Desarrollo de un prototipo electrónico para control de heladas en cultivos de arándanos para pequeños productores en la Sierra

Abstract

In this degree work, a prototype for frost control was developed: low cost, easy to use, friendly and sustainable for the small producer in blueberry crops in the Ecuadorian Sierra; with projection to the improvement and protection of the same, linking the agricultural sector with new technologies that allow it to gain competitiveness in the market and the optimization of both human and economic resources. The design of the prototype has the following modules: detection, communication, user interface, control and actuator; using in each of them affordable electronic devices and simple maintenance, thus ensuring the proper functioning. The prototype constantly monitors the crop and activates the sound alarm or irrigation system when the ambient temperature is less than 4C, in this way it has had a successful warning in most cases in the tests carried out, since this phenomenon depends on the climatic factors of the region, geography of the land and the type of crop; adding a control of soil moisture and radiation, preventing the damage that these environmental factors cause to the final product by 50% and that often causes economic loss to the small producer.