Automation of Poultry Farm Feeding Process and Egg Counting Using IOT Technology

ABSTRACT This work focused on the automation of poultry farm feeding process and egg counting using IoT technology. Poultry is one of the most important growing economic segments of the agricultural sector in the world today because of standardized farming management and good manufacturing practices. However, this is not so in an emerging economy like Nigeria where most of its poultry farms still rely on the primitive method of manual labour. This has negatively impacted the productivity of poultry farming in Nigeria. Thus, automation and the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) as an emerging technology have been adopted in this work to convert traditional poultry systems into automated systems using sensor technology and internet connectivity to automate the feeding and egg counting system, prevent unauthorized access and theft as well as monitor the farm online through a camera. The designed system can significantly minimize or eliminate egg theft due to manual labourers during egg collection and counting and increase productivity.