Msc-IoT Thesis done

IoT based milk business optimized monitoring in Rwanda

Since the government of Rwanda started the transformation of milk production, the infrastructures construction facilitated the business oriented chained production, transformation and trading, and hence benefited many traders while contributing to the economic development of the country.

Despite infrastructural improvement, the poor communication (telephone calls) between different business partners delays the service delivery and causes the economic losses to milk traders, and affects the health of consumers, especially children.

The integration of internet of things (IoT) devices in the existing infrastructures, like tanks, will centralize the real-time monitoring and information sharing of both quantity and quality of milk between traders and suppliers will reduce the economic loss and facilitated the food and standard institution to verify, remotely, the purity of milk being sold to consumers by traders.

The proposed solution, comprising the perception devices, wireless communication technologies and data visualization combined, will help the milk supplier to know when and where to carry milk in real-time, which avoids milk scarcity to traders. Once the milk is diluted or adulterated, the IoT device will notify the in-situation in charge of quality standards through the browser interface. For sampling purpose, only one IoT device is implemented.