Abstract
Throughout the history of the industry, producers and retailers have focused
on fruit quality as a major concern. Over the past ten years, the market for high-quality
fruit has expanded quickly, raising the price of the upscale item. However, the state-of-the-art methods have some major drawbacks such as the mechanical systems are bulky,
require more manpower to operate the system, are less accurate, slow, expensive and
with more chances of human mistakes. In this paper, we have addressed these
drawbacks and proposed systems for the management of the fruit quality and grading
of fruits in different categories. These fruits can be sorted automatically depending
upon their different characteristics such as color, size, shape, weight, specific gravity,
sugar contents, and ph. In this paper, we have selected three characteristics of fruit
namely color, size, and weight for measuring the quality of fruit and grading them
accordingly. The result shows that the proposed system has successfully implemented
fruit quality management and grading. The system is automatic and results in
lightweight, simple and inexpensive hardware, increased speed of operation and
reduces manpower, and mistakes.