Smart Monitoring System for Pond Management and Automation in Aquaculture

Investments and operating costs in this area are the massive barriers in the modernization of fish/shrimp ponds in food production. Small-scale farmers working on small ponds are unable to hire workers to handle daily operations that usually consist of controlling water level, temperature and feeding fish/shrimp. Large farms generally have some types of water monitoring and replacement automation, for ensuring the health and growth of fish/shrimp. Small farms should continuously monitor pH level, water level and temperature sooner or later as their farms expand. In this paper, by using sensors we have measured water level, temperature, humidity and pH level which are integrated with water pumps and aeration system which is controlled by the ESP32 micro controller. These values are sent to the cloud at regular intervals of time, which can be monitored by user through blynk application which is integrated with the cloud. If the measured values are not in the predefined range then a notification will be sent to the user so that they can take required measures.