Design and Implementation of Monitoring and Control System for a Poultry Farm

Many poultry farmers are performing diverse operations in their farms manually. Therefore, they experience a huge financial loss due to inability to properly automate the monitoring and control of environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, light and air quality and to ensure an adequate supply of feed and water. These factors adversely affect the chicks and leaving them uncontrolled might cause health problems for the chicks. This affects the chicks' feed intake and leads to an increase in mortality rate and increases chances of diseases. Therefore, this paper seeks to address automating those factors by developing an embedded poultry farm. The system consists of a PLC or a microcontroller, actuators, and sensors as major components. We display data collected from the sensors to the operators of the farm. The system is able to sense environmental parameter status and responds accordingly to regulate and maintain an optimum condition for improved health conditions for the chicks. The automated system improves productivity and environmental or climatic conditions in the poultry farm, making it conducive for the broiler chicks.