Abstract:
The study was done at a prominent consumer goods manufacturing company
in the southern province of Sri Lanka. Noodles are one of their products of
high demand. Therefore, the company needed a systematic and
comprehensive monitoring system for the noodles steaming process to
enhance its efficiency. An embedded temperature acquisition system was
designed for the steaming cupboard. The temperature acquisition is made
with a temperature sensor and a microcontroller. The control panel includes a
synchronizing temperature display with time, buzzer and a time setting
buttons (keypad). The SSDs (Seven Segment Display) are used to display the
temperature and time. The buzzer is used to signal the completion of the set
time. Temperature is sensed using an analog sensor and ADC (Analog to
Digital Convertor) of microcontroller is used for the acquisition.
Temperature output is displayed digitally in SSDs using a high-level
programming language.
