Designing sensor system for detecting chicken movement and behavior

• Main Authors: Abd. Aziz, Mohd. Farid, Othman, Mohd. Fauzi
• Format: Book Section
• Published: Penerbit UTM 2012
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/47755/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Introduction This chapter will discuss the project background, problem statement, objective, scope and summary of work. In addition, this chapter will lay out the trend of this project in the market. Project Background Chicken meat is one of best sources of protein required by our society. The low price compared to meat makes chicken a popular alternative and in demand by customers. Furthermore, the cost for operating the chicken stock is cheaper compared to beef cattle. Usually, the important factor in operating the poultry farm is the health condition factor of the chickens. Usually, the health of the chicken is related to its activeness. When a chicken is unhealthy, it will not move regularly compared to a healthy chicken, where it will be very active. 2 Sometimes, farmers are not aware about the health of their chickens. The greater the number of chickens in the poultry farm the harder for them to detect which chicken is sick. The advancement in technology can overcome this problem where the sensor is designed to detect sick chickens. In addition, the wireless system also provides the data to be sent wirelessly from the chicken coop to the receiver for monitoring the chicken movement behavior. Problem Statement There are four problem statements for this project. Firstly, this project was designed to detect the early sickness of chickens. Nowadays, many sicknesses and viruses can attack poultry farm industries. The latest virus is the Avian Influenza (bird flu). By designing this system, the early sickness chickens can be detected just by looking at the chicken movement and analyzing its behavior. The, data from the transmitter is then transmitted wirelessly. The wireless system is more convenient when it comes to a large poultry area. This method is more reasonable compared to the wired method. The main objective of the project is to design the system for detecting chicken movement.