Applying AI and IoT technology, a group of students from the University of Ho Chi Minh City Natural Sciences built an automatic bird nest system that helps monitor parameters remotely, detect broken devices and harmful natural enemies swiftlet.
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The system to monitor the number and behavior of swiftlets and detect natural enemies Photo: NNC
Currently, the bird's nest farming industry is developing strongly and mainly on a family scale.
Mr. Bui Duy Bao, a member of the research team, said that a big inconvenience for the owners of bird nests is that they have to go directly to the bird's nest to be able to check the humidity, temperature, and light of the swiftlet nest to adjust the parameters. Meanwhile, farmers should limit entering the swiftlet nest because the swiftlets are quite afraid to meet people. Therefore, this work not only takes a lot of time and effort, but also affects the nesting capacity of the nest.
The nest farming system developed by the team consists of 4 parts: sensing and adjusting devices; Gateway; WISE-PaaS cloud platform; and the application displays the data to the user. Accordingly, sensors installed at many locations in the bird nest are responsible for sending data to the WISE-PassS cloud platform through the Gateway, and the data will be displayed on a computer or phone application for people to use bird nest can see.
The data obtained from the sensor includes temperature, humidity, light, number of swiftlets, number of natural enemies (rats, snakes, geckos and etc.); If these parameters exceed the allowed threshold, the system will automatically send a warning message. Based on that, the bird's nest farmers can promptly adjust the conditions accordingly to produce the best quality bird's nest.
In addition, the system can also send alerts about broken devices in the bird's nest.
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Parameters are displayed and alerted to users for timely handling. Photo: NNC
According to Duy Bao, this system was developed independently, can be installed without affecting the operating equipment in the bird's nest.
The team's device has been tested in practice in Ho Chi Minh City and recently won the third prize of the "AIoT Developer InnoWorks 2021 application development" contest. Currently, the group is ready to transfer the system to the swiftlet raising households in need.
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