Analysing the Quality of Fruits and Vegetables using IoT integrated with a Smart Phone Application

Abstract

India is the 1st largest producer of fruits & 2nd in vegetable production in the world. Now consumers are more conscious about quality and source of their foods. So Food safety is imperative to avoid food borne diseases and to ensure the public health. It is a major concern in order to prevent the food wastages and economic losses also. In the era of technology advancement everything requires monitoring & controlling. A new generation of mobile sensing approaches offers significant advantages over traditional platforms in terms of speed, control, low cost, ease of operation, data management, require minimal equipment and user involvement. Sensing technology with cellphones enables the development of powerful platforms for many applications including food safety analysis. To determine the quality of food materials non- destructively is a difficult task, numerous methods are available but most of the methods are in destructive form. In recent year’s non-destructive methods of food quality evaluation have been developed. In this work, temperature sensor, humidity sensor, gas sensor and LCD display are used as hardware tools to measure the real time parameters of respective food. A specially developed application is used as software tool, which get the real time parameters from sensors, takes picture of that particular fruit/vegetable as inputs, then compare sensor inputs with the preloaded data and process image to provide the accurate grade of respective food. This IOT based analysis will be beneficial for consumers as well as the producers to get the uniform high quality fruits & vegetables.