KMF MILK CONTAINER MONITORING SYSTEM USING IOT TECHNOLOGY

Harshitha B R# , Vijay Kumar

#School of CSE, REVA University
Bangalore, India
`harshitharaju995@gmail.com
`vijaykumarh@reva.edu.in

Abstract-KMF marketing the products in the where AMUL stands in a first place. The difficult
name of Nandini. KMF is a Federation of milk in monitoring of the containers and tracking, if
produces association working on co-operative the bulk production Our propose system keep
principle. In Karnataka each and every district track of milk containers which is connected with
has milk producing co-operatives. The collected the tracking sensor. The heart of the system is
milk by the former are processed and sold and microcontroller which is connected with sensors
marketed with its brand name Nandini. Nandini and tracking Id’s .These data are displayed on IoT
is the second largest milk co-operative in India, system using Blynk app.
Keyword: Internet of things (IOT) based system,
ESP8266,Blynk
i. INTRODUCTION

It has 2 methods of measuring milk level

generally they are direct and indirect
measurements. [1] Where direct level
measurement has bob, and tap and method, sight
glass method where indirect level measurement
has pressure gauge, purge system, differential
pressure meter, displacer type milk level ii. LITERATURE REVIEW
measurement since tanks are large in generally it
is difficult to maintain and also time-consuming Milk Level Monitoring can be found in many
to monitor the tank milk levels. [2]. It has several areas since before. Various types of Level
ways of executing level measuring processes like Monitoring system based on the control are:
mechanical, capacitive, inductive, ultrasonic,
acoustic and optical. Figure 1 Ultrasonic sensor is 1. Individual systems: This is a very popular
used to milk level measuring ultrasonic waves is type of systems. Here the whole model is
used to measure the height and optimize the implemented on a targeted single source system.
control milk level in the tank .Figure 1 displaying 2. Large control systems: Here the water level is
milk level measurement in a tank by using the implemented on a very large scale basis and huge
below equation height “H” can be calculated . [3] a mounts of sensors are used.
. H = h - h 1 ------------------------------------------- 3. Central Control systems: The systems are
----------- (1) automated to operate multiple function. It is can
be operated from anywhere in the world by using
telephone or internet.
Based on the method of automation various
types are as follows:
 1. Bluetooth based Level Monitoring: Here were managed by servers front-end app to
Bluetooth plays a major role in alerting the internet is android application.
anomalies.
[4] We can access any device anywhere in a user-
2. Remote Level Monitoring: In this, the system friendly with a clod platform by that connect
is controlled remotely. things around us. Applications use the devices
such as sensors need huge space to store huge
3. Automatic Level Monitoring: The system is
data with immense computation power for real-
programmed to automatically perform some
time processing. This paper presents the
defined actions.
automation where the cloud uses SHA-1 and
iii. SOFTWARE-SYSTEM Naive Bayes algorithm.
ATTRIBUTES [5] The paper proposes the design and
implementation of wireless real time milk level
1. Reliability: It should omit the similar results
monitoring system concept by using Aurdino
under consist conditions only then it set to have
UNO micro controller as a central controllers
high reliability.
v. METHODOLOGY
2. Availability: The system should be ready to
start the mission at any point of the time to start
System Architecture
mission.
3. Security: Degree of resistance to any harm. The system Architecture is subdivided into 3
layers are:
4. Portability: Using the same software in
different environments. Physical Layer. This layer consist of
communication technologies and sensor nodes. In
5. Maintainability: The system should be design
this layer the information is collected and transfer
in such a way that it can be restored even after a
information to service layer.
failure occurs.
6. Performance: To analyze if the system meets Service Layer. It plays very important role in the
its goals. system architecture. The business logic and
application are implemented here. It were
iv. RESEARCH WORK collected information for future use. This layer
provides a different tools for information
[1] The benefits of monitoring milk level and analytics.
processing by using the wireless based type of
monitoring with the help of Aurdino. Presentation Layer. It is the top layer by this we
[2] It also explains automate the homes by using can image the data to the user and it permits the
Aurdino. The Aurdino and Aurdino are the best user to interacts.
method of automation because the existing
Bluetooth method of automation limitations was vi. WORKING PRINCIPLE
analyzed to prove. It also explains the
We use the Arduino board in this project that
specifications of Hardware and Software.
microcontroller which controls all the sensors
[3] Detecting a milk level through the internet by attached to it. We use tracking sensors for
the development of prototype for milk level checking the milk level in the milk container. The
monitoring. A Microprocessors acts like a central milk monitor calculates the milk level in the RF
devices and connected to internet to control ID sensor and sends the information to Arduino
sensors and receive orders. The users and devices like ultrasonic sensor data is send to Arduino
board and from to cloud for Arduino and from a user-friendly microcontroller, in which we
there to cloud for data processing into write c++ programs to control these pins and
Wifi(esp8266) modules. devices connected to pins.

I . BLOCK DIAGRAM  Microcontroller ATmega328

 5 voltage input
 Input voltage 7 to 12v
Power
supply B. ESP8266

Display
Track Unit
Senso
Microcontrol
rs
ler
RF ID WIFI
IOT
It is a low cost WIFI microchip with full TCP/IP
stack, it is made by third party manufacture Ai-
Thinker. Using Hayes-style commands this
II. MODULE DESCRIPTION IOT module allows microcontrollers to connect to a
The components are used in this project are: WIFI network and make simple TCP/IP
connections. At first chip and the commands does
 Arduino UNO not accept English-language documentation,
 ESP3266 ESP32 released in 2016 is the successor to these
 Track Sensor microcontroller chips.
 RF ID Sensor C. TRACK SENSOR

A. ARDUINO UNO

The maze tracking robot has 3IR line tracking

sensors. The sensor follows lines, or light
It is open-source microcontroller board it is based reflected on the surface, in the figure 3 of are
on the Microchip ATmega328P microcontroller. those. I did not found any information regarding
Arduino cc it is service with sets of digital and the same in anywhere in the internet, their
analog input and output pins. It was 6 analog operation and programming should be easy. The
inputs, a 16mhz ceramic resonator, this Arduino sensor has detector and IR light emitter, and
has a USB connection, power jack, and a reset sensor status which IR light reflected from the
button can be powered by an external 9 voltages, surface on or off. The status of sensor show by
between 7 to 20 volts. It is widely used and is also
LED. The need to be calibrate the sensor to set The sonar is used to determine the distance to an
the threshold in dark and light. object like bats do by its HC-SR04. Ultrasonic
sensor, HC-SR04 offers non -contact range
D. RF ID SENSOR detection with efficient reading in easy to use
package, from 2cm to 400cm. By sunlight or
black material like sharp range finders doesn’t
affects its operations the ultrasonic sensor
includes ultrasonic transmitter and receiver
modules.

vii. CONULUSION

In our project the data collected from all track

sensor is sent to cloud platform to storage from
there the data to blynk application which displays
the result to display unit and display unit well
display values in digital values. Finally, the RF
The device are a radio frequency identification ID sensor will transmits the information to the
reader used to gather the information from RF ID blynk application through the specified milk level
tag, individual can be track using RF ID tag, data monitoring in blynk application we can know the
to transfer data from one tag to a reader using milk level container monitoring.
radio waves. RF ID technology is same in theory viii. REFERENCE
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