Design, Construction and Testing of Portable Systems for Temperature, Humidity and Ammonia Monitoring of Chicken Coop

Abstract

The air and environment quality have big impact for chicken health. The most dominant component polluting environment of chicken coop is ammonia which is produced by chicken manure. Other environment components that affect chicken health are including temperature and humidity of the air. The problem faced by chicken farmer is that the decreasing of chicken health which leads to the death caused by the bad air and environment condition. These environment variables were usually predicted by the farmer manually. The objective of the publication is to monitor the ammonia, temperature and humidity electronically by using computer-based systems for a chicken coop. The developed systems used DHT 22 sensor as a temperature detector and MQ-135 sensor as ammonia gas detector. The systems also able to control the fan and lamps to maintain temperature and humidity of the chicken coop stable. Data from the sensors then were processed by NodeMCU ESP8266 microcontroller and then was displayed on 20x4 LCD. Afterward, the data was sent to the Android smartphone by using social networking platform Telegram for distance notification systems. Testing results showed that the developed system works well.