Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) Model for Shrimp Culture Monitoring using Open Source IoT

Shrimp culture habitat comprise parameters like temperature, humidity, soil composition, nutrification, biological oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand which are requirements of shrimp culture. Due to high price and demand, many farmers in coastal region are shifting from vegetation to shrimp culture. Shrimp cultivation is encountered with abnormalities in temperature, soil composition, BOD, COD, pH and complex problems like slow growth diseases, nutritional imbalances, pathogenic diseases can downfall yields of cultivation. Both WSN and IoT revolutionized through remote sensing with centralized monitoring of agriculture, fisheries and Industrial processing. This paper presents a prototype design monitoring the shrimp culture parameters like temperature, pH, DO, etc. The prototype design will improve the practice of conventional Shrimp culture by remote sensing monitoring system and this would substantially increase the yield of the shrimp. The prototype was implemented and tested by deploying in pond for one day. The variation of parameters is measured by using setting up a ThingSpeak channel. The results show that the system is capable is monitoring the essential parameters and any change in these parameters leading to abnormal conditions in the pond can be easily communicated with the concerned person through message.