Author : Saransh Saxena 1
Date of Publication :12th October 2017
Abstract: This proposal effectively manages the food produce in the country. Millions of tons of harvest are rotted every year due to ineffective and ignorant ways. Hectares of land are deforested to grow food. According to a survey conducted by Bhook (an organization working towards reducing hunger) in 2013, 20 crore Indians sleep hungry at night. Food produced in the lands can’t reach the places of poor. The government has been trying hard to tackle this problem but has failed due to inadequate and inconsistent data. Appropriate measures cannot be executed without real time data of food produce. Some measures that the government needs to take include containing wastage in transportation, improve storage facilities (the cold storage chain is 50% less than required and need to be brought up to world standards) and with this work, IoT based working prototype can play a major role in solving this problem. It can help the appropriate authorities by providing real time data of the produce and accordingly generate alerts when the crops are going to be perished. The proposal is basically based on the smart food waste management system which can sense optimum conditions for proper storage of variety of crops & with the help of IoT a central record system can actually work as a reminder of when the grains are going to be perished. It can collect the health status of the crops which will be stored in the central monitoring system. This data which will be stored in the central database will show tentative time in which the harvest will be perished and accordingly actions would be taken.
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