Senior Design Team sdmay20-55 • Wireless Backyard Chicken Food and Water Monitor

Raising chickens and other poultry for eggs in backyards is an increasingly popular hobby. Ensuring the chickens are healthy requires monitoring their water and food supply. The goal of this project is to design and build a wireless water/feed sensor to report when water cans and feeders are empty. Automatic coop door openers are available for purchase from several online retailers. Poultry owners can also find instructions for building automatic feeders. Yet, there don't seem to be any products on the market for remote monitoring of water and feed levels. This is your chance to engineer a unique solution. The solution should consist of sensors for monitoring water and feed levels, a WiFi transmitter, and a website (or other appropriate interface) for users to remotely access water and feed levels. The sensor(s) and transmitter must function outdoors, on battery power, with minimal protection from the elements. As a stretch goal, sensors could detect frozen (or near freezing) water as well.