Abstract
Healthy fish production requires intensive care and ensuring stable and healthy production environment inside the farm tank is a challenging task. An Internet of Things (IoT) based automated system is highly desirable that can continuously monitor the fish tanks with optimal resources utilization. Significant cost reduction can be achieved if farm equipment and water pumps are operated only when required using optimization schemes. In this paper, we present a general system design for smart fish farms. We have developed an optimization scheme for water pump control to maintain desired water level in fish tank with efficient energy consumption through appropriate selection of pumping flow rate and tank filling level. Proposed optimization scheme attempts to achieve a trade-off between pumping duration and flow rate through selection of optimized water level. Kalman filter algorithm is applied to remove error in sensor readings. We observed through simulation results that optimization scheme achieve significant reduction in energy consumption as compared to the two alternate schemes, i.e., pumping with maximum and minimum flow rates. Proposed system can help in collecting the data about the farm for long-term analysis and better decision making in future for efficient resource utilization and overall profit maximization.
Highlights
Over the last 50 years, quadruple increase in global meat consumption has been reported byFood and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations [1]
We have developed an optimization scheme to achieve a trade-off between pumping duration and flow rate through selection of optimized water level
This paper presents a detailed study of the proposed optimization scheme for maintaining desired water level fish farm tank with minimum energy consumption by optimal selection of pumping flow rate and target filling levels
Summary
Over the last 50 years, quadruple increase in global meat consumption has been reported byFood and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations [1]. Over the last 50 years, quadruple increase in global meat consumption has been reported by. With current population growth rate, at least 70% more protein will be required in year 2100 as there will be approximately 4 billion more people on earth (total 11 billion) [2]. Our current main source of protein is oceans and global fisheries are taking 2.5 times more than what oceans can sustainably support [3]. We are taking far more fish than what ocean can naturally replace. It is reported by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) that in last 40 years, our global marine life is reduced by half since 1970 [4]. Another report reveals that 90% of most commonly captured fish have disappeared from the ocean since 1950 [5]
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