iYarKai Tech Lab is transforming rural agriculture in India through the Silir Smart Mushroom Cultivation System—an integrated solution that combines IoT sensors, AI-driven analytics, and mobile dashboards to help farmers maintain optimal growing conditions with precision. Because these systems operate in low-bandwidth rural regions, the technology must be lightweight, reliable, and capable of real-time control.
To meet these demands, iYarKai selected HiveMQ Cloud Serverless as the communication backbone, ensuring consistent data streaming, predictive insights, and automation across distributed farming communities.
Why Rural Farming Needs Reliable Environmental Control in Low-Bandwidth Environments
Mushroom farming requires strict regulation of temperature, humidity, and CO₂ levels. However, cultivation units deployed in rural and semi-urban locations often face:
Unstable or low-quality internet connectivity
Frequent packet loss
Limited bandwidth
Complete network drop-offs during peak hours
Traditional IoT platforms struggle in these environments, resulting in unreliable data flows and poor system performance - making them unsuitable for continuous environmental control. iYarKai needed an affordable, scalable, and highly reliable communication solution that could support dozens of deployment sites across villages.
Building a Lightweight, AI-Driven Smart Farming Architecture
By adopting HiveMQ and MQTT, iYarKai enabled ultra-lightweight, low-latency messaging between sensors, controllers, and farmer dashboards. The Silir system maintains resilient connectivity so data remains intact even during network fluctuations.
Key architectural objectives included:
Scalable deployment of Silir units across villages under the “One Village – One Mushroom Unit” initiative
Secure, bi-directional communication allowing farmers to monitor conditions and remotely control equipment
A robust, affordable AI + IoT platform tailored for smallholder farmers
HiveMQ ensures continuous sensor data streaming even in challenging network conditions. Both farmers and the AI engine can issue real-time commands to foggers, heaters, exhaust fans, alarms, and other actuators. The platform supports high availability, secure communication, and smooth scaling across distributed farm clusters.
The reliability of HiveMQ allows iYarKai to expand operations rapidly while maintaining stable performance. As a result, rural farmers now benefit from advanced environmental automation previously accessible only in industrial facilities.
Delivering Measurable Gains in Yield, Efficiency, and Rural Livelihoods
The Silir system has delivered measurable economic and operational improvements across 50+ active farming units.
Key outcomes include:
30–35% increase in yield through AI-IoT guided climate control
40% reduction in manual labor due to automation of fogging, ventilation, and environmental adjustments
25% decrease in energy and water usage, significantly lowering operating costs
99.9% system uptime even in low-bandwidth environments
2,000+ women trained as agri-entrepreneurs, strengthening rural livelihoods and community resilience
Rapid geographic scaling, enabled by HiveMQ’s low-footprint deployment model
Higher crop consistency and quality, resulting in better market pricing and reliability for buyers
HiveMQ enables iYarKai Tech Lab to deliver an affordable, scalable, and high-impact smart agriculture solution. With real-time intelligence and reliable IoT communication, iYarKai is improving livelihoods, advancing climate-resilient farming, and transforming rural food production across India.
