T_CO2_H: application for gauging physico-chemical parameters that affect banana ripening

• Grant number: 20/06007-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2020
• End date: August 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Agricultural Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Flávio José de Oliveira Morais
• Grantee: Lívia Valentim Sanches
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Engenharia. Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Tupã. Tupã , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The current world is gradually integrating the Internet of Things (IoT) into its needs, such as the development of agriculture 4.0, which in our country in particular has a certain prominence due to the fact that agriculture and exports are the engine of the economy. The present work aims to develop an application on Android platform that receives physical-chemical data that directly affects the ripening of fruits in real time, and presents them to the farmer through the communication of a sensor network via Bluetooth. The data to be analyzed are: luminosity, carbon dioxide release, and a set of three sensors for the detection of humidity and temperature. The project will be developed at the Faculty of Science and Engineering of the State University of São Paulo "Júlio de Mesquita Filho", Tupã Campus, and has the support of the unit's automation research group, SINACI (Non-Classical Systems Applied to Intelligent Computing) and will be tested on bananas of the Nanicão variety.