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Agriculture and poultry are the backbone of any country’s economy. Indeed, there is a strong correlation between agricultural growth and economic prosperity. While poultry are raised for egg and meat production, farmers experience a huge financial loss because of inaccurate weather forecasts and ineffective methods employed in conventional farming. Therefore, new effective technological approaches are required to continuously improve the productivity, profitability, and sustainability of our major farming systems. A wireless sensor network (WSN) is proposed to monitor and measure many poultry environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, air quality, and amount of light. The different sensors are disposed in particular positions in the farm in order to better reveal the realistic information. The collected farming data are sent by means of WSN via ZigBee transceivers to the main controller based on PIC micro-controller or PLC module. The main controller analyzes the various readings, compares them with the standard levels, evaluates the presented situations, considers the portfolio of foreseen cases, and finally gives the right instructions. In fact, the main micro-controller controls the corresponding equipment such as heater, cooler, fan and others according to the processed data. The proposed system design offers convenient directives for different facing scenarios and therefore enables all-weather real time control of the farming parameters and achieves a comfortable environment for the fowls.