| dc.description.abstract | This project is about designing a fully automatic small scale chicken hatching machine. The
increase in global population has caused the traditional incubation method unable to afford
the demand of food required. Thus, the incubator is one of the ways that overcome the
problem stated. However, commercial incubator nowadays is expensive for fully automated
incubator and inconvenient for the semi-automatic and manually incubator. The designs of
incubation chamber and egg turning, temperature and humidity mechanism are the main
elements of this project. The air flow and temperature distribution inside the incubation
chamber will be analyzed by using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation. In
addition, the program code for temperature, humidity and egg turning mechanism is written
and downloaded into Arduino platform. The prototype machine will be fabricated based on
the final design of incubation chamber and the control mechanism of egg turning,
temperature and humidity. Further analysis of temperature and humidity deviation will be
carried out to make sure the functionality of the incubator. By implementing the design, the
final product will be fully automatic incubator using embedded system control with
uniform temperature distributed inside the incubation chamber. Besides that, the incubator
is designed to be cost effective and capable to reduce the burden of small and mediumsized
enterprises. | en_US |
