Govt plans to go Hi-tech to reduce wastage of fresh fruit and veggies

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Rajeev Rastogi, vice president, machine learning at Amazon, confirmed to ET the meeting held with NITI Aayog officials to get Johari deployed in government-owned centres.Agencies..

The government is exploring a technology tool developed by ecommerce major Amazon called Johari to reduce wastage of fresh fruits and vegetables at its warehouses and retail outlets...

In August this year, Amazon India launched the shelf monitoring solution Johari to ensure that only fresh quality fruits and vegetables are delivered to customers...

Automated monitoring using IoT cameras reduces the need for manual inspection, saving time and labour costs in the quality control process, the company said..

To optimise image viewing on each shelf, the recommended approach entails deploying one low-cost IoT camera per shelf, ensuring a practical and effective monitoring solution that is scalable, Rastogi said..

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