Automatic birds deter system.

Abstract

In the developing countries like Uganda it’s very true that people still rely in Agricultures as a great and the most source of income to service most of their house hold income. Agriculture is the back born of Uganda and Government recognized the role of the Agricultural sector in poverty eradication and is therefore implementing a Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP), as the key national development agenda for a few decades to come (MFPED, 2000). Rice production is a major intervention identified in the Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) development Strategy and Investment Plan (DSIP) [1] for food security and poverty reduction in Uganda. The Uganda National Rice Development strategy (NRDS) lays out Uganda’s strategy for promotion of rice production [2] with the aim of increasing household food security and reduce household poverty through increased production of high quality rice. The use of children by parents to look after plantations during schooldays spoils their education hence affecting their future, and spraying birds as a solution using chemicals is not favoring both human life and the environment in Uganda today. However, the main objective of this project was to design and develop an automated bird deter system that was to generate predator scaring voices when birds are detected. As farmers and big farming companies are every day battling with local tiresome methods of keeping crop plantations from being destroyed from birds. The ministry of agriculture and wildlife in Uganda are still in conflict when it comes to farmers using brittle methods of scaring away birds and till date children in rural areas still miss school during seasons of keeping birds in gardens, this really justifies that there was a need to design a system that can sort out all the above challenges in order to scare away birds in an easy way and cheap in a long run without killing the birds. ABD-SYSTEM generates predator sounds after detecting the voices and bird’s movements. In most cases when birds hear their predator in a particular area they always change their flying zone. Several sound speakers were used in a way that the speakers do not output the predator sounds at the same time. The automatic birds deter system is the system that farmers use it to both detect and scare away the birds that destroys the cereal crops automatically by capturing their high pitch sounds and their movements during the fly overs. The system out puts the predator sounds. However much many systems are on use, this system can give 85% on how to capture the presence of a birds that destroys cereals in gardens. The strong parameters chosen are biologically defined to be the strongest values and behaviors that can allow one prove and identify the target species in an ecosystem.