Electronic nose is one of useful solutions for measuring food quality, which is usually done by trained people using smell.
In this thesis we designed and created a prototype system consisting of a sensor module and Android application named E-nose.
The Arduino Nano is connected to a sensor for temperature and humidity DHT22 and gas sensors MQ-3, MQ-135, MQ-136 and MQ-138 that allow easy monitoring of fruit ripening and the freshness of food.
For capturing, saving and displaying data is used Android application E-nose, that communicates with the sensor module over bluetooth.
While capturing data is displayed on a live chart and later on when capture is completed on a static chart.
It is also possible to export data in .CSV file.
The electronic nose was tested by making experiments on apricots and nectarines that were stored at different temperatures for ten days.
We got interesting results for the gasses from which the most concentrated was alcohol.
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