Development of a fully automated smart incubator system

Mazhan, Muhammad Azfar Aminuddin (2022) Development of a fully automated smart incubator system. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Poultry egg incubators are easily found with variety of hatching features. If heat and humidity in incubator are not optimal, the stability of eggs will deteriorate. As a response, in order to make it work and technology emerge, an enhanced chicken egg incubator is required. The entire system is controlled by using Arduino UNO as the brain of the system which having interface with LCD and DHT11 sensor. The sequence of operation started with DHT11 sensor detect surrounding temperature and humidity while LCD displaying the value. Then, in certain conditions, heat is constantly supplied by such heating elements while ventilation system triggered when temperature and humidity is out of desired value. The egg progress is monitored regularly by inspecting their embryo within their staging phase. This research compares three type of heating elements which is fluorescent light bulb, LED light bulb and heating mat. From the analysis that has been made, the LED bulb can produce the ideal temperature for hatching process which is 37.5°C out of those two heating elements. Besides, the incubator also works well in terms of controlling the humidity where it can maintain the optimum value which is about 55% RH. Tilting mechanism also helps in the hatching process where 65% was hatched under tilted condition even though there is 25% of the eggs without tilted condition successfully hatched.

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