While I going to start on an IoT based Smart Poulty Farm Monitoring System, I came to know about the N-gaged Design Challenge. Before starting to build a real project, it would be ideal to make a proof-of-concept project. So I put in my applcation as follow and luckily I was selected as one of the participants.
MyApplication
Poultry broilers are sensitive against the weather and environment. The poultry broilers need a conducive environment with suitable temperature and humidity. Unsuitable temperature and humidity may lead the broiler to get chicken diseases. The poultry industries in Malaysia are usually using the manually working process in monitoring temperature and humidity in the broilers which takes a lot of time and energy.
I am going to make a prototype of smart poultry farm monitoring system which will meet the following objectives:
1) To measure and monitor the temperature and humidity, possibly other metrics, in the broilers
2) To control the parameter of the temperature and humidity automatically
3) To send alerts and notifications if the temperature or humidity exceeds certain threshold.
The project plan will include the followings:
Hardware Design
Layer N Ecosystem Bundle kit
Temperature sensor
Humidity sensor
Other sensors
Software Design
Layer N IoT Platform
3rd party notification system
Building the system
5 blogs will be made to describe the process of implemeting the farm monitoring system.
Summary
The proposed smart farm monitoring system is IoT based system that able to monitor the temperature and humidity. This system has the potential to be a monitoring agent for any kind of controlled environment not only poultry broilers, even can be used to monitor home and offices. In the future, the enhancements might be added to improve the system whether in term of hardware of software. This work can be extended by providing prediction functionalities to make an analysis of the collected data for a better result in the researches experiment and production of quality livestock.
The project
The stated project is still in planning stage and a work-in-progress. Below are some of the diagrams about the farm layout and its structure.
The Kit
After I was informed that I was one of the challenger, I waited for the delivery of the kit for quite a while. The kit was stucked in the customs warehouse for more than two weeks, it was waiting for an import permit in order to fulfill the customs clearance. I received the kit in the mid of the month of April. The following are some of the photos of the kit.
The details of the sponsored kit can be found here. The 1st blog will end here and stay tune for the next blog: Hardware and software setup.