Electronic nose and neural network use for the classification of honey

Simona Benedetti , Saverio Mannino , Anna Sabatini , Gian Marcazzan

Seventy samples of honey of different geographical and botanical origin were analysed with an electronic nose. The instrument, equipped with 10 Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (MOSFET) and 12 Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) sensors, was used to generate a pattern of the volatile compounds present in the honey samples. The sensor responses were evaluated by Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN). Good results were obtained in the classification of honey samples by using a neural network model based on a multilayer perceptron that learned using a backpropagation algorithm. The methodology is simple, rapid and results suggest that the electronic nose could be a useful tool for the characterisation and control of honey.

Mots clés: honey; electronic nose; classification; neural network analysis

Domaines: Zoologie des invertébrés; Biodiversité; Ecologie, Environnement; Science des productions animales

Simona Benedetti, Saverio Mannino, Anna Sabatini, Gian Marcazzan. Electronic nose and neural network use for the classification of honey. Apidologie, 2004, 35 (4), pp.397-402. ⟨10.1051/apido:2004025⟩. ⟨hal-00891832⟩