Development of a weight recording system that automatically loads the left-over foods' quantity into a linked online platform for animal farmers to access.
Abstract
This project was aimed at building an online web-based system that will enable animal farmers
access left-over foods for their animals by placing an order online. In this project, a weight
recording system was programmed to send the weights of the left-over foods to an online
platform so that farmers interested in buying left-over food can know the exact quantity of
leftover food available for them to buy. The development of this online web-based system was
based on using programming languages: HTML, CSS and PHP. The weight recording system
was achieved by using an Arduino and Ethernet shield and load cell and HX711 sensor. The
weight recording system was tested and checked for if the measured weights were successfully
updated on the online system and it did. In the online platform, we developed two interlinked
websites: one for the restaurant administrator and the other for the customer animal farmers.
On the restaurant administrator website, the restaurant administrator will be able to login and
then upload images of the available left-over food on the online website including the weights
of these foods and this data will be updated on the home page of the customer website. In this
way, animal farmers will be able to have visual evidence of the left-over foods they want to
order. The success achieved of the weight recording system will save the restaurant
administrators from manually measuring the changing weight of left-over foods since the load
cell sensor and Arduino will do the work of measuring the left-over food quantity and sending
this quantity on an online platform. In the scope of this project, we covered one restaurant but
it can be extended to cover more restaurants and even secondary schools