Abstract: Incubation is a technology that provides an opportunity for farmers to produce chicks from eggs without the need for the mother hen. It is one of the fastest ways of transforming eggs into chicks. To meet the high demand that the poultry industry is facing, the need to maximize poultry production should be addressed. Hence, this research study aimed to develop and test a digital egg incubator that can autonomously incubate eggs while allowing a user to remotely monitor the egg incubation and hatching process in a mobile app using Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology. The innovation of a prototype autonomous egg incubator with-internet of things application was developed overarching the objectives to determine the production yield of the prototype automated egg incubator, determine the efficiency of the prototype automated egg incubator in terms of the number of eggs hatched, humidity, temperature, and egg turning, evaluate the prototype automated egg incubator embedded system using the ISO-IEC 25010 system product quality evaluation, and determine its acceptability o in terms of its usability, functionality, and performance. Henceforth, the field testing and experimentation data of this study showed that the device garnered 100% efficiency score in terms of maintaining temperature, humidity, and CO2 (ventilation), as well as managing the egg-turning mechanism. In addition, the IoT Egg Incubator and Hatching device's average output of 94% efficiency in egg hatching with a production yield of 0.94 further supports the claim. Furthermore, the conducted ISO-IEC 25010 System Product Quality Evaluation for the proposed device indicated that the evaluating panel of IT experts found the embedded system to be excellent in terms of functional suitability, performance efficiency, usability, and reliability. Moreover, the Acceptability Evaluation in terms of its usability, functionality, and performance was very acceptable and indeed useful and functional, and it can incubate and hatch poultry eggs adequately.

 
Keywords: Agriculture, Technology, Internet-of-Things, Developmental Research

Works Cited:

JARRY S. FUENTES " DEVELOPMENT OF PROTOTYPE AUTOMATED EGG INCUBATOR WITH INTERNET-OF-THINGS (IoT) APPLICATION", IARJSET International Advanced Research Journal in Science, Engineering and Technology, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 1-5, 2023. Crossref https://doi.org/10.17148/IARJSET.2023.10701

| DOI: 10.17148/IARJSET.2023.10701