ResearchArticle
AnIoTandMachineLearning-BasedModeltoMonitorPerishable
Food towards Improving Food Safety and Quality
AminaBatool ,
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SouvikGanguli ,
2
HashemAliAlmashaqbeh ,
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MuhammadShafiq ,
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A. L. Vallikannu ,
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K. Sakthidasan Sankaran ,
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Samrat Ray ,
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and F. Sammy
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1
SchoolofAutomation,BeijingInstituteofTechnology,Beijing,China
2
DepartmentofElectricalandInstrumentationEngineering,aparInstituteofEngineeringandTechnology,
Patiala147004,India
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OkanUniversity,Istanbul,Turkey
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SchoolofArtificialIntelligence,NeijiangNormalUniversity,Neijiang,Sichuan,China
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DepartmentofECE,HindustanInstituteofTechnologyandScience,Chennai,India
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SunstoneEduversity,Gurugram,India
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DepartmentofInformationTechnology,DambiDolloUniversity,DembiDolo,Welega,Ethiopia
Correspondence should be addressed to F. Sammy; sammy@dadu.edu.et
Received 12 March 2022; Revised 1 May 2022; Accepted 7 May 2022; Published 6 June 2022
Academic Editor: Rijwan Khan
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Increased quantities of the same sort of item are not nearly as critical to client happiness as a high-quality product. e re-
quirementsandexpectationsoftheconsumerhaveanimpactontheoverallqualityofaproductorservice.eterm“quality”may
alsobedefinedasthesumtotalofallthefeaturesthatcontributetotheproductionofgoodsandservicesthataresatisfactorytothe
consumer. Certain imported commodities have lately seen an improvement in quality thanks to efforts by importing nations.
Additionally, it safeguards food imported from other nations by confirming that it is safe for human consumption before it is
released. is article describes a technique for monitoring perishable goods that is based on the Internet of ings and machine
learning. Pictures are recorded using high-resolution cameras in this suggested architecture, and then these images are sent to a
cloud server using Internet of ings devices. When uploaded to a cloud server, these photos are segmented using the K-means
clustering method. en, using the principal component analysis technique, features are extracted from the photos, and the
images are categorized using machine learning models that have been trained. is proposed model makes use of the Internet of
ings, image processing, and machine learning to monitor perishable food.
1. Introduction
ings of the same type are not as important to the cus-
tomer’s satisfaction as high-quality products [1]. e quality
of a product is influenced by the needs and expectations of
the customer. Another way to define quality is to think of it
as the sum total of all the characteristics that go into gen-
erating things that the customer is satisfied with [2].
Importing countries have recently improved the quality of
certain imported items. Additionally, it protects food im-
ported from other countries by ensuring that it is safe for
consumption. Agricultural products’ external quality is the
primary indicator of their immediate sensory quality.
Product’s quality is generally judged by its appearance,
including its color, texture, size, shape, and imperfections
[3]. Food manufacturing company administrators take into
consideration the product’s significance, the social setting,
and the difficulties experienced by farmers in accomplishing
their agricultural tasks [4].
ediscoveryoffaultspriortothesaleorexportofitems
is one of the most essential parts of quality assurance [5].
When it comes to determining the quality of mangos, hu-
man operators have long relied on their eyes. is is not the
case anymore. ey take a long time, are tedious, and are
Hindawi
Journal of Food Quality
Volume 2022, Article ID 6302331, 6 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/6302331