Author : C.Sivaprakash 1
Date of Publication :25th May 2018
Abstract: Moisture plays a very vital role in the daily operations of FCI (Food Corporation of India). With a change in moisture value, computation of storage loss/ gain in food grains gets affected. Hence capturing the moisture value is very essential. Food Corporation of India uses a moisture meter (a hardware device) developed by different manufacturers. The readings of the moisture meter are noted manually and are fed into DOS (Depot Online System). Since there is a human intervention, there could be chances that the readings noted are erroneous. FCI is looking for a solution where the readings of the moisture meter are captured directly from the moisture meter into DOS or any other software application what FCI is using. This issue can be addressed by designing a hardware device which consists of a moisture meter and networking device. All of this devices work as a slave and they will send the moisture reading to the master device and this master device will store the captured data in the online system
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