Design and Fabrication of Automatic Cattle Feeder System Using IOT

Abstract

The old-fashioned method of physically feeding cattle takes time. Before feeding the animals along the side of the feed fence, the autonomous cow feeding system employed in this research travels a predefined path for a specified amount of time. The feed mechanism is operated over a predetermined time period by the prototype using an Arduino circuit. Considering that more than 40 percent of total work time is devoted to this activity, feeding constitutes one of the higher expenditures for farm owners in addition to being directly tied to the production of the cattle. Due to the lack of technological utilization, the dairy business has a significant Labor need. These labors are particularly expensive for the owner of the dairy farm since they are only required for 3 hours each morning and three hours in the evening, but they must be paid for the entire day. Hence, an automatic cow feeding equipment has been created to decrease the owner effort and expense. In this research we use two barrels to store the cattle food and a sensor is placed to open the barrel opening to fill the food in the collector in which the cattle eat their food. This process is done for period like morning once and evening once.