Abstract

FIESTAS SOROGASTUA, Erick  and  PRADO GARDINI, Sixto. Electronic fruit type sensors: Applicability in agroindustry processes and methodology for its development . Scientia Agropecuaria [online]. 2018, vol.9, n.3, pp.441-459. ISSN 2077-9917.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17268/sci.agropecu.2018.03.16.

In this work the results of a documentary research on "electronic fruits" -spherical sensors or pseudofruits- applied on food industry are presented. The goal is to show most relevant advances achieved on this field and with those to start up developing new ways of knowledge, technological innovations, and last but not least to highlight positive facts all over the processing lines of agroindustry, minimizing damages on fruits due to collisions, and therefore, reducing production losses. First an analysis of causes of bruises on fruits are carried out in order to detect and quantify bruise damage or related to. Second as a tool for relating the grade of bruises generated on fruits after impacts a bruise map is created and analyzed. Third the Applicability Level (NA in Spanish) of a fruit sensor is determined which is the summation of weight assigned to certain working capacity indexes of sensor onto agroindustry processing lines. Finally, NA index of -existing on market and academy environments- electronic fruit sensors are presented

Keywords : electronic fruit sensor; pseudofruit; blueberries; mechanical impacts; processing lines in agroindustry.

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