Development of an Integrated Environmental Control System with Expert System for Broiler Breeders
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Ma, Kang-Hung
Abstract
In recent years, the broiler breeder industry has been transferred from the manually raised style to the enterprise style, and the management is playing as a key role in this manner. A well operated management system of the broiler breeder farm needs not only the modern equipments, but also the ability of accurate decision making and prompt execution. Although we already have expert systems for broiler breeder management with enough knowledge base but they are still lack of the ability of automatic control, which may lead the indirect human control and causing the possible negligence and error
In this study, an intelligent environment control system with a set of Zigbee wireless sensor module as monitoring system to measure the temperature, humidity and illuminance was developed. The overall control strategies were constructed according to an existing expert system and executed the automatic actions by serial communication port sending commands from a supervising computer to the micro controllers.
With the completion of wireless sensor network, control strategies and control circuits , this system is getting mature nowadays, letting users send control commands directly through human-machine interface to actuate fans, pads, lighting and receive environment data from sensors.
After a simulation test was conducted based on a commercial broiler breeder farm, it was found that the experimental results could match the real field operation. This reflects a huge progress toward the unmanned environmental control system.
Subjects
Environmental control system
Expert System
Broiler Breeder
WSN
Type
thesis
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