Fruit Degradation Detection System using CMOS Color Sensor

Abstract

Fruits and vegetables have been a significant part of the human diet for the last many years. In the modern age, with the increase in disease variants, people have become more curious about natural and organic nutrition. In this current situation the thought has brought some problems with it which are mostly related to freshness. The awareness about consuming organic fruit has been highly increased in people and the major reason behind this awareness is the discoveries about health benefits of fruits and vegetables. There are several parameters that affect the freshness of fruit such as temperature, humidity, growth of micro-organisms whose effects are not visible with naked eyes but are highly dangerous and As fruits and vegetables are very good source of food for us and they are also good source of energy for microorganisms like bacteria and fungi too. We preferred developing a simplified system which will provide us with a similar amount of accuracy which is being provided by various color measuring instruments such as spectrophotometers and computer vision with digital cameras. This provoked us to develop the project consisting of PIC Microcontroller and Color Sensor TCS3200 which not only overcomes the drawbacks of the existing systems but also helps to increase the accuracy and keeps the database for future detections.