Dare to Dream Different Contest - Poultry House Controler

Poultry house controller and monitoring system is an upgrade to the existing commercially available units. It controls environmental factors like air exchanges, lighting, feed, temperature, and humidity to produce a better bird with existing facilities. It additionally monitors bird weight gains from measured feed usage, water consumption, and air quality. This information is sent to a web-base service for the creation of quality control trend plots. This information and trend plots will allow the owner to improve the quality of the birds they produce.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• .NET Micro Framework
• NETMF
• Poultry house controler
• DDDFinalist

[12345Element67890]

Chickens are a really tricky things to grow. Monitors, housing, food, etc. Have you all thought about opening the door and letting some air into the barn? Maybe letting the chickens get outside? The monitoring system is pretty tricky. Get yourself a big bucket, when the buckets empty fill it back up. This works for food and water. You can feed them some good organic food. You know like bugs and grass.

[Runningwild1974]

Great idea! Brilliant insight behind it.

[brownck]

This guy knows his stuff.  I am not a livestock person, but it seems viable this project would work in other venues well.

[vixensspace]

While the presenter knew the data and how to make it viable, he seemed less than enthusiastic about giving the presentation. Had he been more upbeat, his project would have seemed more believable, His monotone-ish delivery seemed very forced. If he doesn't believe in his product why should we?