SmartHawk™  is a limited memory-type AI-enabled plant protection technology for sustainable farming. The core of this technology is our indigenously researched and developed Artificially Intelligent 3rd Generation Insect Communication System (AI3GENICS).

SmartHawk™  is a bi-directional insect communication system. It is being built on the Raspberry Pi 4 hardware platform and Python with TensorFlow used as a software platform.

Features

- IoT enabled device for monitoring the working status  and generating fault alarms

- SmartHawk™ is a broad-spectrum device

- Exterminates 2170 species of crepuscular, diurnal, and nocturnal insect pests harmful to the crops and plants.

- No human intervention is required on a day-to-day basis to keep these devices operating.

- It is safe for pollinators like honeybees, bumblebees, etc.

- It is safe for predatory insects and parasitoids.

- It operates renewable solar energy and wind energy is available

Benefits

Direct benefits of SmartHawk™ includes:

- One-time investment and long-term benefits.

- It controls the population of more than the 2170 plus Genus: Species of insects harmful to the plant.

- Effectively manages the population of notorious insects otherwise difficult to manage with conventional pesticides, Viz. Fruitfly, Palm Weevils, Whitefly, Thrips, Leaf Miners, Tea Mosquito,  etc.

- It is safe for pollinators like honeybees, bumblebees, etc.

- It replaces toxic chemicals required for plant protection and drastically cuts down expenditure on pesticides.

- Increases the yield by at least 40% to 50% High-quality sellable produce will be more than 95%.

- It protects the environment, operates on green and clean energy, and zeroes down pollution.

- Saves the expenses incurred on chemical pesticides for crop protection.

- It efficiently manages to keep the population of harmful insects below 5%, which ultimately results in maintaining the economic loss to the commercial crops below the economic threshold level (ETL)

- Return on investment period: less than one crop cycle.

Applications

- Insect Pest Management (Crop Protection in Farming).

- Pest management in backyard gardening and farming.

- Pest management in landscape gardens.

- Pest management in animal stables and barns.

- Pest management in grain and seed warehouses.

- Natural protein food collection for aquaculture (fish ponds).

- Pest management in resorts, open dining area of garden hotels, etc.

Company Overview

We are an AgTech venture that strenuously works towards sustainable agronomy, aiming to resolve the global crop protection issue.

Our business revolves around the environment and sustainable farming technologies development, to achieve the world’s food security by minimizing the farmer’s dependence on toxic chemicals known for badly polluting the air we breathe in, the water we drink and the soil in which we grow our food.
We are a privately held firm that started on 23rd May 2019 and is currently incorporated by multiple shares, with its headquarters in Mumbai.
It’s been more than two years since we have started working rigorously towards crop protection by delivering some high-quality non-toxic pest control products, enabling farmers to maximize the yield of chemical-free crops worldwide.

The administration of the company lies in the hands of two leaders named Shahnaz Shaikh and Khalil J . Shaikh. Under their incredible supervision, AI-Genix International Private Limited has so far succeeded in meeting all the goals and targets set by the organization, simultaneously emerging as a tough challenge for its competitors in the market.

Properties that make us different from other brands

Research, Science and Technology Involved behind every product invention Our Trustworthy Partnerships with Customers

AI-Genix International Private Limited in the last two years has evolved as one of the most effective AgTech venture because of its several non-comparable parameters. From prices to Efficiency rate and from repair frequency to high-end technologies involved, we have come out as the best solution providers for the farmers compared to our competitors.
We believe in delivering the best solutions for sustainable farming to grow toxic pesticide residue-free crops that ultimately will save millions of life on this planet.

Mission & Vision

Our Mission is to provide high-tech agricultural insect pest management products to farmers, that are affordable, reliable, eco-friendly, and safe for human beings, to improve the profitability of the farming business. We are dedicated to achieve the sustainable growth of farmers across the world and increase their earnings and profitability from the farming business.

Our History

Why did we start?

So, the business idea started with the family background itself. Our families were involved in the farming business. While cultivating various crops on our farm we faced acute insect pests and synthetic pesticide toxicity issues with our farm, farmworkers, and dairy animals. These issues made us think about how to solve insect-pest management issues without the use of toxic pesticides. While working we realized that there is no viable and efficient solution available in the market for insect-pest management.

From that very moment, we decided to work on environment friendly, nontoxic, agriculture pest management solution to serve the most deprived global farming community by reducing their input cost of crop protection and improving their living condition by minimizing their exposure to highly toxic chemicals. 

How did it turn into a successful venture?

From the year 2014 to 2019 we sold approx. 3500+ devices in the Indian and International market to generate sales revenue worth 2 cr. At this stage, we realized that the product is now well accepted by farmers, crop protection experts, and agricultural scientists all across the world. To continue this business professionally and start mass production and distribution of these products across the globe, we established AI-GENIX INTERNATIONAL PVT LTD in the year 2019.  In the year 2001, we started studying entomology and research on the insect’s behavioral response. Within few years, we developed communication signals including vision, olfactory, acoustic, touch, and sensation to communicate with insects and alter their behavior in response to these communication signals. In the process of developing AI-enabled insect communication technology, we built multiple prototypes and conducted trials in the laboratory and later in the actual crop field in different geographical regions and multiple crops. After successful field trials for almost five years, we decided to make this technology and products available to the farmers. To test the minimum viability of the product, we agreed to establish a quick and lean business setup named Microbiz Network India as a single proprietorship company in the year 2014.

Milestone

It’s been more than 2 yrs since we have been running the ag-tech company, but before the establishment of this company, a series of events took place. During this journey, we have faced many ups and downs. The only thing that kept us motivated during these challenging times was the faith behind the fundamentals for which we were working. 
In the course of this journey, AI-Genix International private limited has backed several milestones that are quite commendable:

2014: Registered MVP test vehicle entity Microbiz Network India as a Proprietorship Company in the first quarter of 2014

2014: Commercial production of Electronic Pest Control Traps started in the 3rd quarter 

2014: Commercial sales of Electronic Pest Control Traps begun in the 4th quarter

2015: Supply to the Indian State Government’s agriculture department and export to African countries started in the 2nd quarter.

2017: Artificially Intelligent 2nd Generation Insect Communication System (AI2GENICS™) tested successfully in the 4th quarter of 2017 and limited trials of same continued till the end of 4th quarter of the year 2019.

2020: Limited quantity production phase for Beta trials production of BraveHawk Series AI-enabled insect-pest management device started in the first quarter of the year 2020. 

2020: Applied for a patent on the advanced AI-enabled insect-pest management devices in the first quarter of 2020.  

2020: Research on Artificially Intelligent 3rd  Generation Insect Communication System began in the 3rd quarter of this year.

2020: Signed MoU with two micronutrient and fertilizer companies to distribute our BraveHawk Series AI-enabled insect-pest management device across India through their combined distribution network of 20000 outlets. 

2001: Started working on an idea about physical pest management device

2001: A started studying entomology and behaviors of insects from the 3rd quarter 

2003: Research on a change in the behavior of insects in response to various signals began in the 4th quarter of 2003 and progressed till the end of the second quarter of 2006.

2006: Work on product prototype development began in the 3rd quarter of this year

2007: Work field trials of prototype started in the 2nd quarter of this year

2008: Experienced some issues in the insect communication system, the glitches were found in the system later.

2008: To resolve the problems in the said insect communication system, we started working on the development of advanced insect communication in the 3rd quarter of this year.

2010: Developed a prototype based on an advanced insect communication system in the 3rd quarter 

2010: Field trials of an advanced insect communication system began in the 4th quarter and continued till the end of the first quarter of the year 2013

2013: Advanced insect communication system assessment completed in the 2nd quarter

2013: Started working on establishing MVP test vehicle company Microbiz Network India.

Infrastructure

We have a very wide distribution network across the country. We operate along a distribution channel comprising of about 20,000 outlets in Pan India with the help of vendors located in different parts of the country and a few Strategic Alliance with Agronomic Institutes. Our reach extends to most of the major fertilizer-consuming districts of the country. The marketing personnel directly visit villages to educate the farmers on the concept of chelation and the various benefits of micronutrients. This has helped us to establish close connectivity with the farmers and has helped to increase the customer base. We market our products through Super Distributors, Distributors, Marketing Agents, and Dealers/ Retailers. 
So far, we have successfully sold 3500+ devices across 8 countries without any acquisition cost in the domestic & International Market. 
We majorly focus on building customer relationships by fostering loyalty. 

Quality, Research & Development

Our world-class R&D team –  works closely with customers to understand the pain points and improve the issues coming in their path towards crop management by helping them to keep their farm produce free from toxic pesticides residues and increase the yield by 30% or more. 
The initial research that was done by our team before launching the product was to focus on the major issues that need to be addressed:

Ban on Pesticides Pesticide Resistance among insect pests Pesticide Pricing Input cost of crop protection

How we addressed these pain points?

BraveHawk: AI-enabled broad-spectrum solution for crop protection. exterminates 1980 plus types of; mainly nocturnal; insect pests harmful to crops. SmartHawk: AI-enabled broad-spectrum solution for crop protection. exterminates 2170 plus types of; crepuscular, diurnal and nocturnal;  insect pests harmful to crops eBionic: A narrow-spectrum solution for crop protection, designed to exterminate notorious insect pests; fruitfly, fruit piercing moth, Palm Weevils, etc;  that are difficult to control using conventional pesticides CrawlTrap: A dual-sided adhesive trap. This is a non-toxic method to control and monitor all crawling insect pests Viz mealybug, ants, giant-scale -drosicha corpulent, apocheima cinerarius erschoff, spiders, lygus, thrips, and leaf miners, etc.

- Post-deployment of our crop protection solution there is no need of spraying insecticides, and further drastically cut down the need for other pesticides includes fungicides, bactericides, and virucides.

- Protects crops from damage caused by insects feeding and fungal, bacterial, and viral diseases.

- Automates active crop protection over 365 days a year and saves big money on manpower needed for protecting crops in conventional farming.

- Our crop protection solutions are highly safe for beneficial insects including predatory insects, parasitoids, and nectar-pollen feeding bees like honeybees, bumblebees, carpenter bees, etc.

Awards & Recognitions

- Winner “SKOCH Order of Merit Award Year 2016” SKOCH Foundation, Delhi.

- Winner “Best Indian Social Enterprise-2019” from Action for India Foundation & IIT, Hyderabad.

- Award winner “Best Women Entrepreneur 2019”  from Action for India Foundation & IIT, Hyderabad

- Winner “AABI TORCH AWARD FOR PROMISING ENTREPRENEUR FOR 2020” from Asian Association of Business Incubation supported by China Torch High Technology Industry Development Center & Shanghai Technology Innovation Center, China 

- Winners – “Chunauti Challenge” Software Technology Park OF India, Science and Technology organization, Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, India

- Finalist – Global Disruptive Tech Challenge 2021 – The World Bank, Global Landscape Forum, and Plug & Play Tech Center, California