🌾 Industrial IoT Monitoring Platform for Commercial Poultry Farms

🚜 Transforming manual farm monitoring into a smart, real-time IoT platform

A custom Industrial IoT platform developed for a commercial poultry farm in Ireland to replace manual data collection with an automated, real-time monitoring system.

Built on a Waveshare 4.3-inch ESP32-S3 Touch LCD, the system continuously monitors environmental conditions, electricity usage, water consumption, and production data through a single, easy-to-use touchscreen interface. Operators can view live readings, daily statistics, utility meters, and historical trends while the system automatically stores records locally and synchronizes them with the cloud.

Designed for reliability, the platform features crash-safe SD card logging, automatic recovery after power loss, a built-in Wi-Fi dashboard for remote monitoring, and Google Sheets synchronization with offline retry support to ensure no data is lost during network interruptions.

The system also streamlines daily farm operations with digital record forms for mortality, litter, ventilation, and feed management, along with automatic calculations and alerts that eliminate repetitive manual data entry.

✨ Key Features

• 📊 Real-time monitoring of environmental and utility data
• 🖥️ Custom LVGL touchscreen interface
• 💾 Crash-safe SD card data logging
• 🌐 Built-in Wi-Fi monitoring dashboard
• ☁️ Automatic Google Sheets synchronization
• 📝 Digital farm records with automated calculations
• ⚡ Offline-first architecture with automatic data recovery

🛠️ Technologies

ESP32-S3 • FreeRTOS • C++ • LVGL • EEZ Studio • Modbus RTU (RS-485) • Wi-Fi • SD Card • LittleFS • RTC • NTP • Google Apps Script

🔧 Hardware & Sensors

• Waveshare 4.3-inch ESP32-S3 Touch LCD
• RS-485 Modbus Environmental Sensor
• RS-485 Multi-Parameter Air Quality Sensor
• Industrial Water Meter
• Electricity Meter
• Pulse Sensors
• SD Card Storage
• Battery-backed RTC

🎯 Outcome

By replacing manual readings and spreadsheet-based record keeping with a centralized embedded platform, the system provides continuous visibility into farm operations while reducing repetitive administrative work and improving the accuracy and reliability of farm data.

Although developed for a commercial poultry farm, the same architecture can be adapted for greenhouses, livestock farms, manufacturing facilities, warehouses, water treatment plants, and other industrial environments requiring reliable real-time monitoring and data logging.