Aquaculture farming efficiency improvement project to help restore mackerel populations
Organizations: Obama City, Fukui Prefectural University, Tagarasu Suisan Co., Ltd., KDDI Corporation
Obama City began a mackerel restoration project in 2016 for the purpose of stimulating industry and attracting visitors through the development of a new mackerel-based food culture. It has been engaged in this project with a view to improving the efficiency of aquaculture farming through the use of ICT and the IoT in collaboration with Fukui Prefectural University, Tagarasu Suisan Co., Ltd., and KDDI Corporation.
The aim of this project is to realize efficient aquaculture farming based on the use of real-time data by way of the visualization of fishing through the use of the IoT. By installing IoT sensors in aquaculture ponds in order to enable measurements to be taken of water temperature, oxygen concentration, and salinity, and then sending data via mobile lines, you can ascertain the state of a site without having to use your vessel. In addition, the know-how of fishermen, which has been shaped by experience and intuition, will be converted into data by introducing a mackerel aquaculture farming management app to allow users to input and manage the location, amount, and timing of feeding actions from their tablets. Participants will also work with Fukui Prefectural University to manage the amount that mackerels are fed using a spontaneous feeding system and estimate fish size using underwater cameras. In the future, the project aims to analyze the correlation between accumulated external environmental data and data on the know-how possessed by fishermen, improve the efficiency of aquaculture farming, and help solve problems in terms of cultivating successors to take over aquaculture farming operations.
(KDDI Corporation, https://www.kddi.com/corporate/csr/regional-initiative/case-study/case23/)
(New release by KDDI Corporation, http://news.kddi.com/kddi/corporate/newsrelease/2017/11/20/2801.html)