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Smart feeding in farming through IoT in silos

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Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications 2016 (ISTA 2016)

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 530))

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Smart farming practices are of utmost importance for any economy to foster its growth and development and tackle problems like hunger and food insecurity and ensure the well-being of its citizens. However, such practices usually require large investments that are not affordable for SMEs. Such is the case of expensive weighing machines for silos, while the range of possibilities of the Internet of Things (IoT) could intensively reduce these costs while connecting the data to intelligent Cloud services, such as smart feeding systems. The paper presents a novel IoT device and methodology to monitor quantity and quality of grains in silo by estimating the volume of grains at different time instants along with temperature and humidity in the silo. A smart feeding system, implemented via a virtual organization of agents, processes the data and regulates the grain provided to the animals. Experimental on-field measurements at a rabbit farm show the suitability of the proposed system to reduce waste as well as animal diseases and mortality.

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  1. University of Salamanca, BISITE Research Group, C/ Espejo s/n, 37007, Salamanca, Spain

    Himanshu Agrawal, Javier Prieto & Juan Manuel Corchado

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Old residency road, Ratanada, Jodhpur, 342011, Rajasthan, India

    Himanshu Agrawal

  3. Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida 431, 4200-072, Porto, Portugal

    Carlos Ramos

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  1. Dept. of CS, School of Science, University of Salamanca Dept. of CS, School of Science, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan Manuel Corchado Rodriguez

  2. Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute Machine Intelligence Unit, Kolkata, India

    Sushmita Mitra

  3. and Management – Kerala (IIITM-K), Indian Inst. of Information Technology and Management – Kerala (IIITM-K), Trivandrum, Kerala, India

    Sabu M. Thampi

  4. King Fahd Univ of Petroleum and Minerals , Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

    El-Sayed El-Alfy

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Agrawal, H., Prieto, J., Ramos, C., Corchado, J.M. (2016). Smart feeding in farming through IoT in silos. In: Corchado Rodriguez, J., Mitra, S., Thampi, S., El-Alfy, ES. (eds) Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications 2016. ISTA 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 530. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47952-1_28

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