Paper On A Literature Review On IoT-based Smart Poultry Farming
Paper On A Literature Review On IoT-based Smart Poultry Farming
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controlling the farm’s lighting. Traditional environment monitor- —Create 100 IoT-based startups by 2025 to solve local problems
ing and protection systems like mud or baked bricks made farm- using home-grown IoT solutions.
houses with window openings and a yard. Hence significant hu-
man resources are required. It is necessary to assist the growth of a 2.5 IoT Platform
chicken, manage/ maintain the farm, and overall supervision 24/7,
etc. Poultry farming was performed manually, which was inade- IoT platforms are support software that connects everything in an
quate to ensure higher productivity. Finally, the intelligent poultry IoT system [6]. An IoT platform facilitates communication, data
farming method came into reality when IoT and other innovative flow, device management and application functionality.
technologies were added to traditional poultry farming so that the
poultry farming process could be performed more innovative. 2.6 Sensor Devices
In Fig. 1, a generic IoT-based smart poultry farming system is Sensors are used in the architecture of the IoT device. Sensors are
depicted [3]. In this System, a wireless sensor network (WSN) is used to sensing things and devices, etc. A device that provides a us-
deployed to connect all sensors in the farm so that they may feed able output as a response to a specific measure. The sensor acquires
all data through the communication gateway. The gateway can a physical parameter and converts it into a signal suitable for pro-
access the internet, sending data to subscribed web services on the cessing the properties of a device or element to detect the presence
cloud. Based on the data, decisions are made and transmitted to of a certain physical quantity (electrical, mechanical, optical) [7].
the communication gateway and then forwarded to a controller for For example, temperature sensors, light sensors, etc.
poultry farming. Moreover, farmers have the authority to access
all data and manipulate the control as per requirement. Mainly the 3. STUDY METHODOLOGY
purpose of this paper is to accumulate all the details related to IoT-
based smart poultry farming applications. This includes the details Our focus is to conduct an unbiased and detailed review of existing
related to data collection, various types of sensors, deployment papers regarding IoT-based smart poultry farming systems to sum-
details, and IoT platforms to access the data through the cloud. It marize and draw a general conclusion about the current trend and
also covers details related to different communication technologies create a platform for further research activities. Here, we follow the
used in IoT. Hence, some works (20 papers) during 2013-2022 following three stages:
regarding IoT-based smart poultry farming are reviewed.
3.1 Formulation of Research Questions
Here the first step is to characterize the research questions and pro-
2. BACKGROUND STUDIES vide the current research status on IoT-based smart poultry farming.
2.1 IoT in Poultry In this research, nine research questions, along with their corre-
sponding motivation, are depicted in Table I:
IoT solutions can develop the world’s poultry farming sector and
help farmers shift from manual to smart poultry farming. An intel- Table 1. Research Questions on IoT-based Smart Poultry
ligent network and data processing system can create a new Poultry Farming
farming infrastructure in the world. NO. Research Questions
What are the primarily targeted publication sites for
2.2 Internet of Things (IoT) 1
IoT-based smart poultry farming research?
The term ”Internet of Things” (IoT) is a term first coined by Kevin What is advantage and disadvantage in poultry
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Ashton in 1999 [4]. This creates the opportunity for a more direct farming using IoT?
integration of the physical world into computer-based systems, re- 3 IoT based working approaches of a Smart Poultry Farming.
sulting in the improved efficiency, economic benefits and reduced What factors should be taken into consideration
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human labor. Some benefits of IoT are cost reduction, efficiency specifically for poultry farming?
and productivity, business opportunities, accessible and remote ac- What are the issues which should consider for
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cess, fast and time-saving at work, multitasking, reducing human IoT-based smart poultry farming?
efforts and improving safety. What types of IoT technologies are used in IoT-based
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smart poultry farming?
2.3 AgIoT (IoT in Agriculture) Which sensors and boards are used in IoT-based
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smart poultry farming?
Agricultural Internet of Things uses AgroIoT or AgIoT [4] sen-
Which IoT platforms are used in IoT-based
sors, cameras, and other devices to turn every element and action 8
smart poultry farming?
involved in farming into data. Some of the uses of IoT are soil mon-
itoring, weather and climate monitoring, animal resource monitor- Which wireless communication technologies/protocols
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ing, etc. are used in IoT-based smart poultry farming?
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search engine for keywords throughout our survey. In our search, 4.2 The advantage and disadvantages in poultry
we emphasized the paper from 2013 to 2022. We also specialized farming using IoT?
in Indian trends to summarize what is happening in our neighbor-
ing Country. We evaluated the acceptability and credibility level of Pro:
the papers using the ‘Impact factor’. We gathered and extracted our —Timely watering and feeding chickens
selected papers most relevant problems of interest. The extracted
—Automation increase the farm productivity
information depends on the initial research questions mentioned
above, and we will analyses those in the following section. —Lower manpower needed
—Removes the gas of the poultry farm to keep chickens healthy
4. DATA ANALYSIS —Can control fan, light and temperature of the farm remotely
This section will analyses the extracted data from the set of selected Con:
papers according to the research questions in Table I. —Installation cost is higher
—Professional training needed on the system when it’s introduced
4.1 Major targeted primary publication channels for
—Internet connectivity is mandatory for 24/7
IoT-based Smart Poultry Farming Research
—Time to analyse data
Several publication sources have been identified to address the first
research question, including channel categorization and impact fac- 4.3 IoT based working approaches of a Smart Poultry
tor. It has been depicted in Table II and Table III. Farming
Table 2. Publication Source and Reference Part 1 —Understanding the Smart Poultry Farming concept
Publication Sources (Conference) Ref. —Senses data from the farm by sensor or actuator
In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things —Collect and analyse the data
[8]
and Intelligence System (IOTAIS) (pp. 1-5). IEEE. —Sends the data to gateway
In 2018 International Conference on Computer Networks, Big
[9]
—Intelligent machines can take necessary action
data and IoT (pp. 615-620). Springer, Cham. —Rarer can control the farm remotely using smart devices
In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Computational —Timely feeding, removing gas, light, fan, curtain etc. can be con-
[10]
Intelligence and Computing Research (ICCIC) (pp. 1-4). IEEE. trolled remotely
In 2016 5th International Conference on Computer Science and
[11]
Network Technology (ICCSNT) (pp. 113-116). IEEE. 4.4 What factors should be taken into consideration
In 2019 International Conference on Robotics, Electrical and
[12] specifically for poultry farming?
Signal Processing Techniques (CREST) (pp. 277-280). IEEE.
In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communication, The factors should be taken into consideration are Temperature,
[13]
Networks and Satellite (Comnetsat) (pp. 50-54). IEEE. Humidity, Soil Moisture, Light and Fan Control, Gas, Curtain, Dis-
In 2020 IEEE 7th International Conference on Industrial ease and Parasite, Feed and Water, Lack of Smart Technologies etc.
[14]
Engineering and Applications (ICIEA) (pp. 738-742). IEEE. These factors can be taken into consideration specifically for poul-
In 2019 2nd International Conference on Communication try farming.
[15]
Engineering and Technology (ICCET) (pp. 72-75). IEEE.
4.5 Issues in IoT-based Smart Poultry Farming
Several issues have been identified to address the fifth research
Table 3. Publication Source, Reference and Impact Factor (IF) Part 2 question required for Poultry Farming. It is depicted in Table IV.
Publication Sources (Journal) Ref. IF
Journal of World’s poultry research, 3(4), 2013. [16] 0.564
International journal of control and automation, 7(2), 4.6 Different IoT-based Smart Poultry Farming Types
[17] 3.314
99-108, 2014. Identifying the types of Poultry Farming is required to address the
Indian Journal of Science and Technology, 8(19), 2015. [18] 0.224 seventh research question. There are many types of Poultry Farm-
Int. J. of Recent Trends in Eng. & Res. (IJRTER), ing nowadays, depending on how Poultry Farm is managed. Among
[19] 4.490
Volume 03, Issue 02; February - 2017 those, three of the most widely used Poultry Farming systems (Fig.
International Research Journal of Engineering and 2) are discussed below:
[20] 0.145
Technology (IRJET), System, 6(03), 2019.
—Internet-Based Smart Poultry Farm: It focuses on integrating
International Journal of Software Engineering and Soft
[21] 0.375 wireless sensors and mobile system networks to control and re-
Computing, 6 (Special Issue), 171-175, 2016.
motely monitor environmental parameters in a poultry farm [18].
Int. J. Sci. Technol. Res, 3(7), 109-113, 2014. [22] 0.196
International Journal of Advanced Research in —IoT-Based Smart Poultry Farm: This system feeds the food in the
[23] 0.715 container, maintains the temperature using a water sprinkler, and
Computer Science, 7(3) May - June, 2016.
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 170, 2020 [24] 7.270 removes the gas [20].
Sensors, 20(6), 1549, 2020. [25] 3.576 —Ai-Based Smart Poultry Farm: It focuses on monitoring the poul-
Sustainability, 13(23), 13396, 2021. [26] 3.473 try farm and bird health, the IoT devices employing different
Webology, 19(1), 2022. [27] 1.565 types of sensors, video/image processing and classification ca-
pabilities, and vocalization (sound) based Poultry livestock anal-
ysis is being studied [13].
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Table 4. Different Issues Regarding Smart Poultry Farming Table 5. Different Sensors Used in IoT-Based Smart Poultry
Issues Description Farming
Lack of Smart Most farmers don’t know about the advantages of SL Sensor Name Description
Technologies Smart Technologies. [8–27] Temperature Sensor A temperature sensor which is an
The most challenging task in traditional poultry [8–10, 12, 13] electronic device that measures the
Feed and Water 1
farming by human resources is to feed in time. [15, 16, 18–21] temperature of its environment.
Related Problem
[8, 10, 13–17, 20, 22–26] [23–25, 27] Example: DHT11, LM35.
Disease and In traditional farming, there is too much dust, and A humidity sensor is an electronic
Humidity Sensor
Parasite Related that’s how poultry Disease and Parasite spreads. device that measures the humidity in
[8–10, 12, 13]
Problem [8–10, 13, 16, 18–21, 23–26] 2 its environment and converts its
[15, 16, 18–22]
Temperature and Temperature and Humidity is the factor which findings into a corresponding electrical
[23–25, 27]
Humidity Related indicates the hotness or coldness of the farm. signal. Example: DHT11.
Problem [8–10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18–25, 27] A gas sensor is a device which can
Gas Sensor
Light is one of the main components of poultry detect the presence of various toxic
Light Control 3 [8–10, 12, 13]
farming and is related to poultry growth. and combustible gases present in the
Related Problem [16, 21, 23, 24, 27]
[9–11, 14–17, 21, 22] atmosphere. Example: MQ-135
Co2, Ammonia Gas produced from a poultry farm creates problems It is an electronic device that measures
and Oxygen for poultry and the environment. the distance of an object by emitting
Ultrasonic Sensor
Related Problem [8–10, 12, 13, 17, 21, 23, 24, 27] 4 ultrasonic sound waves and converting
[10, 18]
reflected sound into an electrical
signal. Example: HC-SR04.
An infrared sensor is a radiation
IR Sensor sensitive optoelectronic material
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[10, 22, 27] whose spectral sensitivity is infrared.
Example: RBD-0685.
The dust sensor integrates an (IRED) to
detect dust in the air and generate
Dust Sensor
6 an output voltage proportional to dust
[19]
density to measure dust.
Example: GP2Y1010AU0F,
Soil moisture sensors typically refer to
Soil Moisture Sensor
7 sensors that estimate volumetric water
[15, 19]
content. Example: YL-69, HL-69 etc.
A smoke detector is a smart device
Fire Detection Sensor which senses smoke, mainly it is an
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[12, 22] indicator of fire.
Fig. 2. Caption
Example: AW-CSD381 etc.
It’s an essential component of our
4.7 Sensor and Boards are used in IoT-based Smart home security system nowadays they
Poultry Farming Door Sensor
9 let you know when someone is
[12]
entering your home.
The sensors and boards used to address the sixth research question
Example: 4MTRS INNO-96.
in the reviewed papers have been identified and listed in Table V
A light sensor is a photoelectric device
and Table VI, respectively. Analyzing these two tables, some sen- Light Sensor
that converts light energy
sors and boards are presented in Fig. 3. 10 [9–11, 14–17]
detected to electrical energy.
[21, 22]
Example: LM393.
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