1. Japan-India Sensor Network Project Masayuki Hirafuji 1,2), Adinarayana Jagarlapudi 3), Seishi Ninomiya 1,2) 1) NARO National Agriculture and Food Research Organization 2) University of Tsukuba 3) Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-Bombay)

2. Research and development 1. Deployment of a sensor network test bed in an Indian rural area and its evaluation 2.Improvement of existing DSS/GIS 3.Development of integration framework for sensor network data and Indian DSS/GIS/etc. 4.Evaluation of integrated system 5.Test and validate the integrated system 6.Presentation of results, report writing, etc.

3. Action Plan 1. Scientist exchanges One or two Researchers will stay at the partners institute for a 2.Meetings –Kick-off meeting at IIT (Feb. 2008) –A whole day workshop during AFITA/WCCA2008 in Tokyo (Aug. 2008) –A workshop possibly with Indian Society (2009) –A workshop possibly with Japanese Society (2010) –Annual meetings (December 2008, 2009, 2010)Evaluation of integrated system –Test and validate the integrated system –Presentation of results, report writing, etc.

4. Bilateral points of view Japan side to have an opportunity to strengthen the functions of Field Server by adapting it to arid and semiarid climate to learn about GIS-based user interface design and implementation that combines several different data resources to support DSS

5. Bilateral points of view Indian side to understand the sensor network and grid- computing technologies in dynamic agriculture and rural systems opportunity to strengthen the ongoing distributed collaboration model ‘GramyaVikas’

6. Trial Sites of Field Servers