Portable IoT NIR Spectrometer for Detecting Undesirable Substances in Forages of Dairy Farms

Food security and the agriculture sustainable development are two important challenges that arise in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union. However, oftentimes, the necessary equipment to fully these requirements is expensive and complex to use. In this paper, a relatively low-cost prototype instrument is presented for the detection of contaminants and pathogens in forages, using near infrared spectrometry (NIRS) techniques. Through the Internet of Things (IoT) tools, data are sent to the cloud for processing while being accessible for any device. All this opens up new possibilities, and new challenges, for the sustainable management of natural resources.