RFID Based Fruit Monitoring and Orchard Management System

Abstract

This research presents an efficient fruit monitoring and orchard management system to replace the existing paper-based manual process. The new method is based on five state-of-the-art technologies, namely Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID), Wi-Fi network, Mobile App, Coud database/server, and Web Application. This paper presents the proper integration of these technologies to provide an effective, worker-friendly, and cost-effective solution to the problem. The proposed method starts by attaching RFID tags to each tree and each fruit and registering them in the cloud database. The cloud server visualizes the status of the orchard and implements inventory management. Workers use a hand device for tasks such as bagging, spraying, and plucking. The orchard manager carries out task assignments and worker deployment on the web application. Each worker gets notified of the assigned tasks on his hand device, and when such tasks are accomplished, the status is updated in the cloud database. Using this system, each fruit is monitored from the initial covering state to the final plucking state. On the contrary, the existing paper-based manual process suffers from improper spraying that leads to disease-spreading, infestations, and loss of yield. Due to the existing inefficiencies the price of fruit has gone up to a limit that is not affordable to the public, hence unprofitable to the grower as well. In this context, the proposed solution will help monitor and manage fruit orchards efficiently, which will increase the quality and quantity of the yield while lowering the cost of production.