Portable equipment for determining ripeness in Hass avocado using a low cost color sensor

Jessica Toro; Carolina Daza; Fabio Vega; Leonardo Diaz; Cesar Torres

doi:10.1117/12.2196752

24 August 2015 Portable equipment for determining ripeness in Hass avocado using a low cost color sensor

Jessica Toro, Carolina Daza, Fabio Vega, Leonardo Diaz, Cesar Torres

Proceedings Volume 9660, SPECKLE 2015: VI International Conference on Speckle Metrology; 96601V (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2196752
Event: SPECKLE 2015: VI International Conference on Speckle Metrology, 2015, Guanajuato, Mexico

Abstract

The avocado is a one climacteric fruit that not ripe on the tree because it produces a maturation inhibitor that passes the fruit through the pedicel, the ripening occurs naturally during storage or to be induced as required. In post-harvest ripening stage is basically determined by experience of the farmer or buyer. In this word us developed portable equipment for determining ripeness is hass avocado using a low cost sensor color sensor TC3200 and LCD for display result. The prototype read of RGB color frequencies of the sensor and estimates the stage of ripeness in fourth different stages in post-harvest ripening.

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Jessica Toro, Carolina Daza, Fabio Vega, Leonardo Diaz, and Cesar Torres "Portable equipment for determining ripeness in Hass avocado using a low cost color sensor", Proc. SPIE 9660, SPECKLE 2015: VI International Conference on Speckle Metrology, 96601V (24 August 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2196752

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