Automated smart sericulture system based on 6LoWPAN

and image processing technique

 Abstract

Sericulture is the heart of raising silkworms for silk production. India is the second largest
producer of silk in the World. Sericulture is the root of social, economic, cultural and political
progress of India. Temperature and humidity play an important role in the development of
healthy silkworms in every stage, especially during the development of larva. Disinfection is
one of the critical parameter to be considered for healthy and successful silkworm rearing. In
this paper, we present an 6LoWPAN (IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area
Network) enabled IoT (Internet of Things) based approach to design a real time sericulture
monitoring and disinfection actuating system with an inclusion of image processing
technology to identify the stages of silk worm life cycle. Our prototype supports real time
data collection using emerging 6LoWPAN, CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol) and
RPL (Routing Protocol for Low power and lossy Networks) protocols. The complete system
is designed and implemented using Contiki OS to control the atmospheric condition inside
the sericulture system as per the requirements in each stage of sericulture life cycle. This
complete prototype was built using the TelosB motes running 6LoWPAN stack interfaced to
temperature and humidity sensors with an disinfection actuation system and a serial camera
to auto capture the pictures and to analyze it using an image processing method to check the
status on sericulture process.