Blue Control Centre: The connected aquaculture platform
UBIWHERE LDA ·Portugal
About this project
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><em><span style="font-size: 9pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">Connectivity is becoming a fundamental asset for every sector. Many experts have stated that the next industrial revolution enables everything to be connected and a part of a nuclear, value-driven, highly technological ecosystem. Aquaculture is a very demanding process since it requires a fully balanced and healthy ecosystem. Changing one of the many parameters in a fish tank can have tragic consequences if done wrongly.</span></span></em></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><em><span style="font-size: 9pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">We propose to connect aquaculture to a platform that allows real-time decision making and impact measurement of the necessary indicators in fish tanks. Such a platform must be deeply rooted on best of breed sensors and telecom grade networks to allow for highly precise, real-time measurements. In this sense, Ubiwhere is partnering with two Norwegian entities to create a connected, edge computing aware platform to aid the day to day operations of aquaculture sites. Such a platform builds upon the vast experience that Ubiwhere has in other sectors ranging from cities to telecommunications.</span></span></em></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><em><span style="font-size: 9pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">All in all, the project aims at creating the Blue Control Centre: The connected aquaculture platform to enable aquaculture companies to address the current market uptick for sustainable products whilst lowering the OPEX costs of having the personnel to provide measures on the many fish tanks owned by these companies. From the operational standpoint, Blue Control Centre excels in creating the basis for: (1) connect aquaculture to remote decision making; (2) act in real-time; (3) learn from past decisions; and (4) expand the business with more ease.</span></span></em></span></span></p>
Bilateral cooperation results
Within the BlueControlCentre project Ubiwhere worked closely with two Norwegian partners - University of Agder and LandbasertAkvakultur Norge.Both these partners showcased a significantly greater knowledge on aquaculture and its processes, while Ubiwhere brought to theconsortium a wider expertise on technology and technological solutions.The cooperation between all the parties resulted in a technological solution adequate to the needs of fish farmers, that wouldadvance and innovate the field, increasing the production and the quality of the product.The solution works as a monitoring platform in real time that provides fish farmers the ability to know in real-time the status oftheir installations and their fishes. Additionally, the solution includes the possibility to add alarms for different parameters andthresholds which, aided by the capability of remote actuators, allow fish farmers to adjust in real-time any potentially dangeroussituation for their animals.The construction of such a solution was only possible due to the knowledge and expertise of our partners, who understood the practical needs of fish farmers and were able to design with Ubiwhere a solution that would facilitate their work and optimise production. Therefore, we are led to believe that the project and the established relationships between partners resulted in a better and more robust solution, capable of adjusting to the needs and wants of the field and farmers, ensuring a safer environment, while innovative.
Project partners
- The University of Agder Donor project partner· Norway
- Landbasert Akvakultur Norge Donor project partner· Norway