DHT 11 Sensor-Based Automatic Chicken Egg Hatching Incubator

Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, 55183 Bantul, Indonesia

^* Corresponding author: yjusman@umy.ac.id

Abstract

The process of hatching chicken eggs by farmers still uses manual methods, in the market itself there are hatching machine tools but not fully automated. So that the chicken breeding process is less effective and efficient to meet high market needs. In this study, an automatic chicken egg hatching incubator device based on the DHT 11 sensor was designed. The purpose of this design is to help farmers to hatch chicken eggs automatically. The way this tool works is to hatch chicken eggs automatically with a DHT 11 sensor that can read temperature and humidity so that temperature and humidity can be stable according to the needs obtained from the heat of incandescent lamps, fans, and water in the incubator. Then for the process of turning chicken eggs, farmers do not need to do it manually because they already use automatic racks regulated by RTC (Real Time Clock). For the egg turning schedule so that it will move the dynamo motor and the egg rack will shift to turn the eggs. As a result of this study, the well-designed device works and can produce 91% egg hatching with stable temperature and humidity and scheduled egg turning.