Technology development program to promote the use of marine resources
Organization: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Technology for domestically produced sensors and other tools are being developed in order to promote the proactive development and use of marine resources. This is also a research and development program carried out to improve productivity through the development of technologies to clarify the physiology of marine organisms and thereby bring about innovative approaches to production that have never been seen before, it is also comprehensively elucidate not just ecosystems for specific species of fish but also ecosystems within the broader context of the ocean environment as a whole in order to make accurate predictions of resource volumes in terms.
IoT and AI proof-of-concept testing for tuna aquaculture farming operations
Organizations: Sojitz Corporation, Sojitz Tuna Farm Takashima Corporation, NTT DOCOMO Inc., Information Services International-Dentsu, Ltd.
The organizations involved in this proof-of-concept testing aim to improve the efficiency of aquaculture farming by using IoT and AI to visualize and quantify tuna aquaculture techniques.
Sensors and applications equipped with IoT technology will be harnessed to visualize water temperature and other data and artificial intelligence will then be utilized to analyze correlations and relationships between data. In addition, image-analyzing technology will enable automatic fish counting, improving the efficiency and accuracy of work to ascertain population sizes.
These initiatives are expected to provide improvements to tuna aquaculture by optimizing proper feed amounts, feed timing, and other tuna farming techniques, enhancing the fish pen environment, determining appropriate volumes and times for shipping each batch of tuna, increasing the accuracy of sales projections, and optimizing costs.
