Low Cost IoT-Based System for Monitoring and Remote Controlling Aviaries

Abstract

These days, in order for the poultry farmers to be successful in their activities, it is necessary to control with precision all data related to the poultry management. Many times, such data are contained inside the own aviary, temperature, ventilation, level of feed, lighting, among others. These parameters exert influence directly on the chicken’s growth. The proposed model combines hardware and software in order to monitor and automatically control these environmental parameters, allowing the poultry farmer to configure predefined function standards, as well as control such data remotely through a smartphone application. Besides allowing the configuration of the control parameters, the proposed model allows to monitor the temperature values and actuators status in real time, creating logs of the sensors and alarms readings. Several of the concepts of Internet of Things (IoT) were applied in this work in order to build a systemic design with high scalability.