Smart Grid Management for Agricultural Irrigation Patent Landscape
Smart Grid Management for Agricultural Irrigation Patent Landscape in 2026
The patent corpus for smart grid management applied to agricultural irrigation contains just 2 patent families, split equally between a Chinese utility and an Indian engineering college — making this one of the most sparsely populated intersections in both the smart-grid and precision-agriculture domains. Filing activity is effectively nascent, with isolated records appearing in 2022 and 2026 and no evidence of sustained investment from any major player.
A two-applicant field at the earliest stage of patent activity
Two applicants each hold 1 patent family, together accounting for the entirety of indexed activity: Siping Power Supply Company of State Grid Jilin Province Electric Power Co. and RMK College of Engineering and Technology.
Concentration is absolute — the top five filers’ share of the hundred largest filers stands at 100%, which in practice reflects a corpus too small to support meaningful tier analysis. There is no second tier; each participant holds an equal single-family position.
| # | Applicant | Patent families | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Siping Power Supply Company of State Grid Jilin Province Electric Power Co. | 1 | |
| 2 | R M K COLLEGE OF ENG & TECH | 1 |
The leaders’ positions imply first-mover opportunity rather than entrenched dominance. Neither applicant has demonstrated a filing programme, and neither has published a portfolio broad enough to create freedom-to-operate constraints for new entrants.
The most recent filing (2026) is subject to standard publication lag and may not yet be fully indexed; the 2022 record represents the only earlier confirmed activity in the window. Longer-window growth, applicant concentration, and technology-route coverage are therefore more reliable signals than the latest-year bar alone.
Isolated filings in 2022 and 2026 with no sustained trend
The annual filing trend and technology composition charts together describe a field that has produced only two isolated records over a decade, concentrated in two IPC classes that span business-process data handling and power grid systems.
Annual filing trend
Activity is confined to single filings in 2022 and 2026, with zero records in all other years of the window. No trend line can be drawn from two data points; the 2026 filing is subject to publication lag and should be treated as provisional. The absence of filings between 2017 and 2021 confirms the topic has not yet attracted sustained R&D investment.
↗ Hover for values · click a bar to ask EurekaTechnology composition
Both IPC branches — G06Q (business, commerce and administrative data processing) and H02J (power supply and grid systems) — carry equal weight, each appearing in both families. This dual emphasis reflects the core technical challenge of the topic: integrating grid-side energy management logic with agricultural load scheduling. No dedicated precision-agriculture or sensor-network IPC class appears, indicating that the irrigation-specific element is addressed through business-logic rather than hardware claims.
↗ Hover for values · click a bar to ask EurekaHighly cited patent families surfaced by the query
Citation-heavy patent families returned by the query. Use this section as citation context, not as a curated list of the most topic-specific patents.
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The present invention discloses an Artificial Intelligence based Solar Energy Optimization System for intelligent renewable energy management. The system integrates photovoltaic solar panels, environmental sensing units, battery storage systems, IoT communication modules, and AI-based predictive analytics to optimize energy generation, storage, and… (excerpt from the patent abstract)
Open this patent in Eureka →| # | Patent | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 一种参与配电市场出清的农业园区微能源网能量管理方法 | 1 |
Ranked by total forward citations. Citation counts favour older and broadly cited patent families, and broad or adjacent patents may appear when they match the search scope. Treat this section as citation context, not as a curated list of the most topic-specific patents. Some patent titles may be shown in their original, non-English language where an accurate translation could not be guaranteed.
What the structure means for R&D investment decisions
A corpus of 2 patent families tells a strategic story as clearly as a large one: this intersection is unoccupied, the technical framing is split between grid management and data processing, and no collaboration network has yet formed.
Pre-emergent — no life-cycle stage assignable
The evidence base is too small to assign a formal life-cycle stage. Two isolated filings over ten years place this topic firmly in a pre-emergent state. Engineers entering now would face no incumbent portfolio to design around and could define claim scope broadly. The risk is correspondingly high: commercial demand signals are absent from the patent record.
Pre-emergentMaximum concentration at minimal scale
With only two filers, each holding one patent family, the Herfindahl index would be at its theoretical maximum. However, this concentration carries no strategic significance — it is a function of near-zero total activity rather than deliberate portfolio accumulation by a dominant player. Any new entrant would immediately become a co-leader by filing a single family.
Wide openNo co-applicant relationships recorded
Evidence pending — the collaboration array is empty, meaning no co-filed or jointly assigned families appear in the indexed corpus. This is consistent with the overall nascent state of the field. Academic-industry partnerships, which commonly seed emerging grid-agriculture intersections, have not yet produced joint IP here.
No co-filersChina and India are the only jurisdictions on record
One patent record is filed in China (by the State Grid affiliate) and one in India (by RMK College of Engineering and Technology). Neither the United States, European Patent Office, nor any other major jurisdiction shows a record. This geographic gap is itself a signal: large agricultural irrigation markets in the US, Brazil, Australia, and the EU have generated no visible smart-grid IP activity in this specific intersection.
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Co-filing pairs, ranked by the number of jointly-filed patent families.
Two first-movers with distinct institutional profiles
The two indexed filers come from opposite ends of the applicant spectrum — a large state-owned utility in northeast. China and a regional engineering college in India — reflecting the experimental, exploratory nature of IP activity in this space.
Siping Power Supply Company of State Grid Jilin Province
Holds 1 patent family with technology emphasis spanning G06Q 10, G06Q 50, and H02J 3 — covering administrative data processing, sector-specific applications, and grid power distribution. Momentum is flagged as a new entrant, consistent with a single recent filing. As a regional arm of the State Grid Corporation, future filings could scale quickly if the parent organisation prioritises agricultural grid management.
families: 1RMK College of Engineering and Technology
Holds 1 patent family with focus on G06Q 50 (sector-specific business applications), H02J 3 (power grid systems), and H02J 7 (battery charging and storage). The inclusion of H02J 7 differentiates this applicant’s technical framing, suggesting an interest in energy storage as part of the irrigation-grid interface. As an academic institution, further commercialisation or licensing activity is uncertain.
families: 1| Applicant | Recent (3 yrs) | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| Siping Power Supply Company of State Grid Jilin Province Electric Power Co. | 1 | ▲ new entrant |
Under-served adjacent branches worth monitoring
The white-space array returned no pre-computed candidates, which is expected given the minimal corpus size. The adjacent observations below are drawn from the IPC classes absent from the existing 2-family corpus but technically relevant to the topic.
Sensor networks and IoT for field-level load monitoring (G01 / H04W)
Neither of the two existing families carries IPC classes associated with agricultural sensors, wireless communication, or IoT infrastructure — the hardware layer that would feed real-time irrigation demand data to a smart grid management system. This gap is technically significant because grid-side optimisation without field-side sensing is a fundamentally incomplete solution. The entry path would involve combining G01 instrumentation claims with H02J grid management claims, an approach not yet represented in the indexed corpus.
Search this in Eureka →Renewable energy integration with irrigation pumping loads (H02S / Y02E)
Agricultural irrigation pumps are among the largest intermittent rural loads, making them a natural candidate for pairing with solar or wind generation. The Y02E and H02S classes — covering sustainable energy technologies and photovoltaic systems — are absent from the current corpus. Given that several national agricultural electrification programmes explicitly target solar-powered pump scheduling, this is a plausible area where future filings could emerge; however, no evidence of such filings currently appears in this intersection.
Search this in Eureka →How the two filers differ by technology route
Strength of each leader across the main technology routes.
| Player | G06Q 50 · Business, commerce & admin data processing | H02J 3 · Power supply & grid systems | G06Q 10 · Business, commerce & admin data processing | H02J 7 · Power supply & grid systems |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RMK College of Engineering and Technology | Strong · 1 | Strong · 1 | Absent | Strong · 1 |
| Siping Power Supply Company of State Grid Jilin Province Electric Power Co. | Strong · 1 | Strong · 1 | Strong · 1 | Absent |
Frequently asked questions
The indexed corpus contains 2 patent families, representing the entirety of identified patent activity at this specific intersection as of the evidence snapshot.
Two applicants each hold 1 patent family: Siping Power Supply Company of State Grid Jilin Province Electric Power Co. (China) and RMK College of Engineering and Technology (India).
China and India are the only jurisdictions with patent records in the indexed corpus. No filings from the United States, European Patent Office, or other major jurisdictions appear.
Both IPC branches present in the corpus are G06Q (business, commerce and administrative data processing) and H02J (power supply and grid systems), each appearing in both patent families.
No co-applicant or jointly assigned patent families appear in the indexed corpus. The two existing filers have each filed independently, and no academic-industry partnerships are recorded.
The filing trend shows single isolated records in 2022 and 2026 with zero activity in all other years of the ten-year window. This pattern is consistent with a pre-emergent field that has not yet attracted sustained investment; no life-cycle stage can be formally assigned given the minimal evidence base.
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