Industrial product platforms and blockchain in aquaculture

Abstract

Modern technologies and new management concepts - industrial and product platforms - allows create new products and services, changes one of the oldest occupations of mankind, almost biblical, - fishing and fish farming. Due to the rapid development of IT technologies and business in the last decade, the development of platforms has been observed - network business structures engaged in the collection and analysis of heterogeneous information for users. The most important platforms for aquaculture are industrial and product. The newest concept of innovative economy – blockchain, - must be also used in modern industrial aquaculture. We propose the product platform based on an industrial platform, - software and hardware complex for fishes and crustaceans farming using Computer Vision technologies and modern automation systems integrated into a network industrial complex. The environmental parameters for optimizing the growth rate of aquatic organisms or their taste are subsequently distributed (license/sales) among users of their product platform. Platform users could collect fishes and crustaceans into the trading pools and sell them to large retailers for special prices. Product platform helps preserve, repopulate endangered species of fish and crustaceans and also reduces ecological impact of fisheries and extensive aquaculture.