Implementación de un sistema de monitorización y control de una incubadora de pollos con tecnología IOT para la empresa privada Incucampos.

Abstract

The current degree work was aimed to implement a chicken incubator with IoT (Internet of Things) technology to Incucampos private company. Therefore, selecting the software and hardware appropriate to the characteristics essential for the correct implementation was necessary. The academic, technical, and practical requirements that involve the artificial incubation of chickens were studied through the analysis of bibliographic research. In addition, IoT characteristics were studied to allow the monitoring and control of an incubator through a remote connection configured by Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity), different from conventional methods such as physical and face-to-face supervision in the incubator rooms. These previous monitoring methods also caused uncertainty at night because the process was entirely performed without supervision. The Arduino UNO development board was mainly used to carry out this project, which controlled the sensors and actuators involved in the incubation process, and the Wi-Fi Node MCU ESP-8266 card was used to connect to the network. The monitoring was carried out employing the sensor data of humidity and temperature, uploaded to the Internet of Things platform CavyIoT. As regards actuators, they were made up of an electrothermal resistance to produce heat, a fan for uniform distribution of heat and humidity, another fan to reseat in case of excess heat, and motor trays in charge of rotating the eggs at certain time intervals. It was concluded that the IoT Incubator obtained better results than the company's traditional incubators, having a higher percentage of the chick hatching. It is recommended to use fertile eggs for a higher chick hatching rate.