Abstract
Many poultry farmers are performing diverse operations manually. They, therefore, experience a huge financial loss as a result of their inability to properly automate the monitoring and control of environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, air quality, and to ensure an adequate supply of light and water. These factors adversely affect the chicks and lead to respiratory, digestive, and behavioural disorders. This affects the chicks’ food intake and leads to an increase in mortality rate and chances of diseases. Therefore, this paper seeks to address these factors by developing an embedded poultry farm. The system was developed using an advanced yet low-cost and low-power System-on-Chip offering WiFi baseband processor and a plethora of peripheral interfaces for the actuators and sensors while Arduino emulator in Proteus 8 was the tool used for the design simulation. The system when tested was able to sense environmental parameter status wirelessly and responds accordingly to regulate and maintain an optimum condition for improved health condition for the chicks. The automated system will help for the purpose of improving productivity and environmental or climatic conditions in the poultry farm, making it conducive for the broiler chicks.
Highlights
An embedded poultry farm is a poultry farm which has a reliable system that is capable of automatically regulating the variables that affect the wellbeing of a poultry farm
The climatic control was adequately carried out using two DHT11 sensors placed at strategic positions not far from the chicks in the farm such that it gave relatively accurate readings of the hot or cool air in the poultry farm
The system was designed for a day to 4 weeks old broiler chicks
Summary
An embedded poultry farm is a poultry farm which has a reliable system that is capable of automatically regulating the variables that affect the wellbeing of a poultry farm Such variables include climatic conditions, water supply system, lighting system, etc. Bird wellbeing depends largely on several environmental or climatic parameters that affect the revenue and the performance of the production such as laying time, egg weight, and average broiler weight. When the environmental readings do not meet the standard levels, respiratory, digestive, and behavioural disorders probably take place. This leads to reduction in the food intake and eventually increases the mortality rate and chances of diseases [1]
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