MWI’s Innovative Water Quality Monitoring Systems: Enhancing Fish Farming Business
Project Summary
Singapore-based IT software company, Metropolitan Wireless International (MWI), delivers comprehensive IoT solutions to businesses across different sectors. They have implemented their water quality monitoring system at a local fish farm business using RAK WisGate Edge gateways. The system checks water quality indicators like water temperature and dissolved oxygen levels at each farm location. This solution tackles the problem of low dissolved oxygen levels in the waters.
Company Profile
Metropolitan Wireless International (MWI) offers IoT solutions designed to enhance crucial business operations. MWI’s focus is B2B clients, offering hardware, software, and calibration services. The company's mission is to do more with less and provide a one-stop solution for businesses to improve critical operations. MWI primarily focuses on helping companies meet compliance and regulatory requirements while improving productivity and profits. The company took an interest in IoT as IoT is becoming a solution to more and more business problems while utilizing more technology and fewer resources.
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The Challenge
The fish farm faced a key challenge which was limiting its efficiency for the business.
Maintaining ideal water quality: Fish are susceptible to water conditions like temperature and dissolved oxygen levels. Levels that are even slightly off optimal ranges can slow growth rates or even kill fish if unchecked. However, the fish farm’s locations made it prone to low dissolved oxygen levels that could not be easily observed with the naked eye. By the time farmers noticed issues, it would often be too late to prevent losses.
This challenge was crucial for the business to address, as it affects the well-being of the fish and overall business operations. The solution needed to provide continuous monitoring, automate data collection, and equip farmers with the actionable insights required for proactive management. RAK’s and MWI’s IoT offerings offered the connectivity and customizability required to overcome this barrier.
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The Solution
Systems integrator MWI collaborated with the fish farm business to create an automated monitoring system using IoT technology. MWI provided a comprehensive solution that included both hardware and software components, customized to the farm's requirements:
- Hardware:
- LoRaWAN-enabled water quality sensors from Aqualabo were deployed in each farm to monitor key parameters like water temperature and dissolved oxygen levels.
- Long-range RAK7268V2 LPWAN gateways collected data from the sensors and transmitted it to the cloud via LoRaWAN connectivity.
- Software:
- A cloud platform aggregates sensor data and displays it via easy-to-understand dashboards through an application on farmers' mobile devices in real-time.
- Configurable real-time alerts notify farmers if thresholds for any parameter are exceeded.
These capabilities delivered precise, consistent data that was previously hard for the farm to access. The solution enabled farmers to monitor water temperatures and dissolved oxygen levels, receiving alert notifications for threshold breaches—all from the convenience of their phones. This ensures that the fish are always thriving in ideal conditions as farmers can take corrective actions once they have received the alerts on their phones.
The seamless integration of sensors, gateways, and cloud solidified an autonomous system, giving farmers peace of mind and allowing them to focus on other areas of operations. With preventative maintenance capabilities unlocked, the fish farm could confidently maximize productivity and efficiency in its operations.
Outcome
The real-time monitoring and insights delivered improvements in managing the farm's core operations.
Water quality stabilization: Continuous tracking ensures that the dissolved oxygen and water temperatures in the farms remain within optimal range daily. Alerts notify farmers of any deviations so aerators can be triggered to increase dissolved oxygen levels in the water to avoid losses. The system tracks the parameters fluctuations throughout the day and night.
By providing end-to-end process visibility plus the tools to act on insights in real-time, RAKwireless enabled the fish farm to boost productivity and efficiency in its operations substantially.
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