Prototype of a low-cost automated system for monitoring and control of climatic variables in poultry farms.

Authors

Juárez, Ronald

Pinzón, Cristian

Abstract

This article presents the prototype of a low-cost system for monitoring climatic variables that affect the production in poultry farms such as: the lighting of the enclosure, temperature, relative humidity, flammable gases such as butane and toxic gases such as ammonia, proposing the control of these variables through actuators such as fans and bulbs. This management is performed by a recorder which, in our case, will be the Arduino UNO board which will be transmitting all the information through serial port commands to the telemetry unit corresponding to the ESP8266 module where it is finally sent to the Ubidots platform hosted in the cloud. For the construction of the prototype two programmed modules were handled, one to program the telemetry unit and make the connection with our Wifi network and the second to program the recorder unit that will receive the values coming from the sensors and determine when to activate the actuators. The transmission, storage and management of the values of the variables in the web platform was achieved, as well as the activation of the relay modules destined to the control of the actuator components. The estimated price of the system is 69.30 USD corresponding to the hardware implemented. The preliminary results of the project are presented in this article.