December 13, 2022

New aquaculture solution in Japan supports sustainable seafood output and lowers input costs

A new customised aquaculture-monitoring system has been announced by Kerlink, a specialist in solutions dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT), and its Japanese distributor, GISupply, which supports sustainable seafood production and lowers farmers' costs, Fish Information & Services reported.

With a LoRa-based sustainable aquaculture business model, Kerlink and GISupply's smart-aquaculture solution targets the Japanese aquaculture market as well as the global fish-farming industry. Sustainable seafood production, such as land-based agriculture, is critical for feeding the world's growing population.

The smart-aquaculture system developed by the two companies allows farmers to optimise operations and make data-driven decisions in real time by automating water monitoring, previously done manually by farm owners or employees who visited farms to collect and analyse data.

The new solution improves fish breeding efficiency by allowing producers to continuously monitor water quality and temperature, which is important due to global warming.

Another advantageous return-on-investment (ROI) feature allows for the installation of multiple sensors that were not previously available in legacy systems. These improve pattern recognition and forecasting for farm operations. Dissolved oxygen, oxidation-reduction potential (ORP), salinity, pH, turbidity, brightness, ammonia, and chlorophyll are all measured by system sensors.

The sensors, which have SDI-12 or analogue interfaces, are supported by industrial-grade Kerlink Wirnet iStation gateways. These meet the standards of public and private network operators, private businesses, and public authorities, and is used with a LoRa controller from Tekbox, a manufacturer of environmental monitoring, agricultural-yield applications, and test equipment for niche applications.

Aqualabo, a global leader in the design and manufacture of multiparameter water quality probes, and Eureka, a global leader in the design and manufacture of water analysis and testing devices and instruments, provide the sensors.

Customers create their own cloud software to support the system because the required data varies greatly depending on the species raised in each farm, if it is fish, shellfish or invertebrate marine animals (echinoderm).

-      Fish Information & Services