IOT Based Real-Time Control and Monitoring System for Food Grain Procurement and Storage

• Published in: IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering Vol. 993; no. 1; pp. 12079 - 12085
• Main Authors: Hema, L K, Velmurugan, S, Sunil, D N, Thariq Aziz, S, Thirunavkarasu, S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 01.12.2020
• Subjects: Food grain; Internet of Things; Microcontroller; Real Time Control
• ISSN: 1757-8981; 1757-899X
• DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/993/1/012079

Nowadays, healthy and risk free foods play an important role in our day to day life. So it is necessary to monitor the environmental conditions and parameters which are inside the grain (Barley, Brown rice, and Buckwheat) storage containers and taking care of it. In our proposed system a set of sensors which are integrated inside the grain storage containers and our prime objective is to provide an effective, secure, easily accessible storage in unpredictable weather conditions. In the process of grain storage, temperature and humidity are two factors that can affect the quality of grains. The overall structure of the proposed grain storage system consists of two components, one is the host computer located in control room for information processing and prediction of grain situation, the other is the computer terminal in the granary with grain data acquisition. The main purpose of the system is to acquire data from different sensors and transmit this data wireless connectivity through IOT(Internet of Things) to access the status of granary. If the parameters of the grains exceeds the specified threshold level then the exhaust fans are automatically ON to reduce the exceeded parameters namely temperature and humidity. The proposed system has good reliability, maintainability and cost effectiveness.