Smart Fish Pond for Economic Growing in Catfish Farming

Abstract

Catfish is one of people’s favorite food in Indonesia. Catfish’ taste is strongly influenced by water quality. The farmers need a system to manage water quality and support the stability of catfish stocks in the market. In this paper, a smart fish pond system for modern catfish farming is proposed. The system applies the internet of things (IoT) concept to monitor and control water quality in catfish ecosystem. The system equipped with temperature, pH, turbidity, and water level sensors to monitor pond parameters. Environmental parameters are uploaded to the cloud and monitored via a smartphone application. The smartphone application equipped with features that support catfish farmers to collaborate in meeting market needs. The cost of making the system is designed to be as minimal as possible so can be applied by a middle-low scale catfish farmer. The implementation of the proposed system provides ease in monitoring pond conditions, improving fish quality, and farmer’s income.