Kanakakkunnu palace biodiversity in Mobile Application

A post graduate Botany student, Akhilesh S V Nair along with his Professor Dr. A. Gangaprasad has digitised the plants available in the Kanakakunnu palace premises using an Mobile app.

Kanakakunnu palace, the heritage monumental site according to the Indian National Trust for for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), a unique model for conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem management.

Akhilesh Nair has linked the information of the plant species spanning 21 acres of the palace garden using a QR or bar-code that can be scanned using simple mobile application like NeoReader. He has documented 126 species of both tree and garden plants on a website that is linked to the code through the mobile app.