Title : Internet of Things (IoT) applications in hygiene control in food production
Abstract:
Inspection of personnel and environmental hygiene at every stage of production is of critical importance both in terms of ensuring food safety and preventing waste of resources. Digital technologies that have developed in recent years, especially the Internet of Things (IoT), offer new opportunities in terms of monitoring, measuring, reporting and improving hygiene processes. This study aims to systematically present the areas of use of IoT technologies for ensuring hygiene in food production. Within the scope of the study, it is explained how applications such as monitoring parameters such as ambient temperature, humidity and air quality; verification of equipment cleaning processes via sensors; monitoring of personnel hygiene with cameras, sensors and/or RFID systems; control of production surfaces with different imaging systems or biosensors, time and adequacy control of manual cleaning, monitoring of the cold chain from transportation to storage can be carried out. Published articles and congress proceedings, relevant project studies and commercial activities in this field have been compiled. The data provided regarding hygiene inspection can be combined via cloud-based platforms and used in risk analysis. Data-based decision and precaution processes can be provided in this way.
As a result, the use of IoT-based systems can go beyond traditional hygiene inspection methods and provide timely, sustainable and verifiable hygiene management. These technologies are easy to scale up and develop capacity. In this way, it can be used in all food production areas from family businesses to large-scale food businesses. The widespread use of this technology in hygiene inspection will enable early precautions to be taken and inspections to be recorded. As a result, the use of these technologies is valuable in terms of protecting consumer health, increasing the competitiveness of the producer and facilitating hygiene inspections by public institutions.
