Wireless System for Temperature Monitoring in Oil Palm Bio-laboratory

Abstract

Malaysia is known as the main producer of palm oil in the world. In order to maintain a good quality of palm oil product, the tissue culture process that carried out in the laboratory must be maintained at certain temperature values. Temperature is one of the important parameters that could affect the oil palm growth. A good temperature monitoring environment is necessary in order to produce the good quality products. Nowadays, the wireless sensor technology has grows in many areas of research and development as an alternative for the wired connection method that have been using previously. This project described the application of the wireless devices for the purpose of temperature data collection and storage using digital computer. The information gathered is performed by using the LM35 temperature sensor. This system used the Zigbee transceivers for the communication protocol to transmit and receive the temperature data. The data is send to the computer through the interface of Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) to a personal computer (PC) via USB port. This system will help to minimize the need for wire connections, cost, power consumption and manpower to promote stable environment in order to produce good quality products.