Abstract
Purpose
Harmful flies are one of the major threats to greenhouse crop cultivation in terms of economic loss. Controlling flies in an environmentally friendly manner is preferable to utilizing chemicals. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to develop a system for monitoring the operating status and controlling the major components of an information and communication technology-based eco-friendly harmful fly collector to ensure smooth operation.
Methods
The target harmful fly collector consists of two fly collection chambers with a blower, electric bracket, UV lamp, and LED lamp in each chamber. The collector is moved between plant rows in a greenhouse by a motor on a pipe rail. The operating status monitoring system includes an onsite node and remote node, which consist of microcontrollers, current sensors, relays, radio frequency modules, and manually controlled signal providers for monitoring and controlling the operations of the collector.
Results
The proposed monitoring system allows the operating conditions of the rail motor to be identified accurately as high, mid, low, and back speeds based on power consumption levels of 182.63 ± 2.83 W, 169.58 ± 2.77 W, 157.09 ± 3.05 W, and 122.71 ± 3.51 W, respectively. The operating status of the blowers, LED lamps, and UV lamps can be determined based on power consumption levels of 144.46 ± 1.35 W, 63.45 ± 0.93 W, and 65.02 ± 0.95 W, respectively. The electric bracket consumes up to 245.3 W of power in the presence of any harmful flies. Remote monitoring and control were successfully implemented to operate each component of the collector without failure during our experiments.
Conclusions
The system developed in this study can effectively secure the stable operations of environmentally friendly harmful fly collectors in smart greenhouses.
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Iqbal, Z., Islam, N., Jang, BE. et al. Monitoring the Operating Status of an Automatic Harmful Fly Collector for Smart Greenhouses. J. Biosyst. Eng. 44, 258–268 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42853-019-00036-8
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