New competitive system for tomato's ripeness control

Abstract

The tomatoes production shows a fast growing in the word. The need of fast industrial process to covert the high request of the second more consumed vegetarian produced after the potatoes, have attracted a considerable interest from both academia and industry. In this article, we develop a model based on high frequency structural simulator (HFSS) to evaluate different armatures of tomatoes for real time monitoring process. Unlike previous techniques, based on image processing, the proposed study presents a new approach of tomatoes evaluation. The tomatoes color may differ from side to another, which limits such solution. The proposed system uses the microwave penetration capability in order to perform 3D tomatoes evaluation. The sensitive of dielectric variation in terms of liquids composite of tomatoes, presents a new criteria for ripeness classification. The proposed model is simulated and experimentally approved for different kinds of tomatoes samples. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 58:2901–2905, 2016