Applied Electronics for Farmers and Agriculturists, Directorate of Instrumentation, JNKVV, Jabalpur - 482 004, India.
Temperature and moisture are the two important parameters which affect the growth of insects, fungi and micro-organisms in stored grains. The present paper describes the construction of suitablesensors for on-line monitoring of grain moistureandgrain temperature inside the storage structures. A personal computer based system consisting of 13 channels has been developed for monitoring grain temperature and grain moisture at different locations within a storage structure together with ambient temperature. On the basis of the parameters monitored, the system evaluates the status of storage and displays whether the storage is safe or not.
