Smart segregation system for fruit ripeness

. The quality assessment and timely detection of fruit ripeness are crucial for optimizing harvest schedules, ensuring product freshness, and minimizing post-harvest losses. This abstract presents a smart detection system designed to accurately determine fruit ripeness using non-invasive sensing techniques. To evaluate the system's performance, experiments are conducted using different types of fruits at varying ripeness stages. The results demonstrate high accuracy and reliability in fruit ripeness prediction, with minimal false positives or negatives. It eliminates the need for manual inspection, reducing labour costs and potential subjective bias. It also provides non-destructive testing, allowing fruits to remain intact for further processing or sale. Furthermore, the system can be integrated into automated sorting and packaging processes, enabling efficient sorting based on ripeness and improving overall supply chain management


INTRODUCTION:
The assessment of fruit ripeness plays a vital role in the agricultural industry, ensuring optimal harvest timing, preserving fruit quality, and minimizing post-harvest losses.Traditional methods of determining fruit ripeness often involve manual inspection, which is time-consuming, labour-intensive, and subject to human error.A smart detection system for fruit ripeness aims to automate the process of ripeness assessment by leveraging noninvasive sensing techniques and data analysis algorithms.These systems offer the advantages of speed, accuracy, and objectivity, while also enabling real-time monitoring and integration with automated sorting and packaging processes.By implementing such a system, farmers, distributors, and consumers can make informed decisions regarding fruit quality, ensuring timely consumption or storage.This paper proposes a smart detection system for fruit ripeness that combines IOT and spectroscopic analysis [1].The system's objective is to overcome the limitations of subjective assessment methods and provide a reliable and objective approach to determine fruit ripeness.By extracting various features from the images and external features, such as colour, texture, shape, the system can generate a comprehensive representation of fruit ripeness [2].The integration of this smart detection system into fruit production and distribution processes offers several benefits.It eliminates the need for manual injection, reducing labour costs and potential errors introduced by human judgment.The non-destructive nature of the system allows fruits to remain intact, preserving their market value and enabling further processing or sale.Additionally, the system's real-time capabilities facilitate rapid assessment and decisionmaking, improving overall supply chain efficiency.

Data Acquisition:
Capture colour readings from the Colour Sensor for the fruit samples by illuminating them with white light and measuring the reflected color spectrum.Measure the gas concentration levels using the Gas Sensor to detect any potential gas emissions related to fruit ripeness.

Feature Extraction:
Capture the RGB colour readings obtained from the Colour Sensor to a suitable colour space for better representation of colour information.Normalize the colour values using the calibrated reference values to obtain relative colour differences [3,4].

Data Processing:
Combine the colour and gas-related features obtained from the sensors.Real-Time Detection and Display.In the Arduino Uno code, continuously read the sensor values (colour and gas) in real-time.Process the sensor readings using the trained dataset from various references model to predict the fruit ripeness stage.Display the fruit ripeness stage on the LCD module for real-time monitoring and user interface [1,2].

Transporting of organic subject:
A conveyer belt was systematically designed considering average weights, for transferring purposes.DC motors were assigned to run the belt [5,6].Then further by set thresholds the subject either gets rejected and pushed away if it is not within the healthy range or put into good category.

Software Interface:
In this project, Arduino IDE was used, since it is quite adaptive with various microcontroller boards and not complex coding and displaying results aptly [7].

Arduino Uno
Microcontroller used in this project.Color sensors incorporate multiple photodiodes that are sensitive to different wavelengths of light.The electrical signals generated by the photodiodes need to be converted into digital values for further processing.Color sensors often have an interface that allows them to communicate with a microcontroller or other devices.Some color sensors include an integrated light source, such as an LED, to illuminate target surface [3,8].

Potentiometer:
The resistance between the wiper terminal and one of the outer terminals can be varied.This feature allows for precise control over the voltage, current, or signal levels in a circuit.

Gas Sensor:
Gas sensor is an electronic device that detects the presence or concentration of specific gases in the surrounding environment.Commonly used in various applications, including industrial safety, air quality monitoring, gas leak detection, and environmental monitoring.The sensing element is the core component of a gas sensor that detects the target gas.The transducer is responsible for converting the changes in the sensing element into electrical signals.It can be an integral part of the gas sensor or a separate component connected to the sensing element.Some gas sensors have a calibration port that allows for periodic calibration or adjustment of the sensor's performance.Gas sensors require a power supply to operate.Gas sensors may have various output interfaces to communicate the detected gas concentration or status to external devices or systems.

CONCLUSION:
A smart detection system for fruit ripeness offers significant benefits in the agricultural industry.By employing technologies such as computer vision, and sensors, this system enables farmers and food producers to automate the assessment of fruit ripeness.It enhances efficiency by optimizing harvesting schedules, reducing waste, and improving overall fruit quality.With the ability to accurately determine fruit ripeness based on factors like colour, texture, and size, the system ensures that only ripe fruits reach the market, resulting in improved consumer satisfaction.Overall, the implementation of a smart detection system for fruit ripeness has the potential to revolutionize fruit production and distribution, benefiting both farmers and consumers.Overall, the implementation of a smart detection system for fruit ripeness can lead to improved efficiency, reduced waste, better quality control, optimized harvesting, enhanced marketability, and data-driven insights for continuous improvement in fruit production and distribution [10].

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Fig.1 Values from fruit (organic subject) captured by gas sensor

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Fig.2 Colour of fruit being analyzed by colour sensor.

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Fig.4 Color Sensor3.3LCD Display:LCD 16x2 module usually provides a potentiometer or a dedicated pin for adjusting the contrast of the displayed characters.This control helps to optimize the visibility of the characters on the LCD.