Development of A Digital Egg Counting System for Eggs on A Conveyor Belt Using Sensor

Abstract

Egg counting is one of the challenges facing industrial livestock farms where large laying production is high, hence increasing theft, miscounting, and unknown production rate of poultry eggs. This paper focused on the development of a digital egg counting system using a conveyor belt and infrared sensor which means counting the eggs without physical. This ensures damage is avoided, soiling, and theft and produces an accurate laying rate of fowls per day. Egg flow is effectively monitored by these IR sensors, allowing cross-conveyor management of egg flow depending on the optimum speed needed for production. Generally, it is used for commercial egg production where a fast and accurate process for getting the number of eggs produced is required. For this purpose, an Arduino-Uno board is used to process the data gotten from the infrared sensor. The Arduino-Uno serves as the processor for the system. An infrared sensor is used to count the eggs, as the eggs pass the infrared sensor’s emitter disgorges a light that reflects on the surface of the egg before being picked up by the receiver after counting. The egg count was displayed on the liquid crystal display (LCD) screen showing the total number of egg counters. The percentage error of the device at different distances was established and a percentage error of 0% was obtained, by counting 90 eggs in three minutes.