Abstract
Abstract Population rise, climate change, soil degradation, water scarcity, and food security require efficient and sustainable food production. Aquaponics is a highly efficient way of farming and is becoming increasingly popular. However, large scale aquaponics still lack stability, standardization and proof of economical profitability. The EU-INAPRO project helps to overcome these limitations by introducing digitization, enhanced technology, and developing standardized modular scalable solutions and demonstrating the viability of large aquaponics. INAPRO is based on an innovation a double water recirculation system (DRAPS), one for fish, and the other one for crops. In DRAPS, optimum conditions can be set up individually for fish and crops to increase productivity of both. Moreover, the integration of digital technologies and data management in the aquaculture production and processing systems will enable full traceability and transparency in the processes, increasing consumers’ trust in aquaculture products. In this paper, the innovations and the digitization approach will be introduced and explained and the key benefits of the system will be emphasized.
Highlights
The demand for producing agricultural products that are as environmentally friendly and resourcesaving as they are highly efficient is increasing due to food price increases, water scarcity, crop production for biodiesel, increased toxicity due to heavy metals, excessive use of fertilizers as well as global climate change, and overfishing
The EU-INAPRO project helps to overcome these limitations by introducing digitization, enhanced technology, and developing standardized modular scalable solutions and demonstrating the viability of large aquaponics
INAPRO is based on an innovation a double water recirculation system (DRAPS), one for fish, and the other one for crops
Summary
The demand for producing agricultural products that are as environmentally friendly and resourcesaving as they are highly efficient is increasing due to food price increases, water scarcity, crop production for biodiesel, increased toxicity due to heavy metals, excessive use of fertilizers as well as global climate change, and overfishing. Aquaponics (Fig. 1a) allows a drastic reduction of water use, increased density of the products per unit area, reduce the impacts of climate change as well as the application of biocontrol for plant protection. There are several questions about the viability of aquaponics that need to be answered. An intelligent control system acquires the greenhouse climate data (temperature, light intensity, etc.), hydroponics information, and the growth status of the products from real-time analysis of images of fish and crops to make an informed decision about control strategies. Digitalization, This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution
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