Internet of thing and automatics control system on quail egg incubator using human-centered design method

The combination of the application of ACS and IoT technology allows it to be applied to several incubation machine devices. Several studies have used the monitoring features of the incubation machine automation. This research developed an automatic and remote quail egg incubation machine with complex features [1] such as temperature control, heating source, thermometer and hygrometer, humidity regulation, and egg rack operation. The focus of this research is to develop a quail egg incubator by applying the principles of Internet of Things (IoT) technology and Automatics Control System (ACS) to increase operational efficiency and production of incubation products. The human centered design (HCD) method is a method that is human-oriented or suppresses human existence in every process of developing the devices used in this study to build overall features. The results of unit testing of the quail egg incubation machine prototype device successfully operated all incubation machine units such as DHT sensors, water level, temperature automation, egg turning, monitoring device status on smartphones, LCD, operating history, and remote control system. The operation process test got positive results which were quite significant. Tests on the incubation process found the time needed for the tool to reach a temperature of 39.00°C, a humidity of 65% from an initial temperature of 26.90°C, an initial humidity of 82.4% was 37 minutes. From an initial temperature of 27.90°C, an initial humidity of 85.4% is 26 minutes. Field testing on incubation using quail eggs resulted in 91% hatching success of the total sample tested.