Design and analysis automatic temperature control in the broiler poultry farm based on wireless sensor network

Abstract

The demand of chicken meat consumption has increased continually. So there is a need to give attention to several factors to optimize the production results. One of these factors is the temperature and humidity in the chicken broiler farm. A concept of modern poultry farms using computer network technology is benefical. In this study, we designed a Wireless Sensor Network technology which can monitor and control the condition of temperature and humidity in the poul try cages. This system consists of 3 sensor nodes and coordinator node with a star topology. The measurements of several scenarios are needed to analyze the quality of wireless sensor network technology. The temperature and humidity sensor has an average percent error of 1.51%. The power consumption required per node of 3.15 mW with the system life time for 4 hours 42 minutes. The maximum range of xbee when the conditions of Line of Sight is farther than urban conditions. The range of xbee in indoor Line of Sight conditions is 79 m and the outdoor is 94 m. Otherwise, range in urban area indoor is 46 m, and for outdoor is 83 m. Implementation results show that the heat index can be maintained in 25°C.