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Open Access | Research Article | 21 January 2026
Embedded Electronic IoT System for Poultry Health Monitoring and AI-Powered Disease Detection from Feces
1 Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology of Kasserine, Kairouan University, Kasserine 1200, Tunisia
* Corresponding Author: Hmidi Alaeddine, [email protected]
ARK: ark:/57805/jiap.2025.569459
Received: 03 September 2025, Accepted: 29 December 2025, Published: 21 January 2026  
Abstract
Poultry farming plays a vital role in global food production, requiring efficient management to ensure productivity and animal welfare. Traditional methods, largely based on manual monitoring, are often inefficient, error-prone, and costly. With the rise of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, intelligent systems now enable remote monitoring and management of environmental conditions, farm operations, and disease prevention. Platforms such as ThingSpeak allow for real-time data collection, processing, and visualization, offering a cost-effective solution for poultry farm management. By integrating sensors to measure temperature, humidity, air quality, and feeding, and by leveraging ThingSpeak’s analytical tools, farms can automatically adjust conditions and support proactive decision-making. This not only reduces operational costs but also improves efficiency, resource management, and animal health monitoring. The growing demand for poultry products has pressured farms to increase production, which heightens the risk of disease outbreaks and significant economic losses. Traditional disease detection methods, which depend on manual inspections by skilled professionals, are labor-intensive and delay timely intervention. To address these challenges, an IoT-based poultry disease detection and classification system is proposed. This system employs sensors for continuous health monitoring and artificial intelligence algorithms such as YOLOV7 and MobileNetV3 to analyze data. YOLOV7 segments regions of interest from automatically captured fecal images, while MobileNetV3 classifies them into four states: healthy, coccidiosis, salmonella, and Newcastle disease. Trained on Zenodo database samples, these models achieve high accuracy, providing farmers and veterinarians with an effective tool for proactive disease management and sustainable poultry farming.

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Embedded Electronic IoT System for Poultry Health Monitoring and AI-Powered Disease Detection from Feces

Keywords
ESP32
YOLOV7
MobileNetV3
IoT
intelligent poultry system
disease detection

Data Availability Statement
Data will be made available on request.

Funding
This work was supported without any funding.

Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

AI Use Statement
The authors declare that no generative AI was used in the preparation of this manuscript.

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Alaeddine, H. (2026). Embedded Electronic IoT System for Poultry Health Monitoring and AI-Powered Disease Detection from Feces. ICCK Journal of Image Analysis and Processing, 2(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.62762/JIAP.2025.569459
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  author = {Hmidi Alaeddine},
  title = {Embedded Electronic IoT System for Poultry Health Monitoring and AI-Powered Disease Detection from Feces},
  journal = {ICCK Journal of Image Analysis and Processing},
  year = {2026},
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  abstract = {Poultry farming plays a vital role in global food production, requiring efficient management to ensure productivity and animal welfare. Traditional methods, largely based on manual monitoring, are often inefficient, error-prone, and costly. With the rise of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, intelligent systems now enable remote monitoring and management of environmental conditions, farm operations, and disease prevention. Platforms such as ThingSpeak allow for real-time data collection, processing, and visualization, offering a cost-effective solution for poultry farm management. By integrating sensors to measure temperature, humidity, air quality, and feeding, and by leveraging ThingSpeak’s analytical tools, farms can automatically adjust conditions and support proactive decision-making. This not only reduces operational costs but also improves efficiency, resource management, and animal health monitoring. The growing demand for poultry products has pressured farms to increase production, which heightens the risk of disease outbreaks and significant economic losses. Traditional disease detection methods, which depend on manual inspections by skilled professionals, are labor-intensive and delay timely intervention. To address these challenges, an IoT-based poultry disease detection and classification system is proposed. This system employs sensors for continuous health monitoring and artificial intelligence algorithms such as YOLOV7 and MobileNetV3 to analyze data. YOLOV7 segments regions of interest from automatically captured fecal images, while MobileNetV3 classifies them into four states: healthy, coccidiosis, salmonella, and Newcastle disease. Trained on Zenodo database samples, these models achieve high accuracy, providing farmers and veterinarians with an effective tool for proactive disease management and sustainable poultry farming.},
  keywords = {ESP32, YOLOV7, MobileNetV3, IoT, intelligent poultry system, disease detection},
  issn = {3068-6679},
  publisher = {Institute of Central Computation and Knowledge}
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