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AUTOMATED CHICKS BROODING

SYSTEM USING IOT.
Harshad V Jagdale1, Rushikesh P Jagtap2, Akshay S Gorde3,
Aditya M Gaikwad4, Takdir S Pinjari5

Department of Electrical Engineering, Trinity College of Engineering & Research, Pune,

India.

ABSTRACT
Temperature Monitoring System for Prudent Brooding may be a system that creates efficient uses of resources at
disposal to extend the blood heat of the chicken. The system uses a sensor to detect the temperature of poultry farm
and maintains the temperature automatically, rather than heating whole poultry as an atomic structure and so the
temperature to which it's to be increased so as to create the case most favorable to the chicken in poultry and thereby
the farmer. Additionally, the system is meant to take care of the air quality of the plant to scale back excessive
concentrations of air pollutants like ammonia and greenhouse emission which, in contrast to the traditional energy,
primarily uses solar panels reducing the farmer energy consumption overhead and thus, help in reducing carbon
footprints. Generally in a poultry house, fuel-based heating systems are used to maintain the selected temperatures
for successful breeding of chicken. A substantial amount of fuel is consumed for this application, which results in
high running costs and contributes to the rise of air pollutant emissions. Given this energy crisis and also the push to
use renewable energy, this research studies the applying of solar heating (SHS) for a poultry house. It includes the
technical and economic study for the SHS and therefore the integration of biogas produced from manure as an
auxiliary source of warmth. Thus the system design provides an efficient poultry farm temperature monitoring
system to monitor the healthy atmosphere for chickens in poultry farm without human interference

Keyword: - Poultry farm, Farmer, Solar heating system (SHS), and Broilers etc….

1. INTRODUCTION

In a country like India which largely depends on primary industries for the income of the majority of the population,
poultry not only serves as a secondary income but also a primary source of bread for many families. Though India
stands leading tech service provider on a global platform, it will not be inappropriate to say, as a broad overview at
least, rarely any efforts are made to bring this technology to the basic industries that are serving as pillars of the
economy. Many experimental setups and establishments are still struggling to bring effective and efficient
technology at a cheap price. Poultry, a sensitive business frequently affected by natural conditions and calamities
often suffer huge losses because of failure to maintain optimum conditions. No other infrastructure tools during this
business cost the maximum amount as brooder (heating system). Even the slightest changes in temperature range
also result in onerous losses for a small-scale farmer due to the ill growth of the chicken, sometimes, death. As the
life of a chicken gradually increases, it becomes more crucial to maintain body temperatures of chicken as it affects
the intrinsic trends of reproduction rates and efficiency. Not to mention other factors increasing the operating cost of
the system such as increased fuel prices and transportation cost, vaccinations, and diet. Thus, we suggest a fresh
approach to decrease the price of brooding and increase the output of the business as a whole with a state-of-the-art
system that is a unique mesh of chicks brooding system. Poultry industries are one of the energy concentrated
industries that consume a large amount of fuel, especially for the Broilers sector. Broiler poultry houses- producing
chicken meat- heavily by using diesel fuel, gasoline or gas for their heating systems to maintain the temperature
necessary for the breeding of the chicks. The required temperature for any broiler house ranges from 22°C to 32°C
depending on the „birds„ age. There is one best temperature zone at each stage of „chicks‟ growth in which the birds
make the finest performance in terms of the use of feed energy for growth and meat yield. If the birds are kept at a
temperature that is lower than the targeted optimum temperature, the birds increase their feed intake and use more of
the energy to keep their‟ bodies„ warm, which increases the production cost and decreases the meat yield. While, if

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they were kept at a temperature that is higher than the targeted optimum temperature, they reduce their feed intake to
limit heat production, which also results in lower meat yield. Therefore, an efficient heating system is required for
any broiler house to maintain the essential temperatures all around the year. Presently, the heating system used in
poultries depends on electricity, gas, diesel fuel, kerosene, or other non-renewable sources.

2. LITERATURE SURVEY

The Internet of things (IoT) brings opportunities for the deploying of wireless sensor networks. The quality of
broilers produced depends on the environment in which Broilers are kept. Additionally, the profit of the farmer is
guaranteed if the deaths of broilers because of bad environmental conditions are prevented. The prevailing methods
farmers use are labor-intensive and time-consuming as they are manual. By using the features of IoT and sensors it
can be helpful to observe the environment and ensure bad conditions are reported for farmers to take action before
they harm the chickens. Generally, for adopting this kind of system by low-income farmers, the value of this type of
system should be low compared to commercially available climate control systems that are meant for commercial
farmers. The system should also provide user-friendliness for less technically skilled farmers, decrease the time
taken by farmers to take action in controlling conditions in the environment, and be accessible from any location
apart from the broiler house. In this paper, we offer a model that can be used to monitor conditions in the
environment of a broiler house and send the information of the ON and OFF condition of the system to the farmer in
real-time. Modern poultry farming urbanized when energy was cheap and plentiful. Now, as conventional sources of
energy become more costly and fewer Consistent the heavy dependence on fossil fuels for heat in poultry brooding
is a matter of serious concern. Solar power has potential as an alternative fuel source for heating brooding houses.
Research on adopting solar energy technology to poultry brooding operations has been conducted by the Science
and Education Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and funded by the U.S. Department of energy. The
utility expressed during this statement was built and tested at the South Central Poultry research lab at Mississippi
State University, Mississippi State. It was tested compared with a traditionally heated LPG (liquefied petroleum gas)
system. In combination with partial-house brooding, precision ventilation control, and improved insulation, the solar
utility during this testing reduced the amount of energy needed to control a brooder house by about 90%, and
consumption of fossil fuel was minor Since the poultry industry in the United States is located mainly in the Sun
Belt States, solar energy is generally a promising alternative farmer. From an economic point of view, however, the
primary investment costs of solar heating systems are high. Therefore, the farmer may wish to wait until technical
advance slower the price of solar heating systems or until the prices of fossil fuels rise so much that solar systems
become economically competitive The personality in-charge can able to get the information about the internal
environment of poultry farm by receiving a message on his mobile number. So the vendor will able to monitor the
suitable environment for the expansion of chickens in a poultry farm. This system design food control mechanism
with the help of sensors. It has given a better quality environment to chickens which indirectly help to improve the
value and growth of the chicken. The detailed record of the poultry farm will able to view on a webpage with all
environmental situations. The embedded system is modern for chicken farming, which changes a conventional farm
to a Smart Farm or Intelligent Farm. Also, if the system stops working then the system sends an SMS to the person
in charge or the owner of poultry with the help of GSM. Monitoring environmental parameters in a real-time
business are crucial. Various environmental parameters for the helpful growth of chickens have been known. It also
explains the method of Wat Food Control Mechanism for a poultry farm.

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3. METHODOLOGY

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Fig-1: Block diagram of poultry monitoring system

In the project, the supply given by solar or at cloudy condition supply is given by the ON Grid system. When supply
is given from the PV cell to the blocking unit the blocking unit is used to prevent the batteries from being discharged
through the PV cells at night when there is no sun available to get energy. The solar panel collects the thermal
energy from the sun and provides it to the battery through the MPPT charge controller. MPPT charge controller
(Maximum Power Point Tracker) maximizes the energy available from the solar panel at any time during its
operation.

The battery is used to stores the energy generated from a solar panel. In cloudy conditions, supply is given from the
ON Grid system. These supplies are provided to the rectifier through a transformer.
The transformer steps down the supply 230V to 12V A.C. supply and provided it to the rectifier. The rectifier
converts the A.C. supply into the D.C. supply. And this D.C. supply connected to the battery bank.
The autochanger turns off the supply from the on-grid when the supply is coming from a solar panel or vice versa.
The battery is used to store energy. D.C. meter is used for measuring purpose and it is connected to Inverter which
converts D.C. supply into A.C supply. A.C. meter is used to measure the A.C. supply converted by Inverter.

Now, here we used a control unit which contains PT 100 sensor, a Relay unit, and one GSM kit connected along
with it. Suppose if there is an interrupt in the system and because of that interrupt system goes into OFF condition
then this GSM kit sends an SMS to the owner of the poultry house. PT100 sensors senses the temperature in a
brooder and suppose the temperature of the brooder is lower than 32 degrees Celsius then AC load lamp bank is in
ON condition and when the temperature increases more than 35 degree Celsius that time lamps go into OFF
condition. This process is controlled by the temperature control unit through the relay unit.

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3.1 PV CELL

Fig-2:PV cell

A sun powered cell, or photovoltaic cell, is an electrical device that changes over the energy of light directly into
power by the photovoltaic impact, which is a physical and chemical phenomenon. It is a type of photoelectric cell,
characterized as a device whose electrical qualities, for example, flow, voltage, or opposition, differ when presented
to light. Individual sunlight based cell gadgets are frequently the electrical structure squares of photovoltaic
modules, referred to informally as sun based boards. The basic single intersection silicon sun based cell can create a
most extreme open-circuit voltage of approximately 0.5 to 0.6 volts. Sun powered cells are depicted as being
photovoltaic, independent of whether the source is daylight or a fake light. Notwithstanding delivering vitality, they
can be utilized as a photograph indicator (for instance infrared locators), identifying light or other electromagnetic
radiation close to the obvious range, or estimating light power.

3.2 TRANSFORMER

Fg-3:Transformer

A transformer is a detached electrical device that moves electrical vitality starting with one electrical circuit then
onto the next or various circuits. A fluctuating current in any one curl of the transformer creates a differing attractive
transition in the transformer's center, which instigates a changing electromotive power over some other loops twisted
around a similar center. Electrical vitality can be moved between independent curls without a metallic (conductive)
association between the two circuits. Faraday's law of acceptance, found in 1831, portrays the actuated voltage
impact in any loop because of a changing attractive motion encompassed by the curl. In this undertaking the shell
type transformer is utilized.

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3.3 AUTO CHANGER

Fig-4:Auto changer

In the autotransformer circuit, the changeovers hand-off adjusted to rapidly change from sun based to the flexibly
originates from the network and the other way around. The sun based gracefully is associated with the S1 and the
primary flexibly is associated with S2. At the point when the sun based vitality isn't accessible that time hand-off
switch S2 gracefully to the framework and when sun powered vitality coming in the picture, the transfer switches
the flexibly S2.There are two blocking units that are accessible for square respects flexibly from the battery to any of
the sources. The principle inclination provides for the nearby planetary group. The autotransformer circuit works on
both AC and DC flexibly. Here we give just DC to the autotransformer circuit network gracefully through the
rectifier and sun oriented board.

3.4 BATTERY

Fig-5:Battery

The battery bank is utilized to store the charge. Since when night shift and on-grid supply drop that time this
framework off so this issue eliminated in that framework so utilizing the battery bank. These are the 12V battery.
Give the gracefully from the rectifier and capacity the charge. At the point when the night shift and on-grid supply
drop then the battery worked and provided to the inverter.

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3.5 INVERTER

Fig-6:Inverter

An inverter is an electric device that changes direct flow (DC) to rotating flow (AC). It isn't something very similar
to an alternator, which changes over mechanical vitality into substituting current. Direct current is made by devices,
for example, batteries and sun based boards. At the point when associated, an inverter permits these gadgets to give
the electric capacity to little family unit gadgets. The inverter does this through a cycle of electrical modification.
From this cycle, AC electric force is delivered. This type of power can be used to control an electric light, a
microwave, or some other electric machine

3.6 MPPT CHARGE CONTROLLER

Fig-7:MPPT charge controller

Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) or sometimes just power point tracking (PPT) may be a method used
normally with wind turbines and photovoltaic (PV) solar systems to maximize power extraction under all
circumstances. Although it mainly applies to solar energy, the principle applies in general to sources with variable
power for instance optical power transmission and thermophotovoltaics.PV solar systems are present in lots of
different configurations with regard to their relationship to inverter systems, outer grids, battery banks, or other
electrical loads. Regardless of the ultimate goal of the solar power, though, the central problem addressed by MPPT
is that the efficiency of power transfer from the solar cell depends on both the amount of sunray falling on the solar
panels, the temperature of the solar panel, and the electrical characteristics of the load. As the number of sunbeams
and temperature of the solar panel be different, the load characteristic that gives the maximum power transfer
efficiency changes, so that the efficiency of the system is optimized when the load characteristic changes to maintain
the power transfer at the highest efficiency. This load characteristic is called the maximum power point (MPP) and

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3.7 RECTIFIER

Fig-8:Rectifire

A rectifier is a kind of an electrical device that converts alternating sort of current (AC), which periodically
generally reverses direction, to generally direct fairly current (DC), which flows in only one direction. The process
generally is known as rectification, since it "straightens" the direction of the current, which basically is quite
significant. Rectifiers for the most part have definitely many uses, but for all intents and purposes are often
particularly found serving as components of DC power supplies and high-voltage fairly direct pretty current power
transmission systems. Rectification may mostly serve in roles very other than to definitely generate direct sort of
current for use as a source of power. In gas heating systems flame rectification for all intents and purposes is used to
really detect the presence of a flame, which is quite significant.

3.8 PT100

Fig-9:PT100

Pt100 sensors are the most particularly common type of platinum resistance thermometer, which is fairly significant.
Often resistance thermometers are generally called Pt100 sensors, even though in reality they may not generally be
the Pt100 type, which is quite significant. Pt refers to that the sensor essentially is made from Platinum (Pt100)
refers to that at 0°C sensor has a resistance of 100 ohms (Ω) in a sort of major way. The principle of operation is to
measure the resistance of a platinum element, which generally is quite significant. The most very common type
(PT100) has a resistance of 100 ohms at 0 °C and 138.4 ohms at 100 °C. ... For precision work, sensors have four
wires- two to kind of carry the sense current, and two to measure the voltage across the sensor element in a sort of
major way.

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3.9 RELAY UNIT

Fig-10: Relay unit

A relay is an electrically operated switch in a major way. It consists of a set of input terminals for a kind of single or
fairly multiple control signals and a set of operating contact terminals in a pretty big way. The switch may have any
number of contacts in for all intents and purposes multiple contact forms, such as mostly make contacts, generally
break contacts, or combinations thereof, which for the most part is fairly significant. Relays are used where it for the
most part is necessary to control a circuit by a particularly independent low-power signal, or where kind of several
circuits must be controlled by one signal in a subtle way. Relays were transmitting it on another circuit. Relays are
particularly used extensively in telephone exchanges and generally early computers to particularly perform logical
operations. were first used in kind of long-distance telegraph circuits as sort of signal repeaters they refresh the
generally signal coming in from one circuit in a pretty big way.

3.10 HEATING ELEMENT

Fig-11: Heating element

One of the most influential inventions in for all intents and purposes modern heating and electricity is a heating
element, or so they generally thought. For example, electric heaters, toasters, showers, dryers, and much more rely
on heating elements. But, what is a heating element and how does a heating element work, which specifically is
quite significant. A heating element converts electrical energy into heat through the process of resistive (otherwise
known as Joule heating), which is quite significant. The generally electric current passing the element encounters
resistance, which subtly produces heat. Typically, heating elements particularly are made from a coil, ribbon, or strip
of wire that provides heat (like a lamp filament), pretty contrary to popular belief. Heating elements contain a
particularly electric current, which flows through the coil or ribbon or wire and becomes very hot, really contrary to
popular belief. The element converts the electrical energy passing through it into heat, which spawns outward in
every direction, which is fairly significant

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3.11 GSM Kit

Fig-12: GSM Kit

Fig-13: Aurdino Uno

The main purpose of SMS updates literally is to ensure peace of mind, which for the most part is quite significant.
Waking up at night thinking worrying about the chicks will be something of the sort of past. You can essentially get
updates on your phone at really your convenience, anywhere, and at any time, which essentially is quite significant.
With affordable SMS bundles from network operators, it will virtually cost very little, or so they mostly thought

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4. CONCLUSION

It is widely known that increases in production input costs in the poultry business are putting increasing pressure on
poultry producers globally As outlined in this manuscript, the advancements in PLF (Precision Livestock Farming)
technologies will help the agri-food sector to develop cost-efficient and optimize production ability Integrated real-
time data managing systems have been broadly applied in different industries but are not presently routinely applied
to agriculture production facilities. The profit of utilizing these systems are plentiful and include better cost
efficiency, better animal welfare, better working conditions, improved production monitoring, and improved
condition of important production.
Such a system would allow an improved forward plan and will provide a better-quality understanding of how food
production systems function. The study of this system provides the option of development or customization of the
system which will allow developing the operational efficiency of poultry production systems. These platforms have
deployment potential in related agri-food sectors

5. FUTURE SCOPE

All the collected information on the poultry farm has been sent to the farmer. Now we are only observing the
parameters of poultry but, in upcoming years it may possible to supervise and control the environmental parameters
through the internet. Also, poultries generally provide a lot of poultry waste. By using this waste poultry farms can
be able to generate their power from poultry wastage. Using that waste Goober Gas can be developed for everyday
requirement of power energy in poultry farming.

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