2021 7th International Conference on Advanced Computing & Communication Systems (ICACCS)
IOT Based Automated Poultry Farm for
Layer Chicken
2021 7th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication Systems (ICACCS) | 978-1-6654-0521-8/20/$31.00 ©2021 IEEE | DOI: 10.1109/ICACCS51430.2021.9441939
'P. Jayarajan, 2M. Annamalai, 3V. Annie Jannifer, 4A. Arvind Prakash
Sri Krishna College o f Technology,
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
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Abstract— The vast majority of the poultry barns in India are
physically checked and administered. Temperature, air quality,
dampness, illumination, oxygenating the barn and food intake by
the chicken are the significant elements that should have been
checked and controlled. These variables are straightforwardly
identified with the poultry creation. Presently, the death pace of
chicken is more at poultry farms. This project is planned to farm
healthy layer chickens and lessen death pace of chicken and to
ameliorate the coherence o f the poultry products by observing and
keeping up the temperature, dampness, air quality and food feeder
viably utilizing Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) technology &
Internet o f Things (IoT). A model was made utilizing IoT and WSN
advancements and the mentioned boundaries were tried against
limit esteems. This framework additionally sends programmed
ready notice to the client through SMS. A Web interface is
additionally made to screen and show these boundaries.
Index Terms— IOT, temperature sensor, gas sensor, feeding,
SMS,
I. INTRODUCTION
In India, Poultry is one of the fastest growing sector of the
agricultural industries today. Poultry items are exceptionally
nutritious, be it both meat and eggs. They are a fundamental
piece of the human eating regimen and are devoured for its
rich protein and mineral substance. Because of the expanding
request in poultry items, Poultry cultivating is viewed as
quite possibly the main sector of Agricultural Economy in
India. Layer Chickens are an exceptional sort of hens that lay
eggs. On a normal, a solitary layer chicken lays up to 300
eggs for each annum, that is practically equivalent to one egg
each day. Along these lines to guarantee a solid chicken
development, there are sure factors like temperature, air
quality, dampness, ventilation, lighting that must be
observed routinely. Poultry farming is considered to be one
amongst the foremost vital element of India’s Agricultural
Economy. The process of automatic chicken monitoring
mechanism is inevitably helpful to the expansion in poultry
trade. Perhaps, additional mechanical device for the
management of temperature, air quality, ventilation etc., is
most significant and labour-intensive task. The planned
project aims to provide healthy chickens that produces
quality eggs so as to boost the egg yield in India by
computerizing the method of administering the mentioned
factors and cultivating poultry feed through Internet of
Things (IoT). This project chiefly focuses on the expansion
of layer chickens. Therefore, to make sure a healthy chicken
growth, there square measure bound factors like temperature,
air quality, humidity, ventilation, lighting that needs to be
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monitored frequently.
II. RELATED WORKS
The system aids the farmers to watch the poultry barn and
dominant the operations of the ranch. To manage and
oversee the poultry work easier, this system is built based on
the combination of wireless sensors and mobile system. The
environmental factors such as ammonia gas, temperature are
automatically monitored and controlled [1]. A Network
connection is established among the devices to communicate
between each another and also the individuals. This
ingenious system will scale back value, time and labours.
This system is a replacement method for human labour for
feeding food to the chickens by spreading it into a container.
It overcomes the intense manpower issues within the poultry
farm. Additionally, it involves two sections; firstly, the food
is fed into specific repository and secondly, the freshness of
chickens’ food is controlled by the temperature sensing
element [2]. It enhances the poultry’s atmospheric condition
and labour value, and to avoid contamination of food, the
system saves the chicken feed every time its fed. In this
research, to observe and manage the atmospheric conditions
of the poultry farm, a wireless sensor network
technology(WSN) is utilized. To aid the farmers in reducing
human work, an electronic network technology comes into
play. This computerized system improves the quality of egg
production. A combination of hardware and open source
code is built for the management of the domesticated barn.
Furthermore, it includes dampness, temperature, air quality
and light intensity. The main focus of the system is to
produce a cost efficient hardware, an open supply code and
a setup like IOT. This system recognizes several issues being
tackled by the poultry trade [4]. It reserves time, reliance of
manpower and ameliorate a fit environ, this will in turn
increase poultry production, mainly eggs. The main stream
of this analysis paper is to monitor and to administer the
poultry farm, by employing a WSN technology to achieve a
precise action. The facility to provide a healthy feed for
chicken and to control the atmospheric condition in the farm,
a system is being utilized by the user [5]. To maintain a
healthy ambiance in the poultry farm, environmental factors
such as temperature, humidity, air quality has to be
continuously monitored. The key focus of this paper is to
automate the poultry farm with exploitation of wireless
sensor network and mobile communication system [6]. By
exploitation the quality of egg production is revamped. The
good poultry farm targets absolute climatic conditions and
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thus the quality of eggs are eventually revamped. The
climate of poultry farm becomes absolutely machine-
controlled. To make an automatic environment controlled
poultry management system, is the main target of the system.
System does not solely monitor the poultry house; however,
it additionally regulates these parameters properly [7]. The
system’s approach is to manage the exploitation remotely
through hand-held mobile devices. The designed system
reduces the toiling manpower and economizes time. The
paper focuses to produce the required atmospheric
conditions in poultry farm and additionally regulates the
performance. The right methodology of dominant poultry
barn is the oxygenating system and it additionally embraces
a critical issue which is atmospheric temperature and
atmospheric wetness [8]. This mode incongruity of the
system is monitored in a stratified manner and the
precariousness of the system is turned down. This system
does not solely scale back the production cost; however, it
improves the health of the chickens. The paper focuses on
inculcating WSN and GPRS network to regulate and
supervise the surrounding environmental factors such as
temperature, humidity, ammonia gas etc. within the poultry
farm. The set-up takes instantaneous action to regulate the
mentioned environmental factors. Food and water level is
furthermore supervised and surveilled the exploitation of
machine-controlled system [9]. It also helps the farmers or
labours to watch and remotely acquire the entire system. One
amongst the most important key is to monitor the food intake
by the chicken and the water level, on a time to time basis,
in order to minimize wastages. The paper scale back
manpower’s work with manpower’s value. It improves the
nutrient supply in poultry farm. The information being
collected from the poultry’s setting through wireless sensing
element is combined with the sensors. So, atmospheric
climate in the poultry is being monitored and it is well
approachable to the user [10]. This technique keeps track of
the system and collects useful information from the poultry
farm to the owner wirelessly. Thus this technique is ready to
congregate the information and ply mechanically and aids to
regulate the surrounding temperature in the domesticated
barn. Indian poultry is one of the major contributors to the
National food security. It depends on obstacles of the excess
heat being generated in summer and stern cold waves during
winter. The warmth losses during the daylight respecting the
transience and also the cold snap boosts the potency of food.
i.e. the quality of food being consumed [12]. The paper
mainly focuses on scanning the properties such as economy,
chillness and warmth in poultry farm by exploitation of the
earth-air device. The paper includes to boost the economy,
production, quality of the poultry farm. The temperature is
additionally maintained by the exploitation of the wireless
sensing element network. By utilizing this system, the
quality and amount of eggs laid by the chicken is improved
to maintain human health [13]. The production and economy
of the poultry farm is achieved with the help of wireless
sensing element node which is highly helpful for early
detection of the well-being of the chickens. The development
of the wireless sensor node is focused by the analysis paper.
A new small temperature sensor technology was established
to satisfy the necessities, of better sensitivity and low power
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consumption of sensors. A sensible monitoring is achieved
through minimum functions, which eventually is the main
focus of this paper. Chickens infected with the extremely
infective craniate respiratory disease (HPAI) viruses in
poultry farms is detected with the help of Wireless sensing
element node and temperature sensing element. The initial
stages of any infected chicken is detected through a wireless
sensing element node. A global avian respiratory disease, a
closed-circuit television monitors the well-being of chickens
via wireless sensing element nodes within the poultry ranch
[14]. The set-up reports the health conditions of the chicken,
obtained by sensors like fever and weaknesses to the user.
Wireless sensing element node has advanced to cut back the
ability expenditure of a tool.
III. EXISTING SYSTEM
The majority of the domestic fowls’ barns in India utilize
customary meat & egg cultivating techniques. In the
conventional poultry ranch, the everyday tasks like
monitoring temperature, moisture, food intake, air quality,
illuminating, oxygenating and warming are physically
observed and administered. It is hard to ameliorate the above
profitability elements in the customary cultivating strategies
since it includes huge committed labour with brief manual
activities. Each chicken outbuilding has an administrator and
need to be continuously monitored and change the
temperature physically in the event that if there is an
adjustment within the system. During dusk, if the
administrator neglected to inspect or change the temperature,
it can influence the well-being of the chicken. For agonizing
the chicken, the barn utilizes a gas brooder, particularly for
the more youthful chicken. Any alteration in the moistness,
it might influence the development of the chicken. In the
event that the Relative Humidity shoots up, the heat freshens
up and acquires cooler air through legitimate ventilation with
the help of a progression of active exhaust fans. The
domesticated bird dwelling place continuously demands
great air quality in order to improve the well-being of the
chicken. As of now, there could be no appropriate framework
for checking the Ammonia gas in the outbuilding and on the
off chance that they distinguish any overabundance
Ammonia gas, administrators switch on the fumes fan
physically what's more, that will eliminate the gas to the
outside of the outbuilding. At present, semi-automatic
transport belting framework does the work of the food feeder
in the barn. It has the capability to convey food through the
belting framework, however the accessibility of food is
observed physically. Once more, this turns into a human
subordinate interaction and misstep can occur.
IV. PROBLEM STATEMENT
The atmospheric condition plays a vital role in the
production of healthy layer chickens. In order to achieve this
condition, the air quality level, temperature, humidity,
ventilation and lighting has to be continuously monitored. In
addition to this, a secured environment is necessary and the
nutrient supply to the chicken has to be observed at a
sustained pace, to improve the quality of the eggs laid by the
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chicken.

V. PROPOSED SYSTEM

The aim is to provide healthy chickens that produces quality

eggs, so as to boost the mass production of eggs in India by
monitoring factors such as air quality, humidity,
temperature, ventilation, lighting automatically and
cultivating poultry feed through Internet of Things (IoT).
The ultimate goal of this project is to arrive at the interest in
poultry items, by guaranteeing solid development of layer
chickens and developing poultry feed, to produces quality
eggs and improve the profitability in India.

A. Hardware requirements
• Arduino UNO
• Power supply
Fig 2. The circuit diagram o f the prototype
• Temperature sensor
• GAS sensor The proposed project expects to deliver solid chickens that
• IR sensor produce quality eggs to improve profitability in India via
• Relay board computerizing the way toward observing the above
• DC motor components and developing poultry feed through Internet of
• LCD display Things (IoT). A model was made utilizing IoT and WSN
• GSM module advancements and the above boundaries were tried against
• WIFI module limit esteems. This framework additionally sends
• LED strip programmed ready notice to the client through SMS. A Web
• Transformer interface is additionally made to screen and show these
boundaries.
B. Software requirements
• Arduino IDE

Fig 1. Block diagram o f the prototype

Fig 3. Flow chart representation.

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C. Enhancement Technique:

The model will be planned utilizing the accompanying

advances:

• The temperature sensor detects the atmospheric

temperature and compares it with the ideal
temperature. If the temperature decreases, the
consumption of food by the chicken increases to
maintain its body temperature. Likewise, if the
temperature increases, the food consumed by the
chicken decreases, as it takes time to process the
food. Therefore, the amount of food given to the
chickens within the cage is controlled by the feeder
sensor based on the temperature.

Fig 5. Output monitored via Cloud

VI. RESULT

The results show that, in accordance to the temperature

Fig 4. Picture o f the hardware
• Air quality Sensor detects the level of Ammonia
within the barn. If the detected value exceeds the
threshold level, it automatically instructs the fan
to ventilate NH3 and CO2 from the barn. The main
cause in the increase of Ammonia and CO2 is due
to the increase in relative humidity within the barn
which favor the microbial pollution growth in
chicken litter. This can be detected with the help
of Humidity Sensor.
• A door Magnet sensor is placed over the cage to
detect if there is any unauthorized intrusion and an
alert message is sent with the help of a GSM
module.
• A conveyor belt and IR sensor is implemented
here to collect the eggs and count the number of
eggs that has been collected respectively.
• LED strip is placed in the cage to give warmth to
the chicken. And also poultry feed can be
cultivated with the help of the light produced from
the LED strip. This cultivation is based on
Hydroponics concept.
being detected with the help of temperature sensor, the
intensity of the LED will be regulated and the feed given to
the chicken will also be controlled with the help of servo
motor. In case of harmful gases such as Ammonia being
detected by the gas sensor, it automatically prompts the
exhaust fan to ventilate the gas out. The temperature,
humidity, air quality level and the number of eggs being
collected is updated in the cloud for easy reference. The
GSM module sends SMS alert in case of cage being opened
and also gives weekly remainders for various nutrients that
has to fed to the chicken, to grow healthier chickens so as
to produce quality eggs.
VII. CONCLUSION
The environment in the poultry ranch is vital on the grounds
that it impacts the soundness of the layer chicken. In the
event that the atmospheric conditions are not well
monitored, it can influence the strength of the chickens and
other medical issues. Our examination model shows that
utilizing IoT technology for the poultry farming can more
readily keep up the climatic conditions. The system sends
SMS to the owner of the poultry farm feed regarding the
unwanted gas, food to chickens, temperature in barn which
is fully automatic and hence reduces man power. Hence this
system will appear to be highly efficient, reduces manpower
and saves time. To arrive at the interest in poultry items, by
guaranteeing solid development of layer chickens and
developing poultry feed, to produces quality eggs and
improve the profitability in India. For future reference, the
concept of Hydroponics can also be implemented.

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