Automação no agronegócio de pequeno porte: dispositivo para pesagem e empacotamento na cadeia produtiva de morango

Abstract

Brazil, within agribusiness stands out in the area of fruitculture, one of the largest producers of fruit worldwide, over the years, family farming was part of this field. Even with great potential, there are many difficulties to make the small producer, more competitive in this field and one of these difficulties is the lack of technology in the productions. The purpose of this work is to help the small strawberry producer in the day-to-day work of using technology, more precisely with a device of weighing and packaging in their productions. The production of strawberry has some characteristic and distinct stages, therefore it is necessary to optimize the time of the farmer and to simplify the process of weighing and packaging. For this fact, an automation system was developed consisting of two treadmills in conjunction with a dispenser system, integrated by the Arduino Uno, due to the programming performed to make it possible to perform this command, the treadmill is composed of a dc motor to perform the mechanical spinning, with the help of the H Bridge Drive, CI L298n, that allows to control the direction of rotation, the weighing will be possible due to the use of Strain Gauge sensors, that allows to receive signal information by the deformity of the same.