Automated Sensor based Artificial Ripening System using Arduino and IoT

Abstract

Climate change affects fruit crops’ growth and development by delaying fruit ripening, reducing color development, and lowering fruit quality and yield. The irregular date palm fruit ripening in the past few years is assumed to be related to climatic change. The current study aimed to design and validate an automated sensor-based artificial ripening system (S-BARS) combined with ultrasound pretreatment for artificial ripening date fruits cv.Khalas. A sensor-based control system was constructed to allow continuous real-time recording and control over the process variables. The impact of processing variables, i.e., the artificial ripening temperature (ART-temp) and relative humidity (ART-RH). The system for controlling temperature & humidity automatically is achieved by using microcontroller system. Arduino Uno due to its increased popularity finds its varied range of applications. Temperature & Humidity sensor and Microcontroller are the hardware used interfaced with computer, and the temperature is controlled in the room. Temperature, humidity & other parameters are displayed on LCD display. We have designed temperature & Humidity control as an automatic system that has been not attempted before the way it has been implemented.