Design of a management control system for poultry plants using wireless sensor networks with Open Hardware technology

The design of the automated control of a poultry plant using Open Hardware Arduino technology and how it was implemented in the Poultry Academic Plant of the Faculty of Animal Sciences of the Polytechnic School of Chimborazo, Ecuador is presented. Microcontroller to another designed for the connection of sensors and actuators is also illustrated. The sensors were selected based on the technical characteristics of broilers breeding process, used to measure temperature, humidity, light intensity, ammonia, carbon monoxide and flammable gases. According to the present study, this module should be placed at a height between 0.80 and 1.5 m. and out of direct influence of heaters or fans, this way; it is optimized to send measurements wirelessly, using ZigBee protocol to a computer that, using developed software, compares them with parameters considered normal. It was also developed a web application and implemented, for monitoring and control from anywhere. Using this system, a mortality rate of 0.2% and weight gain averages above 2600 g were obtained, which justifies the project and is an option to be considered by poultry, due to the savings of resources obtained.