Design of Cow Cattle Weighing System Technology and Automatic Giving Feed

Abstract

Many cow breeders have difficulty weighing the cattle. This is due to the cow's body that is quite large and heavy and the lack of weights in conventional farms or livestock markets. This research aims to help farmers to do cattle weighing and automatically feeding based on morning, day and night meal schedules. The technology is design using a keypad as an input device, a load cell sensor for heavy weighing, the HX711 module as an ADC, the RTC DS3231 for scheduling time readings, the servo motor to rotate and push the weighed feed, the Arduino as a control center and a LCD as an information viewer tool. The results showed that the system could work properly. All components used can function as expected. Load cells can carry out heavy weighing of cows with a success rate of 91.90%. The RTC DS3231 can read the time to schedule distribution of feed according to the desired time, and Servo Motor can distribute feed on the cow feeding schedule with a success rate of 93.62%.