Sistema de monitoramento de produção de leite

Abstract

Brazil is one of the biggest milk producers in the world, but, even thou, Brazilian productive chain cannot be considered specialized, as it is composed mostly of small producers, without the use of technology, and presenting a very low productivity when compared to the other leaders of production. Currently, most of the technology that is offered to this area is aimed at the big producers, with a lot of functionalities and a very high implementation cost. This article is aimed to accomplish a system to monitor the milk production that is simple, effective and cheap, aimed at the small and medium producers. The system acquires the milking time, the temperature and the milk volume, using a real time clock, a temperature sensor and a flow sensor positioned at the milking machine. The acquired data is then sent to a database using a Wi-Fi network, where, afterwards, they can be accessed through a web application. The application allows the producer to monitor and follow his production, showing the performance of every animal that was milked.