Grain Quality and Traceability Mobile App Development

Farms currently suffer from undervalued commodities, spoilage, and traceability issues. While Canadian growers can market their own grain, this places extra responsibilities on the grower such as monitoring the time, price, and place they wish to sell their grain. To determine the price of grain one must be able to determine the quality of the grain and the quantity. To grade the quality of the grain, samples must be taken to identify characteristics such as damage caused by insects, moisture, or temperature. Grain sampling can be a time-consuming process because traditionally a representative sample requires a person to take a sample from grain flowing from the auger at regular time intervals.

VeriGrain Sampling Inc. has produced a system to automatically (using the extractor) and semi-automatically (using only the mobile app) help perform grain sampling and data management. They want to build onto their mobile app to provide further functionality for growers, buyers, and consumers of the agriculture industry. This BSI project focuses on two items: 1) Improving the mobile application’s user interface and 2) integrating a grain analysis source into the mobile application.

Faculty Supervisor:

Tanya Lung;Susan Blum

Student:

Partner:

VeriGrain

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Saskatchewan Polytechnic

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