ระบบให้อาหารม้าแบบอัตโนมัติด้วยไอโอที

Abstract

Horse Feeding is the primary importance of equine care. However, horse herdsmen often feed them over their needs and not on schedule time. These caused adverse effects on horses' health, including waste of cost, and time. This research aimed to analyze, produce, and develop the horse feeding automation system by using remote control IoT technology. Then, the researcher evaluated the efficiency of time, costs, and process reduction by using IoT technology for embedded computing, which able to control those operation process, for example, the commanding on-off the feeder pipe using servo motor (Servo Motor), counting of each mealtime quantity with a sensor for measuring weight (Load Cell), and humidity measurement to control food quality with a temperature sensor (Digital Temperature and Humidity Sensor: DTH), which able to control, check, and report notifications via the LINE application. The results showed that this developed horse feeding automation system was highly accurate, and zero error which means able to feed foods on schedule and report notifications every single time. The mean dietary weight was 107.53 when the command to feed was 100 grams that the measurement error was 7.65 gram and percentage error was 7.00%. In addition, these processes reduced from eight steps to five steps a month which mean using only one step a day, and the processing times can be reduced by 893 minutes per month. Moreover, the percentage of performance which is 3.33% (Pre-Lean) increased to 14.29% (Post-Lean). Finally, the cost also was reduced to 3,510 Baht per month.