoring, and a tri-lingual voice assistant.
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### 🏛️ Pan-India Mandi Intelligence & AI Arbitrage
> Compares wholesale prices, freight costs, cold storage rates, and net farmer profit across Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Madanapalle, Kurnool, and Guntur — with verified trader phone numbers.
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### 🍃 AI Crop Doctor — Gemini Vision Plant Pathology
> Upload any leaf photo and Gemini AI quantifies the exact tissue damage %, identifies the disease, prescribes chemical + organic remedies, and speaks the prescription aloud in the farmer's native language.
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## 🏗️ System Architecture
> **Obsidian-style knowledge graph** showing every connection between hardware, cloud APIs, services, components, and user-facing views.
```mermaid
graph TB
subgraph HARDWARE["🔧 Physical Hardware Layer"]
ESP32["ESP32 DevKit V1\nWiFi Microcontroller"]
DHT11["DHT11 Sensor\nTemp + Humidity"]
NEO6M["NEO-6M GPS Module\nCeramic Patch Antenna"]
RELAY["5V Relay Module\nCompressor Control"]
CAM["ESP32-CAM\nLeaf Image Capture"]
RPI["Raspberry Pi 4B\nAI Edge Controller"]
GSM["SIM800L GSM Hat\nFarmer Voice Calls"]
ESP32 --- DHT11
ESP32 --- NEO6M
ESP32 --- RELAY
ESP32 --- CAM
RPI --- GSM
RPI --- ESP32
end
subgraph CLOUD["☁️ Cloud API Laye …