Automated Identification and Monitoring of Fruit Fly

Abstract

The fruit fly is an invasive pest that causes significant loss in horticultural crop production by damaging the fruit quality. For the integrated management of fruit fly, monitoring is a major component. Automated pest monitoring is most promising and advanced for monitoring and accurate assessment of the status of the fruit fly. The need of the hour is to automate and monitor pest populations using advanced technologies to save time and to examine the real-time situation of the field. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the approaches and sensors which detect and monitor fruit flies automatically.The review focuses on image-based sensors for identifying fruit flies, analyzing the wing beat biometric signature with optoelectronics sensors, direct counting with photo interruption sensors and E-Traps that can provide real-time field information, and presenting the various integrated systems available.With a real-time imaging system, all information about the fruit fly population and infection rate is recorded and maintained in a database. All of this has resulted in enhanced monitoring systems for fruit fly integrated pest management.

Mango Fruit Fly Trap Detection Using Different Wireless Communications

“…Once the infestation is known, experts can help to control it without applying excessive amounts of insecticide. The number of pulses provided by PIR infrared sensor within the PET trap indicates the number of insects that entered [74]. As we used a flip flop, it was only counted once per day; the concept was to employ the trap as an alarm and save energy.…”

“…The use of optoacoustic sensors can provide better fly detection within traps [76]. An image sensor based on the ESP32-CAM presented up to 3.2 Megapixels, higher than the 2 megapixels recommended to classify insects [74]. However, due to energy restrictions, the 320 × 240-pixel resolution image was used.…”