Control and Monitoring System of Marine Aquarium

The complexity and high maintenance cost of marine aquariums imply various problems to the aquarists. Many parameters as temperature, density, pH level, and lightness must be controlled to avoid abrupt changes, which could cause the death of the animals and/or the development of contagious diseases that condemn the entire tank. Therefore, it is necessary to measure such parameters and eventually adjust them, which could become a complex task due to the number of processes, equipment, and chemical kits needed. In this context, this work aims to develop a unified system to control and monitor the parameters of the marine aquariums and, moreover, employing an app to smartphones, which is capable of informing the actual state of each parameter to the aquarist, reducing the spent time to the maintenance of the aquarium, making the work easier to be done by the aquarist and ensuring a more stable environment.