Development of Fertile Egg Detection and Incubation System Using Image Processing and Automatic Candling

Abstract

This paper presents the development of an incubation system for autonomous temperature and humidity control using Arduino microcontroller interfaced and coded using LabView programming. The proposed system also includes important functions to hatch eggs which are candling through infertile egg identification using basic image acquisition, and egg turning that employs crank-rocker mechanism and a hatching chamber. It revolves around fusing all the elements of egg incubation and turning it into one device. It functions autonomously without having to consistently check and adjust to obtain optimal parameters. By using its monitoring features, the user can have real-time data of the day-to-day status of the incubator's parameters. The speed of its automatic candling program is 1.129 seconds while the performance of the incubator held an optimal temperature of 36 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">o</sup> Celsius with humidity between 40% and 60% with an optimal level of 50%. Lastly, the hatch rate percentage of the incubation using the proposed system is 69.44% while the percentage accuracy result for detecting fertile eggs is 91.43%.