Cloud-based Portable Rice Milling Machine using Internet of Things

In the Philippines, rice is already a part of each family meal. The farmers need to use a rice milling machine to separate the husk in the rice, which affects the rice's physical characteristics. Small-scale rice farmers need to use large-scale rice milling machines primarily used by big-scale industries. Otherwise, the traditional rice mills are manually controlled and monitored using diesel as their power source. However, farmers have difficulty operating and monitoring the post-harvest rice, manually tracking the rice milling recovery and information. The solution is to design the internet of a things-based control system for a rice milling machine using electricity as the source of power and provide real-time data of the rice's weight. Furthermore, the system classifies whether the output is brown rice or white rice where the owner can easily monitor the weight of the milled rice and control it using the web application. The prototype proved that the system successfully provides 95% accuracy.