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In India, a considerable amount of population is dependent on animal husbandry for the livelihood. As a result, the dairy sector contributes significantly to the economy. However, the milk is produced in small quantities and in scattered manner. This makes the whole collection process tricky and hence it is not well organized. Testing the milk and maintaining the records regularly is a tedious and difficult task if done manually. Additionally bills and registers containing previous records need to be preserved carefully for the future reference. In order to ease the procurement process, many manufacturers have come up with PC-based and microcontroller-based automatic solutions. But many of these solutions are relatively expensive as far as small milk collection centers are concerned. Additionally, these solutions are generally bulky, lacking the portability. Also, they are much complex to be operated by an ordinary person. In this paper, we propose a smart IOT-based embedded system for dairy data collection and the related web services. The aim is to facilitate seamless data collection, data storage, accounting and generation of reports. The major focus is on tunning the system to meet the local requirements by providing user-friendly menus and making it portable and compatible with milk analyzers and weighing machines from various manufacturers.