Automation and smart poultry farm management: A Review

Indian poultry industry has emerged as one of the fastest growing sector in agriculture because of its consistent growth rate. However, Indian poultry farming is facing many obstacles like higher feed cost, more labour intensive, non-remunerative price of poultry products, and lack of disease control facilities. Therefore, innovations and advancement in the technologies are the need of the hour so that high productivity can be achieved in a sustainable and non-blocking way. This demands the incorporation of various events of automation inside the poultry house with the aim that manipulation of environmental variables (air temperature, relative humidity, light, air speed and air quality-ammonia and carbon dioxide concentration) can be done remotely. The integration of smart technologies such as Internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), smart sensors, precision poultry farming etc. with the current course of poultry farming techniques may help in achieving higher out-turn. This review presets the various models for smart farming and the current status of poultry industry in India.