Compost Environmental Parameter Acquisition System Based on a Miniature Remote-Controlled Mobile Platform

Abstract

The rapid detection of organic fertilizer compost maturity is not only beneficial for controlling the quality of fertilizer production, but also ensures the application safety of organic fertilizers. However, traditional detection technologies require significant resource investment and have limited application scope. To achieve frequent acquisition of compost pile images and environmental parameter information during the composting process, we propose a unique wireless acquisition system. This system consists of a remote-controlled toy car, a data acquisition system, a communication and control system, and other components, which solves the problem that manual work cannot frequently collect compost pile data during the composting process. System test results show that the compost surface images collected by this system are complete and clear, and the average error of environmental parameter data is less than 2.55%. Compared with manual collection, the data acquisition efficiency is greatly improved, and the system basically meets the design requirements.