Mission & Vision of 'AI For Environment' Non-Profit
Mission:
Appreciating our environment and all living organisms starts with an understanding and passion for them. Awareness and education about global environmental challenges will bring us together to journey towards a healthy planet. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform and revolutionize the world on a path of progression and prosperity for all living things. The 'AI for Environment' non-profit is on a mission to use technologies including AI, Internet of Things (IoT) and Business Intelligence to generate awareness of and solve global environmental challenges. Together we can make a difference.
Vision:
I wish to harness AI to solve global environmental challenges (global warming). I believe we should steer Artificial Intelligence towards the path of finding new and efficient ways to help our planet cope with and reverse the effects of global warming.
Saumya Soni | Founder & CEO | AI for Environment
1,000+
'AI For Birds' Phone App installs
169
Countries where 'AI For Birds' app is being used
500+
Farmers & students attended AI For Environment events worldwide
7000+
Views of 'AI For Environment' YouTube channel
1,000
Farmers of Jharkhand, India for whom the phone app is being targeted
19,000
Bird images of 315 bird species used to train the model in the 'AI For Birds' app
6
Non-profits collaborating with AI for Environment
45
Acres of land in Jharkhand, India being monitored using Microsoft Azure FarmBeats by AI For Environment & Jan Jagran Kendra Nonprofit
50+
Volunteers have joined 'AI For Environment'
Saumya Soni joins Seth Juarez on
Microsoft AI Show to showcase her creation, 'AI for Birds' - a phone app that
bird
enthusiasts can use to predict the bird species name and learn more about the
species. AI for Birds showcases Cognitive Services with Microsoft Custom Vision
AI.
This video is also published on Channel 9. Check it out!
Here is the link to the episode on YouTube : AI Show | AI for Birds and on Channel 9:
https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/AI-Show/AI-Show--AI-for-Birds
Saumya Soni joins
Suruchi on JANDHARA24 one of the leading news channels in India to showcase, 'AI
for Smart Farms' - a phone app that offers AI-based crop recommendations to
increase food yield sustainably. This app is based on the vision to enable
data-driven farming & increase farm yield/productivity.
The app is available to download on
Google Play Store &
Apple App Store
This video is also published on JANDHARA24 . Check it out!
The 2021 Virtual Conference "Jumpstart your Career with AI' organized by Saumya Soni, Founder & CEO, AI For Environment was a huge success!
This event Featured outstanding speakers from Microsoft, Data Science Dojo, BlazingSQL, & Ai for Environment.
Here is the link to the AI event YouTube playlist: 2021 Virtual Event - Jumpstart your Career with Artificial Intelligence - YouTube
The 'AI For Smart Farms' app offers AI-based crop recommendations to increase food yield sustainably. This app is based on the vision to enable data-driven farming & increase farm yield/productivity.
The app is available to download on Google Play Store & Apple App Store
Here is the link to the 'AI For Smart Farms' app launch & demo video- 'AI For Smart Farms' App Launch & Demo | AI For Environment
The bird recognition app: AI For Birds uses camera integration for taking pictures of birds in real-time. After using the built-in camera to take a picture, the name of the bird species will be identified and shown. To download the 'AI For Birds' App, please search "AI for Birds" in the Google Play Store, or Apple App Store.
169 Countries where 'AI For Birds' app is being used
The 'AI For Smart Farms' app
launch event organized by Saumya Soni, CEO of AI for Environment,
non-profit from USA & Sanjay Singh, secretary, Jan
Jagran Kendra, non-profit from India on 24 Oct. 2021 was a
huge success.
More than 150 farmers & students from
different states of India attended this live event. This event
featured speakers from AI for Environment, Microsoft, Jan
Jagran Kendra, HCKVK, & the Food Corporation of India.
The 'AI For Smart Farms' app
offers AI-based crop recommendations to increase food yield
sustainably. This app is based on the vision to enable data-driven
farming & increase farm yield/productivity.
The app is
available to download on Google Play Store & Apple App Store
"I always wanted to make a real impact on the lives of farmers. Using AI, this app can help farmers increase farm yield and help predict what crop to sow in a particular field With precision agriculture, this app can not only help farmers increase the food yield but also save the environment and help towards sustainability. There will be less wasted and unproductive crops and hence less burning of crops." Saumya Soni, CEO of AI for Environment
"Future goal is to enable data-driven agriculture in Jharkhand, India for 100,000+ farmers to increase yield & productivity of the farm and raise awareness of technologies like AI among students & farmers in India," said Sanjay Singh, Secretary, Jan Jagran Kendra
'AI For Birds' phone app was launched by AI For Environment team six months ago in English. During this event, Saumya Soni also launched this AI For Birds app in Hindi & Spanish. The goal is to raise awareness about the importance of birds and to inspire a passion for them. The 'AI For Bird' App recognizes birds in real-time using your phone camera. The application uses Artificial Intelligence to predict the name of the bird species. There are 19,688 images of 315 global bird species in the AI model, out of which 225 bird species are from Jharkhand India. Both (Android & iOS) apps are available to download. To download this app, please search "AI for Birds" in the Google Play Store, or Apple App Store.
Here is the link to the 'AI For Smart Farms' app launch & demo video- 'AI For Smart Farms' App Launch & Demo | AI For Environment
The 'AI For Smart Farms' app launch event videos of all sessions will be available on the AI For Environment & Jan Jagran Kendra YouTube channel in the coming weeks.
More information can be found at: www.aiforenvironment.org / www.janjagrankendra.org
To continue with the theme of 'Azadi ka Amrut Mahotsav: India @ 75' during the Independence Day week: a live event "Smart Farming Using Microsoft Azure FarmBeats with AI to Increase Farm Yield for Farmers" was organized by Saumya Soni, CEO of AI for Environment, non-profit from the USA & Sanjay Singh, secretary, Jan Jagran Kendra, non-profit from India. The goal was to raise awareness of technologies including AI & Azure FarmBeats to increase farm yield for farmers using sustainable methods.
More than 100 farmers & students from different states of India including Jharkhand, Kerala, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Maharashtra & Haryana, attended this live event. This event featured seven speakers from Microsoft, AI for Environment, Jan Jagran Kendra, HCKVK, MGNREGA, & NABARD. Topics included Microsoft Azure FarmBeats, AI For Birds, watersheds, promotion of AI in Agri & Allied Sector- the role of policies, schemes, and interventions of NABARD, Success stories from USA & India.
Speakers included Anurag Gaur- Principal Program Manager, Microsoft, Sanjay Singh- Secretary, Jan Jagran Kendra, Saumya Soni- CEO, AI For Environment, Vinay Kant Mishra - IFS, CEO - JSWM, Government of Jharkhand, Dr. R.K Singh - Sr. Scientist & Head, HCKVK, Anupam Bharti - Deputy Director Agriculture, MGNREGA, Prem Prakash Singh - DDM- NABARD, Premnath Mehta- Progressive Farmer, Jharkhand, & Shib Kumar Goswami – Founder, Birds Buddy. It was an event filled with inspiration, AI awareness & passion for the environment. People got to experience cutting-edge technology and a sneak peek from the FarmBeats Demo presented by Saumya Soni, Founder & CEO of a non-profit AI For Environment.
"Three months ago, we collaborated with Premnath- one of the progressive farmers from Jharkhand, India. His farm is a pilot site for this project. The AI For Environment & Jan Jagran Kendra team started collaborating with Microsoft Azure FarmBeats to collect the historical data & real-time data using satellite imagery, weather information & soil data to predict what crop to sow, where to sow depending on different variables like temperature, humidity, soil moisture, etc. " said Saumya Soni
"Future goal is to enable data-driven agriculture in Jharkhand for 100,000+ farmers to increase yield & productivity of the farm and raise awareness of technologies like AI among students & farmers in India," said Sanjay Singh.
Videos of all presentations will be posted on Jan Jagran Kendra & the AI For Environment YouTube channel in the coming weeks.
More information can be found at: www.janjagrankendra.org / www.aiforenvironment.org
To download the 'AI For Birds' App, please search "AI for Birds" in the Google Play Store, or Apple App Store.
Here is the link to the event YouTube playlist : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-cSddcdvlurEXOfBAUB0c7F7svt9-WQg
Check out the AI For Birds & Azure FarmBeats (Hindi)
The 2021 Virtual Conference "Jumpstart your Career with AI' organized by Saumya Soni, Founder & CEO, AI For Environment was a huge success!
On June 19, The AI For Environment, non-profit, USA organized a virtual AI event-'Jumpstart your Career with Artificial Intelligence' for students and AI enthusiasts. The objective of the webinar was to help them understand the Career landscape in AI, how AI works, real-life AI demos, etc.
The three-hour-long exciting live event was organized by Saumya Soni, Founder & CEO AI For Environment.This event Featured outstanding speakers from Microsoft, Data Science Dojo, BlazingSQL, & Ai for Environment.
Here is the link to the AI event YouTube playlist: 2021 Virtual Event - Jumpstart your Career with Artificial Intelligence - YouTube
On 5th June 2021, the World Environment Day, a webinar on "Role of Youth in Environment Protection" was organized by Jan Jagran Kendra, Hazaribagh in collaboration with AI for Environment, Non-profit from USA.
The objective was to spread awareness in the community & highlight the initiatives taken by the young generation to protect the environment. More than 100 people joined this incredible webinar from India & the USA.
We thank all of the speakers' Shiv Shankar Goswami (Environmental Expert), Umesh Pratap (Senior Journalist), Soumya Soni (Founder & CEO AI for Environment USA), and Sanjay Kumar Singh (Secretary of Jan Jagran Kendra) for sharing their knowledge & experiences and making this webinar a successful event.
We at Jan Jagran Kendra are collaborating with Saumya Soni from AI For Environment for Azure FarmBeats projects in Jharkhand to help farmers to increase farm productivity and food yield by utilizing minimum natural resources. She is working with us to predict what crop to sow, where to sow depending on different variables like temperature, humidity, & soil moisture by using AI, IoT sensors, satellite imagery, and weather information. Saumya Soni is doing outstanding work in AI & inspiring the young generation to change the future.
-Sanjay Kumar
Singh
Secretary
Jan
Jagran Kendra, India
Saumya & Varun from AI for Environment helped us to create a Power BI Report with thousands of data can help us to reduce gender gap in Mexico. Their technology knowledge has reduced us a year of work and raised our impact from one state to the whole country. We are happy to partner with AI for Environment and looking forward to continue working together to create more impact.
-Irene Fuentes
Calles Con Equidad, Mexico
I downloaded and used the AI for Birds App to check the different species of birds in my community. It has been great to understand how the birds migrate and learn more them. Thanks to the app I know the bird species that come in different part of the year and look for more information to set appropriate plants in my garden so they can feed or protect themselves. Thanks to Saumya and AI for Earth for making this app available for everyone.
-Oscar Ortega
Environment enthusiast, Mexico
Ms. Saumya Soni has taught the teachers of Gram Vikas Sanstha’s Anandam Vidyalaya during the lockdown, this school has 700 students.She took classes of English communication. Saumya is a hardworking and enthusiastic person. She took a lot of effort and did her best. We really appreciate her dedication and recommend her teaching and social service activities. I wish her successful life ahead.
-Vrundan Bawankar
Founder
Dehaat Foundation,
India
It is great to see that Saumya Soni has developed a fantastic bird recognition app- AI For Birds. I am using this app in Jharkhand, and it shows accurate birds species. Being a bird enthusiast, I can say that this app is helpful for all bird watchers & students! A great initiative by Saumya Soni.
-Shib Shankar
Founder
Bird's Buddy, India
It is important to talk about environmental sustainability and how we can together help in this big challenge. We are proud of our young queen Saumya Soni our current reigning Miss Teen India WA to take initiative in this regard to launch AI for Environment a non-profit powered by AMPowering. At such young age, Saumya is stepping up to start conversations to encourage others to start thinking about our environment.
-Menka Soni
Founder
AmPowering, USA
To generate awareness about the fascinating world of birds, I created 'AI for Birds' web app, phone app and wrote two blogs.
Here's the links for two blogs:
Bird Recognition App using Microsoft Custom Vision AI and Power BI.
The Journey of building a Bird Recognition App using Custom Vision AI, Power BI and Power Apps.
As you can see in this report, along with recognizing a specific bird, in real-time, interactive visualizations from Power BI display the unique attributes and information about each bird and its status in the wild. The fun facts on the visualization about each bird will linger in your mind for days.
In this webapp, I used Cognitive Services with Microsoft Custom Vision AI to upload 19,688 images of 315 bird species, tagged them, trained the model, and evaluated the results. You can upload bird image from your file explorer, and it will then predict the species name of the bird and the accuracy tied to that tag.
The Custom Vision Service uses machine learning to classify the bird images I uploaded. The only thing I was required to do was specify the correct tag for each bird image. You can also tag thousands of bird images at a time. The AI algorithm is very powerful as it gives us great accuracy's and once the model is trained, we can use the same model to classify new bird images according to the needs of our application.
There are two ways (in the web app) to recognize the bird species:
Choose a bird image from your PC.
Upload a bird image URL.
Take a picture of a bird in real-time (only works on the Phone App).
Once you upload an image, it will call the Custom Vision Prediction API (which was already trained by Custom Vision, powered by Microsoft) to get species of the bird.
'AI For Smart Farms' phone app was launched by AI For Environment team in collaboration with Jan Jagran Kendra, nonprofit, India
The 'AI For Smart Farms' app offers AI based crop recommendations to increase food yield sustainably. This app is based on the vision to enable data-driven farming & increase farm yield/productivity. The app is available to download on Google Play Store & will be available on Apple App Store soon.
"I always wanted to create real impact in the lives of farmers. Using AI, this app can help farmers to predict what crop to sow in a particular field based on Soil data, satellite imagery, weather information & Microsoft Azure platform. With precision agriculture this app can not only help farmers increase the food yield but also save the environment and help towards sustainability. There will be less wasted and unproductive crops and hence less burning of crops." Saumya Soni, CEO of AI for Environment .
"Future goal is to enable data driven agriculture in Jharkhand for 100,000+ farmers to increase yield & productivity of farm and raise awareness of technologies like AI among students & farmers in India" Said Sanjay Singh, Secretary, Jan Jagran Kendra .
Here this link to the 'AI For Smart Farms' app launch & demo video- 'AI For Smart Farms' App Launch & Demo | AI For Environment on YouTube.
During COVID-19, preparing and delivering sandwiches to the homeless regularly and distributing free groceries to those in need.AMpowering distributed free groceries, fresh produce and dairy products to low income families in Redmond and Bellevue. Operate mobile food bank and available throughout the week for anyone in need to pick up the groceries. We are helping people who are evicted / homeless and need cooked meals instead of groceries.We are arranging connections and providing resources for people to help them find job.We are providing free online tutoring to kids of low income non English speaking communities to help in their studies when parents are not available.
To create a positive impact on the environment while generating awareness and coming up with the solutions to environmental issues. We broadened our influence to a global level by partnering with Eden Reforestation Projects edenprojects.org to plant trees: We calculated the number of trees needed to offset the amount of carbon released for each trip of EBC (Education beyond classroom) and the cost required for it. We encouraged the students and parents to offset their children’s trip by donating money to plant a certain number of trees and collected $1050 which equivalates to 65,000 trees. Every year, during a week called Education Beyond the Classroom (EBC), students from our school travel to different parts of the world with our teachers. All of this traveling, using cars, planes and other vehicles, emits large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Therefore, we have decided to calculate the number of trees needed to offset the amount of carbon released for each trip and the cost required for it. So, we encouraged the students and parents to offset their children’s trip by donating money to plant a certain number of trees. These funds are given to Eden Reforestation Projects to plant trees in Madagascar which has already been 90% deforested. By doing this we are creating a positive impact on the environment and providing opportunities and income to those who are hired to plant the trees.
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