Design of Automatic Feeder for Shrimp Farming Based on Internet of Things Technology

Ilham Arditya,Iskandar Dinata,Tri Ari Setyastuti,Fikri Islamudin

doi:10.21776/mechta.2021.002.02.8

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https://doi.org/10.21776/mechta.2021.002.02.8

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<p class="02abstracttext">In shrimp farming, feeding is an important activity to achieve good shrimp growth. Manual feeding manually using hand is less effective due to unequal food distribution. Thus, an automatic feeder is required to dispense feed at predetermined time. The advantages of automatic feeder are cost-effective, low labour requirement, and can be applicable for large volumes of feed. Design of automatic feeder machine can influence the capacity and time controlling of the feeder. In this research, the automatic feeder was designed using a controlling time system based on Internet of Things (IoT) technology. During plant trial, The automatic feeding was scheduled at 7 am, 11 am, 4 pm, and 8 pm. This machine could throw shrimp food homogeneously up to 10 m far for 2,500 m<sup>2</sup> pond area. In shrimp farming, distribution of shrimp food in predetermined time becomes an important rule to achieve good shrimp growth.</p>

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Aquaculture production worlwide grows at average rate of 6.7% annually [1]
The frame should be placed above another base which can be made from concrete or steel
This is to provide high stability when the automatic feeder is in operation condition

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Introduction

Aquaculture production worlwide grows at average rate of 6.7% annually [1]. Of many aqualculture products, shrimp becomes high value commodity. In intensive shrimp culture operation, artificial food, e.g. in pellets form, becomes the main source of shrimp food. Food becomes the highest operational cost in shrimp farming. This is in agreement with Poh [4] since he reported that food cost can be app. Overfeeding does increase the farming cost since overfeeding can overload pond ecosystems which deteriorates water quality and huge increment of microbiota amount, some of which can be very opportunistic and pathogenic. This circumstance can increase possibility of shrimp death. Better feeding system is developed in this work to minimize farming cost, to achieve targeted shrimp weight in specified farming duration and to decrease possibility of shrimp death

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