An Ad Hoc communication system for an Efficient Milk collection within White Areas

Abstract

The dairy industry holds an important part of the food sector of Senegal. Nevertheless, milk collection is a difficult logistical problem that has long been of interest to researchers. In addition, some dairies notably those in Senegal’s sylvo-pastoral zone (Ferlo), encounter many problems related to the impossibility of communicating with their surroundings because they are in white areas ( i.e areas where the services of telecommunications operators are not available). This affects their efficiency in the daily collection of milk from the production unit to the milk processing unit. In this paper, thanks to the ramp-up of LPWANs, especially Long Range(LoRa) technology, we build a communication system that facilitates the collection, manipulation and presentation of data related to milk collection in these areas. The system enables the creation of a system that helps in the decision making to support logistical management in the milk collection sector.